From the album "The Waste Land" (2010), produced, mixed and engineered by Jochem Jacobs (Textures) @ Split Second Sound Studio

Lyrics. 

A deathly hush reigns as I walk the streets / A total absence of outside noise pollution / Only seeming quiet places, I’m speechless / Illusory silence / My trembling voice inside echoes like a creeping sound drowned into the abyss / Fighting against my stillness to resurface

Fixed stare on darkness of a stationary world / Reduced to a silent and eerie contemplation / Nothing emerging from dust / I can’t breathe a single word / And call this bloody shambles a bloody shambles / Desolation, devastation before my very eyes / I can’t break the silence and come out of my muted shell / I’m wandering the streets like a lost soul / I’m assailed with inner noises of the ancient world / Intermingling sounds emerging in the depths of my being / Funeral laments, Nuptial songs invade me and deafen me

Millions of voices resound in my hollow body / Resonant memories of my humanity / Despairing, popular songs / Sirens hymns emerging from dark

What is that sound bursting out of myself / A life instinct taking flight high in the air / Endless moans escaping from me / Brutal and deafening like the cry of a newborn dead / But who are those hooded hordes screaming over and over inside my head / I can’t get rid of this cacophony / I’m wandering the streets like a lost soul / I’m assailed with inner noises of the ancient world / Intermingling sounds emerging in the depths of my being

Millions of voices resound in my hollow body / Resonant memories of my humanity / Despairing, popular songs / Sirens hymns  emerging from dark

Voices bemoaning in my ears / I can hear all these screams in my head

Subdued voices deafening me, deafening me

03 - Subdued Voices

This is the second track of our new concept album "The Waste Land", produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Jochem Jacobs at the Split Second Sound Studio (Amsterdam). 

The Waste Land is a musical, visual and literary concept album, about the experience of annihilation and the end of the world. Through the story of a nameless, partially amnesic and un-heroic character, told by himself, The Waste Land shows the critical crossing of the tattered world after its catastrophic ending. 
Guided through the devastated lands by a fragmented, hollow and formless shape (the character), we are watching the unavoidable collapse of a fallen society and the hard rebuilding of a lost humanity on a heap of broken images. On the road leading the wandering character to his possible redemption—at least to the understanding of this inexpressible and unspeakable quest—ashen landscapes, snatches of subdued memories and sickly hallucinations intermingle and break the frontiers of space, time and reason up, until he expires. 

To give life to this post-modern story, in the post-apocalyptic tradition of literature, visual arts and cinema, we tried to create a special relation between music, mixing, images and words. We therefore collaborated with various artists who transposed Hord’s score and lyrics in their work: 

Jochem Jacobs (producer ; Textures' guitarist) ; Jakob Arevarn (artwork director) ; David Lundmark (photographer) ; Pär Olofsson (graphic designer) ; David Sandberg (model) ; Colin Vauthier (logo, layout). 

The Waste Land is the hybrid result of this human and artistic experience. 

The Waste Land will be released Saturday, November 13, 2010. 

02 - Unreal City

[FR] Après un premier album « REBORN FROM CHAOS » (2006, WhyNot/Nocturne) produit par Patrick Liotard (Polabitch) et des concerts avec FEAR FACTORY, MISERY INDEX, PUNISH YOURSELF et BLACK BOMB A, HORD sort en novembre 2010 « THE WASTE LAND », enregistré aux Pays-Bas par JOCHEM JACOBS, guitariste et producteur du groupe TEXTURES (NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS). Inspiré des littératures post-modernes et du cinéma postapocalyptique, THE WASTE LAND est un concept album sur lʼexpérience de lʼanéantissement et de la fin du monde, alliant musique, poésie, photographie et graphisme. 
En 2012, HORD a signé sur le label Sendthewoodmusic et est entré dans le roster de MYREFERENCEEVENTS. 
Le nouveau concept album, « The Book of Eliot », mixé et masterisé par Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna, Khoma), sortira le 22 avril 2012. 

[ENG] HORD is a progressive modern metal band from the south of France. 
First album “Reborn from Chaos” (2006, WhyNot/Nocturne) has been produced by Patrick Liotard at Peek Studio. After several shows in France with FEAR FACTORY, MISERY INDEX, PUNISH YOURSELF, BLACK BOMB A, SEPULTURA, SYBREED, BABYLON PRESSION, Hord has released the well-aclaimed concept album “The Waste Land” (2010), produced, mixed and mastered by Jochem Jacobs, guitarist and producer of the Dutch band TEXTURES (NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS). 
In 2012, HORD has signed on the label Sendthewoodmusic and joined the roster of MyReferenceEvents. 
The band will release a new concept album, “The Book of Eliot”, in April 2013. The album is mixed and mastered by Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna, Khoma).

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