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The Watcher
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HORD - THE WASTE LAND - New album produced by Jochem Jacobs (Textures, Nuclear Blast records) and HORD. Artwork by Jakob Arevarn, David Lundmark, Paer Olofsson and Colin Vauthier. Release November 13, 2010. Limited deluxe digipack edition
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HORD is a metal band from France. HORD just finished to record "THE WASTE LAND", a musical, visual and litterary concept album, recorded at the SSS studio (Amst
Welcome to the official HORD SoundClick page! Here you can find infos, news, mp3s, links and interviews about HORD, a famous metal band from France. Check out our profile and our songs if you like bands like Textures, Meshuggah or Soilwork. At the moment we are waiting for the release of our brand new album produced by Jochem Jacobs (Textures) in august 2009 at the Split Second Sound Studio in Amsterdam. It will be released in october 2010. You can listen our brand new track "UNREAL CITY" on SOUNDCLICK! Check it out! You can find tonnes of infos on our myspace, facebook and lastfm profiles : MYSPACE : www.myspace.com/hordofficial LASTFM : http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Hord Best regards HORD
Song Info
Genre
Metal • Alternative Metal
Charts
Peak #22
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Jonathan Devaux (words) / Hord (music)
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Hord
Uploaded
November 29, 2010
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MP3 4.6 MB • 128 kbps • 5:01
Story behind the song
- About The Waste Land concept The Waste Land is a musical, visual and literary concept album, about the experience of annihilation and the end of the world. Through the story of a nameless, partially amnesic and un-heroic character, told by himself, The Waste Land shows the critical crossing of the tattered world after its catastrophic ending. Guided through the devastated lands by a fragmented, hollow and formless shape (the character), we are watching the unavoidable collapse of a fallen society and the hard rebuilding of a lost humanity on a heap of broken images. On the road leading the wandering character to his possible redemption—at least to the understanding of this inexpressible and unspeakable quest—ashen landscapes, snatches of subdued memories and sickly hallucinations intermingle and break the frontiers of space, time and reason up, until he expires. To give life to this post-modern story, in the post-apocalyptic tradition of literature, visual arts and cinema, we tried to create a special relation between music, mixing, images and words. We therefore collaborated with various artists who transposed Hord’s score and lyrics in their work: Jochem Jacobs (producer) ; Jakob Arevarn (director, designer) ; David Lundmark (photographer) ; Paer Olofsson (graphic designer) ; David Sandberg (model) ; Colin Vauthier (logo, layout). The Waste Land is the hybrid result of this human and artistic experience. - About the song "The Watcher" "The Watcher" is the second song of the chapter 2 of the album: A Heap of Broken Images The song tells the story of the main character's near-death experience during the apocalypse.
Lyrics
"I turned my senses inside out to fight the sixth one / I strive with myself / I strive against it / Extrasensory perception / Sight, Smell, Taste, Hearing, Touch overwhelmed by the new sh** I walk alone through burned sensations /Material world escapes me / Nothing seems to move in the ravaged landscape of my eyes but I have a strange sensation / There is another reality, tangible / A strange multiplicity of sensations seizes me now but it has nothing to do with what I can see, smell, taste, hear or touch. My conscience distorts / I’m overcome by something stronger, something I can’t control / I can’t kick it out / Inside/outside conflicts / I can’t let it come inside through me / I see myself lying on my back as cold as marble Wounded outside, Burst inside, I’m beside myself just contemplating / How I’m lost inside me, dead inside, I’m beside myself jst contemplating how he’s lost How I’m lonely in this world / Staring at myself, staring at the void / My nerves electrified / Shocked by the undefined They try to revive myself in vain / Spasms shake my body / Spasms … I’m alive … I breathe … / I regain my strength I breathe / I regain consciousness I remember first the unpleasant noise of medical machines becoming distant and unreal / Pleasant and frightening emotions sweeping through me while I detached from myself and floated above my own body / I ‘ve never met deceased relatives or spiritual figures, nor walked through a tunnel to reach a strong and bright light / I was just watching myself dying as a witness of my own ending … I’m just a watcher … I travelled too far / I took too much time to come back home, come back to my fragile life / “I could not speak and my eyes failed / I was neither living nor dead / And I knew nothing / Looking into the heart of light / the silence…” Wounded outside, Burst inside, I’m beside myself just contemplating / How I’m lost inside me, dead inside, I’m beside myself eyes open staring at the void Where are the people who saved my life and abandoned me in this hospital? / Where is civilisation? / What are these empty places? / These devastated rooms / I can’t say anything or put a word on things / I feel so lonely in my waste world…"
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