SONG: "Nihilist Nation"
ARTIST: Sweet Empire
ALBUM: "A New Cycle"
YEAR: 2019
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Amsterdam, Netherlands
YEARS ACTIVE: 2008 - 2023
WHAT I THINK THE SONG IS ABOUT:
"Nihilist Nation" appears to be a song about not succumbing to the wrongs of the world. There's so many forces in the world that can make you lose the fight and just give in and go with the flow. But acceptance is almost like dying. You don't want to be numb. You want to feel, even if it hurts. You want to take life back and not conform.
SWEET EMPIRE DISCOGRAPHY (Full length albums only):
2011 - This Season Needs Torches (Shield Recordings)
* did not chart on the Billboard 200
2014 - Old Ideas Keep Fighting Us (Shield Recordings)
* did not chart on the Billboard 200
2019 - A New Cycle (Shield Recordings)
* did not chart on the Billboard 200
2023 - All Empires Fall (Shield Recordings)
* did not chart on the Billboard 200
MY THOUGHTS ON SWEET EMPIRE:
Sweet Empire formed as a band back in 2008, hailing from Amsterdam. The band members all getting together from various local bands. Their very first release was an EP in 2010 called "The Flood". The band's debut full length album came out in 2011, titled "This Season Needs Torches". They would follow that album up in 2014 with their sophomore release "Old Ideas Keep Fighting Us". Sweet Empire pretty much toured all over Europe for almost 5 years until their next release, 2019's "A New Cycle". The band's most recent release would be 2023's "All Empires Fall". Shortly after the release of this album, the band announced that they had broken up. Sweet Empire is a band that has some melodic punk elements along with some pop punk and melodic hardcore as well. I'm almost 100% positive I learned of this band from the punk rock blogsite, DyingScene. Though their was not a lot that seperated Sweet Empire from many other bands of the same ilk, they were a pretty solid listen and I'm sorry that they decided to call it quits.
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Crazy Arm
Leagues Apart
The Real Danger
Apologies, I Have None
Above Them
TEN SWEET EMPIRE SONGS YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT:
1. No Roads Untraveled
2. Thoughts And Prayers
3. Hostile World
4. Torches
5. V.K.T.
6. The Breakfast Club Revisited
7. The Mapmaker
8. Rosa
9. Western Gates
10. Chaplin
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