This is your war.
Chains around your hands weigh you down.
There's nothing left.
I let the waves wash over me,
cleansing what innocence I have left.
Enslaved.
No return.
The separation of torn limbs.
There's nothing left.
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