Velcra - 2002 Consequences Of Disobedience

국가: 핀란드
스타일: Nu Metal//Rap-core
앨범평점: 10/10

국내에서도 매탈매냐분들은 웬만해선 알만한 벨크라다.
뭐 물론 예전부터 이곳을 계속찾았던 분이었다면 들어봤을 것이다.
여기저기 이 앨범은 많이 뿌리고 다녀서리 ㅎㅎ,,

그나저나 이 앨범은 아직까지 시디는 커녕 무손실도 구경을
못해봤다. 다행이 2005년 발매된 Between Force and Fate 는
국내에서도 수입반들이 많이 돌아다녀서 쉽게 구했지만,
문제는 내가 젤 좋아라하는 이 2002년 앨범은 없다는 것이다. ㅠ

언젠간 꼭 구해볼걸 기약하면서...쩝..

제시 프레이 누님보이스 들으면,
웬지 otep의 무서운 오텝 샤마야 누님이
생각난다. 물론 샤마야 누님은 남자같은 그로울링을 선보이는 반면
벨크라의 제시 누님은 평범하지만 노래에서 쏘아되는 샤우팅은
사악함이 충분히 묻어나와 어케보면 더 매력적일 지도 모르겠다.

어쨌든 그 후에 2007년 앨범이 발매되고 난후에 넘 기쁜 나머지
미리 들어봤지만 이건 완전 졸작이었다..내가 생각한 벨크라는 이런게 아닌데 ㅠ.
2005년까진 그런데로 들어볼만 했는데 2007년 앨범 Hadal은 최악이었다.

2002년 앨범은 넘 좋아서 다 가사까지 퍼펙트하게 다외우고 몇달간 내 mp3에서
전곡이 항상 같이 들어갔었는데 따라부르기엔 1번곡같은건 넘 어렵다..;;

01 Velcra - My law
02 Velcra - Big brother
03 Velcra - Shine for me
04 Velcra - Not against me
05 Velcra - Solar red
06 Velcra - Tension
07 Velcra - Removed
08 Velcra - Can't stop fighting
09 Velcra - Made to fail
10 Velcra - Test animals

01 My law

I've been struggling
In a good girl straight jacket
Time has come to say that's it
If I spend my life waiting for tomorrow
I'll wake up one day and it's over
No-one's gonna come to deliver the goods
Do it yourself
Here is the clue
It takes courage to follow your heart
But as far as I'm concerned it's free of charge

So tell me
Who's stopping you, what's on your way
Other people's wishes to obey
Is your purpose to make them feel okay?
Now who's to blame
I'll stand behind every word I say
And I don't really care if you see me fail
I'll make my own miracles
With base hands I build my own paradise

This is my law
This is my system
This is my force my state my mission
This is my way
This is my vision
And the voice inside my head says

Let all the pressure out
Obey your deepest pleasures
Sacrifice the things you treasure
Life's a creation
I wanna look back at it and feel proud

My criteria
For good life doesn't originate from materia
So if you're looking for someone to call naive
You can stop searching have a look at me
I say all we need is already here
But what it means is for your own eyes to see
I'm not intimidated by threats
I'll fight for the right to decide for myself

Cause if you need a scapegoat you're sure to find one
Rock the boat or you won't get nothing done
Discard and start from scratch unafraid to leave
Or turn back
Been wrong as many times as I've been right
I've lost the faith but never gave up the fight
Consequences schmonsequences
I'll bang my head on the wall till it crumbles

02 Big brother

Oh yeah my big brother, lets take good care of each other
I know your motivation is working for a good cause
Along the way you're saving us all from a lot of problems

Still your words sound like ethnic cleansing
The crowds shout in ideological frenzy
Experts preaching of a disease they only encountered in their world of theories
So pick out an experimental child and mark him for the rest of his life
What you end up with is creating a misfit
Not saved from the wrong path but turned into an outcast

Oh yeah my big brother, carrying me on your strong shoulders
Protecting me, providing me my private shelter
Preventing crime and keeping the scum away from our streets

