Being As An Ocean...

A 'Christian' of,

      The same mind...  "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become... Dirty." Mahatma Gandhi Origin Genesis Source of Being As An Ocean's Status: Currently their name, how they as a band formidably entitle themselves in this inhuman, moral trench near whole chivalry dead sandcastle world.

     I don't need to ask Joel, Lead Singer for Being as an Ocean (B.A.A.O), what his beliefs are or what his projection within the band is... All I had to do to unearth the shrapnel wilderness of hope trapped his malcontent with the same G-d in the sky I believe in.

      It's majestic really, the variance in tone from one depths of lyrical connotation to another, it's one of the reasons why I could never listen to such 'epic bands' as Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Limp Bizkit or Metallica... I needed something that I could personally identify with, sure enough lots of metal and rock bands sung with anger and rage... But only RATM woke me up into the plausible cause of intellectual lyrics spun to some form of alternative new metal. 

      Not even Payable On Death held my attention across their myriad of albums and Rage Against the Machine died out way too early, sadly... Because P.O.D's songs were spun too positively about G-d in this world that (s)He is so half vacant hearted in, were too rap-core, alt-rock and never struck that nerve of solidarity between self, band and lyrical conviction. 

     I needed lyrics that flowed over the melodic current of Rock's Post Hardcore Alternative scene! Speaking as a torrential uproar of morally conscience libel words! Thank G-d, I've found them, at long last. Maybe it's because I myself am a spoken word poetic artist, that I find the latest album by Being as an Ocean so astoundingly inspiring and beautiful, not insecure for a moment, as some reviews have suggested... That the band is evolving too fast. 

     This is understandable, at least for me, I don't have time to go back and edit everything I create before I launch it, there is a perfection to art that, in part... Doesn't matter to the artist at a certain point. It simply must be let go and the message of the harmony-metal discord must be let out! Approximates on all sides retrieving their points of view to give review, but what matters is the fans and what the band themselves desires to confess upon the stage and the malefic condescension of post hardcore pathetically awesome psalms of a band of mediocre Shakespeare's Being as an Ocean are truly moving in a majestic way, even if your faith heart is numb.

     There is something that matters more in this world than belief, and that is something the band's latest album gets across, in several amazing lines. 'I've made mistakes, but mistakes haven't made me...'
'Your silence, says everything... Darling.' Referring to G-d, whose bargaining with the karma fateful soul chips of our lives. No matter what deity to dogma you believe in, we as humanity must agree... That something has gone terribly wrong, with morality. 

     Consciously were convicted within to live more fairly towards one another, but that doesn't happen, willingly we're too often consciously sedated, see System Divide's album for awakening reference. That is what, I believe, Joel, Tyler and the band get across quite clearly... 'what's the difference between addiction to truth and conviction... Reply ' The difference must lie, in the actions, spread across a persons life...' The compelling disagreement between all sectors of belief, even evolution, is the disavowing action of any moral trench conviction, that equality bound to love must thrive above all else... 

     This is one reason I detest Richard Dawkins, not because what he believes... But how he lives it, spending most of his time on this earth convincing people that G-d can't exist, rather than learning and subsequently teaching people how to live as equals, so that intolerance, prejudice and violence might shock to the broken heathen spine in us all end... Some time before the apocalypse.

      So if you haven't picked up the Post-Hard-Alternative-Core Rock album of Being As An Ocean's How We Both Wonderfully Perish, go do it! You won't be disappointed in the depths of lyrics, hard rock and beautiful melodies of a band that inspires, the little villain in me.

In earnest anticipation of,