Sending tremors through your senses, ‘Heaven’ by Chaidura will have you absolutely in awe of its edgy, raw, gritty musicality.
The song blends related genres like emo rock, goth, metal, and hard rock, and offers the listener a sound that’s worlds away from subtle. The song is quite unsettling, both in its sound and its themes. It is raw, it is chaotic and it is brimming with a restless, urgent energy that completely compliments the thematics of the song. The emotional range of the song is high and wide, and it moves in phases, from the instrumentation stripping down and a gentle voice coming in to once again the metal typical howls and screams coming in with thunderous guitars.
Thematically, the song delves with the idea of identity at its core. The pressure of constantly having to be on par with expectations and the subsequent loss of the idea of the self often leads to a crisis in being able to answer the question of “who am I” and the track encapsulates such thoughts and ideas. It reflects the pain, the chaos, the confusion of not being able to situate oneself and therefore, finding oneself everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The song meets these ideas head on, with no attempt at trying to soften the blows.
If you have ever found yourself or find yourself in such a place in your life, this song will help you feel seen when you constantly find yourself as having nowhere to look to.