Something about Heaven by Chaidura is literally arresting, I do not mean that it requests your attention, it literally forces it with the sheer emotional power. The London artist has created something that does not seem to be a song but a confession over thunderous guitars and guttural screams.
The first impression is the sonic mayhem. Heaven is based on visual kei, emo and metal traditions, which make it sound aggressive and painfully vulnerable at the same time. The song switches between the scenes of bare-bones introspection and a wall of tortured guitars that strike like a brick. This does not feel like theater when Chaidura starts singing softly and then whipping his metal-style howls, it seems like it is the only way to release the storm of emotions that he is unleashing.
Lyrically, Heaven struggles with self-love, control and stifling comparison. It has to do with that unkind discovery that you cannot always make yourself grow, that acceptance may be more difficult than success. This has a sincerity that cuts straight to the noise, this is not posturing or acting, it is real struggle put to sound.
The manufacturing is tilted towards urgency and unease, establishing the mood that is disturbing but strong. Spiritual choirs cut across the heaviness with an almost transcendent effect on the aggression. This juxtaposition of anarchy against vulnerability, violence against submission is what makes Heaven so successful.
Being the single title track of the LIMINAL project by Chaidura, the song Heaven creates an atmosphere of the darkness and groundedness, which seems a logical continuation. It is the music of the person who has always felt trapped between one version of himself and another, who is still trying to work it out. Cumbersome, religious and very human.
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