Hey punx, currently listening to the new Akela album and I just wanted to give you a short impression of this upcoming (01. August 2014) beast. Akela is a 5-piece dark post-hardcore/post-metal outfit from Lüdenscheid/germany. Somewhere amongst an pretty intense soundwall and staggering vocals the band builts up a very gloomy atmosphere with some utter heartbreaking lyrics:
“Our hearts are filled with fear and it’s keeping us from sleeping.” or “Don’t you remember life before it became so stale? Don’t you remember life before we played it safe? Don’t you? And now each day’s just grey in grey but we tell ourselves: »We can’t complain.«” both from “Risk MGMT” are kinda distinctive. I dig it so so much.
Spinning it on repeat now and hope you’ll like it too.
I look up to the misfits. I sympathize with the unfortunate who always get left behind. I guess I just can’t relate with the winning kind. I too have always been desperate to fit in with the crowd and to finally belong. So you try to be like them, and you start to deny who you are, but you’ll fail. Even now that I have travelled 30 times around the sun I still give in to the impulse to try to be approved by everyone. I guess it’s in our blood: The everlasting quest for acceptance. For the promise of warm applause we throw our passions aside. It seems it’s either »play alone on your own terms« or »betray what you love«.
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