Name: HAMMERFALL - Any Means Necessary by NuclearBlastRecords in random
Duration: 3 min 35 s
Description: From the HAMMERFALL album, No Sacrifice, No Victory

So beautiful it made me hold my heart and cry 🥺

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"Promises, thoughts, and poetry.  My only prayer for immortality."  

(Once again, this still isn't the song about sex that I promised a couple of days ago.)

I was going to save this song for a big round number that's coming up, but something about this...something about this time of year...made me want to drop this track earlier than I'd planned.  

If all you've heard from Interbay has been edm, indie, or synth pop--this track will be something different.  You could call it shoegaze.  You could think of it as thick guitar and synth driven alternative rock.  You could hear it as a wall of noise.  

Ironically, this track has a lyric I've written that I'm especially proud of--and then I buried it under phased guitars that drowned almost all of those words under black sheets of rain.  Those words are there, floating somewhere between the left speaker and the right...and painfully difficult to pick out...like the last verse of "Pretty in Pink" (the original version, not the movie's remake) by the Psychedlic Furs.  

That might actually be a good comparison to  make when trying to share what "Garland of Me" sounds like--thick, dense, epic, impenetrable, moody.  

The narrative of this song is based on the second definition of "garland"--not the ring of flowers or plants, the way I'm using this word is as an anthology or collection.  Imagine a broken hearted man who has been unwillingly cast aside by his love.  He wonders about his place in her world as her life continues without him in it.  What will she remember?  What stories will she tell?  

So, seeking to leave a more positive documentation of himself than their recent split might suggest, the man compiles photographs, ticket stubs, sections from letters, poetry, drawings...all of these things to specific moments, tethered to a shared past...all of that, into a book--like a photo album.  And, upon seeing her sitting at an outside table of a coffee shop, he appears only to hand the book he'd made for her over to her...and walks away.  

He knows that he can't make her keep the book.  He knows, really, he can't control how he is remembered by her...  But, if she is ever feeling nostalgic, if she happens to have not trashed the book immediately, she could lean upon the book being able to reminder about the times that they were happy together.  

She does respond, suggesting her own doubts in the wake of the sadness she feels, but she ends up only talking to herself...because he's already walked away.  

It is quite the narrative, especially for a loud and noisy shoegaze track.  (Maybe I redo this someday to make the spoken lyrics a bit more prominent--or, at least, understandable?  Maybe.)  

My favorite part of this track is when the full drums come in...it feels epic to me.  I hope it does to you, too!  

I hope you give this a listen and a like.  Often, when I really like a track I've made, it can struggle to get listens or likes...but you can help prove me wrong.  Consider reposting it, sharing it or adding it to a playlist.  

And, as always, I recommend you follow this page.  Each day brings a brand new, never heard before, Interbay track.  And each day, they'll be different.  Who knows what tomorrow might bring?  (Maybe that song about sex?  Why am I trying to make a song topic "a thing."?  But, it could be that song...or another.  I won't know until I hit "upload"...and then, if you're following this page, you'll know!

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