Moderner Hardcore kann vieles sein: Stumpf, depressiv, ausgefeilt, beschwingt, emotionslos, emotionsvoll und manchmal gar poetisch. Die Top 5 der in meinen Augen poetischsten Bands folgt nun.
5. Verse
Ein Urgestein, wie so viele andere auch aufgelöst - der Fluch der späten '00er-Jahre, wie mir scheint. Sozialkritisch, aggressiv, und immer die richtigen Worte im Kopf - wie viel kann man da schon falsch machen?
" I can't accept what's been done
I'll question the motives
Of all things under the sun
There's something wrong
When a man is kept down
By another man's hand with a gun
We need to start a fire
To act consciously
To save us from our own defeat
Because there is still a war
That we must eliminate
And save ourselves
From this conscious state
When you just can't take anymore
And you're being kept down
START A FIRE! "
Verse - Start a Fire
4.
Ruiner
Für mich der traurigste Split des Jahres: Ruiner waren unersetzbar und werden es für immer sein. Wenigstens bleibt die Musik, dieses tiefemotionale in ihren Grundsätzen depressive Weltbild.
" The ones born in shit with no remorse or no regret,
watch the foundation break we laugh as we take.
Born the son of a carpenter and highschool secretary,
bread blue collar in a white trash town, with just enough to lose.
But I learned the value in wanting nothing
because then no one can take anything from you.
I watched the heart of my old man get overworked for the sake of a dollar.
Worried that love might only, be found,
in the amount of things you leave behind when you die.
I started driving nails at an early age
for a class of people their god forgot.
For the ingrates who never knew the pain of callous hands
for the bottom feeder waiting for their hand out.
This is humanities true face, middle aged
and fully capable but not willing to sweat.
Who think they are better than that,
as if born with some form of entitlement.
The punch line in this joke, we are angels at birth
but true sinners and always looking for a hustle.
I was born a fortunate son.
But I learned early on if you want to live, you got to suffer,
you got to be willing to bleed.
I was born a fortunate son.
But I learned early on if you want to live, you got to suffer,
you got to be willing to die. (Empty handed). "
Ruiner - Dead Weight
3.
Modern Life Is War
Die nächste tote Band - Zufall oder spricht man über Tote einfach besser? Wie auch immer, Modern Life Is War werden zurecht von vielen als
die beste Hardcoreband aller Zeiten angepriesen - unter den Top 5 im modernen Hardcore steht sie zumindest bei mir.
" I'm in an awful state.
It's getting late and I'm full of question.
My overactive mind has been wastin' all my time.
So I've been wandering aimless every night and sleeping every day.
But it really doesn't matter anyways
'Cause the second coming has been cancelled since sometime around
1982 when Jesus looked down from his cloud and saw school kids...
They were duck and covering.
There's nothing gonna happen out there.
So let's stay in.
Just come on over and let me in.
Outside my windows the sun could be shining but in my head it's all rain, rain and sirens.
We'll have our own Hollywood scandal show.
You wire me up.
I'll be ready to go.
I'll do anything.
I'll assassinate all the stars of all of your bad dreams.
I'll be all yours just as long as you stay here with me
'Cause I don't wanna be alone when these walls start closing in. "
Modern Life Is War - Young Man on a Spree
2.
Shipwreck AD
Kein großes Gerede, wo die Worte für sich selbst sprechen können. "Abyss" ist ein unglaublich gutes Konzeptalbum, zusammen mit den Texten wird es zu einem der besten Hardcorealben aller Zeiten.
" Deep in the eye of the albatross.
In this kingdom of the lost.
No hand to hold.
This current leads me forth.
So alone but so close to the shore
And in the wake of yesterday.
My sanity shredded by the rays.
Of the sun I'll never see again.
While the mouth of eternity opens.
Swallowing, swallowing, swallowing.
The surface soon becomes the sky.
Try and break free towards the light.
Til I think why bother try.
Find me a reason to not sink in these waves.
Don't tell me the horizon
harbors better day. "
Shipwreck AD - Squall
1.
La Dispute
Ohne Worte - das Beste, was ich seit Ewigkeiten gehört habe.
" At times I’ve shouted out unprovoked, at the world and you,
Just to see if the people around me react.
Sometimes I think they’re all acting,
At times I’m scared that I’m acting too. Like,
My movements or stage directions?
Was that a change in topic or a beat in a scene?
Have I been taking my emotional cues from a script I wrote at sixteen?
Maybe I just think about it all so much
That that the fear stays close to all the ghosts I’ve touched.
Makes me question
Was it love or just lust?
Caked in blood or old rust?
I don’t know.
Don’t we remember all the moments we remember the best
Framed in poems and in pictures, sang aloud in refrains?
Does this cycle of pain and disdain for the past
Not work exactly the same?
Maybe it’s just as much about what comes our way as it is about how we react.
Just as much about the things that we’ve still got as it is about the things we lack.
I know we won’t always keep around all we feel we need-
some are fading in frames, some were born to leave-
But if we’re still here, and we still breathe,
I guess we’ve still got time to figure it out,
To know what to do,
To know how to feel,
Know the things that I’ve been making up inside my head,
And to know what’s real.
I want to believe that the way I am is just the way things go.
For the things that came, not the things I chose to come.
I want to know if I had any control.
I want to know if it’d comfort me.
And if my heart just stops, pack my memories in it-
I want to know all the love I’ve got.
And if my heart just stops, keep me alive for a minute-
I want to know if a curtain drops."
La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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Das alles sind natürlich nur Beispiele, es gibt so viel an guter Musik da draußen, die man nie hören wird. Von daher klingt eine solche Top-Scheiße ziemlich arrogant und engstirnig. Aber es geht ja auch gar nicht um das Katalogiseren und Einordnen, Musik ist dafür viel zu subjektiv. Der einzige Sinn dieses kleinen Textes ist es, einigen Menschen dort draußen neue Anregungen für ihren musikalischen Horizont zu geben. Wenn auch einem da draußen eine der genannten Bands gefällt, hat sich das Schreiben doch schon gelohnt.
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