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Ripple In The Place Where I Belong

from Ripples by Grimheart

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The idea for Ripple In The Place Where I belong is based on a video game soundtrack. I wanted to write a very wide, open and more of a slow to mid tempo track. And I wanted it to have a big melody. So what eventually happened was a combination of a doom drum rhythm with that long melody over 32 bars, mainly carried by the orchestra. I banned the guitars to be pure rhythm guitars that emphasize the flow of the melody. And because it turned out to be very effective it was kind of obligatory to have clean vocals in this track. It was fun to do, even though my singing skills were a bit rusted. This may be the song that fits the most into the idea of the #deathgaze movement by @kardashevband (awesome band). For me Deathgaze embraces the idea of writing metal music that is not only breaking genre restrictions, but also focusing on the melody, not so much on the riffs and make it crushing, but not brutal and more like beautiful, wide and open. This idea helped me a lot through the ripple-cycle since I was pretty burnt out from making new interesting music. This idea gave me a new fresh approach and I‘m really grateful for that.

The song itself is about feeling torn between different places. When no place really feels like home, because you need to move so often, you work far away or you never found your placee in that new city so everything always feels kind of strange. Maybe this new place is an old place where you once lived, moved on and now came back and all these old memories come back, but they don‘t feel good.

„The twilight so soothing, the distance so vast, reminds me of something I was sure I had lost. This peace is so fragile, the current so strong. It ripples apart the place where I belong.“

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Between all these distant memories
I found myself again, yet failed to understand.
A shattered heart between midnight shards.
An eerie distortion of memories past-

It drags me away.
It tears me apart.
A past that once was
finally lost.

No place feels like home.
I wander alone.
And then I find you.
At least that feels true.

So cold
so numb
so warm
so long.

The twilight so soothing,
the distance so vast,
reminds me of something
I was sure I had lost.

This peace is so fragile,
the current so strong.
It ripples apart the place
where I belong.

No matter where I go
the voices stay the same.
These noises in my head once were
just friends inside my brain.

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from Ripples, released August 27, 2022

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Grimheart Germany

Existentialist anarcho post black metal solo project from Germany.

Grimheart started by experimenting with some Black Metal sounds and arrangements in 2017 with the first release "Shrouded Between Light And Darkness."

The next release "The Fear Of Death" sharpened the style and brought the production to the next level.

The latest release "Ripples" features a new orchestral approach. ... more

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