Bio
Zirrus ist eine progressive Metal-Band, die Elemente von NWOAHM und Metal Core mit Einflüssen des Post Rock und des Progressive Rock vereint. Die Band besteht aus Jonathan Banz (Gitarre), Dorian Bellwald (Gesang), Michael Schmid (Schlagzeug), Serge Hauri (Gitarre) und Claudio Berger (Bass).
Entstehung der Band:
Jonathan Banz (Gitarre), Dorian Bellwald (Gesang), Michael Schmid (Schlagzeug), Julian Ludwig (Bass) und Morris Thomkins (Gitarre) gründen im Winter 2008 in Luzern, Schweiz, ZIRRUS. Durch die unterschiedlichen musikalischen Hintergründe der einzelnen Mitglieder und die gleichzeitige Neugierde und Offenheit gegenüber einer vielfältigen Bandbreite von Musikstilen entstand eine progressive Metal-Band mit Einflüssen des Post Rock und des Progressive Rock.
Im Frühjahr 2009 produzierte Zirrus ihre erste, 6 Tracks umfassende, Demo-CD Kumulus und spielte anschliessend ihr erstes Konzert im bekannten Treibhaus in Luzern als Support von Graveworm. Am Ende desselben Jahres verlässt Julian Ludwig (Bass) die Band, sein vakanter Platz übernimmt Christoph Ruckli. Gemeinsam beginnen sie an ihrem ersten EP-Album Garden City zu arbeiten, das schliesslich im Dezember 2010 im Little Creek Studio in Gelterkinden, Schweiz, aufgenommen und am 28. Februar 2011 mit einer Plattentaufe in der Frigorex in Luzern veröffentlicht wird. Die CD ist anschliessend in der April-Ausgabe der renommierten deutschen Musikzeitschrift Rock Hard ‘Demo des Monats’.
Nach einem ereignisreichen 2011 – u.a. auch mit Support-Auftritten bei Architects oder Sybreed – zieht sich die Band zurück, um ihre musikalische Ausrichtung zu verdichten und an neuen Kompositionen zu arbeiten. Mit den herausragenden Musikern Serge Hauri (Gitarre) und Claudio Berger (Bass) spielen Jonathan Banz (Gitarre), Dorian Bellwald (Gesang) und Michael Schmid (Schlagzeug) schliesslich im Februar 2013 im Little Creek Studio unter der Regie von V.O. Pulver (Pro-Pain, Gurd, Destruction) ihr neues, aus zwölf Eigenkompo-
sitionen bestehendes, Album Kulm ein, das am 6. April 2013 im Treibhaus Luzern zusammen mit Konzerten von Slowdrive, Insanity und Golden Crandy getauft wurde.
Lyrics
ZIRRUS KULM
LYRICS ©2013
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01 - MAKING THINGS APART
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let me
see again
into this
ring
we make
as parts come together,
withhold a young severance
decay
and make
symmetry
this time
there's hope
something will change
and the void itself
will explain
how do we matter?
inside this ring
parts apart
and the world is not
too much with us
and the world is not
too much with us
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02 - WHITE LEAD
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rose red
white lead colored skin
never marred and always
always shines
felt it for so long
drained once and for all
my flooded lung
stayed in line at home
honed so long so long
ready to stray
the entire motive is a face
where gravity is out of place
the entire motive is a face
where gravity is out of place
seen it for so long
closed once and for all
my embittered eye
rose red
white lead colored skin
never marred and always
always shines
hold me
hold me
hold my head
hold me
hold me
hold my heart
a sine line
almost light
rip open the sky
radio signals
of pharaohs
pastel pyramids
with heated floors
automatic doors
happy birthday
the played life is real
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03 - KULM
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climbing so high
up in the sky, up in the sky
with a weather eye
climbing supinely
climbing the line to the high sign
a sign so divine
holding up high
the pick to the sky
smiling . . . standby
voice-over delay
clouds going astray
cliff-top belay
no bitter end
no bitter end
I will be my own
I will be my own friend
humming sound
from the growling ground:
always being there, my friend
going down
with a harness on
an eighter and some rope
no bitter end
no bitter end
I will be my own friend
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04 - TUMBLING DOWN
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05 - WHEELS OF LIGHT
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enters light like diamonds,
unpacking colored
shades that bloom,
purpleless and bright
terra's glaring face
conceits a smile,
spreading far
into the night
she turns, she apricates
as then, again and after.
