My God, What have i become?
A perfect mockery of the stories that you spun,
Piecing together these childhood memories,
I see now we were just playing make-believe,
Everything you ever wanted me to be,
I’’m burdened by the path you forced me to lead,
All i ever wanted was to just be me
This fairytale life just is not for me
Torn in two
I’ve misconstrued,
The meaning of what it means
To “just be you”
I’ve become filled with disillusionment
It weighs me down, like some kind of cement
These cryptic words will be my last lament
I love you, but you never understood what i meant
It was in me,
that you placed your dreams,
Of fixing your own shattered self esteem,
I won’t believe,
this is the reality of the fairytale portrait that you painted me
This is a parable, and i am the prince,
I’ve been running from my knights and living on my sins,
All i ever wanted was a life away from life,
I just need a purpose towards which i could strive
Can i ever dissever some god damn solace from this cold, cruel world that has left me hopeless,
When we’re born, we’re all told we’re so god damn special,
Now i know we all suffer,
Same hell, different levels,
I chose to stray
Symphonic stuff in metal doesn’t make its way into my collection aside from a couple of early Cradle albums. The orch here though just ads to how huge this band sounds. It makes elements in the songs more immersive. There are plenty of breaks from orchestration where its in deathcore/slamming brutality mode. While not ignorant, the songs never play with time or get mathy making it accessible and memorable. Came out 2015? Impressed. Mitch Mitcherson
Chicago deathcore outfit Into the Silo torch everything in sight on this searing new LP with riffs that will leave bruises. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 21, 2022