Cyhra - The Vertigo Trigger - August 2023

Don’t know how I didn’t find this before, but the track somehow got less horrible with the finished product. I’m desperately hoping it doesn’t resemble this demo version whatsoever because this… This may just trump Ready to Rumble as their worst song if it is like the post.
 
Does he not realise how embarrassing those lyrics sound? I mean, look, I'm not expecting Shakespeare or anything... but for fuck's sake.

When shit's about to hit the fan
We're in a heist without a plan
???? with superman
It doesn't matter where we go
I hear a voice from down below
Let's do the best we can
Like superman

How exactly did Cyhra go from stuff like Black Wings and Closure to this garbage? "Let's do the best we can, like superman" ? Really? That's the best you've got?
 
Does he not realise how embarrassing those lyrics sound? I mean, look, I'm not expecting Shakespeare or anything... but for fuck's sake.

When shit's about to hit the fan
We're in a heist without a plan
???? with superman
It doesn't matter where we go
I hear a voice from down below
Let's do the best we can
Like superman

How exactly did Cyhra go from stuff like Black Wings and Closure to this garbage? "Let's do the best we can, like superman" ? Really? That's the best you've got?
Absolutely incredible question, I wish I had an answer for you.
 
I would say I don’t know how I missed this, but I very rarely remember the band exists. Have quite possibly the most Cyhra thing I’ve read in a while— Even the author is fucking baffled.
RESPECT.

Jake laid the smack down on him.

He was like, "Are you ready to rumble?"

 
Imagine being given a citizens arrest by the guy who wrote the lyrics to NHIH and TVT, lmao. Jake was probably singing Superman whilst holding him down.

"Metal supergroup", yeah, sure. 1/3 of Amaranthe vocalists nearly a decade ago and Landenberg, yeah, fine. The rest, really? Do Euge and Sunesson really count as supergroup material? Not going to count Jesper as I just don't believe he's done anything serious with Cyhra since LTM.
 
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Imagine being given a citizens arrest by the guy who wrote the lyrics to NHIH and TVT, lmao. Jake was probably singing Superman whilst holding him down.

Oh, hey, maybe that’s what inspired him to write those truly riveting lyrics. Simply unparalleled.

"Metal supergroup", yeah, sure. 1/3 of Amaranthe vocalists nearly a decade ago and Landenberg, yeah, fine. The rest, really? Do Euge and Sunesson really count as supergroup material? Not going to count Jesper as I just don't believe he's done anything serious with Cyhra since LTM.
I know Euge from Shining (Yes, Niklas Kvarforth’s band, contractual disputes with that band being why he wasn’t given writing credits on Letters unless if you look deeply for them— Which I was outright told by Euge on IG) and I think Sunesson a major songwriter in Engel with Niclas Engelin, but I admittedly haven’t listened to too much from either band.

It really is aggravating how they pulled a bait and switch with Jesper in TVT. I feel some of his influence guitar-wise in the last few tracks on the album in particular, but just a little bit. Otherwise, yeah, he’s the bassist. They weren’t lying about him being super involved again, they just didn’t say exactly how he was involved. I don’t know if it was because his involvement was enough to Jake or if it was because it’d push away a ton of fans to be upfront about it, but if nothing else Jesper was rather involved with the album. I do know he was also involved in No Halos, but whereas it was him doing the main writing in Letters with Euge writing the solos, it felt more like a 50/50 on No Halos, maybe including Jake too for all we know, and it shows if nothing else.
 
Jake said somewhere in an interview a while back that he essentially wrote all of NHIH. Not sure if he was just bullshitting or misquoted, but he was pretty clear that he was the main creative force behind that album (and if so, it shows). Honestly the only time I hear any major Jesper influence is Out of my Life (Karma ripoff) and Man of Eternal Rain. The rest is just cookie-cutter shit that any amateur musician could come up with. There are some nice guitar melodies here and there and the odd solo which sounds decent, but it mostly sounds like Euge to me in those sections - and it was Euge posting all the snippets in the run up to the album with various riffs, which I assume were his.

I honestly hear zero Jesper on TVT. If he contributed to it then I could only say what a disappointment. Also nobody wants Jesper on fucking bass. What's the point.

I appreciate Euge and Sunesson are known in metal circles, but supergroup still seems like a stretch. The Halo Effect - that's a metal supergroup. Cyhra... not so much.
 
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Jake said somewhere in an interview a while back that he essentially wrote all of NHIH. Not sure if he was just bullshitting or misquoted, but he was pretty clear that he was the main creative force behind that album (and if so, it shows).

I’m going to believe it’s half bullshit, particularly going by the credits here.

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I believe he gave the direction that he wanted the album to go in and more or less drove the process with Euge and Jesper writing where they did. I always knew Battle From Within was Jake’s due to the personal story regarding his brother and the actually fine lyrics and music video, and Hit Me being Euge isn’t surprising since it’s also actually good.

Honestly the only time I hear any major Jesper influence is Out of my Life (Karma ripoff) and Man of Eternal Rain. The rest is just cookie-cutter shit that any amateur musician could come up with. There are some nice guitar melodies here and there and the odd solo which sounds decent, but it mostly sounds like Euge to me in those sections - and it was Euge posting all the snippets in the run up to the album with various riffs, which I assume were his.

Euge posted the vast majority of things, but a good year or so before the album’s release, Jesper released the main riff (And ending note/fadeout/whatever) for Lies, which I always loved. I would definitely agree that they went too far in the bog standard arena rock direction, with Bye Bye Forever (Horrible title) being one of the few actually pretty cool songs. Personally, I would love to see more of Jesper and Euge driving the ship guitarwise and Jake vocally, but I think particularly with the creative restructuring post-Letters, we just won’t get that.

I honestly hear zero Jesper on TVT. If he contributed to it then I could only say what a disappointment. Also nobody wants Jesper on fucking bass. What's the point.

Honestly, no idea what the point is other than to keep Jesper in the band and writing process. I get the feeling he was just out of the writing process for the majority of it because he just wasn’t mentally or creatively there— And that’s a genuinely fair thing. He was going through quite a bit at the time, having gotten married and then presumably divorced sometime from 2019-2021(?), which has been completely scrubbed clean from both his and his ex(?)-wife’s social medias.

I appreciate Euge and Sunesson are known in metal circles, but supergroup still seems like a stretch. The Halo Effect - that's a metal supergroup. Cyhra... not so much.

Shining is an unfortunately big (and rightly controversial) black metal name, particularly due to Kvarforth, but Sunesson and Engel itself both are undoubtedly smaller. I do see Cyhra as a supergroup— And it especially was when Peter was in the band… For the brief stint he was before he got replaced by a machine in live performances.