So silence that ugly voice of these punks that are outlaws by choice
Creating my own destruction will teach me the consequences of disobedience
Committing a crime never means what you agree is a personal freedom
A modern witch hunt performing another political stunt

My resurrection, the flame is strong inside of me
Spread the infection, my voice is straight and clear
I won't fake just to make you listen to my view on things
I won't make the world your way
I won't bow before your condemning eyes to have you on my side

I won't fake just to make you listen to my view on things
I won't make the world your way

03 Shine for me

I’m the hug no-one ever gave you
The sweetest kiss for open wounds
I’m the sign that shows you direction
The guiding star that leads you home

Shine, child shine for me
You only shine for me

I lead you, I feed you, I captured your features
From now on you shine for me
I warn you, I own you, I’ll find out your hideout
From now on you shine for me

I’m the hound that guards all your secrets
Calm and brave before the storm
I’m the rhyme that soothes your nightmares
The healing hand wiping off your fears

Shine, child shine for me
You only shine for me

I lead you, I feed you, I captured your features
From now on you shine for me
I warn you, I own you, I’ll find out your hideout
From now on you shine for me

I’m the slap from your loving fathers hand
A mindless order you can’t understand
I’m the pleasure that causes a lethal addiction
Craving turned into a destructive conviction

I’m the friend who betrayed your trust
The sentence that proved the world is unjust
I’m the rumour that spreads when your lacking defence
The final revelation that stole your innocence

04 Not against me

Migraine in chaos of deep paranoia
It's too hard to get over
The reptiles inside of my head keep me sober
My veins are on fire my breath getting colder

Stench and stagnation dehydrated tension
It's too much to mention
My weakest desires are wrapped up in violence
The words of objection still echo in silence

Every kick every trip I do
Every lazy smoke filled afternoon
It can't be used against me
Every childhood trauma lifted off my shoulders
It can't be used against me

And I'm ready to seize the day

I've circled around in this sea of objections
Overcoming rejection

Like a cold steel knife it turns
Velvet acid lips it burns
Freezing up expression twisted
Rosy cheeks the skin gets blistered

No you don't have power over me

05 Solar red

Time sewed us together with stiches through our scars
Depending on one another
Siamese twins with a single heart, we are

Little waves softly
Keep melting under my feet
Little waves softly
Replace the air that I breathe

Take a look at my heart
It's so empty and dark
Have a listen to my soul
It's so quiet and cold
Your embraces were not enough to change me
Your touch didn't bring me back to life
I never seem to lack inspiration
When I need another explanation
Brick by brick we built this tower of illusion
But instead of completion it has come tumbling down

Don't wait for too long
Don't leave the light on
Cause I won't return back home
And each day we'll learn to forget
Bit by bit with every breath
Where do I end and the world starts?
It's all in our hands
All I'm looking for
I gotta find it on my own

Cause I've been building my plan b all these years
I don't remember anymore where the lead is
Important to ensure there is no room for mistakes
In the process I lost all substance
Didn't wanna live for regret
Be happy to settle with anything that's left
Bit by bit I begin to realise that all I need is to believe in what I feel

Alone I stand alone I fall from this day on
Where do I end? Where do I go?

06 Tension

Another ancient ceremony
Meaning long forgotten
Endless limerick, my entanglement
One eye one vision, one first impression
So rescue, fulfil the trivial

Go through the deep black hole
In the eye of unknown
Hit the final goal
Ascension
Beat me up when I crawl
Bring me down when I fall
Hit the final blow
And kill this tension

Go, tell me more, take me anywhere
From this fear that I can't go on
I don't know how to be more free
Please, help me let myself go

Broken promises only will serve to clarify
My hunger, growing stronger
Take the liberty to intensify this
One way, one mission, one last collision
High fever, cold desolation

Go through the deep black hole
In the eye of unknown
Hit the final goal
Ascension
Beat me up when I crawl
Bring me down when I fall
Hit the final blow
And kill this tension

Go, tell me more, take me anywhere
From this fear that I can't go on
I don't know how to be more free
Please, help me let myself go

