As the title and cover art already shows, the Milan-based band added with Ronin another head banger song to their discography. The five members from Italy create a 00s sound mix of Alternative, Modern Metal and Core tunes. Since 2019, As Hikari (like light in English/ Japanese) wants to create a path between giant walls of monolithic sound. Atmospheric parts deeply related to human emotions, in order to reach the pure fullness concept: the light itself. Motivating riffs and groovy breakdowns melodies will stay in your mind.
The four-minute masterpiece comes with emotional Metal tunes, combined with heavy breaks in riffs and drums. Melody on point with the mindset, every fall let you reborn much stronger as before. Ronin inspires you to reboot, to free yourself from everything and everyone that is pulling and holding you down. Don't let other people's opinions sway you, because they don't know what you've been through. An appeal to yourself to never give up, to find the own light. A new day will dawn, when we will revoke and reconsider our life choices. We have the control and opportunity to do this every day, because we can always cut the rope of the past for a better tomorrow.
Cut the rope and never fade
Discography
Ronin // Single, 24th June 2022
Aeons // Single, 22th April 2022
My Own Light (Gravedigger) //
17th September 2021
Scars // Single, 4th June 2021
Please check out As Hikari's other records! The band will soon release the first album Reflection! (14th July 2022)
RONIN lyrics:
Cut the rope, cut the rope
Cut the rope and never fade
Cut the rope
Get rid of what is telling you to choke
on false memories, on those painful mind-set
free from the person they think you are,
Find the will to love and forgive
first yourself and then the ones
laying guilt on a weakened mind
They would never understand what it takes anyway
They never felt pressure
Strangers to these feelings of helplessness
Remind yourself they will never be stronger,
(They) could never stand what you've been through
When everything falls look around and know
You're more alive than what you thought and it shows
A new dawn is waiting for you,
rejoice and never be scared again
I have a purpose, I have control
If glass can bend, my heart will too
This malice won't break me, have hope
Reborn and you will never fade
Cut the rope, cut the rope
Cut the rope and never fade
Stop and see
The ghost of failure's waiting in
So please, help me sever it
It's so hard to cry my heart out
I promise you I'll find the strength to love and forgive
First myself, and then the staring eyes
They'll never understand,
not in a thousand times
It's never good enough
No, never good enough
When everything falls look around and know
You're more alive than what you thought and it shows
A new dawn is waiting for you,
rejoice and never be scared again
I have a purpose, I have control
If glass can bend, my heart will too
This malice won't break me, have hope
Reborn and you will never
Take those filthy hands off my face
I embraced the suffering, I'm ready to fail again
This malice won't break me
I'm setting free
I'm gonna cut this rope
Over and over again, even when
When everything falls look around and know
You're more alive than what you thought and it shows
I'm waiting for you
Rejoice and never be scared
Again, I have a purpose, I have control
If glass can bend, my heart will too
This malice won't break me, have hope
Reborn and you will never fade
Cut the rope,cut the rope
Cut the rope and never fade