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Rating: I discovered A.H.C. in 2002 when I was struck by the clip of "Just so you know," a great nu-metal track with very "faithnomorian" atmospheres. Back then, I quickly got the LP "The War of Art" to realize that I was facing yet another clone band, a great bluff, the idea of a "clone-band" which, if I had reviewed the album, wouldn't have even gone beyond a generous 2 (for the presence of the single and good production).
A couple of listens, the aforementioned single remains an isolated case, the album sits on the shelves collecting dust. "We'll see what they do in the future," I thought back then. Three years have passed, and here they are with the new "The Feeding," a new lineup, and a new record label.
I listen with great skepticism and... SURPRISE, the album in question is not at all a bad job!
It starts immediately at 100 per hour with the first single "Loyalty," a great track, very aggressive, anchored in the classic Nu phrasing (paranoia/rage) here proposed in a simple but effective way. Then the album flows straight, not always up to par since the tracks are quite listenable but as they enter the ear, they exit it until "Take what I've taken" which finds its best moment in the final intensity.
Compared to its predecessor, it's undeniable that the band has added a greater dose of intensity and rage to their sound, refreshing a mix that was starting to taste a bit too much like an overcooked omelet. The rage of "Leave Me Alone," the erratic pace of "Erratic," and the solemn concluding "To Be Me" are other pleasing moments of the album.
In between the last two, however, lies the album's pinnacle: "Cowards," which is a real gunshot to the ears, a pure state of fury that never loses its tone, a real outburst that cannot go unnoticed.
A more than decent work that promotes the band and their greatly improved compositional abilities, but everything is still fits into the Nu-Metal cauldron; I don't see and hear that personality which would allow the band to make the quality jump, there's little originality... perhaps the mass success will come ("Loyalty" might have what it takes), but perhaps in a month we won't be talking about it anymore since time passes and trends change.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Loyalty (03:27)
It's just a reason to deny
All the limits that border
On the thiniest frailties
that makes a sudden change
I'll pay my soul into sleep
I'll make up words that I keep
Letting nothing go to anyone at all
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
All of them
Bleed at the nerves
That take so long
To wear down
I'll pay my soul into sleep
I'll make up words that I keep
Letting nothing go to anyone at all
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
(This time I let go)
This time I have made enough mistakes
For you to bear against me in direct break
Our original ideals, you let us down
And betrayed our trust with all your promises
I see a piece of shit alive in you
Cast them near enough to be a truth
This time I have made enough mistakes
For you to bear against me in direct break
Our original ideals, you let us down
And betrayed our trust with all your promises
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
02 Pledge Allegiance (03:23)
We're just the braces amidst
These selfish trials and fits
Not so safe or scared or dumb is the rest
Our unravelling has just
Enough of it here to be
Drown propped up and watching
You stare at us pull you down
You read the news
You take the vows
You blame the costs
We play the chords
Now the only course
That traces an end
To the violence
Has left us without any
Chance to stand our ground
... Stand up and ...
March
Get back in line and
Fight
The time to start is
Now
Don't let yourself play the
Fool
There's no way out
Placatingly wound we search
Without purpose the game ends
Promise me today
So tomorrow's a new surprise
All these sores lingering
Shutdown and loving it
The greedy hands will lie
But we stand ready to strike
Yours' is the blood
Theirs' the first
The speed the greed
The machines and the paper dolls
We didn't want this
We didn't need this
We couldn't see it coming
But we're to blame for it
... Stand up and ...
March
Get back in line and
Fight
The time to start is
Now
Don't let yourself play the
Fool
There's no way out
Watch us coming
While you drop away
Bow your fucking heads
And pray for us
Cause it's my time
And it's our side
You can't stop us any longer
Bow your head
Pray for us
It's our time
It's our side
04 Ridicule (04:48)
Ridicule my own
So precious alone
These faces of everyone
Remind me of home
You're plotting riddled sin
All my needs giving in
Blow me a kiss and leave me to the dogs
So, you think you got it
You think you know me
You wanna bring me down
I am in my finest hour
Ridicule my own
So precious alone
These faces of everyone
Remind me of home
You're watching me dying
How am I looking?
Why don't you take a picture
You're plotting riddled sin
All my needs giving in
Blow me a kiss
And leave me to the dogs
My fear, traps me waiting for it
My past is glowing red and yellow, again
Run, back where you came from
Not that it matters
I'll never see you again
My fists strain to sift mercy
Ridicule my own
So precious alone
These faces of everyone
Remind me of home
You're plotting riddled sin
All my needs giving in
Blow me a kiss and leave me to the dogs
My fear, traps me waiting for it
My past is glowing red and yellow, again
My fate will show me where to follow
08 Erratic (03:22)
Stalking the currency shifts
As cause becomes
Embedded codes digital mistakes
So all the rest can
Choke for need and strain to bleed
The hunger I fix a taste for the feeding
This panic perpetuating poison upon us
As it plagues me into
Running the gamut again
Surprise you're wrong
I'm not the defects for ones
You left out
Erratic an addict
Is leading my fall
Back to the faces
My weaknesses live
Shots down and riding the bomb
Routine submissive disease
Just let me rot
Done with all these innocent thieves
While all us weak ones
Choke for need and strain to bleed
The hunger I fix a taste for the feeding
This panic perpetuating poison upon us
As it plagues me into
Running the gamut again
Surprise you're wrong
I'm not the defects for ones
You left out
Erratic an addict
Is leading my fall
Back to the faces
My weaknesses live
Shots down and riding the bomb
09 Fiend (04:20)
I want to be
Somewhere far from here
I'm watching you
As you wave goodbye
I won't take
I won't weigh you down
Following suit
So just count me out
I can't get it out
Can't put it together
I should have known better
Than to turn into this
I can't believe
I've become removed
Tighten the line
And pull up hello
I will change
I won't weigh me down
Carving this space
Never count me out
I can't get it out
Can't put it together
I should have known better
Than to turn into this
Fiend
I say
Everything's how it ought to be
I say
Nothing should ever change
I say
I only know how I used to be
I say
I don't want a fucking thing to do with it
Fiend
10 Cowards (02:51)
This is the way to find my harlequins face
To my junkie dead body
Still covered in lace
The flesh still warm where skin had once been my lips
My smile just scattered fragments lining the ditch
You like to watch when I bleed
(like a coward)
I've got some right here for you
I push you down on your knees
(such a good whore)
I make your dreams come true
At 60 miles an hour on course and pace in hybrid mental states
So my pathetic limp kiss has never caught this way
No catalyst begins across the face of those who end
Leaving its scar too deep for all of your attempts to mend
Come on cowards
Come on you whores
I've got no choice but this if
I can't get rid of it
You'll never be any match
For what I can do to myself
I'm still stuck here breaking it backwards apart
Watching all the raindrops cover up before we can start (
like a coward)
Without a doubt that all will be washed away
There's still no proof to see if I will someday
You like to watch when I bleed
(like a coward)
I've got some right here for you
I push you down on your knees
(such a good whore)
I make your dreams come true
I've got no choice but this if
I can't get rid of it
You'll never be any match
For what I can do to myself
Come on cowards/come on you whores
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