Poco tempo fa ho saputo che gli Shai Hulud hanno deciso di sciogliersi. Geert tornerà in Olanda e quasi sicuramente non ci sarà mai più la sua voce a aprirci il cuore, a straziarlo per farci assaporare ancora di più i crudi sentimenti. I due Matt (chitarra e basso) formeranno i Warmth Of Red Blood... e l'avventura chiamata Shai Hulud sarà solo un ricordo.
Per il sottoscritto"Hearts Once Nourished With Hope And Compassion" è un disco immenso...anzi, non è neanche un semplice disco... è un'opera d'Arte con la A maiuscola... un monumento alle emozioni umane... un magma sonoro mai statico, capace di piegarsi su se stesso, aggrovigliarsi fino a un apparente punto di non ritorno per poi aprirsi in melodie strumentali di rara bellezza ed efficacia. Canzoni come "My Heart Bleed The Darkest Blood", "A profund Hatred Of A Man" e "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred" hanno aperto più di una porta all'universo hardcore e alle centinaia di band che oggi affollano quella scena. Porta che un paio di anni fa è stata completamente scardinata dal successivo"That Within Blood Ill-Tempered" talmente avanti nella concezione di emo/metal core da far impallidire chiunque.
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01 Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life (03:08)
A discontent for the vile and the wretched
Will bring forth reparations of the most severe degree
Things will change
And I will be the catalyst to
Weed out the weak and beget strength of character
Glorifying minds and souls
Celebrate the spirit while denying breath and life
To those who would choose to live depraved
Depravity, a thing of the past
A life not in vain
I am the end, I am beginning life anew
My soul is free from weakness
Free
Refined as gold
A standard to be met by all
As we embrace righteousness, we embrace life
Purified, united. set aside from the majority
I will serve as an example to man as hope
By defending those I love with my life
I stand here bold and strong
As a testament to my abstinence
My heart is open; this slate is clean.
02 My Heart Bleeds the Darkest Blood (02:05)
No contact.
~
I have to let you die.
I have to let you fade.
So spare me the male accusations.
I would have told you those things you wanted to hear,
and I would have cared
the way you thought no one ever would.
~
My heart bleeds cold.
I refuse to be caressed by stone.
I now live emotionless and free from your pain.
My heart bleeds the darkest blood.
And now my heart bleeds cold.
I refuse to be caressed by stone.
I now live emotionless and free from your pain.
My heart bleeds the darkest blood.
~
And I would have cared
the way you thought no one, no one ever would.
~
My heart is cold as stone.
A rock feels no pain, (a rock feels no pain)
a rock feels (no pain, no).
My heart is cold as stone.
No laughter.
No loving.
No contact.
03 Outside the Boundaries of a Friend (03:32)
Avoid the mirror lest I break it.
With the stone that serves as my heart.
Accept this pretty package named friend.
Except this it entails love.
Not so attractive anymore.
Accept this pretty package named friend.
Except that it entails love.
It's never as pretty as it seems and now it never was at all.
No it never was.
All I asked was to be important.
All I wanted was someone to trust
In my eternal scheme, your act of friendship means nothing.
Friendships are weak and nothing is dear to me
Acquaintance stole my confidence.
My humor.
My compassion.
My solace.
Left me with myself and laughed as it walked away
I refuse to be your tolerance, I will not be your embarrassment.
I'm not so attractive any more.
Take this burden away.
I can only stand in front of a broken mirror for so long
Staring at the reflection of failed attempts at love and a black heart.
My heart, once nourished with hope and compassion, now is black as death.
Trudging forward, broken, devoid of love
I am nothing more than scars.
04 Beliefs and Obsessions (02:45)
Lies of self-indulgent pride
A sense of justice misdirected for the sake of the lost
A claim to inflict punishment for those who have been unjust
And there's a line that can't be crossed between belief and obsession
Nonexistent caring based on situation ethics.
No benefit can come from the line being drawn.
To be guided by faith, is to be.
Is to be mislead.
A joke to the weak, a fixation to the strong.
So who's wrong, and who will decide what's right?
With so few actions, so many words.
Won't take this complacency anymore.
I won't accept the criticism of my peers
I won't accept this objection.
I cannot judge others lives only to justify my own
One more word and I'm broken
One more word.
08 Eating Bullets of Acceptance (02:35)
Our outlook is bleak but the moment is grand
To be told we're independent is not enough.
We should strive for autonomous thoughts
And your pride in you conformity is sickening
This useless praise
But this desire for focus triggers abuse
Of an endless sense of insecurity.
We grasp at endless questions for a sense of hope
It's not so simple to sit and wait
We cannot embrace our roles blindly
They're assigned
They are assigned, based on the fact that we will accept
Minds are in suspended animation
Due to an attachment to this established lifestyle
My existence will not be dictated like a reading from a book
I will not be predetermined.
Our outlook is bleak.
When approval is all we crave and the moment is grand.
Your pride is sickening.
In your conformity.
But this moment is grand.
We should strive for autonomous thoughts.
Approval is all we crave!
09 For the World (11:56)
Poured out...
I poured myself out: I am the empty cup.
my hope died away, and my tolerance has faded.
How can I keep stability on such shaky ground?
Prayers that a smile will flag me down, down.
~
Sadly I've learned there's no truth in comfort.
Well-being stems not from love.
Anguish proves to be my only means of solace,
yet I want to be held by anyone, with any arms.
~
I spend another morn alone in a world that rejects me.
A public unkind, laced with apathy.
This one's for the world: I hate you.
I hate you!
~
I poured myself out: I am the empty cup,
my hope died away, and my tolerance faded.
How can I keep stability on such shaky ground?
Prayers that a smile will flag me down.
~
Life could get no colder.
I'm living out a dying cell,
but I can pull through.
I can pull through.
I can pull through.
I can pull through.
I can pull, I can pull through.
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