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Rating: Here is a highly anticipated album for metalcore fanatics, and more specifically for fans of this group. Caliban immediately stood out in this genre with their early, fiercely powerful works that showcased their quality as musicians (particularly noteworthy are the vocalist and drummer). Since the album "The Opposite From Within", with the shift to RoadRunner Records, we've noticed a slight diminishing of their musical power, which nevertheless does not detract at all. This album seems like another step towards eliminating the ferocity that, despite the frequent outbursts almost akin to black metal and the singer's powerful voice, not to mention the purely thrash guitar riffs, seems to lose tone.
For metalcore fans, it is certainly a worthy album, albeit with some clear commercial influences: It starts with an Intro that sets the atmosphere of the album, then launches into the devastating power of I Rape Myself, an excellent track with a very compelling guitar riff. This is followed by Song About Killing, which is already more aggressive on the whole but with a less sustained tempo; a track that generally fits within the known and appreciated Caliban standards from "The Opposite From Within"; It's Our Burden To Bleed, with a purely black metal start, ends up losing a bit of tone, despite the aggression that is felt throughout its almost four minutes (3:48). The next track, Nothing Is Forever, shows some direct hints towards the new generations who appreciate Nu Metal and this type of music, with a beginning almost like Foo Fighters, continuing in the classic Caliban style; Together Alone, in my opinion, is not a very interesting track that ends up being banal, especially after listening to the preceding tracks; My Fiction Beauty, with some thrash elements and slightly calmer sounds, follows the logical thread of the rest of the album, proving to be quite enjoyable; then comes No More 2nd Chances, with a rather thrash scheme that doesn't offer anything new compared to many other Caliban songs, on the contrary, it quickly becomes repetitive; I Refuse To Keep On Living..., with some clean parts that are too calm for what Caliban should be doing, is a track almost devoid of personality, probably the only one so far not following the band's fixed pattern; Sick of Running Away, another track with clean and less violent parts, stands in antithesis to other tracks like those at the start of the album, is nothing special, and almost reveals a repetitiveness from the group, with choruses almost like P.O.D.; Moment Of Clarity, the meanest track on the album is perhaps the only one still inspired by the group's early albums, despite the distortion being less aggressive as we have become accustomed to with their latest works; Room Of Nowhere, the last track, is another photocopy already heard a thousand times not only with Caliban, with a Black Metal-style sung chorus but with a very atypical distortion for this genre.
In the end, the album has nothing characteristic or particular, and it's the classic metalcore album like many other groups (see Killswitch Engage, Demon Hunter, etc.); the aggressiveness that has always distinguished this band clearly begins to give way to a more market-friendly "fake violence," Cradle of Filth style. Nevertheless, the band has not lost its vigor, and for genre fanatics, the album might be anything but dull. Recommended only for metalcore and Caliban fans...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Song About Killing (03:19)
I´m here to kill, I´m here to die
I feel this pain, I have this hate,
You teach me to love
You teach me fear,
But now you´re getting it all back (and my reasons are just trivial)
Try to run away, but believe me, to die this is your fate
This is a song about killing, a love letter just for you,
Let´s make it right, let´s make it clear, no one wants you here!
All I want is to kill, I want you dead, the price is too high
My life´s too short (I´m sick of hunting you)
You are my shadow, you are my demon
You have to burn for my joy, I´ll watch you burn
So you better run, before I´ll watch you burn
Try to run away, but believe me, to die is your fate
This is a song about killing, a love letter just for you,
Let´s make it right, let´s make it clear, no one wants you here!
04 It's Our Burden to Bleed (03:48)
In our world fire burns brightly,
Take care or you get hurt,
Flames kiss you goodnight,
In our world you cry.
Ashes is what´s left behind,
You´re dead in my head,
In our world you cry
We´ve gone too far now,
We fell too deep,
It´s our burden to bleed!
We - kill you all!
Kill you all!
We - kill you all!
Kill you!
We´ve gone too far,
We fell to deep,
Didn´t you see?
It´s our burden to bleed.
Our life was just a lie,
Our way just pain what happened,
What´s left behind?
We´ve gone too far now,
We fell too deep,
It´s our burden to bleed!
We - kill you all!
Kill you all!
We - kill you all!
Die!
What´s left behind?
What´s left behind?
What´s left behind?
What is left..... behind?
05 Nothing Is Forever (03:54)
Certainty of emptiness, trustful,
New pain and thoughts of the path
There is just one constant: Nothing is forever!
