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Of monsters and men thousand eyes Continue Canonical Release: Under the Skin (Deluxe)Artist (s): Monsters and Men Lyrics Thousand Eyes Cancel This Storm Cancel This Storm Cancel This Storm to Cancel This Storm and Wait, I Can't Control the Withful Wonders Flowers That Lose My Shape I Don't Sleep and Watch It All It Feels like thousands of eyes I don't sleep and watch it all it feels like thousands of eyes I'll be calm I'll be quiet stripped to the bone, I'll wait no, I'll be a stone, I'll be a hunter tower that casts a shadow I'm lying awake and watching it all feels like thousands of eyes I'm not sleeping and watching it all feel like thousands of eyes I'm a storm I'm a storm so wait for Thanks To Kate for correcting these verses. Writer (s): Nanna Brindis Hilmarsdottir, Ragnar Torholsson She adds to this: No, I will be a stone / I will be a hunter. The rocks are strong and hard to break; there is nothing quieter than a stone sitting still. She wants power and quiet power. But she also wants to be a hunter. She no longer wants to be prey; she is tired of the chase and wants to chase the fear that preys on her. By doing so, she may be able to help others; it can become a tower that casts a shadow and protects those who need it. The next minute and a half is an instrumental bridge song that slowly rises in intensity and then falls on Nanna to sing: I storm, three times and , So wait, once. More than being calm in the storm and enduring it, she took over the power of the storm and accepted the abilities and responsibilities that she must survive. And instead of waiting, she orders others: So wait for her to make her move. She accepted who she was and gained power from that identity, which makes her a force that cannot be underestimated. The famous man TheoryPerhaps this song is about the process of becoming famous. The band was little known in Iceland, but became widely known. Getting all that popularity is probably overwhelming at first and the world wanting them to make a sequel to their first album could have felt like a storm. But they gained power from within themselves and released under their skin against difficult odds. Album and Strings I Storm / So wait may be their challenge to the rest of the world: We are strong and we can write more and better music! Thoughts? Monsters and MenOf Monsters and Men Playing in New York On April 5, 2012Background InformationOriginReykjav'k, IcelandGenresIndie folk 1'chamber pop2'folk pop-folk-rock,4'indie rock5'Years active2010-presentLabelsRecord Records, Republic Records.6'websitewww.ofmonstersandmen.comMembersNanna Brynd's HilmarsdottirRagnar OrhallssonBrinryar LeifssonBristian Pell KristjanssonAr Resencranz HilmarssonPast members Ernie Guyansson monsters and men are Icelanders Reykjavik in 2010. The band members include vocalist and guitarist Nanna Brindes Hilmarsdottir, singer and guitarist Ragnar Raggi Orhalsson, guitarist Brynjar Leifsson, drummer Arnar Resencrantz Hilmarsson and bassist Kristjan Pell Kristjansson. In 2010, the band won the Musyoctilraunir competition, an annual group competition in Iceland. In 2011, Of Monsters and Men released a mini-album called Into the Woods. The band's debut album My Head Is an Animal reached number one on the Australian, Icelandic, Ireland and US Rock and Alternative charts in 2011, peaking at number six on the Billboard 200 in the United States, Number 3 in the UNITED Kingdom and the Top 20 of the European Charts and Canada. His lead single Little Talks was an international success, reaching the top 10 in most European music charts, including No.1 in Ireland and Iceland, and No.1 in the U.S. Alternative Songs. Of Monsters and Men won the 2013 European Border Breaker Award. The formation of history and early work (2009-2010) Origins of the group began in 2009 when Nanna Brindis Hilmarsdottir decided to add to her solo project, Songbird. From Monsters and Men entered in the 2010s Mustilraunir, an annual music competition held in Iceland, as a quartet with members of Nunn (vocals, acoustic guitar), Brynjar (electric guitar), Raji (backing vocals, melodies, glockenspiel), and Arnar (backing vocals, melodies, glockenspiel). Raggi came up with the name of the band, Of Monsters and Men, and everyone else liked it, so it got stuck. Following Musictilrauner, the quartet added two more members, Ernie (accordion/keyboards, backing vocals) and Kristjana (bass, backing vocals), and continued to tour Iceland and work on new songs. They were invited to perform at the Iceland Airwaves festival in 2010, and it was there that