MetalCore: Canción #2: "Forever" - As I Lay Dying

Forever, your eyes will hold the memory.
I saw your heart as it overtook me.
We tried so hard to understand and reason
But in that one moment, I gave my heart away.

I gave my heart away.
In that moment, I gave my heart away.
In that moment, I gave my heart away.

With that perfect breath where my mind lay beside me
And all I knew is what had overtaken me.
With no reason, I am comforted by inability to understand.

Forever, your eyes will hold the memory.
I saw your heart as it overtook me.
We tried so hard to understand and reason
But in that one moment, I gave my heart away.

I gave my heart away.
In that moment, I gave my heart away.
In that moment, I gave my heart away.

Forever your eyes will hold the memory.
Forever your eyes will hold the memory.
Forever your eyes will hold the memory.

When I wake from this dream,
Will your smile still open my heart
And leave me transparent?

When I wake from this dream,
Will your smile still open my heart?

Forever fue incluido en el álbum Frail Words Collapse, publicado por la banda estadounidense As I Lay Dying. Fue el segundo single del disco y es el tema más conocido y representativo del grupo californiano. Este tema, junto con 94 Hours hicieron popular a la banda, con las frecuentes apariciones de sus videoclips en la MTV2.

Aunque para los ajenos al género puede parecer una canción horrible, o incluso ni considerarlo música sino "un tío gritando", en mi opinión decir esto de este tema es realmente injusto. La sensacional actuación del guitarrista, con unos riffs increibles, que aún después de haberla escuchado cientos de veces me siguen dejando impresionado, además de las suaves voces del ex-bajista Clint Norris, que dan un toque exquisito de contraste junto con los ásperos versos del solista Tim Lambesis, hacen de esta canción un manjar hasta para los oidos mejor entrenados.

Que la disfrutéis!

Hard Rock: Canción #3: "Thunderstruck" - AC/DC

(Thunder) (x10)
I was caught
In the middle of a railroad track (Thunder)
I looked 'round,
And I knew there was no turning back (Thunder)
My mind raced
And I thought what could I do? (Thunder)
And I knew
There was no help, no help from you (Thunder)
Sound of the drums
Beatin' in my heart
The thunder of guns!
Tore me apart
You've been - thunderstruck!
Rode down the highway
Broke the limit, we hit the ton
Went through to Texas, yeah Texas
And we had some fun
We met some gals,

Some dancers who gave us good times
Broke all the rules, played all the fools
Yeah, yeah, they, they, they blew our minds
And I was shakin' at the knees
Could I come again please.
Yeah the ladies were too kind
You've been - thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Yeah yeah yeah, thunderstruck
Yeah
Oh, thunderstruck, yeah
Now we're shaking at the knees
Could I come again please.
Thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Yeah yeah yeah, thunderstruck
Thunderstruck, yeah, yeah, yeah
Said yeah, it's alright
We're! Doing fine
Yeah, it's alright
We're! Doing fine
So fine
Thunderstruck, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Whoa baby, baby, thunderstruck
You've been thunderstruck, thunderstruck
Thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck
You've been thunderstruck

Thunderstruck fue incluida en el álbum
The Razor's Edge publicado 1990
el éxito que realzó la carrera de AC/DC
10 años después del lanzamiento de
Highway to Hell que se acabaría convirtiendo
para muchos en todo un himno del Rock & Roll
de finales de los 70.

Como se puede ver en el vídeo, los conciertos de
AC/DC no son simples conciertos, son espectáculos
increibles, con la potente voz de Brian Johnson y la
magnífica guitarra de Angus Young. Disfrutadlo.

Hard Rock: Canción #2: "Stricken" - Disturbed

AH! AH! AH! OW!

You walk on like a woman in suffering
Won't even bother now to tell me why
You come along, letting all of us savor the moment
Leaving me broken another time

You come on like a bloodstained hurricane
Leave me alone, let me be this time
You carry on like a holy man pushing redemption
I don't want to mention, the reason I know

That I am Stricken and can't let you go
When the heart is cold, there's no hope, and we know
That I am crippled by all that you've done
Into the abyss will I run!-

AH! AH! AH! OW!

