More Than Meets The Scream - The Environmental Edition

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    I’ve always enjoyed ‘heavy’ music and from a young age, early listening pleasures came from the likes of Limp Bizkit, Korn, & Metallica. It all stemmed from when I was on school holidays in the middle of the nowhere with my cousin who was a few years older than me, he pulled out his Sony disc-man and showed me 2 tracks, one being Original Prankster by Offspring & some Rammenstein track that I can’t remember and if I did, I wouldn’t be able to spell/say. From there, I went home threw out all my pop music (R.I.P Aqua & my Ground Zero compilation) and started buying punk and heavy records.

    Since then all throughout school and even into my adult years, every time the subject of what music you listen to gets brought up, I always say heavy music. Once those words leave my mouth, 95% of people have the same response, they scream in my face followed by - you listen to this shit?! It didn’t matter that I was wearing Fubu tracksuit pants or Adidas buttoned-up trackies, I was told I listen to ‘Devil Music’. Everyone has the right to their opinion on music, I am definitely one to judge someone who likes musical theatre, but it’s time to educate the people and show them that heavy music isn't just about pentagrams, death and all things devil related, there are bands out there that it is all about the devil and such, but the majority of it isn’t, and that’s my point.

    The first topic in this series is - Environmental.

    Unless you’re living on under a rock or you share the same point of view of some stupid idiotic politicians climate change is real and it’s essential that we as humans start to give a shit or future generations are set for a certain doom. Although, most people can’t see past the scream, there are bands that take environmental issues seriously enough to use and educate in their lyrics, branded the ‘hippies of hardcore’ Byron Bay’s own In Hearts Wake are trying to set a good example.
     

    For me this message really became crystal clear with their 3rd studio album - Earthwalker. The name suggests it all, but it’s the lyrical content of the album that really gets the listener thinking and taking things away. Their message isn't about how to save the planet, it’s more about learning to take in our natural surroundings, because the more we do that, the more we will appreciate were we are, and then we will feel encouraged to save and preserve.

    Fellow Byron Bayian’s have taken this message of Climate Change through heavy music to the world, and that is none other than Parkway Drive. In 2013 the band released their 4th record – Atlas; from this record came an array of environmental focused tracks, getting listeners to not only understand what is actually happening, but to act before it’s too late. The first single off this album Dark Days is the perfect example, stating:

    What will you tell your children when they ask you "What went wrong?"?

    How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost

    To eyes that know only a wasteland?

    How will you justify, justify, watching the world die?

     

    The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered

    Head first into disaster from which there will be no return

    With narrow minds we decimate our one true home

    Cast into oblivion, judgment is calling

     

    Behold the pale horse

    This is the funeral of the Earth

    Behold the pale horse

    This is the funeral
     

     

    They have set the precedent of educating a large number of people across the world with a message of complete truth. So if it won’t be politicians who will help combat climate change, maybe it’ll be done through music and strong advocates like the members of In Hearts Wake & Parkway Drive who will get a clearer (and louder) message across to the masses.

    Now... It's time for a little game of would you rather? Out of the two sets of lyrics below, which would you prefer the youngest member of your family listens to?

     

    1.
    Breathe

    And feel the air in your lungs

    Breathe

    And see how far that you've come

    Even when our worlds collide

    Just breathe in one more time

     

    OR

     

    2.
    Gun in my purse, bitch I came dressed to kill

    Who wanna go first? I had 'em pushing daffodils

    I'm high as hell, I only took a half of pill

    I'm on some dumb shit

     

    Yeah... I thought so. So before you judge, just remember there is more than meets the scream.

     

    -Trent R

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I’ve always enjoyed ‘heavy’ music and from a young age, early listening pleasures came from the likes of Limp Bizkit, Korn, & Metallica. It all stemmed from when I was on school holidays in the middle of the nowhere with my cousin who was a few years older than me, he pulled out his Sony disc-man and showed me 2 tracks, one being Original Prankster by Offspring & some Rammenstein track that I can’t remember and if I did, I wouldn’t be able to spell/say. From there, I went home threw out all my pop music (R.I.P Aqua & my Ground Zero compilation) and started buying punk and heavy records.

Since then all throughout school and even into my adult years, every time the subject of what music you listen to gets brought up, I always say heavy music. Once those words leave my mouth, 95% of people have the same response, they scream in my face followed by - you listen to this shit?! It didn’t matter that I was wearing Fubu tracksuit pants or Adidas buttoned-up trackies, I was told I listen to ‘Devil Music’. Everyone has the right to their opinion on music, I am definitely one to judge someone who likes musical theatre, but it’s time to educate the people and show them that heavy music isn't just about pentagrams, death and all things devil related, there are bands out there that it is all about the devil and such, but the majority of it isn’t, and that’s my point.

The first topic in this series is - Environmental.

Unless you’re living on under a rock or you share the same point of view of some stupid idiotic politicians climate change is real and it’s essential that we as humans start to give a shit or future generations are set for a certain doom. Although, most people can’t see past the scream, there are bands that take environmental issues seriously enough to use and educate in their lyrics, branded the ‘hippies of hardcore’ Byron Bay’s own In Hearts Wake are trying to set a good example.

 



For me this message really became crystal clear with their 3rd studio album - Earthwalker. The name suggests it all, but it’s the lyrical content of the album that really gets the listener thinking and taking things away. Their message isn't about how to save the planet, it’s more about learning to take in our natural surroundings, because the more we do that, the more we will appreciate were we are, and then we will feel encouraged to save and preserve.

Fellow Byron Bayian’s have taken this message of Climate Change through heavy music to the world, and that is none other than Parkway Drive. In 2013 the band released their 4th record – Atlas; from this record came an array of environmental focused tracks, getting listeners to not only understand what is actually happening, but to act before it’s too late. The first single off this album Dark Days is the perfect example, stating:



What will you tell your children when they ask you "What went wrong?"?

How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost

To eyes that know only a wasteland?

How will you justify, justify, watching the world die?

 

The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered

Head first into disaster from which there will be no return

With narrow minds we decimate our one true home

Cast into oblivion, judgment is calling

 

Behold the pale horse

This is the funeral of the Earth

Behold the pale horse

This is the funeral

 

 



They have set the precedent of educating a large number of people across the world with a message of complete truth. So if it won’t be politicians who will help combat climate change, maybe it’ll be done through music and strong advocates like the members of In Hearts Wake & Parkway Drive who will get a clearer (and louder) message across to the masses.

Now... It's time for a little game of would you rather? Out of the two sets of lyrics below, which would you prefer the youngest member of your family listens to?

 

1.

Breathe

And feel the air in your lungs

Breathe

And see how far that you've come

Even when our worlds collide

Just breathe in one more time

 

OR

 

2.

Gun in my purse, bitch I came dressed to kill

Who wanna go first? I had 'em pushing daffodils

I'm high as hell, I only took a half of pill

I'm on some dumb shit

 

Yeah... I thought so. So before you judge, just remember there is more than meets the scream.

 

-Trent R

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