Time of calm and peace,
Time to look inside,
Relic pictures of past,
Black and white deceives,
Uncovers the glance for my grief,
Nothing is forever!
I gave my heart,
My blood,
Nothing is forever (but eternity).
Time of calm and peace,
Time to look inside,
Relic pictures of past,
Black an d white deceives,
Uncovers the glance for my grief,
Nothing is forever!
And in the end only haze remains,
Nothing is forever.
I gave my heart,
my blood,
nothing is forever (but eternity).
Certainty of fate,
Fatal emptiness,
An empty hope for future,
How shapeless fate shows,
I fight for something eternal,
Time of calm and peace,
Time to look inside,
Relic pictures of past,
Black and white deceives uncovers the glance for my grief.
Nothing is forever!!
06 Together Alone (03:10)
Your life is life, mine is just a lie.
Time passes by, everything flows in the same stream and we are driving down the river,
I pause and let you go, my tears whip the river, there I stand stiff forever,
Singing this song of mourning, my cradle is full of hope, I don´t give up,
I break the wall (and fight forever for my joy)
YOu´re going your own way, floating in another dream, you feel no fear, no doubt,
Your power keeps real
There will be new paths, no doubt and well fed fears, we will go our ways alone,
Together alone, let´s go
Your life is life, mine is just a lie.
07 My Fiction Beauty (04:40)
Waiting to breath out,
I saved my last breath to blow this darkness away,
Sweet shadows are calling me
My heart feels free to beat,
It´s all about you,
My fiction beauty,
You are the one who could save me!
Save me, you were the avenger,
A shining illusion of my lust,
A shining illusion of my trust!
Sweet shadows are calling me,
my heart is scared to beat,
It´s all about my fiction beauty,
You are the one who could kill me.
Save me, you were the avenger,
a shining illusion of my lust,
a shining illusion of my trust!
Sweet shadows are calling me,
My heart feels to weak too beat,
It´s all about you my fiction beauty,
You are the one who killed me.
Save me, you were the avenger,
A shining illusion of my lust,
A shining illusion of my trust!
Waiting to breathe out, I saved my last breath to blow this darkness away.
08 No More 2nd Chances (04:04)
What is the meaning, which is the drive that keeps on hurting you?
My words are a double-edged sword, my wounds are your scars of tomorrow!
No more 2nd chances, no more fucking chances.
Every step I make is wrong, it´s like a (fuckin) nightmare and there are no more 2nd chances!!
No more 2nd chances, no more fucking chances.
All I can see is a horizon of pain (and hatred),
I just reflected cold emotions and I deserve the pain, maybe I´ll wake up one day!?
No more 2nd chances, no more fucking chances.
09 I Refuse to Keep on Living... (05:00)
Red, blood red, no matter where I look at, I´m waiting in a sea of blood
Where has time gone, what has happened in the dark?
Memories of fear, cries, noise, silence.
A new day, old routine, I refuse to keep on living such a sad life
Help me out, I try to run away, help me out, I know you can save me today, save me this time.
A new day, old routine, I refuse to keep on living such a sad life
Red, blood red, no matter where I look at, I´m waiting in a sea of blood
I´ll go out into the street, staring eyes, laughing mouths, what have I done, what have I missed?
(I run to escape from this storm of ignorance, but no matter where I end, ignorance)
Help me out, I try to run away, help me out, I know you can save me today, save me this time.
(The dark.
I enjoy the silence, no one there.
I see my self, circling wild, time lapse.)
Am I at home, am I save? I look into the mirror, screaming, laughter, worse than before
Help me out, I try to run away, help me out, I know you can save me today, save me this time.
11 Moment of Clarity (02:39)
Moment of clarity
I am willing to suffer,
To bleed-to die for the things i care about
But it´s like kissing the lips of my dead love-
Like touching her dead cold white skin
Ref:
I choose to look back-
To see myself
I never wanted to hurt you again
I choose to look back-
To see myself
I never wanted to loose you again
I have been here before,ground zero
The past is a gaping hole
My only chance is to turn around and face it
I choose to look back to see myself-
For her love
For her heart
For her trust
For her love i´m reborn…
Ref:
I choose to look back-
To see myself
I never wanted to hurt you again
I choose to look back-
To see myself
I never wanted to loose you again
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By Extreme_90
Caliban know their craft, the songs are very engaging.
Album recommended only for metalcore fanatics.
