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Band info:

Genre: Gregorian Groovy Celtic Gothic Doom Death Metal
Origin: Netherlands (Utrecht, Utrecht Province)
Formed in: 1987
Status: Split-up

Last known line-up:
George Oosthoek - Harsh Vocals
Rosan Van Der Aa - Female Vocals
Theo Holheimer - Guitars
Marcel Verdurmen - Guitars
Guus Eikens - Keyboards, Guitars
Remco Van Der Spek - Bass
Sureel - Drums



There are four studio albums in their discography (for tracklists click "Show/hide files" button):


1995 - Oblivion



Total playing time: 45:03


1996 - By Time Alone



Total playing time: 53:48


2000 - Inside



Total playing time: 54:53


2004 - Driven



Total playing time: 1:06:50


There's also a single "At the Mountains of Madness", which is also included.

Review of "By Time Alone" by John Chedsey @ www.ssmt-reviews.com

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Completely engulfed in the Prego philosophy of musical styles ("it's in there"), Holland's Orphanage are a band capable of many onslaughts that will render you helpless. They will either crush you like a pack of angry elephants or bore you into submission. Fortunately for you there is a lot more crushing going on rather than boring. The band features three vocal styles: George Oosthoek's grunting and studio processed screams, Guus Eiken's clean somber singing, and Rosan van der Aa's soprano. The majority of the vocals are dominated by Oosthoek's not-too-demonic voice while still leaving room for some good harmonies. Meanwhile, the band rumbles along at a half decent tempo, never getting too crazy. At the same time the slower numbers move like Los Angeles traffic during rush hour. Lex Vogelaar's guitar playing is an interesting usage; it acts more as a rhythm barrage. This can be heard most effectively on the excellent first two tracks, "At the mountains of madness" and the somewhat exotic "Five Crystals". Unfortunately after this great start the album lumbers along with what amounts to filler material. However, the strengths of this album show that there are some interesting times down the line with this fabulously talented band. Their next onslaught will more than likely be lethal.

Review of "Inside" by John Chedsey @ www.ssmt-reviews.com

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Orphanage is still at it. Fortunately they've taken the best of what they did on By Time Alone and refined it for Inside. Their sound from their previous release is completely and fully intact and quite possibly the band has improved their songwriting hand over fist this time around. By Time Alone, by my count, had three or four really good songs and a lot of tunes that just lingered around like underage kids outside a liquor store. Inside, however, shooshes those kids away and is a more fulfilling album overall.

The band's core sound is primarily unchanged since their last record. Revolving around the extremely thick and tough guitar riffs of Lex Vogelaar and the ugly death grunting of George Oosthoek, Orphanage has a solid identity. Everything else the band does is built around those two things. Each of the songs is rhythmic and has a groove, with things like keyboards or backing female and male vocals intertwine around the grunts. The band has a good sense of underscoring the heaviness of the guitar with intelligent usage of their keyboards. Some of the material comes off a bit amusing, especially when Oosthoek informs the listener, "I'll kick your fucking ass" in "Kick". Occasionally the thick Dutch accents of the clean vocalists can be heard.

Orphanage's Inside should be of note for anyone who liked By Time Alone and hoped the band would grow in their songwriting skills. Their death metal elements might be a turn off for some, but the heavy grooviness and the interesting usage of vocals throughout make this a pretty solid release for the band.

Review of "Driven" by Jeff @ www.metalstorm.ee

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Do you know Orphanage? No ? Well in fact this band is a real cult band nothing more. The problem is that they suffer of the fact that a lot of people don't really know them… and, at the end then, they are not also famous like their compatriots Within Temptation or After Forever. But you must know that without Orphanage all this well know bands from Nederland would certainly not be the ones that they are. Just for the info, you must know that, "Enter" of Within Temptation was released in 1997, "Angel Fall First" of Nightwish in 1997 too, "Prison Of Desire" of After Forever in 2000, "Oblivion", the first release [a masterpiece of Gothic/Doom Metal with female vocal] of Orphanage, in… 1995. You can easily understand that we are not with a newcomer here, but with certainly one of the most important band of the Metal Scene.
After a long break of 4 years, Orphanage is back with "Driven" and believe me, this come back is more than welcome. Listeners get ready to enter in a world of beauty but also sadness, darkness and anger. Get ready to enter into of the world of Orphanage through their last release "Driven"…

Orphanage use to do a beautiful but also powerful and dark metal. And like for a lot of "gothic" bands we have great and beautiful female vocalist. For Orphanage this is the great voice of Rosan Van Der Aa, and we can compare her voice with the best ones of the category, no problems. Orphanage use to have two voices in their compositions the one "clean" by Rosan, but also the grunts and screams, made by George Oosthoek. And without any doubt [and you can trust me] we have here one of the best Death Metal singer ever. His voice is more than impressive, and give, more that it possible , power to the music of the band. The music of the bands don't need it, but the voice of George give to its an energy and a force which made that it's more than impressive. With great lyrics, you see here that just with their two singers, Orphanage blast all the opposition that they could have.

And the music ? Well here again is not good, but just great. A lot of excellent guitars riff with a damn powerful sound, don't ask me how but all the riffs of this album are catchy, and all the songs of the album will enter and stay in your mind without any difficulties. The others instruments, are more than present, the bass lines of Remko are great the Drums of Sureel more than effective and the Keyboards [and samples] of Lasse just perfect for the music of Orphanage.
But the style of "Driven" is not the same as their first releases. It's more modern and maybe the ones who like "Oblivion" for example will find a real difference with "Driven". Personally I think that an evolution is necessary for all the bands, and the fact that Orphanage is more progressive, more "modern" with some samples sometime, is just good to me. Because at the end this album with its powerful guitars riffs and vocals, sound maybe not like their first ones, but definitely due to the talent of this guys, we have something that we can't find every months. We have something unique.

About the production? I'm sorry, but again; I can't say anything wrong about it, it's just perfect another time. The sound is clean and we can feel all the instruments, and the two voices of the singers are also very well mixed. For the artwork and the cover? Nothing to say again, it's well done, with lyrics, pictures etc. Just a very good job….

Well well, I can't add anything to that review, and I will just ask to all the metal heads without any exception to listen this album. This band deserve to be know, but well with that album I have no doubt that Orphanage will be now to the rank that it deserve. "Driven" is a damn good album made by great musicians, and for sure we will hear about it.
Nothing to add, we have a masterpiece here and "Driven" will be in the top of the list of my favourite albums of the year. Come on guys!!! Buy this album or dieeee!!!

At the Mountains of Madness video

The Sign video

The band decided to split-up in 2005. They were realy awesome, so it's a great loss for me But still, we have 4 their albums... so let's pay our tribute to their talent and kick some neighboors' ass with great Orphanage music!
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