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| In the year 2000, the increasingly popular Black Metal band Cradle of Filth released an album under recording companies Koch Records and Music For Nations. Dubbed Midian, the album elaborated on an unholy city of exiles, "Heaven's mutant children." The album depicts strange, almost grotesque artwork of strange alternate realities, dark gothic fantasies and twisted, unholy creations. | |||
| Midian is also refered by in Cradle of Filth's album Midian which includes songs such as At the Gates of Midian. One song, Tortured Soul Asylum, speaks of Midian as a person. Not surprising, though, considering the amount of biblical references in Cradle of Filth's work. | |||
| The album is available for purchase through on CD. A vinyl and picture disc release has also been made of the album, but these are much harder to find. | |||
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According to the Bible, Midian (מִדְיָן "Strife; judgment", Standard Hebrew Midyan, Tiberian Hebrew Miḏyān) was a son of Abraham and his concubine Keturah (Genesis 25:1-6).
His descendants, the Midianites, settled in the territory east of the Jordan River (Tobit 1:14) and also much of the area east of the Dead Sea (later occupied by Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites), and southward through the desert wilderness of the Arabah. During the time of the Exodus, their territory apparently also included portions of the Sinai Peninsula.
In Bible history, Midian was where Moses spent the 40 years between the time that he fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian who had been beating a Hebrew (Exodus 2:11-15), and his return for leading the Israelites (Exodus 4:18). During those years, he married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, the priest of Midian. According to Exodus 3:1, in Midian also occurred the Lord's appearance in the burning bush on the mountain of God in Horeb.
As the Bible asserts, in later years the Midianites were often oppressive and hostile to the Israelites, at least partly as God's punishment for their idolatry (Judges 6:1). By the time of the Judges, they were raiding Israel with the use of swift camels, until they were decisively defeated by Gideon (Judges 6-8). Today, the former territory of Midian is found through small portions of western Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, southern Israel and the Sinai.
The ancient and historical people of Midian are also mentioned extensively in the Quran, where the name appears in Arabic as Madyan.
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Modern day references
In the year 2000, the increasingly popular Black Metal band Cradle of Filth released an album under recording companies Koch Records and Music For Nations. Dubbed Midian, the album elaborated on an unholy city of exiles, "Heaven's mutant children." The album depicts strange, almost grotesque artwork of strange alternate realities, dark gothic fantasies and twisted, unholy creations.
The album is available for purchase through Amazon on CD. A vinyl and picture disc release has also been made of the album, but these are much harder to find.
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