Sempiternal - screams for help
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The album Sempiternal (published in 2013) is british rock band Bring Me the Horizon’s fourth album. Such as the previous albums, this one is very typical of the band’s style - the metalcore and post-hardcore genre keeps going just like it has done before. But unlike it’s ancestors, Sempiternal has few lighter and more emotional songs, such as the final track called “Deathbeds”, which is probably one of my favourite tracks on this album. It’s a great contrast to the band’s original style of making music and gives such an emotional and fragile ending to the whole album.
According to Geniuslyrics (https://genius.com/) the whole album got it’s main themes from the band’s lead singer's Oliver Sykes's mental health problems and abuse of drugs and alcohol. For example the album's opening track, called “Can You Feel the Heart'' and the tenth track “Seen It All before” are pretty obvious about their subjects. The lyrics are about asking forgiveness and the feeling of numbness. The listener can hear the pain and desperation in Sykes’s voice while listening and they really do deliver in terms of emotion.
Sempiternal’s songs are definitely not your ordinary pop-party songs. The music itself is hard, fast and sometimes kind of lacking the red thread. It’s mostly just all over the place and you can recognise so many different instruments and beats in just one song. The singing - well more or less screaming, can really be an overwhelming experience for a beginner listener. People who have been listening to heavier music before know the drill - dark concepts and messy kind of composition. That’s the magic behind such a good album!
- frostflowers
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