Tune 5: (Alexandria - Egypt): Hate Field - "Acoustic for a Night"

I'm happy to be back to blogging again after a short break for my latest academic research which will be published soon, and some interviews for Dubai Metal Festival. I feel that I am restoring an essential part of my soul and identity while writing in Metal. Here comes Alexandria, and when I mention Alexandria, I should mention cosmopolitanism, and this concept perfectly exists in Hate Field music. Hate Field reflects the essence of Alexandria in terms of music, nostalgia, madness, and mood. The saltness of the water, the smell of the sea, and the contrast between the blue sea and yellow sands. In addition, I can't ignore Hate Field because nobody came close to the music of this band, and the madness in each tune as I did. I have hundreds of memories trapped in me related to the music of this band, it is the first Alexandrian Metal band I've listened to, and it was the first band I interviewed in my whole 11-year-career in this scene and in my Metal career, Hate Field's Jagerbomb was my first Egyptian Metal album to review, and I used New Born's Army as one of the sources of my graduation project. 

"Acoustic for a Night" was a really different experience in the Egyptian Metal scene, I really wished to be there in the concert but I couldn't due to college and traveling from my small town to Alexandria. Every time I imagine that those songs were played beside the sea and the cold, salty breeze of the beautiful Alexandria, my body shivers.

I am always a fan of acoustic music, and the warmth, calmness, and simplicity the acoustic sound always gives.

So, turning all those Metal songs whether originals or covers were like a re-writing for them. If you are not familiar with Hate Field music, you may not understand this point. The members of the band took for example a song like "Evol Morena" with its very harsh vocals, and heavy tunes to a nocturnal, and romantic piece. Blending the sound of the accordion which I somehow didn't like because it was disturbing in some lines, but it was a very smart addition. Replacing all the electronic, synthesizer, and keys sounds and giving the listeners true, and authentic musical sound is something I should praise. 

Moreover, the accordion is one of the vivid sounds of Alexandria, it gives the music a true hybrid mix and a good reflection of this coastal city's cosmopolitanism.

The majority of the performed songs I can call my favorite: "Evol Morena," "Alter Fieber," "Add Reality," "Turn the Page," "New Born's Army," and "Tears of the Dragon."

But, "Turn the Page" is on the top for me. Everyone gets touched by "Turn the Page." The song itself is fast accessible by the heart and the soul.

But, this cover is totally different, not only because of the weeping night-like mood of the tunes, or the really depressive-like taste of the performed style but the work of the vocals was brilliant. It was deeply catching. There is honesty and truthfulness in the performance. 

It was one of the closest pieces to my heart for many years, and yeah, it was among the songs I used to listen to during or after Selfharm time, alongside several songs for different bands such as Peroxwhy?Gen, Skillet, Evanescence, Within Temptation, Sinprophecy, Frostagrath, Nargaroth, Xathrits, Saturnus, Silentium, Trees of Eternity, Swallow the Sun, October Tide, and Katatonia.

The album overall was true reflection of the colors of Alexandria, the sound of the Mediterranean in the accordion, the madness and fantasy of the west in the guitars, and the breeze and the magic of the east in the folk and oriental parts, and the presence of the man, of the true feeling of the human being with his/her different feelings and emotions.