Chemical Miracle

This album is such a banger! I felt pain, longing, bitterness and dreaminess all at the same time. I love this album to the core. I've probably heard it so many times to count. What I can say is, thank you for helping me stay strong. Thanks for unlocking that treasure inside me. The darkness. The redemption. The empowerment. I felt like a transformed person. I am so grateful for these guys.

HOME IS stands out so much to me. It's made me realise that we as humans always chase something greater than ourselves.  We are never content with where we are at that point in time. It's the next day after the next. But we never stop to realise that 'home is not a place, but it's a person,' and that is what really 'feels like HOME!'

That is fire to me.

I remember John talking about how Chemical Miracle is what makes up our lives. We have Chemical which is all the physical atoms around us. The things we can see, touch, hear, smell, taste. The things that we understand. But then, we have Miracle which are the things that we don't understand. Or the things that we have no answers to. But we know it exists. It's a perspective that not many people talk about. I think the album is here to transform people. To look at the Miracle rather than the Chemical. Or look at the Chemical rather than the Miracle in our own lives. Because they both go hand in hand. If it were not for those two, life would not exist.

I could almost remember shouting at the top of my lungs at every lyric and every word when they played at Download. My lungs burnt from the screaming and jumping. I never felt so liberated in my whole life. All the energy which escaped from me became contained under that tent. I remember, it was called the Avalanche Stage. Sure, it was an avalanche of emotions erupting! During the breakdowns, John would get lost into the music and full on head bang. It's like all the anger contained in that vessel dissipated along with everyone else's. How lucky is that? To share the same energy with that crowd?

Trophy Eyes played all their songs off this album, plus Hurt at that Festival. I am so grateful to have witnessed it, and to be part of it! They were working on their coming album during that time. As they flew down from Thailand. So I think most of their energy was from creating the American Dream. As I can honestly say, that their vibes were magic! Never felt that I have lost myself in a mosh pit before then!