Just give it a proper listen ( tv with sound bar n sub ) . Fkn excellent n think it's gonna grow . Different enough as always but still has that classic nma stamp . Very powerful and passionate.
Wow! Wow!! Wow!!!
Here's the official Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV5zFj8TJLU
Never before i was so immediately into a new release.
The song, the instruments, the harmonys, the production, the lyrics, the meaning, the beautiful power...
Thank you very, very much! The time of my sulkilyness and self-pity is over;-)
Just straight on for the days ahead..
Lyrics are top stuff, not over-impressed by the music so far but that may change.
Still, I'm looking forward to the album...very much :D
Horrible, sound is crushed to death. No dynamics in the song. Boring as hell. :-[
Not gonna spend a dime on this.
Horrible, sound is crushed to death. No dynamics in the song. Boring as hell. :-[
Not gonna spend a dime on this.
I will spend more than a dime on it, but agree about it feeling flat. It’s like a number of samples of NMA songs were fed into a machine to automatically generate this. I think that’s the first time I’ve gone meh to a new release.
Hoping it’s going to grow on me.
....we wish you good luck for the future and we'll leave you with this...
the end of days came and hit me with the full force of "synchronicity".
Wikipedia:
Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.
As so often with nma songs i feel strongly connected to the meaning, which of course i myself lay into it and it will mostly be subjective And we all see what we want to see What we need to see, what we have to see and i can find analogies and metaphors which seem to fit perfectly to the things that happen around.
So the end of days....
Last night I dreamed that we built a fire in a wild garden
We took all the holy books and we burned them
All those pages to ashes, every last one of them
Since many, many years i read publications by a switzer analyst, he has founded the institute for "existenzanalyse" in biel and he is using cabalistic techniques to come to conclusions. A day before "end of days" i received a new publication: "endzeit"...
the expression on your faces says you've been cheated - well you've been cheated but not in the way that you think
When again did we just once again escape kind of a final-war, because trump didn't feel good to start it, at that moment..? i think two days before the release of end of days...
We went to see the fall of Rome - I thought it would please us
To watch how the mighty go in a blaze of hubris
But I just stood there hypnotised by all the beautiful madness
associations:
you say you're bored of the fireworks - now you want to see the fire - You screamed give us Liberty or give us Death Now you've got both, what do you want next ? - we're long past being careful of what we wish for - They're waiting round here for something to happen They won't really want it when it rolls out to greet them - we can't go back to uninvent the wheel that we ride - fridays for future - to find a place like a punch thrown into space that needs a place to land a face to land - Soon they'll be hunting for witches for the burning - this end of days is gonna be a lot of days slow motion - If we hold our nerve, they will travel right over us; they'll be going so fast they will never even notice us
on a personal level, i live through my end of days right now. my days in hamburg are counted, i've quit my job months ago, my project of becoming an entrepreneur has just died finally some weeks ago and i will go back to my hometown, i've just found a flat right to my parents and this suits me very well.
for me this all has to do with the end of days. i left the big city cologne years ago, kind of to prepare myself for the end of days, to try to live differently from the big city life and i moved back to my hometown. green and grey...
then after 3 years i had to move to hamburg, because my son was moving there or better say: being moved. so now these days in hamburg are also counted for and i once again go back to my hometown..
i know this may not connect really well to you, the reader, and what it has to do with the song, but to me there's much there. synchronicity...and the song once again makes me feel connected to a certain kind of view about whats going on and how everything is changing around us.
and i feel i should also change...faster i mean.
so everything is just fine, i love the new song, i'm looking forward to the new album, to the next live shows...
@MaoLee
you wrote about the references to 1984. could you please specify this? i haven't read it (yet) and i only know about it like most of the people do. big brother and apple and so...
The sound was mentioned and criticised here and i imagine that it has to do with the hard hitting drums, that seem to overlay a little bit but i think this is mostly due to compressed online format and it will sound way better from the cd or vinyl.
i totally love this energy, the kind of directness it has. i think this will be a big part of the new record, a more spontaneous and maybe sometimes seeming to lack a bit of fine-tuning feel to it, but that is what i hope for!!, after the description of what they wanted to do and record.
(and thanks to 8 for inspiring me to try to get a little colouring and desing going on her. i don't think i've failed to big but you do it so much better. damn, it's so exhausting to do that ;-) )
@MaoLee
you wrote about the references to 1984. could you please specify this? i haven't read it (yet) and i only know about it like most of the people do. big brother and apple and so...
I gotta disagree about the production, it is absolutely brutal, taking the rawness and edge of vengeance and winter and upping it afew gears, awesome.
I don't really think you can grade the lyrics down on an overall personal level as you could do this with many many other songs. I guess that this song stands clearly in it's political context about radical changes the world has to face at the moment and further on and it won't even get better until the end of days.
Always play new songs a few times before judging ...