Episode 299: Soen Antagonist year 2021.- English Version.-

00:00:00 - Again, we are in the Rock Podcast.

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00:00:17 - In this podcast there are stories and anecdotes that you cannot imagine.

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00:00:58 - Son is a Swedish progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Martin Lopez, a former opeth drummer.

00:01:15 - Since its formation, it has featured several high-profile metal musicians.

00:01:20 - Martin Lopez, former drummer for bands as important as Opeth or Amanamarth, and guitarist Joe Kimplet

00:01:28 - Barstys. But it is not until 2010 when they finished the formation with bassist Steve DiGiorgio,

00:01:35 - X-Def, Testament and Satis, and Joel E. Clough on vocals, Willow Tree.

00:01:49 - This song Antagonist is part of the Imperial album released on the day January 29, 2021.

00:01:55 - One antagonist is the fifth composition on the album and the one in which this duality of a frenetic and fast section is most noticeable, as opposed to another that is softer and calmer.

00:02:09 - In this song, Martin Lopez, Uruguayan and Swedish drummer, through his instrument manages the rhythm of the track, being the bass where the other instruments fit together and complement each other.

00:02:21 - Also thanks to his talent, turning the song into something surprisingly complex and catchy at once.

00:02:32 - Also noteworthy are the heavy riffs and the strength of Eclof's voice that is projected with all the power that the instruments and the lyrics of social criticism print.

melodies and what work of these great musicians.

00:02:57 - Antagonist is part of the group's critical position toward serious human problems.

00:03:04 - We will always be a band that has the old will to fight for freedom and all the important things in life, the people, those who don't have to eat, the abandoned, those who are outside the system, says drummer Martin Lopez and wonders, what are we doing with our lives and where is the empathy?

00:03:22 - Why do we keep testing and crushing each other as a species?

00:03:30 - The letter, almost imploring, says, With the rejects and lonely, I blend.

00:03:38 - With the beggars and junkies I welcome the pain.

a life as a target of blame, for the outcast who wouldn't align, with the ruthless unfairness that rules on our time, for the wolves driven out by the lambs, you're mistaking the crook for the honest, while you're building your homes far away from us, raising walls to keep us on the outside of your meaningless life.

00:04:18 - In addition to this great lyrics, the melancholic melody invades the song, where its singer shines and delights us.

00:04:33 - This is Son's best album.

00:04:36 - Before an outpouring of feeling and emotion that is unparalleled.

00:04:41 - Where it is in each song is an ode to musical beauty.

00:04:45 - Before something so beautiful that in many moments the hair on the arm stands on end.

00:04:51 - In this same sense, referring to the emotions that the band provokes live, the drummer tells us.

00:04:58 - I don't think there is a single concert where there are not people crying.

00:05:03 - People can assimilate the lyrics with a certain situation of their lives and identify.

00:05:09 - People often use emotional music as medicine, as therapy to connect complicated situations in their lives with the message of a band, and a very strong bond can be made.

00:05:21 - We have always had that contact with our audience, and often it seems to me that of all the bands I've played in, with Sohn there is something special in concerts that turns into something magical.

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00:05:55 - With the rejects and lonely upland With the beggars and junkies that welcome the pain

00:06:11 - Overlying as the target of pain For the outcast to warn and align

00:06:23 - With a ruthless subvenice that moves on our side

00:06:28 - From the walls driven up by the waves

00:06:37 - You're mistaken, the crook for the honest

00:06:41 - While you're building your homes far away from us

00:06:46 - Racing walls to keep us on the outside

00:06:50 - On a meaningless life, fire up your guns

00:06:57 - To all of the ones

00:07:01 - Who walk on the edge of light

00:07:06 - To follow the gods

00:07:11 - Fire up your guns

00:07:15 - Define the kings

00:07:17 - For the world at the bridge is the world that is making a plea

00:07:39 - I break my friend with the fees

00:07:43 - I share my wine with a veil and you fear

00:07:49 - Is it because of the ones you live in?

00:07:57 - The weak and the bold it we are

00:08:01 - The tyrant is feeding us from its end

00:08:07 - Celebrate at his heart of his life

00:08:13 - AUGHians

00:08:34 - The sonnesty cracks in the light

00:08:38 - Necessity forces their proud to be humble

00:08:43 - Failure in life purifies

00:08:51 - Dependency dampens the wild

00:08:55 - Inequity weighs down the motion of progress

00:09:01 - Life isn't just to survive

00:09:08 - Fire up the organs

00:09:13 - Light up the flame, and they will hear

00:09:18 - Let's end your beat, our voice stops playing

00:09:43 - Bored as the shade in the dark

00:10:08 - Like a stain of shame on the flag of our cultural pride

00:10:17 - Are we all, I'm aware of us

00:10:26 - For a part of our kingdom we refuse to relieve and condemn to exile

00:10:35 - Fire up your guns, to hold all the ones

00:11:03 - Who walk all the edge of the line to follow their cause

00:11:13 - Fire up your guns Define the kings

00:11:21 - For the world that they preach Is the world that is making us bleed

00:11:30 - I love you, oh God