Metropolin are an Israeli

Music of Israel

The music of Israel is a combination of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. For more than 100 years, musicians have sought original stylistic elements that would define the emerging national spirit...

 alternative pop/synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band.

The band was assembled in 2005 by Ofer Meiri, an Israeli musician and music producer. He gathered several renowned Israeli musicians – namely Efrat Gosh

Efrat Gosh

-Bio:Gosh was born in 1983 and raised as a middle child with a younger and an older brother in Herzliya, Israel. She attended the music department at Alon high school in Ramat Hasharon. She continued her education at the Rimon school of music, focusing on Jazz...

 and Dana Berger

Dana Berger

Dana Berger is an Israeli singer-songwriter and occasional actress, who is a graduate of the Rimon school of contemporary music. Berger came to fame in the 1990s, appearing on the popular TV show "Inyan Shel Zman"...

 – as guest vocalists. Efrat Gosh, although not officially a member of Metropolin, is the main singer on several of its more popular tracks, and continues to frequently appear with the band in gigs.

The band has become immensely successful in Israel, riding on the popularity of tracks from the self-titled album: "Angels", "Without Saying A Word" (Shalom Hanoch

Shalom Hanoch

Shalom Hanoch is an Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer.He is considered to be the father of Israeli rock and the most important artist of that area. His works have profoundly influenced Israeli rock and modern Israeli music...

 cover), "Doesn't Say Anything" and "Sleeping Without Dreams". These tracks also received high amounts of airtime

Airtime

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 in Israel Defense Forces Radio and Galgalatz

Galgalatz

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Metropolin reached Gold status and won the 2006 Israel Album of the Year contest.

Musical style

The Metropolin sound features heavy use of synthesis, with more traditional rock

Rock music

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 instruments on top. Of the band's highly-successful songs, most – such as "Without A Word", "Angels" and "Dreamless Sleeping" – open with a synthesizer

Synthesizer

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 solo

Solo (music)

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Lyrics are dark and urban. Singing is often warm and feminine, but rather dynamic.

Members

The line up consists, , of:

• Ofer Meiri – vocals
  Singing
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Barak Gabizon – vocals
• Dana Adini – vocals
• Roni Alter – vocals
• Amitay Asher – guitar
  Guitar
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• Michael Frost – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Tomer Tsidkiyahu – drums
  Drum kit
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Studio albums

• Metropolin (2005)
• The Helix ("HaSlil") (2007)

Singles

• Pigs

Chazirim / חזירים

• Doesn't Say Anything

Lo Omeret Klum / לא אומרת כלום

• Sleeping Without Dreams

Lishon B'li Lachlom / לישון בלי לחלום

• Without Saying A Word

Bli Lomar Mila / בלי לומר מילה

• Angels (Incitement)

Malachim (Hasata) / מלאכים ‏(הסתה)‏

• I Have No Place

Ain Li Makom / אין לי מקום