How's it feel to live on the edge of the knife?
No consequences.
We're born into this.
Dull on the end.
They're out to get us.
I sleep the days away.
Paralyzed and weighed down.
No one can save us now.
Shoveling away the dirt.
I won't forgive you for what you've done.
Without this feeling, what am I here for?
You can find me digging my own grave.
My faith has left me.
There's no other way.
I've searched for reason, but I've chosen to pay.
My sins will haunt my soul until the day my memories fade away.
I generally appreciate the album by album move away from hardcore towards extreme metal. Yet for me personally, this is where the balance is perfect. Kind of like Metallica's Ride the Lightning: subsequent albums were more sophisticated and complex, yet less intense, too. Great to come back to, again and again. jornfin
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021