You don't know what your power has done to me
I want to know if I'll heal inside
I can't go on with a holocaust about to happen
Seeing you laughing another time

You'll never know why your face has haunted me
My very soul has to bleed this time
Another hole in the wall of my inner defenses
Leaving me breathless, the reason I know

That I am stricken and can't let you go
When the heart is cold, there's no hope, and we know
That I am crippled by all that you've done
Into the abyss will I run!-

Into the abyss will I run!

[SOLO ESPECTACULAR DE GUITARRA DE DAN DONEGAN]

AHHHHHH!

You walk on like a woman in suffering
Won't even bother now to tell me why
You come along, letting all of us savor the moment
Leaving me broken another time

You come on like a bloodstained hurricane
Leave me alone, let me be this time
You carry on like a holy man pushing redemption
No One to mention, the reason I know

That I am stricken and can't let you go
When the heart is cold, there's no hope, and we know
That I am crippled by all that you've done
Into the abyss will I run!-

Into the abyss will I run!-
I can't let you go!
Yes I am stricken and can't let you go!!

Stricken fue incluido en el album Ten Thousand Fists, publicado en 2005 por el grupo estadounidense Disturbed. Fue el segundo single del disco y tuvo un éxito destacable, además de ser incluido en varias bandas sonoras de videojuegos conocidos como Project Gotham Racing 4, y su destacada aparición en el nuevo Guitar Hero III (puto vicio de juego xD).

El tema despunta por sus ritmos fuertemente marcados, apoyados por la sensacional voz del solista David Draiman, especialmente buena para estos menesteres. Tampoco podemos evitar mencionar la excepcional calidad del guitarrista Dan Donegan, que ejecuta unos riffs de guitarra realmente espectaculares.

Sin más que añadir, que la disfrutéis!

PD: La aparición de esta canción en el blog no guarda ninguna relación con que este fin de semana hayamos estado viciadisimos a Guitar Hero III. (xDDD)

Alternative Rock: Canción #13: "Everything changes" - Staind

If you just walked away

What could I really say?
Would it matter anyway?
Would it change how you feel?

I am the mess you chose
The closet you cannot close,
The devil in you I suppose
'Cause the wounds never heal.

But everything changes

If I could turn back the years

If you could learn to forgive me

Then I could learn to feel,

Sometimes the things I say

In moments of disarray
Succumbing to the games we play
To make sure that it's real.



But everything changes
If I could turn back the years
If you could learn to forgive me
Then I could learn to feel,

When it's just me and you.

Who knows what we could do.

If we can just make it through

The toughest part of the day.

But everything changes
If I could turn back the years
If you could learn to forgive me
Then I could learn to feel,

Stay here together

And we could

Conquer the world

If we could

Say that forever

Is more than just a word.

If you just walked away

What could I really say?

Would it matter anyway?.

It wouldn't change how you feel.

Everything changes forma parte de Chapter V, disco publicado en Agosto del 2005,

que fue disco de platino en EEUU. El disco entero no tiene desperdicio, desde el primer single Right Here, hasta la última de las canciones, a la que sin duda haré un hueco por aquí un día, pasando por esta, que realmente tiene mucho q decir de la personalidad de Staind. Muestra su faceta más melancólica y... tal vez alguien diría que la más sensible, pero eso sólo demostraría que no les ha escuchado lo suficiente como para caer en la cuenta de que la sensibilidad no está ausente en absolutamente ninguna de sus canciones.

Everything changes, para bien o para mal, quién sabe, depende.

Para todos los que busquen historias con las que identificarse, contadas con un toque de rabia y bastante calidez, y a los que no les molesten las voces cercanas que supongan el riesgo de derramar alguna lágrima en momentos escogidos: escuchen, el señor Aaron Lewis tiene mucho que decir.