![]() ![]() Likewise, “Shadow and Soul” cries out for connection amid encroaching darkness (“Helpless, I’m reaching out”) even as it recognizes the danger someone might face in trying to help (“This is not for you/You don’t belong here/You, caught inside my shadow”). “The Ever” echoes Psalm 139 with, “But you saw more/You saw my deepest part.” The song also testifies, “You woke me up inside/Brought me back to life/I lost myself/But now I breathe again.” “Yours Again” wonders, “Where did I lose my passion?/Where did I start to fade?,” then pledges (perhaps to God), “I won’t let go again.” Elsewhere, we hear, “Without you my world is darkness/ … Open up my eyes/I need your light inside.” “Imposter” hints at a shadowy, deceptive part of our personalities that must be confronted with truth. Is it OK? Maybe we can get closer to the core of this by asking how effectively this release draws “beauty out of difficulty.”įrontman Michael Barnes delivers one of the album’s most plaintive, prayer-like pleas for redemption on “Take Me Over.” He sings, “Traces of your voice/I know it, I know it so well/Walking in the storm/I can feel you, I can feel you with me/ … I am standing on the edge/take me over, take me over/See how fast this life can change/Take me further, lead me further.” It’s okay for us to descend into the darkest parts of our souls to recognize and learn how to draw the beauty out of difficulty and character flaw.” ![]() His twin brother, guitarist Anthony Armstrong adds, “Our struggles as humans are the catalyst for us to experience both the beauty of life and the difficult times that bring rage and confusion. The chase is the battle we all fight against ourselves.” … We draw in the listeners with these beautiful moments all over the album in the midst of the rage that represents the things that can and always go wrong in life, then we throw in some monsters (whom actually are ourselves) and they are chasing us constantly. ![]() RED bassist Randy Armstrong says of the influential Christian metal act’s fifth album, “The concept for Of Beauty and Rage is the dichotomy of good and evil, and finding Beauty out of things that we suffer within our lives. ![]()
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