asphalt reign is a powerful song that combines urban and neoclassical within changes in female voices
female fronted doom metal band from mexico with shades of neoclassical urban and gothic.
Story behind the song
Baudelaire inspired this song in a very braod way, because he speaks of darkness into cities. We feel asphalt reign reflects a great part of our daily environmet in our indutrial hometown (monterrey). It is also a hymn to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams despite the dullness of the hard urban life.
Lyrics
C'est un univers morne à l'horizon plombé,
Où nagent dans la nuit l'horreur et le blasphème;**
alone i wander through asphalt reign
drinking my own tears
where only torment reminds me
i still keep my life
so i submerge into the darkest regions
of horror and pain
silent screams surround concrete veins
sounds of forgotten heartaches
crumble a thousand days
where irremediable flows time
no more self betrayals
shall surpass within the mind
for i walk through these lands
losing all but not my dreams
C´est un pays plus nu que la terre polaire
ni bêtes, ni rousseaux, ni verdure, ni bois. **
alone i wander through asphalt reign
drinking my own tears
where only torment reminds me
i still keep my life
stand immersed in gray
though dull and stained
we shall plead for freedom
and light the paradise of our dreams.
** Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal.
