No Dog

With an arch of the neck and the bristling of fur,
I'll cling to the earth with a footing that's sure.
With sinewy limbs, pounding the ground,
By the scruff of your neck, I'll hold you for hours.

As brutes in a brawl, in an exchange of blows,
I'll spring for your throat, break open your bones.
With a punishing jaw, that's eager to grip,
Baring teeth that are starting to drip.

And I've fire in my heart and it's dogged and pure,
Just waiting to leap, to wrestle in dirt.
Is your steel true? Have you an iron will?
Have you mastered the laws that nature has built?

Because I am no man, but I am alive
And I am no dog, I am a wolf.

I! Am! No! Dog! I! Am! A! Wolf!
I! Am! No! Dog! I! Am! A! Wolf!

Esben and the Witch - No Dog

Gosh, how unique, intense and emotional this music is. This vocal gets under your skin, consuming you, while you are drowning in surging waves of divergent and diverse post-rock under the heavy skies of gloomy aesthetic. Each song of these guys sounds like a magical rite, bewitching you with all its entity and converting you to its religion...

Choke

Over time, I let that seed of uncertainty bloom into a tree.

A tree which cannot be cut down for me.
A compulsion which befell every part of me. 

I had crawled back into the rabbit hole

I thought I'd never return to, but I am accustomed.

To avoid any leaves of self doubt amidst loved ones.
The dirt and earth collapsed and trickled down above me,
behind me, as I burrowed deeper and deeper.
The more I struggle, the more I die.

Inevitability of darkness. What once was a seed of doubt
are roots that shelter me and remind me where I belong --
In a hole.
I choke on the world. I choke on the world.
And I swallow its contents painfully, yet willingly

Cara Neir - Choke

This is a long, entangled road through a cold autumn forest under the blackened skies, crying with small tears of rain. And I find an irresistible charm in these impenetrable twilight, concealing only sadness and unanswered questions, in these unhurried melancholic tunes that sound like a spell, like a prayer, like the silent conversations between the two irreconcilable parts of your soul...

The Family Disease

 

I'll vomit illusions,
Trick myself that i'm happy,
But so much comes out of my mouth it's burning me empty

I think my heart could receive it,
Cheap imposter where you heading,
Thank you my love would you believe me,
Thank you my love would you be listening.
But so much comes out of my mouth it's burning me empty

Feel me my anger's gone,
I don't breathe I only have a son,
It's not me (it's not me-e-e)
I'm not real, I Was never born

I am forever alive,
I hook my heart to my eyes,
I reach from birth just to die,
I keep the devil inside I grow him in me

I think my heart could receive it,
Cheap imposter where you heading,
Thank you my love would you believe me,

Thank you my love would you be listening.
But so much comes out of my mouth it's burning me empty.

Feel me my anger's gone,
I don't breathe I only have a son,
It's not me (it's not me-e-e)
I'm not real, I Was never born

I watched you choke on me,
You leave me unbalanced,
You come back to break them.

I am forever alive,
I hook my heart to my eyes

Oceana - The Family Disease

How could I look at you all this time but not see you? How could I exchange only fleeting glances with you, when now I just can’t take my eyes off you, I want to look at you endlessly? Drowning in the waves of melancholy, sadness and incredible beauty dissolved in your voice. A voice that can rise you to the top of the world and drown you down in the abyss of pain. To listen and ask a question: is there a limit to the beauty and these feelings that can fit in a person’s heart? And listening to this music, I restrain myself not to cry. But I won't cry. Walking here is endless. And I'll never want to leave this place.

The Jester

 Like a Jester at the ball
Rubbed my shoulders with the kings
And I was draped in gold and velvet
Bathing in applause while I was jumping through the rings
And then the cooks would sound a bell
And all the kings would lick their lips
But I couldn't find a place mat
The dinner table's full and there's no room for me to sit

Is there anybody out there looking out for me?
Just say you want me, just say you need me
Is there anybody out there looking out for me?
Does anybody need me?

