Hello everybody,
I’m very glad to see that the user forum has been reopened. It’s really great to meet so many people from the old forum again! I’m looking forward to all their contributions to the forum.
I’d like to reintroduce myself with two very different songs featuring Saros. I like his voice because you can make him sing very emotionally. One song, „Surrender“, written some months before, is rather heavy – the other is somewhat bittersweet, I’d say.
Here’s „Surrender“, featuring some guitar riffs, a synth and a long guitar solo, three verses and three chorusses, a hookline which I hope is easily memorable, odd meters, meter changes, irregular phrase structures, many, many different chords, key changes … nothing new for a prog metal song :D, except perhaps that it closes with the last verse.
I like songs like that and I like them to is longer. The plot is still developing (I don’t understand the text and when I find it, I translate it into Czech language and to write poems in the spirit text in my head, because the translator can’t do that), but I can feel it musically and gather the atmosphere from the expression of the singing.
Thanks a lot 
Well, the lyrics – here they are, but of course that’s a weak spot, for i am not an English native speaker, too. My songs are only written for an at maximum semi-professional band.
It’s a very sinister story. Hm, it’s metal, there are certain clichés, but perhaps the lyrics are also inspired by the Russian-Ukrainian war, in medieval disguise…
S u r r e n d e r
These are the pits where my sons are buried,
these are the places where my brothers died.
These are the fields where my sisters slave,
these are the cages in which my daughters lie.
I know the sound of a thousand horses,
I’ve heard the death cry of a thousand men.
I know the sight of rotting corpses.
I have nightmares that you wouldn’t stand.
Surrender – when you realize that it’s all in vain
Surrender – and the abyss, it opens right under your feet,
Surrender – when you’re traumatized and you’re going insane,
Surrender – and you’re feeling the world is burning
and you’re freezing in spite of the heat.
My mother gave me hope, my father hatred
to carry the torch through these darkening years.
Now I’ve used it up. You know what our fate is:
An ocean could not hold our tears,
oh no, an ocean could not hold our tears.
Surrender – when you realize that it’s all in vain
Surrender – and the abyss, it opens right under your feet,
Surrender – when you’re traumatized and you’re going insane,
Surrender – and you’re feeling the world is burning
and you’re freezing in spite of the heat.
Surrender – when you realize that it’s all in vain
Surrender – and the abyss, it opens right under your feet,
Surrender – when you’re traumatized and you’re going insane,
Surrender – and you’re feeling the world is burning
and you’re freezing in spite of the heat.
Crows at the cradle sang a song for me,
they know the future, all the things to come.
All my life I’ve heard the melody,
a dirge for freedom that never should have been sung,
a dirge for freedom that never should have been sung.