Steven Wilson, the brain behind progressive rock group Porcupine Tree as well as an acclaimed record producer, has no Jewish roots and in fact very little time for organized religion. Yet he decided to... move to Israel.
The Tree's own "In absentia" is one of the more played rock albums on my iPod. But perhaps the outstanding album Wilson had a hand in was the haunting and elegiac "Damnation" by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, on which Wilson appeared as producer and keyboardist, besides co-writing the song "Death whispered a lullaby". Wilson has a long-standing collaboration with Aviv Geffen (don't ask!) and is set to produce the next album by Israeli metal band Orphaned Land.
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