Is every last soul just fucking me over?
With tears on their shoes and ice on their shoulders.
Is there anybody out there looking out for me?

Lord, I live to entertain
All my pride is in my praise
I hum along with this vibration
And hope to god I make it
If any chord that I could strum
Made me feel less like a man
I'd slam my fingers in the doorway
And shatter all the bones so I could never strum again

Is there anybody out there looking out for me?
Just say you want me, just say you need me
Is there anybody out there looking out for me?
For me?

Is every last soul just fucking me over?
With tears on their shoes and ice on their shoulders
Is there anybody out there looking out for me?

Badflower - The Jester

Who would have ever thought that musicians, trying to be so cool, pretentious and audacious, behind such a screaming and tasteless cover hide such soulful music, music, that crawl to the bones, creep into every secret corner of your soul, open the doors to where you have never been and for a so long time not allowing you to get out of these corridors, beyond the countless doors of which there are so many life stories, sad, devastating, rude, dirty, but so insanely poetic... I can't get it out from my head for weeks now and hope I will never be able to.

Friends in the Foyer

I remember singing with you
Our friends in the foyer come straight from the altar
And I recall believing in truth
But it seems like forever since I’ve really believed in anything

So now I just sing it off
These days, I just drink it off
So now I just sing it off, it off, it off

I remember laughing with them
Our friends in the forest, in that house on a mountain
In that cabin, we got real drunk
And on the ride back to Boston, I weeped as I questioned
The men and the women we’d become

But now it’s just a metaphor
God up in the clouds, where is he now?
But now it feels like novocaine
A drink on a warm night, something to soothe the pain

I remember singing with you
Our friends in the foyer, too

 Valleyheart - Friends in The Foyer

 

Lost between back then and forever after.

I guess I should have started with the song "Losing my Religion", but suddenly a melody of this song sounded in my player and I realized how much I want to return home.

This music throws so much feelings right at me, making me so comfort, so blissful and so sad in the same time. Like it whispers: "Life is a beautiful thing, but runs so fast, it goes furher away with every second, remember who you are and don't let go everynhing you chersish, because nothing ever will be the same as it was back then".

This song just takes me somewhere that feels like home... And I hope that this time there is no need for me to leave.

NightDrive

 

Drive too fast to give you a scare

Because I am sick and I hate myself for letting you panic

Runaways at our own pace

Set to make some great escape

But this is where we turn and walk away, away

Headed west toward sweet delusion

The pieces don't quite fit, vanity is nibbling at your ear

Like the many before you, you're gonna burn, burn, burn

I'll leave you here to kick, to kick and scream

Before you were hungry then the city chewed you up

And now you feel sick, sick to your shrunken stomach

(We are) Runaways at our own pace

Set to make some great escape

But this is where we turn and walk away, away

(We are) Opened up the world and saw its hate

The ways in which we can't relate

But this is where we turn and walk away, away

Run on home

Running free just to run and hide

Running free together

Running free to find each other

But we only found ourselves after all

Like the many before you, you're gonna burny yeah

(Burn, burn)

Running free

These walls don't remember

Running free to find each other

But we only found ourselves after all

Ghost Atlas - NightDrive

No, I'm the only one to burn this way because of you...

Détente

 

"When you return, I draw you near
Reassure, then disappear
A slight setback, a souvenir
But you've endured, persevered
A second guess will interfere
It's obvious it's insincere
Your success across the years
Concealed distress; I kept you here."

Weathered lines and scars, a tribute to the years
Turn back times lost on me
Bones ground down to silt, eroding to absolve
Toiling, time's lost on me

I'm carrying the weight of culpability
My cloud bears down upon you
Etched into my frame: 'desolation'
Written in my name, a legacy
Sweeping over me, a consolation
Blissful melody, a misery

"I will remain with you, reframing points of view;
You will remain with me, pursuing symmetry."

 

Rosetta - Detente

The philosophy of serenity, the art of sadness, the beauty of loss. This song is a relief, this music is a peace of mind.