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Disclaimer... If you like hardcore metal and its derivatives, this CD is made just for you...
Another disclaimer... If you still believe in "true" metal, this CD and this review are not for you.
In perfect Pennsylvania MetalCore style...
On the first listen, you are truly struck by the power of the "ENORMOUS" guitars tuned in B that overpower any other instrument, crushing everything like bulldozers. The chugging parts present in every song, sometimes in multiple sections, can demolish 20-story buildings... and I'm not kidding...
Although often overshadowed by the guitars, the drummer is skilled at giving the right touch to the tracks with consistently accurate and almost never out-of-style strokes.
Unfortunately, the flaw of this genre is the total absence of bass ... it's there, but you don't hear it ...
The singing (so to speak...) is all in scream, often with RAP hints coming from more hardline hardcore.
Needless to say, many elements of the album are taken from Scandinavian melodic death metal bands, even if they're able to remix everything in a NY hardcore style.
The album consists of 10 tracks: it opens with My heart bleeds no longer, 3:36 of pure power, and concludes with Stronghold, a not-so-exceptional track.
Not all tracks are formidable; some like Stings of conscience, Monition, Stronghold, and Vanishment are quite trite and monotonous... the feeling is of needing to change the track after the first 30 seconds due to boredom, but there are the other 6 tracks that are a true masterpiece of metalcore, intense, powerful, and full of anger and emotion... yes! I said emotion.
In conclusion... In my opinion, it's an album from a band in growth, obviously it doesn't have the maturity of The Oncoming Storm but still remains a pretty valid album worthy of more listens.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 One Step Away (03:16)
One life, one chance, one time.
One life to see it all.
One shot at tomorrow.
You will never see this time again.
A belief that time is cruelty.
Happiness is just one step away.
This life will never falter.
Determinated that time will never fall.
This way will never fail me.
I will testify.
I swear that I can see the light.
It's born.
It will be forever.
A personal basking thrown.
Life can give us.
Walk the line, break the walls.
See the things you've never known.
Break these walls with life.
One step away
03 Fuel the Fire (03:44)
Lies.
Under the eyes of suspicion.
A time and place to cause destruction.
Losing respect from the nations.
Our own allies disapproval.
Fuel the fire.
Our own fathers shelter lies.
Fuel the fire.
Abusive power crushing lives.
Fuel the fire.
Our innonence betrayed.
Bow to the pressus of ability.
Led times of anger to the grave.
Show times of prosper.
But who is saved?
Under the hand of damnation.
Many have lost faith.
Lost all respect from the nations.
Our own allies disapproval.
Fire has gone on too long.
Shadows are cast from our rule.
Fire has gone on too long.
Shadows are cast - Now end the lies.
Forced on me the casualties.
Never will I believe.
Kneel along the protective wrong.
Never will I velieve.
Never will I believe in your destructive wrong.
These eyes have wandered on.
From the disgusting harm that cause so many to bleed
and leave us with questioning ears.
False informing our belief is searer.
I'll always walk on
06 My Desire (05:00)
Build on a loss to injury.
Step back from a fallen dream.
I stay and won't go easy.
I stay for My Desire.
My arm falls and strenght is fading from my veins.
I cling to a dream that once ruled my world.
Been gone for so long without a second thought.
I have misled but I won't let this wreck my world.
That I have left without a trace.
It takes all I have to forget.
I wanted nothing more than to have my day.
This dream still lives inside of.
Hold on to every emotion.
Go further with every step.
I asked for with every wish, but now I find it almost gone.
Misguided, another day has come and gone without the truth.
But this will never fade my world.
That I have left without a trace.
It takes all I have to forget.
I wanted nothing more than to have my day.
This dream still lives inside of me.
This will never fade.
This dream will never fade!
As each day goes on the chance for my day slips away.
I will not forget my home, my world, my home
07 Vanishment (03:47)
Take my hand and come with me.
Take a plate full of everything here.
That's more than what you need.
All my life.
I've given back.
Build an army to set us back on track.
You'll see when nothing is here.
Then who will you blame?
A sickening growl from our forgotten planet.
It's bare and scarred from all we've taken from it.
Then who will you blame?
Now everything must change!
All must change!
We're all damned.
Raped unfed world...
Gone. Change.
Save enough for them.
There will be nothing left, but waste.
Save enought for them.
There will be nothing left
08 Shattered by the Sun (03:52)
Crossed a plain that left behind dark days.
Filled a void that I thought could not be replaced.
Now gone it seems so out or reach.
I have lived. I have felt.
It's what we need.
Gone.
What have I done?
Found what I've been looking for.
One time I believe my eyes.
This time.
This time my instincts controlled me.
No need to search on for any more.
I feel as one with myself.
I look no more.
Now a lifetime decision.
What will the future hold?
This time they lied.
I felt you slip away.
A feeling under my skin.
I tried again and again.
I did not save you this time.
Holding on to something that I once believed in.
Will time show me if this was really meant to be.
Show me what this really means to you
fall even though I showed-you-everything that I stand for.
I hate everything without you.
Life falls and crumblers in my hand.
Faith is dead.
It's something I can't stand.
Dreams, hope, gone.
Just a one time thing.
Far away are the days that we once shared.
I never thought I could change.
I would be walking a dead day.
You velieved in me and knew I could change.
Came in my life and became my best friend.
Now I have been forved away.
Unwillingly out on my own.
I never wanted to lose this much.
You broke a trust that was our own.
I feel shattered by the sun.
Now I'm shattered by the sun
09 Monition (04:58)
As our standards fall.
Belief and faith dies.
It's made it's mark.
Now we wander into our final our.
Wars. Faith.
Failing methods fill the days.
Undermine life.
Baneful steps that conjure hate.
Claiming our lives.
Balance fades with every day.
A growing cloud.
Simple lessons show the way.
Fall into void.
We stopped listening.
Followed our nature.
Bound by hatred our lives grow torn.
Finding new ways to betray.
Claiming the weak.
Boundaries crossed with no remorse.
Killing ourselves.
Forcing dogma overthrown.
A new standard waits.
Credence in all but one.
Our own kind.
Are you listening?
Now can you feel me?
Now are you listening?
Now can you feel me?
Take one look at our battered existence.
This persists in unity as every culture burns and segregates.
Wars!
Shattered our lives grow torn.
Who will save you?
Our demise.
Stand up it's time to face your day.
Regret is such a bitter taste.
Such a bitter taste.
Regret.
Such a bitter taste.
10 Stronghold (03:22)
A vital stronhold with a motivation that drives on forward.
A path that is chosen for its golden rewards,
yet we're left stranded.
I can't believe that I put my hand forward.
Ignite the flame within to see the signs.
I want to see the world.
With or without you there I'll continue on.
A broken oath leads to an end.
So bitter with cruelty.
So dark it sickens.
Insanely tracing all the mistakes.
Now serve the time.
A path that was chosen for it's diamond future.
Now it's gone.
Burnt by my own selfish lies.
You sealed the end with your mind.
Come in the darkness with me.
It's where you can set me free.
This is what I am.
Let me be.
Set me free.
This is who I am
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