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Blackened hardcore band KHMER premiere “Himno a las llamas” Japan Tour Documentary video!

July 28, 2016
6 mins read

Spanish blackened, crusty hardcore/metal hybrid KHMER (members of ICTUS, ANOTHER KIND OF DEATH and DESERT ICONSHAS) released a 10″ split with LIVSTID from Bergen, Norway in late 2015 and since then has wrapped up a couple of tours in the US and Japan. Now the band is back with a 10 minute “video-documentary / live footage” video serving a proper picture to a monumental sonic experience called “Himno a las llamas”. It serves a captivating and punishing experience and will definitely win KHMER some new followers. Watch the full video below and tell us what you think via the comments below.

The split with LIVSTID was released in late 2015 through Long Legs Long Arms (Japan), Halo of Flies (US) and Disiplin Media (Norway).

Lyrics:

Bajo la piel duele el animal
que se resiste a desaparecer.
Selva sin rey, rabia sin más,
y entre dos costillas aún tu puñal.
Un perro viejo no se lame heridas
si tiene dientes con los que morder.
Hoy no pretendo cantar mis penas,
tan sólo quiero verlas arder.

Me asoma ya el corazón
por las costuras de este disfraz.
Tanta pasión no puede acabar
bajo un sudario de mediocridad.
Este es un himno a las llamas
que nos abrasan desde el interior,
es el ruido que las armas
hacen al desenvainar.

Sólo sé alimentar mis demonios,
sólo sé… con la carnaza del odio.

–

Es todo cuanto entiendo, todo cuanto hablo, el maldito idioma del fuego cruzado, perdido en los días, cargado de años, y siempre esperando a que me parta un rayo. Por mi biografía lo voy arrastrando, el plomo del cuerpo con todos tus disparos, buscando en el aire esa página en blanco que tú me arrancaste. Y ahora la noche no se quiere marchar, se ha estancado, cansada y profunda, bajo mis párpados, la llevo clavada en el pecho igual que un amor mal curado, pues aquí nada cura el tiempo, ese cuchillo desdentado… Tú también me abandonarás, a esta estrella incendiada aferrada a la oscuridad, otra más que le intenta robar la sonrisa a la luna, aunque hoy, a estas horas que son, ya todo da igual.

Tú también me traicionarás.

–

Hoy que se hunde el horizonte,
yo sólo puedo mirar
a través de estos dos cortes
que se niegan a sangrar ya más.

Y así podría quedarme, sin pestañear,
pero mi tiempo aquí terminó,
habrá que inventarse caminos en otro lugar,
donde volver a perdernos una y otra vez,
mientras hacemos caer los puentes al pasar.

Van creciendo calaveras
con cada paso que doy,
y aunque se borren mis huellas,
el polvo irá allá adonde vaya yo.

Sé que no puedo librarme de esta maldición,
pero entre estos puños la puedo encerrar,
aunque la carne se me parta en dos;
después de todo no es mucho lo que puedo hacer,
excepto abrir esta jaula y echar a volar…

—

Hymn to the flames

Under the skin it hurts the animal
which refuses to disappear.
Jungle without a king, rage and just that,
and between two ribs still your knife.
An old dog does not lick its wounds
if it has teeth to bite with.
Today I don’t intend to sing my griefs,
I just want to watch them burn.

My heart already appears
through the seams of this disguise.
Such passion cannot end
under a shroud of mediocrity.
This is a hymn to the flames
that burn us from the inside,
this is the noise that weapons make
as they were drawn.

I only know to feed my demons,
I only know… with the bait of hatred.

–

That’s all I understand, all that I speak, the damn crossfire language, lost in the days, carrying the years, and always awaiting a lightning to strike me. I’m dragging it along my biography, the slug in the body with all of your shots, searching in the air for that blank page you tore from me. And now the night does not want to leave, it became stagnant, tired and deep, beneath my eyelids, I carry it stuck in my chest just like a badly healed love, because time heals nothing here, that chipped knife… You will abandon me too, to this torched star clinging to darkness, just another one trying to steal the smile to the moon, but today, at this time, nothing really matters…

You will betray me too.

–

Today that the horizon is sinking,
I can only stare
through these two cuts
which refuse to bleed any longer.

And I could stay like this, without blinking,
but my time here is over,
we will have to imagine paths in another place,
where we get lost again and again,
as we tear the bridges down while we pass by.

Skulls are growing
with every step I take,
and although my footprints were swept up,
the dust will go wherever I am.

I know I cannot get rid of this curse,
but I can lock it up into these fists,
even if my flesh tore apart;
After all there is not much more that I can do,
except opening this cage and start to fly…

—

灼賛歌

滅んでなるかと皮膚の下
のた打つ痛み猛々しく
王なき密林 逆巻く逆鱗
匕首 肋に未だ深く
よしんば牙歯の頑健ならば
老犬とて手負いに甘えぬ
この苦しみは調べに酔わさず
燃えざま見伏すことのみ欲す

妄なる装いその縫い目より
真なる臓を暴き立てよ
市井の衆生の様相やつれど
断じて絶えぬ隠れし熱情
之は誰しもの心魂の底より
噴き上がる灼賛歌
之は封を解かれし干戈が立てる
鈍味備えた鳴響き

己に巣食う悪鬼はひたすら喰わせて遣れ
唯…餌皿を嫌悪で満たせ

–

俺が悟った全てとは、口に出来る全てとは、十字に燃える悪辣な言葉達、日々の流れに飲まれ、のしかかる歳月は篤い、もはや稲妻に切り裂かれることさえ望む始末。綴られた運命を俺は引きずり歩んで行く、お前が撃ち込んだ散弾は生々しく、引き千切られた空白の一頁が宙をさ迷っている。この夜は明けることを望んでいない、とどまる、瞼の裏で、底なしに粘つきながら。癒しの手口の見当の無さ、それはまるで刃の無いナイフ…
お前も俺を見殺すのか、闇を染める炎が色濃い、月から微笑みまでをも奪うつもりのようだ、この今、この今が過ぎ去った時と変わりないものであるとしても、もはや俺にはどうでもいい。

裏切り お前もか

–

もうこれ以上の流血を拒む
二つの傷の向こう越しに
消え入りそうな水平線を
俺はただ眺めるだけ

ここから立ち去りなどはしないさ 瞬きさえも惜しい
俺に残された時間はそう多くはないのだから
切り開いていかなければ どこか他なる世界へ向けて
たとえ失うことになるとしても
架けられた橋を渡れば落ちてゆくことになる

やがて放蕩者らが先を争うように
敷かれた道を追ってくるだろう
俺たちの足跡は無残に乱されて
四方を土埃が舞うのだろう

わかってる この呪いが解ける類のものでないことくらい
それでも拳を堅く握って締め上げることなら出来るはず
俺の命 そんなものならくれてやるよ
果たせる限りを尽くせたのなら
檻を放て さあ飛び立て

Catch the band live at:

27 / 8 – Lugones (Asturias) Underpark Fest
16 / 9 – Zaragoza AVV Arrebato
17 / 9 – L´Hospitalet de Llobregat (Bcn) CSO L’astilla
1 / 10 – Madrid – tba

Here’s the LIVSTID’s side of the split:

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Karol Kamiński

DIY rock music enthusiast and web-zine publisher from Warsaw, Poland. Supporting DIY ethics, local artists and promoting hardcore punk, rock, post rock and alternative music of all kinds via IDIOTEQ online channels.
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