SOTW0624 Eidola "No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper"
Since we're in the process of knowing each other, let me tell you this straight up: I really, really, really like hardcore music. This week one of the bands I follow in the genre released new music and, of course, it has become the song of the week. Proceed at your own risk. You've been warned.
For me, Eidola is a band that makes things different and has a proper style that no other band can replicate. It may be the freaking beautiful voice of Andrew Wells or the brutal combination of rapid math-rock, metalcore and post-hardcore moving to ambient music and back, but they hit a soft spot in my heart that hadn't been touched. It also doesn't help that they recently were joined by Sergio Medina, someone I admire for his guitar playing abilities and for the personal vibe he adds to every band he joins – lest we forget his amazing live performances, almost single-handily creating Royal Coda and also working as Vice-President for Blue Swan Records. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that if you haven't heard Eidola – and you're into the genre, of course – you're missing out.
The new song, "No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper", is the first single of Eviscerate, the first of two albums the band is planning to release during 2024. The album comes out on April 12th and is available for pre-order on Rise Records.
For the single, Wells told Distorted Sound:
It is a song that explores the depths of societal division and loathing, a song crying out to every lost soul in the overwhelming chaos of modernity. Inspired by watching a culture, brainwashed by social media, descend into depravity, deception, self-aggrandizement, and hate. A commentary on what it’s like to witness people tear each other apart from the inside out.
Take a look at the video and let me know if you get a feeling of all that in the music.
Lyrics (via YouTube)
This iteration chewed up and spit me out
No restitution for an empty man
My generation, useless and hollowed out
No revolution for the spineless, capricious pigs
Worthless pigs
Stare into an endless mass of liars and deceivers
Not a one among them tells the truth
Am I the only one
Grinding down my teeth?
The scenery I see is lingering in entropy
God tell me how
Am I the only one
Hearing vultures circling my fate?
A moment from my collapse
I’ll leave this all behind
Hold your breath under water
Do you feel it?
Aren’t you inspired?
Or are you motionless?
Leave your fear in the fire
Do you feed it?
Aren’t you so tired?
Of all the times you let it win?
If you bend it doesn’t mean you have to break
A pacifist finds his strength
A nomad escapes his fate
A gentle kiss in the falling rain
It’ll find you there
We are all eternity repeating
How many men will die
Trying to make this right?
You’ll become everything you fear
Hold your breath under water
Do you feel it?
Aren’t you inspired?
Or are you motionless?
Leave your fear in the fire
Do you feed it?
Aren’t you so tired?
Of all the times you let it win?
You always fucking let it win
Stare into an endless mass of tyrants and believers
Who will be the first to get the noose?
Am I the only one
Without a stone to throw?
I’m giving up again to find out what I’ve always known
God tell me how
Am I the only one
With nothing left to say?
With nothing left to give?
It always ends this way
A price I’ll always pay
I know it isn't obvious from looking at text on the screen, but I really wrote all of that in a few minutes. I think it's because I'm really, deeply and sincerely invested in this band, which is unusual for me. This band means something to me, I don't know what or why, but they do. And it makes me happy to hear from them again. And it makes me happy to see they're still making great music.
Anyway, I hope you liked it. It makes my heart feel all warm and fuzzy.
And rage. Oh, the sweet, sweet rage.