crumbs of prior deaths,
cramped between the bedsheets,
form black(ened) veins - of
frozen heat.
newborn breaks the floor to,
incandescent droning,
in the singing room
she still can't see
wheels
of
light
can't lose can't lose energy
we are the energy - source
infinitesimal
oceans of pure motion
collide with her
enliven her
reside in her
her nerves can paint
because she keeps her distance
from the heat of a terrible sphere
that always turns beside her
from the heat of a terrible sphere
that always burns beside her
from the heat of a terrible sphere
that always turns beside her
from the heat of a terrible sphere
that always burns inside her
with me gone, I know that it turns
on and on, into night infinite
with, without me here,
I know that she still turns,
wheels of light
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06 - VINTAGE
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if you want to be vintage
you need a flamingo
one with feathers
and stuff
one that stands put
when the river pulls hard
one with eagle eyes
that hunts the rainbow in the dark
one to catch the only big fish left
even if it is not fish enough
one that curves the lines
like meandering land whales the ground
make sure
to get a funny one
funny is good
funny is fun
so fun
fun
fun
and if that does not work out
just get another one, another one, another one
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07 - SEWN
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vast plains leveling up
switch the view to mute
black peaks impale the mist
fear grows in like a cyst
polaris dims and fails
gashes across the face,
ashes clog the flames
carvings across the endless sky
raze the grave as pneuma dies
the softest voice gives up and cries
too small, each fist is swept aside
bright cracks
ensnare the sky
like veins in the eye
of an old man
what have they
left behind?
thorns lying in the path
betray the sweetest course
beyond protection
in aculeate conception
give it room and time to grow
put a seed in an envelope
with bubbles in it
feed it but retard its growth
let no light get in.
and when it grows mold
you, you will finally know
finally know,
you will finally,
you will finally know
the veil you've sewn
there - must be something else
on the other side
and so it goes
and so it goes
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08 - IT RUNS
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serpents
sages,
burning
pages,
making
faces
from their cages
there is a way to know
and to retain
a list of mind tricks are for
kids know when you're not here
and how you look into mirrors
when you're scared you may forget
you are we really real now
when you're scared you may forget
you are we really real now
you
might never see, no
might never see the light
might never see, no
might never see the light
fixture spontaneously
combust your pyres at sea
what you have always seen
you have always seen
how this runs on
serpents,
sages,
burning
pages
making
faces
from their cages
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09 - HOLY GHOSTS
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will you dance for me
or will you sway
in my doorway?
holy, holy ghosts of me
swinging inverted
from the windy tree
renouncing breath
the pale of death
bets I forget
making me a mask
from another mask
hanging
from a
branch
for what?
Just hanging
I feel that stare
and know you're there
haunting the stairs
still swaying there
your
fungal seed
starts hatching
inside me
and I let myself wretch
expelling
all the bile
and I let
let myself
smile
like a newborn
cannibal
so holy
will you dance for me
or just sway
in my doorway?
I know that it hurts
but I asked
you to dance for me.
holy, holy ghosts of me
swinging upside down
from a windy tree
renouncing
the pale of death
bets I forget
making me a mask
from another mask
To hang
for what?
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10 - GRAND RIVER
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I, I did not choose
I, I did not choose
where I got on
where I got on
but now I know
but now I know
I can't control
Grand River's flow
just how I go
stillness
going
I drown in her roadway
inhaling her signs
I did not choose
where I began
oh well, I know now
this is our Grand River
feel her pulling
rowing
rowing
rowing
rowing
rowing
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11 - WATERFALL
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they say to put it here
machine running on my zeal
stained with ruby wine
they say to put it here
machine running on my zeal
my drill is zeroed in
they say to put it here
and it begins to spin
I'm digging down
far as we can
as we can go
we're climbing sound
what is it that glows?
till the end of time
a burning core awaits
black wholes with waterfalls
everywhere and nowhere
cut through the hard shell
lay bare the burning core
apex moment
liquids touch
unique colors
removed from time
two sculptures cool
fading glow
they show me how
how to die
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12 - READY
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ready