One day my fear will turn to courage
One day my pride will be rewarded
One day my faith is all that matters
One day I'll wake up and feel no tension

07 Removed

Put your hand in mine my little girl
Out of the January hallway turn
Walk on the sun with me my little girl
Watch the shadows burn out of this world

Unarmed, the enemy is white and smiling
Lulling, I forgot to defend
Master of persuasion in the name of reason
Stretched my lifeline, stole the apple of my eye

To think that there's no other way was such a big mistake
I pay it every day cause it's getting under my skin
You told me there's no other way but you were wrong
Now it's getting under my skin
And I can't go on

Just the two of us my little girl
Lost in the corridors of this cruel world
Daddy's tired now my little girl
No sign of home no matter where we turn

Vaporised, this dead deserted paradise
Is crumbling under my feet
Like my flesh and blood reduced to ash and dust
Burn marks reminding me of all I've lost

You told me it's alright
I hope you can stop this bleeding

Bubbling under my skin
I hear the devil within
Corrupted fruit I kept eating

08 Can't stop fighting

Following the road of a pitiful disaster
Fighting through the crowd
Guiding my way it's forever going faster
Lifting me off the ground

The only one to believe
Loose the grip and you can't stop sliding
The only one to believe
Restrain myself but I can't stop fighting

Who will know how long you will be fine
Turn around I'm right behind
Now the journey's all complete
What you once drained out of me
I've come to claim back and you'll see
Whatever it is whoever it was that brought you down into this world
Won't really mean that much cause you won't be able ever to recall

All along the days are growing darker
Holding on to this sound
Leaving behind all the bitter disappointment
This sorrow will never be found

Grinning eyes that deny
You're never known to be what you're showing
Ringing words that defy
You're lies are made up of what you're glowing

09 Made to fail

I wanna hold you
Breath your smile and pass away
My life is a cold tune
Carving in the air
And I know
My dreams won’t carry me forever, no
But we weren’t meant to fail

A shade of god
Say a prayer
Beguiled

All of my values
I have sold out to this day
It burns me like a moth to a flame
And I know
My faith won’t carry me forever, no
But we weren’t made to fail

A shade of god
Say a prayer
Beguiled

I saw her coming from a two-headed star
Covered in flowers pure at heart
Holding my spirit in a golden egg
Black turns to blue
White becomes red

10 Test animals

1- Listen
2- Remember
3- Repeat
4- Till the day you die

You've got to know all the ways of the world
How to eat, where to sleep, complete your education
Respect the ones demanding your attention
Arrive on time, walk in line, shut your mouth
Mystify inspiration and learn to know what's a stupid question
Remember to listen to what you've been told
Now difficult decisions you're beginning to avoid

Release your nature
This is what it feels like
This is what it feels like when you just let go

What does it mean to survive?
Test animals just try to find their way out
Don't act like you were born
To make a living

1- Listen
2- Remember
3- Repeat
Repeat

So you're spending all this time in order to find
All the important things that now are shaping your life
So you can sit back, spending your days
Gaining weight, staying awake watching the prime time premiere
One by one you forget what you?ve done
But some mother theresa won't allow you to die
Your mind says goodbye, you're body's still alive so tell me why
Was it all worth the fight?

Release your nature
This is what it feels like
This is what it feels like when you just let go

What does it mean to survive?
Test animals just try to find their way out
Don't act like you were born
To make a living

What does it take to survive?
Test animals will never find their way out
Some things can't be taught

[Current Line UP]
Jessi Frey - vocals
O.D. - programming, guitars
Ramonius - bass guitar
DJ Freak - keyboards, sampling
Timo Hänninen - guitar

[Former Member]
Teb Bonnet - bass guitar - 2001-2005
(moved to London to study Arts Management and to pursue a solo career)
Mikko Herranen - drums - 2001-2006
 (decided to move on to his other band, Rust)
Wille Hartonen - bass guitar
Tomi Koivusaari - guitar (concentrated on his other band Amorphis)