Seattle-based radio station KEXP recorded the band performing Little Talks from a session in the living room. My Head is an animal (2011-2013) Main article: My head is an animal of monsters and men, speaking in October 2011. The band signed with Record Records in February 2011 for the release of their debut album in Iceland. In March 2011, they went to the Sealand studio in Reykjavik to record and sing their debut album. In August 2011, Radio Philadelphia 104.5 began playing Little Talks and promoted the band's popularity across the country. Their debut album My Head Is An Animal was released in Iceland in September 2011, and Little Talks reached No. 1. With success in Iceland and growing popularity in the U.S., the band signed with Universal for the worldwide release of their debut album. On December 20, 2011, the band released the EP Into the Woods, which featured four songs from their debut album, and on April 3, 2012, released My Head Is an Animal in the United States. The band performed at the Folk Festival in Newport Newport, Rhode Island, July 29, 2012, the Osheaga Festival in Montreal on August 3, 2012, and then at the Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 5, 2012. They have toured several European countries, including Ireland, Germany, Italy and Sweden. Of Monsters and Men also appeared on October 5, 2012 on the new PBS music show Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders, performing Mountain Sound. Erni Gunsson later left the group to return to school. Trumpeter Ragnhiildur Gunnarsdottir joined the 2012 tour as a session group. The group does not comment on the interest in eventually bringing her into the group. The band performed Little Talks and Mountain Sound on Saturday Night Live on May 4, 2013, and performed at the 1st Annual Boston Music Festival on May 26, 2013. The band also played T in the Park in July 2013, the biggest music festival in Scotland. They performed at both Lollapalooza Brazil and Chile. They also performed at Coachella on April 12 and 19, 2013. On January 26, 2013, Little Talks was named in the Triple J Hottest 100 2012 ranking at number two, the prestigious musical honor of Australia. They appeared at the Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tennessee, in June 2013 and played on a different stage at the Glastonbury Festival that same month. On July 14, 2013, the band performed at Optimus Alive! the festival, in Lisbon, Portugal, is one of the most popular festivals in Europe. Their song Dirty Paws, from which the album's title originated, was featured in the trailer for the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and a music video for the iPhone 5, released in September 2012. They brought the track Silhouettes to the soundtrack to the film The Hunger Games: Catch the Fire. Their song Sinking Man is shown on The Walking Dead: Original Soundtrack - Vol. 1. Under The Skin (2014-2018) The main article: Under the Skin (album of monsters and men) The band began working on a new album in August 2013. In an interview published on May 6, 2014, Nanna stated that the album was ready, but the band had not yet decided on a release date. They officially began recording on November 3, 2014. At an audition in February 2015, the band announced that their yet-to-be-named second studio album would be released later this year. The band posted a teaser video on their website for the album's first single, Crystals. It was released on March 16, 2015 along with a track list and other details about the upcoming album Under the Skin, which will be released on June 8. The album and single were created by artist Leif Podhajsky. In May 2015, the band released tour dates to promote their new album. The North American leg of the tour ran from August 5, 2015 to October 17, 2015. The track Thousand Eyes was heavily featured in a pre-season commercial for Marvel's Netflix series Jessica The band appeared in episodic episodes of The Door and Blood of My Blood from Game of Thrones as stage musicians. The group was included in Coachella in 2016. The band performed in Manila, Philippines, on May 12, 2016, where the last song was Yellow Light. In November 2016, their cover of Eleanor Rigby became a feature of episode 21b Beat Bugs. On May 21, 2017, Of Monsters and Men posted this photo on their Instagram account with the caption, Album 3. Let's do it!!! In October 2017, it was announced that the band had hit a billion streams on Spotify, becoming the first Icelandic band to do so. Fever Dream (2019) released their first single, Alligator on May 2, 2019, from Fever Dream's third album, released on July 26.