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Come on, guys, sit down! Roll call! Solos? Present, but I'm sleepy! Watch out, I'll give you a note! Basses? Present and in shape! Electro-Beat (the foreigner)? Present, like before, more than before! Belcanto? Present, I'll do the work for two! Melody? Prof, I sleep here, why are you asking? Ok..ok..don't get angry! Snare drum? Present, present! Storsio Pedals (the noble)? Present, but I'm leaving an hour early, I've got a note! It will be forged as usual! Riffoni? Riffoni?? Prof, Riffoni is absent. Oh well. So, today a surprise assignment. Nuuuoooaaaaaahhhh! Quiet, quiet, and write. Topic: "How to produce an excellent rock album in modern times without Riffoni" But, Prof, it's impossible, Riffoni is the class representative. Tzè, it can be done...it can be done! Come on, you have only 43min and 48sec. Get to work!
"Transmit Disrupt" (2006 @ Burning Heart Records*) is the famous "second" album, the one that confirms, the one many have botched. Hell Is For Heroes perhaps to distance themselves from the criticisms of lack of originality have dropped the metal and EMO attitude (everyone will shout hurray) and have embraced a more complex, more studied rock (well done, you've studied!) but without losing a bit of their energy and especially discovering in Justin Schlosberg not only a gifted and energetic singer but a top-notch songwriter. Directness is penalized (one point less) in favor of an ever-increasing appreciation over time (2 points more). Give it time, give it more listens (as a good teacher should do). Each track has its story, it develops and explodes into a Belcanto that often replaces Riffoni (so much then they make you pay for it, lazybones), or in very powerful Bass lines. The guitars are always clean, Pedals comes and goes as he pleases and Solos is meted out.
"Kamichi" is the bridge. The speed of the first work and the explosions are there but mitigated by guitars that are never excessive. This is what made some early fans frown, while it tickled those who do it with both hands (??). In "Models For The Programme" Electro-Beat speaks its mind recalling at the outset "Sick/Happy" from the first album. A persistent Bass follows the rhythm without missing a beat. The pieces initially have the advantage of not being clear where the verse is and where the chorus is. What remains in the head is the pleasure of sound or the memory of the crescendo and it all stimulates a re-listen. "They Will Call Us Savages" amazes with pathos without ever using Pedals. The guitars have that soft pick impact and strings just mounted on an electrified acoustic played without an amplifier. One of the best moments of the album is the duet "Silent As The Grave", sung all in one breath and with Melody elected as the class representative by plebiscite (Riffoni is jealous!), and "One Of Us" with Solos waking from slumber in a wonderful, exhilarating "instrumental chorus." These are the "new" Hell Is For Heroes, whether you like it or not! I do, in my Winamp for months now.
Well done, guys. Excellent assignment. Tomorrow oral exam for everyone. Nuuuuooooaahhhh! Come on, come on, exams never end.
*Actually, the first version of the album was in 2005 under EMI with a different package, but a dispute between the label and the band ended the collaboration and HIFH had to start over. Let's call it a "second" youth.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Kamichi (03:57)
Trusting in our machine,
we head for oblivion.
[Chorus]:
Raising the first alarm
red light,red light
This is a warning sound
red light,red light...
There's a haze coming down
upon us.
Every tribe for themselves
united in chaos.
(Chorus)
Invading force alert
sirens wailing
Air raiders in the sky
circling...
Raising the first alarm
This is a warning sound(x2)
Now the power's out,
all that I can see
is the gleaming white
of your retina.
Light the path for me,
blaze the trail again,
lead the exodus
back inside the cage...
(Chorus)
Invading force alert
sirens wailing
Air raiders in the sky
circling...
02 Models for the Programme (04:00)
Taste of mercury,
needles in your eyes,
creating the need,
shaping hearts to kill.
Searching for the catch,
settle for some change,
learning to adapt,
this is,this is a crack down.
A look of contempt.
Its just a passing wave...
[Chorus]:
Models for the programme,
sharpening up to suit your part.
Talk in flying colours,
take your orders from above...
Make your bid for calm,
pushing for restraint.
Learning to obey,
down on your knees and pray.
A look of contempt,
a flash in the pan,
and you're up for sale,
but its not your day,
you just bite your tongue
'till it starts to bleed.
Nowhere left to run,
from me.
(Chorus)
I'm not qualifying.
Satisfy your basic need.
Falling short of targets.
Who's agenda is it now?
Is it now? (x3)
(Chorus)
I'm not really sure,
how we came to this.
(x2)
03 Quiet Riot (04:47)
I pull back the blinds, taste the air,
time to return to the warmth they gave you,
all looks the same, feel so strange, time passes by
in a silent vacumn...
I push back the night, step out into the echo,
you've been standing in the corner,
always listening to the same words,
night goes, composing in echo's,
between all the other insects,
looks like a world lost now...
Tear out the blinds, nothings changed,
can't place the names, but they sound familiar,
I've died inside, seven days, time passes by,
and died a fraction...
Here comes the time, the sins of diseration,
feels like maybe you belong here,
gather sentences from nowhere,
creatures crawling out the wood work,
stand straight, face to face with your fears,
looks like a world lost now!
Who protects you from, your protectors gone,
he waves a stick. Keeps you sick...
Push back the night. (x3)
Here comes the time, the sins of diseration,
feels like maybe you belong here,
gather sentences from nowhere,
creatures crawling out the wood work,
stand straight, face to face with your fears,
looks like a world lost now. (x3)
04 Folded Paper Figures (02:47)
did you pledge allegiance
did you question the code
did you find out too late
that you cant stop the flow
i need a will to live
something worth dying for
a force to fuel the fight
and mask the fear
this is the new order
carved with a warm blooded sword
a cold comforting new myth
to justify the cause
and now you're wondering
with your neck on the line
is it justice or crime
the guillotine or the crown
did you reshape your will
just to fit in the fold
did you trade your conscience
for a place to belong
its just a point of view
a key to lock the chain
come join the circle now
we're fitting in
we paint the walls
with a five pointed flag burning star
its a motion
to justify our place again
the star is still shining
but it died long ago
and i dont let it go
and i dont let it go
i bid you welcome
the door is open
a gathering of the uninvited
this is the call to break the chain
this is the call to break up the chain
10 Transmit Disrupt (05:59)
LYRICS FOR TRANSMIT DISRUPT - TRANSMIT DISRUPT
surrounded by a faceless crowd
an operational decline, system closure
abondoned aerials all around
scrambling pictures crackling sounds, failing senses
communication cutting out
the airwaves must be breaking down
intercepted. call disrupted
dissection starts with just a cut
another specimen prepared
for incision
the surgeon brandished the knife
he whispers 'this won't hurt a bit'
maybe a little, it's just procedure
first step through the door
and I've been here once before
back then in control
held tight in my hands
and I threw it all away
to glimpse the other side
eyes sunk in my head
hesitation will be death
push back kick it out
bring down the satellite
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