We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

If You Dare - Acoustic

from If You Dare - Acoustic by Aonia

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £0.79 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

The night will come but there will always be the sun. We tread with eyes wide open into the unknown, and time has given us a pause button: a time to reflect but also a time of true hardships, struggles, and what feels like an endless void of uncertainty. Can this end? It can IF YOU DARE.

Together, we dare to endure the night and to see the sun once more.

IF YOU DARE is a letter written to “the man who is on his knees” and in reflection of a difficult period in the lyricist Joanne Robinson’s life. “The breakdown of this relationship had a huge impact on me at the time and in an attempt to help them acknowledge that they needed to take positive action it soon became apparent that it was also up to me to take positive action for myself, both stepping into the fire but for different reasons and in opposite directions.”

2021 brings hope and also the news that AONIA are well underway with their SECOND ALBUM. “We’ve always been ambitious, that’s a given but what we’ve written so far for this album is HUGE in every sense of the word.” We’ll be ready, will you?

IF YOU DARE is set for release on the 28th May 2021 and is a banner call to all to step through the fire in the only way this band knows… TOGETHER!

Note: The CD version, available at www.aoniaband.co.uk, also includes 'The Show Must Go On' - a cover of the Queen classic, and a live version of 'Violet Hours' recorded at Bloodstock 2018.

lyrics

A house full of empty dreams.
A man who is on his knees.
He stands at the battle scene
and breathes it in.

You shut your weary eyes
and try to forget this life.
But darkness is not your dream:
a soul strong as steel.

So, just one more time if you dare:
live while you’re alive.
And never give in to the fight.
Step into the fire.

That feeling of what is right
burns right through the darkest spell
and helps you to hear the sound
that thuds in your heart.

(Chorus)

credits

from If You Dare - Acoustic, released May 28, 2021
Produced by Aonia

Mixed by Stuart Gibson

Mastered by Ed Scrimshaw

Front Cover Art & Logo by Andy Pilkington at Very Metal Art

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Aonia image

Aonia Doncaster, UK

Aonia is a 7-headed, 14-legged creature, wielding two 'sopranos with balls' as vocalists, shredding twin axes, searing keys, and driving drums and bass. An operatic/progressive metal band, Aonia has been compared to artists such as Therion, Avantasia, Nightwish, Epica, and ReVamp. For more, please see our website www.aoniaband.co.uk ... more

contact / help

Contact Aonia

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Aonia, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now