Threshold: With a collection of cautionary tales!
Treshold – Dividing Line
Threshold says, «We are proud to announce our 12th full length album, Dividing Lines, which is set to be released on November 18th via Nuclar Blast. A collection of cautionary tales, Dividing Lines is best described as Legends darker, moodier older brother». Threshold with Dividing Line and the new single Silenced.
Lyrics:
Silenced a million spoken voices
Their choices stolen without violence
Stopped by unrelenting forces
Who never saw their worth
Who never saw their souls as they were
Silenced a concept thought of freely
In fury a statement of defiance
Blocked no judges and no jury
From many to a few to everyone we knew
We reel at the scale of the wall they created
Lost at the cost of the world they deleted
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
As everyone was
Silenced the past is just a memory
Nostalgia is all that it’s cracked up to be
Stored like some forgotten history
Left to gather dust they were
Loved and they were lost and they were
Silenced they knew that it was coming
They told us we’d reach the end of summer
We stand in line with arrows
To beat the new machine
We’re slaughtered by the bullets
In the form of T’s and C’s
We reel at the scale of the wall they created
Lost at the cost of the world they deleted
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
As everyone was silenced
As everyone was silenced
Silenced silenced
Silenced silenced
We reel at the scale of the wall they created
Lost at the cost of the world they deleted
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
And after their show of compassion is ended
We’ll hear the coda of what they intended
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
As everyone was silenced
As everyone was silenced
Silenced a million spoken voices
Their choices stolen without violence
Stopped by unrelenting forces
Who never saw their worth
Who never saw their souls as they were
Richard West comments on the song: «Silenced is about how we seem to be heading towards less voices, less artists, less venues, less platforms where everyone can be heard. People seem so scared to speak out or debate anything anymore. I know I sound old but I miss the good old days! When freedom of speech goes then society is lost».
A quality prog metal tune with good melody, musicianship, great production and well-structured with a symphonic element the music is like a warm cloth I can wrap myself in when feeling bad!
Dividing Lines marks the second album since the return of former vocalist Glynn Morgan, who reunited with the band on their previous effort Legends Of The Shires (2017). A darker album than Legends Of The Shires, the band have described it as Legends darker, moodier older brother.
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