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EP. Vier Songs. Vier Kapitel eines Comebacks.
REBORN ist keine zufällige Sammlung. Die EP erzählt in vier Songs einen kompletten Bogen – von dem, was hält, über das, was folgt, bis zu dem, was gesagt werden muss. Das Cover zeigt einen Phönix aus den Flammen. Der Titel meint es genauso: nicht metaphorisch, sondern konkret.
Der Bogen der EP.
- Metal Saved My Life eröffnet mit der Grundlage. Der Song beschreibt, was Metal für den Erzähler in einem Leben getan hat, das lange darauf angelegt war, ihn zu zerbrechen. Iron Maiden im Plattenladen mit 18, Sabaton als Bassschlag im Blut, Kopfhörer als Festung. Kein Genre, sondern Rettungssystem. Der Song ist die Antwort auf die Frage, wie Jorundr überhaupt existieren kann.
- Are You Out There? folgt als bewusster Bruch der Grundstimmung. Nach dem Rückblick auf das, was hält, öffnet sich die Tür wieder nach außen. Die vertonte Kontaktanzeige – trocken, ehrlich, mit klaren Bedingungen. Die Rückkehr ins Leben umfasst auch das, worüber man sonst schweigt.
- For Every One Of You wendet sich vom Ich zum Du. Der Song beschreibt einen Moment, den ich selbst noch schwer fassen kann: dass Musik, die ich für mein Auto gemacht habe, auf einmal von Menschen in Norwegen, Argentinien, Japan gehört wird. Ohne Werbung, ohne Push, ohne Plan. Ein Kind mit Kopfhörern, eine Frau auf der Heimfahrt, ein alter Mann im Wohnzimmer – acht Jahre bis siebzig, alle im gleichen Klang. Der Song ist der Dank dafür. Nicht Marketing, sondern der ehrliche Versuch, das zu benennen, was tatsächlich passiert.
- Silentium Fractum Est schließt die EP mit der Ansage. Nach Rettung, Öffnung und Dank kommt das, was ausgesprochen werden muss. Ein Song über institutionelles Schweigen, Aktenmanipulation und die Rückkehr eines Kindes als Erwachsener. Actus secundus incipit – der zweite Akt beginnt. Am Ende der EP steht die Setzung: was folgt, folgt jetzt.
Warum diese Reihenfolge.
Die vier Tracks ließen sich auch anders anordnen, aber die Wirkung wäre eine andere. So gestellt, beschreibt REBORN einen Menschen, der zurück im Leben ist – nicht als Erklärung, sondern als Handlung. Musik als Grund, Öffnung als Konsequenz, Verbindung als Belohnung, klare Ansage als Selbstverständlichkeit. Wer die EP von vorn nach hinten hört, versteht, wer hier spricht und warum.
Der Phönix als Cover.
Kein Zufall. Der Phönix erhebt sich nicht, weil er sich schöne Wiedergeburt gönnt, sondern weil ihm nichts anderes bleibt. Genau das ist die Grundhaltung der EP. Zurück ins Leben, aber ohne die Illusion, dass die Asche verschwindet. Die Flammen bleiben Teil des Bildes.

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Lyrics:
Metal Saved My Life
Metal Saved My Life
They tried to erase me, they tried to break what they couldn't understand
But in the dark, I found a sound that refused to die
They tried to erase me, they tried to break what they couldn't understand
But in the dark, I found a sound that refused to die
I was a ghost inside those halls, invisible and small
They drew their lines around my skin and watched me when I'd fall
The system closed its eyes on me, a kid without a past
But something in the static caught and pulled me back at last
A distant roar of steel and flame, a frequency that heals
It cut through every wall they built and taught me how to feel
Metal saved my life when the world was cold as steel
Metal saved my life, gave me something real
Through the noise, through the pain, through the years I can't explain
Metal saved my life and I'll never let it go again
Eighteen in a record store, the darkness at my door
I picked up fear of the dark and I was not alone anymore
The Iron Maiden called my name, the stranger learned to fight
And every track became a torch that set my world alight
From Maiden into Sabaton, the bass became my blood
A heartbeat made of thunder crashing through me like a flood
Metal saved my life when the world was cold as steel
Metal saved my life, gave me something real
Through the noise, through the pain, through the years I can't explain
Metal saved my life and I'll never let it go again
They said that I was broken, said I'd never find my way
I put my headphones on and built a fortress out of base
The volume drowns the memories, the riffs replace the scars
I found my voice in frequencies, in power chords and bars
I don't just hear the music, I became the storm
I write the riffs, I am the voice
I forge the sound, I am born
The shirts I wear, the tracks I make
The fire in my veins, I live it, breathe it, bleed it out
Metal runs my name
Metal saved my life when the world tried to kill my soul
Metal saved my life, made me something whole
I don't run, I don't hide
Metal burns on the inside
Metal saved my life and I'm never letting go
Metal saved my life
Metal saved my life
Metal saved my life
Are You Out There?
