SCHEMEN

SCHEMEN

Schemen was the last song I wrote for this album. Initially it was meant to be the only testsong, and its main purpose was to serve as a crashtest-dummy to see how far we can get with our recording method. I was 'secretly' writing this song on my own and when it was done I showed it to the other guys and asked them if they are with me on the idea with the testrecordings and to use this song for it.

A few years back in time, I think it was 2009, I became quite fond of the Post-Rock genre with bands like Sigur Rós and through my activities in my other band Agrypnie which has quite a lot of 'post' influences in it. I started to really like this genre and always wanted to write epic songs like bands in this genre do.

So I had this old old acoustic piece I wrote for my old band, that doesn't exist anymore, which was written for 2 acoustic guitars and I fooled around with it after I stumbled upon the band 'Tides From Nebula' from Poland in 2012. I really liked the atmosphere and the dynamics the tunes of the acoustic piece had and I started to change everything. The acoustic guitars became electric guitars full of reverb and delay effects and I added some drums to it. One thing came to another and I kinda got my own style within it and it was done, I could finally reveal my idea with the rest from the guys of High Rise Fall.

So we rehearsed it and we figured out that it would be a huge waste if we don't release it somehow. All of us really liked the atmosphere of this song and we all thought that it would suit High Rise Fall's open-mindedness to have a song like this. I personally thought the song would be great as it was without any vocals in it but Gundi finally broke my stubborness and convinced me that lyrics and vocals would suit it well.

The lyrics of the more ambient feeling of this song are a scene description. They were popping up infront of Gundi's eye as he was listening to the song several times. The sound of the song reminded him very much of 'Silent Hill' with its dark and grey world. At the part where the guitars start with the bendings he thought it sounded like sirens. In 'Silent Hill'  the sirens announce the transformation of the cloudy grey world turning into hell. 'Schemen' means something like 'Silhouettes', it should describe the creatures that hide in the misty darkness of 'Silent Hill'.