In the near 10 years of their existence BORN FROM PAIN have been mostly on the road and working hard to get noticed. Getting noticed started to happen fast. After releasing their first mcd "Immortality" in 1999, the band quickly followed up with their first full-length cd Reclaiming The Crown in 2000. Numerous support and headline shows followed. 2002 saw the release of the band's second full-length Sands Of Time that received tremendous feedback everywhere and got the band to a new level. Again, extensive touring with the likes of Hatebreed, Madball and Resistence Tour, to name a few, followed. The year 2004 saw the band embark on overseas tours in the US and Japan. Also the attention from bigger labels was drawn and in the year 2005 the follow-up to Sands Of Time, In Love With The End was released on Metal Blade Records. 1,5 Years of non-stop touring alongside bands like e.g. Hatebreed, Napalm Death, Six Feet Under followed, just like appearances at festivals like Wacken Open Air, With Full Force Open Air, Waldrock Festival, Pressure Fest, Hell Fest and numerous other bigger and smaller festivals all over Europe, as well as touring South America.
Over the years the sound of BORN FROM PAIN has always kept it's trademarks and backbone intact; brutal groove, murderous fast riffing and a feeling for the most aggressive breakdowns. Never giving in to trends that came and went in heavy music over the years. BORN FROM PAIN has always felt that spewing lyrics that represent feelings of anger, frustration, melancholy and social criticism, works best over riffs that hit you like a steamroller at full speed. The band strongly signals a feeling of stand-up, honest, straight forward authenticity to the world in a stagnant metal and hardcore scene, which the band feels is ever so important in music nowadays.
BORN FROM PAIN are not, and never were, in this to win a prize for trendiest or coolest band, but to express feelings harbored by many in our scene, expressing the anger towards daily life, social unrest, emotional hardship and the murder of the world as we know it. Negativity, anger and frustration are feelings that no one can hold back in this day and age, but we can try and turn it around to make things better at least on a personal level.
With BORN FROM PAIN's newest effort War, the band has set out to deliver a devastating blow built on murderous grooving and fast paced riffs and heaviness, killer breakdowns and a pinch of melody, ever so subtle, as a massive foundation for a non-interpretable message of social criticism, emotional disarray and the importance of an iron will in the year 2006..and many to come.
In 2008 bassist Rob Fransen finally took over vocals and Born From Pain recorded their fifth album - 'Survival'. It was released on October 31. Immediately after the release they are going to join the Persistence Tour 2008, alongside Sick of it All, Heaven Shall Burn, Terror, and H2O.
The current band members are Rob Franssen on vocals, Dominik Stammen and Karl Fieldhouse on guitars, Andries Beckers on bass, and Roy Moonen on drums.
Check out their official websites www.bornfrompain.com and www.myspace.com/bornfrompain
HARVEST
Born From Pain Lyrics
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Like the burning soil
Destruction becomes harvest
The hell where my blood boils
Empty is eternity
Realize what's left
Falling down, hollow soul
I beg for quicker death
Texture burned beyond my soul, I crawl onto the night
State of grace, bleeding eyes, life has come to this
Forsaken past, forsaken future, clench my broken fist
Harvest
Visions of the future
Like my nightmares in the past
Nothing fades to lesser
Going nowhere fast
Born From Pain's song "Harvest" is a bleak and haunting portrayal of the cyclical nature of destruction and rebirth. The opening verses present a landscape of decay and ruin, with the "filth of ages" floating on "burning soil." As the song progresses, the singer becomes increasingly desperate, longing for an end to their suffering and the promise of a new beginning. They fear the "age of another light," which suggests that even when destruction has run its course, there will always be another cycle waiting to begin.
The chorus, "Harvest," takes on a chilling double-meaning. On the one hand, it suggests the yield of a bountiful crop, the fruits of a well-tended and fruitful harvest. On the other, it implies the reaping of souls or the destruction of life. In this way, the song is a bleak commentary on the inevitability of death and destruction, suggesting that everything is ultimately headed toward decay.
The final verse of the song offers a glimmer of hope and redemption, with the singer acknowledging that their past and future are nothing, and that they need to "clench [their] broken fist" and move forward. However, these sentiments are overshadowed by the stark and haunting imagery that precedes it, suggesting that the process of destruction and rebirth is ongoing and eternal.
Line by Line Meaning
Filth of ages floats
The accumulation of all impurities and vices continues through every age and era.
Like the burning soil
It feels unbearable like the heat of the scorched Earth beneath our feet.
Destruction becomes harvest
The damage and devastation we wreak will eventually come back to us.
The hell where my blood boils
The intense anger and frustration can leave me feeling as if I'm in a fiery inferno.
Empty is eternity
A never-ending stretch of nothingness, a life devoid of purpose.
Realize what's left
Understand what remains after everything else is gone.
Falling down, hollow soul
My spirits are plummeting and I feel completely devoid of emotions and personality.
I beg for quicker death
The pain and distress have become unbearable that I wish for a rapid end to it all.
I fear the time to come, the age of another light
My apprehension over the future and the unknown ahead is heightened, a new era that strikes fear in me.
Texture burned beyond my soul, I crawl onto the night
The aftermath and effects of past events have scarred me too deeply, leaving me to seek refuge in the darkness.
State of grace, bleeding eyes, life has come to this
Feeling a sense of relief, empathy, and peace even when in excruciating pain, life has brought me to this moment.
Forsaken past, forsaken future, clench my broken fist
Both the past and the future look bleak and unwanted, leaving me anger and frustration that I cannot escape.
Harvest
The culmination of everything, the time where all our actions will be reaped, consequences of what we have sown.
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