I've kept the door locked for so long
I almost lost the key
I built my world around the noise
And never let them see
But tonight I'm standing open
And I'm telling you the truth
I've been alone by choice for years
And now I'm done with that excuse
If you want to know who I am
Just press play and close your eyes
Every track I've ever made
Is more honest than goodbyes
The rest you'll learn in pieces
Step by step and day by day
There are rooms I keep locked shut
Not from you
They're better that way
Don't go digging where the dark is
Not because I'm hiding things
Some doors stay closed to keep us safe
That's what the silence brings
Are you out there
Somewhere listening
Are you out there
Do you feel the same
I'm not perfect
But I'm worth the risk
Are you out there girl
Somewhere listening
Are you out there
Tell me your name
I'll give you everything I have
My loyalty runs deep
A promise from my mouth
This one I'll die before I break
But hear me now and hear me well
This only works one way
You break my trust
You break the bond
There is no second take
I don't need someone flawless
I need someone who is true
The kind of heart that fights for us
Not just when it's easy to
Are you out there
Somewhere listening
Are you out there
Do you feel the same
I'm not perfect
But I'm worth the risk
Are you out there
Tell me your name
I'll give you everything I have
My loyalty runs deep
I need someone who is true
The kind of heart that fights for us
Not just when it's easy to
Are you out there
Tell me your name
I'll give you everything I have
My loyalty runs deep
But never knew the man
Don't be shy, don't overthink it
That's not how these things begin
I don't care about your past
I care about what's in your skin
Maybe we'll fit, maybe we won't
There's only one way to find out
So take a chance and say hello
That's all this song is about
Are you out there
Somewhere listening
Are you out there
Do you feel the same
I'm not perfect
But I'm worth the risk
Are you out there
Tell me your name
I'll leave the door open this time
For Every One Of You
I made these tracks to play them in my car on empty roads
They uploaded them for me, just me, and then the numbers showed
A stream from Norway, then Australia, then a flag I didn't know
I made this for my speakers and the world just pressed go
From Canada to Argentina, Tokyo to Spain
Someone's pressing play right now on something I can't explain
This one's for every one of you
For the reason that I'll never know
Maybe it's the bass, maybe it's the words
Maybe it's just where you had to go
You found me in the dark
This one's for every one of you
And that's a fact
There's a kid somewhere with headphones on who's hiding from the noise
There's a woman driving home at night who needs a steadier voice
There's an old man in his living room who found me by mistake
He pressed play and something landed and it kept him wide awake
Eight years old and seventy, both standing in the sound
I never built this for a crowd, but a crowd is what I found
This one's for every one of you
For the reason that I'll never know
Maybe you were lost, maybe you were fine
Maybe you just needed one more line
You found me in the dark
And I found you right back
This one's for every one of you
And that's a fact
This one's for every one of you
I didn't chase a single fan
I didn't pitch a dream
I just made the sounds I needed and I put them on a stream
Just a guy who loves the music more than anyone could plan
This one's for every one of you
From the fjords down to the southern sea
Every flag, every time zone, every year I'll never meet
You turned my private playlist into something I can't believe
You found me in the dark
This one's for every one of you
Every single one of you
Oh, this one's for you
I made this for my car
And somehow you were there
Siletium Fractum EST
For years you kept your silence
Like nothing ever happened here
Closed the files, locked the doors
And hoped that I would disappear
You wrote your little reports
With words that bent the truth in half
Put a child inside a box
And signed it with your paragraph
I was too young to read the lines
Too small to know what you had done
But time has teeth and memory grows
And now I know — every single one
The first act was mercy
I came with open hands
The second act is justice
And justice always lands
Reditus Ferrum — I'm standing right here
What you buried alive is breathing and it knows your name
No begging, no pleading — I'm the one in control
You chose the silence, now hear me roar through the flames
I walked into your offices
With dignity and steady voice
I asked for conversation
I gave you every chance, every choice
But you looked through me like before
Same walls, same empty stare
The same institution, same indifference
Same poison in the air
You treated me like I was still
That kid who couldn't fight
But you missed the part where I grew teeth
And learned to read, and learned to write
The first act was mercy
A hand reached out in peace
The second act is reckoning
And it will never cease
Reditus Ferrum — I'm standing right here
What you buried alive is breathing and it knows your name
No begging, no pleading — I'm the one in control
You chose the silence, now hear me roar through the flames
I found the records, black on white
The diagnoses built on lies
A system covering its tracks
Behind a child's unheard cries
You falsified what didn't fit
Rewrote the story to your needs
A clinic and a school aligned
In bureaucratic coward's deeds
You thought the paper would decay
You thought the years would wash it clean
But I'm the ghost that learned to read
The evidence you left between the seams
Nemo me impune lacessit
No one provokes me without consequence
What you planted in the dark
I drag into the light, immense
You had your time behind closed doors
Your decades built on looking away
But every wall that you constructed
I will dismantle, stone by stone, today
Veritas non moritur
The truth does not die — it just waits
And patience is a weapon
When it's sharpened on the ones who sealed your fate
Reditus Ferrum — I'm burning still
What you buried alive has risen and it speaks your crimes
No forgiveness, no forgetting — only truth remains
You wanted me broken, but I forged myself in iron and in flames
I am the file you couldn't close
The name you couldn't erase
The voice that found its volume
The ghost that found its face
Actus secundus... incipit
The second act... begins