Pada 21 April kemarin, band metal While She Sleeps merilis labum baru berjudul You Are We. Band asal inggris bentukan 20067 yang terdiri dari Mat Welsh (gitar), Aaran Mckenzie (bass), Sean Long (gitar), Lawrence Taylor (vokalis), dan Adam Savage (drum) menghadirkan kejutan di album ketiganya ini. While She Sleeps mengajak vokalis Bring Me The Horizon, Oliver Sykes, untuk ikut isi vokal.
Sebenernya kabar ini sudah diumumkan Sykes sejak Februari lalu. Lewat Twitter ia mengungkapkan rasa syukurnya sudah bisa ambil bagian di album penting While She Sleeps ini.
Di hari perilisan album, Sykes juga ikut datang ke panggungnya While She Sleeps. Di tengah-tengah lagu Silence Speaks, Sykes yang memakai jeans dan hoodie itu langsung menggebar lagu dengan vokalnya yang sangat khas itu.
Lihat video panggungnya di sini:
Album You Are We ini bisa dibilang sebagai album penting bagi While She Sleeps karena ini adalah album pertamanya yang digarap band secara indie.
“Setelah 10 tahun menghadapi naik-turunnya industri music kami memutuskan untuk melanjutkan perjalanan secara indie dan merilis sendiri album ketiga kami,” tulis band di halaman PledgeMusic. “Semua uang yang terkumpul akan dipakai untuk mendanai pengerjaan album ini, dari artwork, video klip, turd an segalanya untuk mempertahankan band.”
Kerennya lagi, proses rekaman album ini digarap mereka di sebuah studio di Inggris yang sebelumnya adalah gudang.
“Kami butuh setahun untuk membangunnya. Sekarang kami sudah punya studio untuk bekerja. Dan ini sangat menyenangnkan bisa merekam album di tempat di mana kami nggak cuma membuat music, tetapi juga membuat ruang. Ini membawa nuansa positif bagi kami,” kata Mat Welsh. Bahkan, di studio gudang itu ada dapur dan kamar tidur, lho.
Anyway, mari kita dengarkan lagu Silence Speaks versi resminya. Pasang headset dan selamat menikmati.
Siapa tau mau ada yang sambil nyanyi, ini liriknya:
[Chorus] Where is your heart? Can we beat this if we all Tear the borders, break the walls Together as one? The cruel hand of a faithless destiny that never sleeps The guiltless restraints assured by deceit (Are we free?) Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Are we all alone? Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh [Verse 1] If you’re gonna accuse me Of pouring too much salt in the wound We have just proved that They can pollute our heads with the news They will manipulate the masses again If you’re gonna accuse me of telling you what you already knew It’s the same song sung with a different truth And all of us forget it cause our head’s inside the noose They will manipulate the masses again Yeah, yeah, yeah we won’t forget it You better pray for absolution You can change but you can’t deny The new wave in a terror nation (Why do we ignore the warning signs?) Board it up, the borders are shut The blood of the innocent is under the rug White lies in a world corrupt (Are we too blind to see through honest eyes?) War will cease when we refuse to fight [Chorus] Where is your heart? Can we beat this if we all Tear the borders, break the walls Together as one? The cruel hand of a faithless destiny that never sleeps The guiltless restraints assured by deceit (Are we free?) Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Are we all alone? Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Are we all alone? [Verse 2] Hope widows, shattered windows Restriction without effect Dead lines in silhouettes (Why do we ignore the warning signs?) Cold calls to derelict homes Needles at the side of the road Wires and liars like thorns that won’t let go (Are we too blind to see through honest eyes?) War will cease when we refuse to fight Tell me where is your heart? [Bridge: Oli Sykes] I think the silence speaks volumes Now we march to our own drums They’re only singing what they want to be sung Hate’s become the new anthem How could you?When did our veins run numb? We treat our species like a fucking flood Hate’s becoming our new anthem [Bridge 2] The longer I live, I learn that we don’t belong We’ve taken more than we can give And you’d do better on your own The longer I live, I learn that we don’t belong We’ve taken more than we can give And you’d do better, better on your own Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Are we all alone? Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh [Outro] Tear the borders, break the walls Take us back to when we’re all together as one Taught to love, born to live and let go Tear the borders, break the walls Take us back to when we’re all together as one Taught to love, born to live and let go