"Tearstained" esce nel 2000 sull'onda del successo dei conterranei Sentenced ed incarna, nel bene e nel mane, l'essenza dell'heavy-dark proveniente dalla fredda Finlandia.
Con questo secondo lavoro il combo finnico di provenienza Oulu (vedi Sentenced as well) "vira" pesantemente verso sonorità più accessibili rispetto al debut, questo senza tralasciare la forza del guitar crunch o delle ritmiche serrate, ma arricchendo il tutto con malinconiche armonie che rimandano ai sopracitati colleghi.
Ottima la prova vocale di J.P. Leppaluoto dotato di un'ugola profonda, sicura e convincente anche nelle parti più esplicitamente melodiche, mentre non da meno sono gli axemen Sipila e Hast abili nell'intessere tristi trame chitarristiche, brillanti twin solos e riffs poderosi di stampo heavy-doom.
Senz'altro la caratteristica peculiare nel sound dei nostri è l'immediatezza, la capacità di costruire canzoni di facile presa infarcendole di freschi e agili refrains, questo non tralasciando l'aspetto più scuro e "dannatamente" romantico, tipico degli acts finlandesi (vedi Him o Entwine). Tra i dieci gioiellini proposti si stagliano la bellissima opener "Worthless" ficcante, veloce, "urgente" nel liberare un chorus d'effetto e dotata di catchy riffs davvero ben studiati.
Nostalgicamente cupo è il mid-tempo della lancinante "For seasons rush" mentre "Christina bleeds" libera l'anima rock della band, sputando aggressività nelle vocals grintose, nel riffing mozzafiato condito dalla sezione ritmica davvero fast'n'furious. Davvero un eccellente anthem.
Si segnalano la semi-acustica ballata "The drift", toccante ed originale, ma soprattutto i capolavori "Sin" e "Your Christ" gemelle nel binomio romanticismo-energia. Dominate da indovinatissime armonie nel guitar sound rivelano influenze "Crimson" (Sentenced) e "Draconian times" (Paradise Lost) nei brillanti ritornelli, anche in questo caso senza dimanticare un impatto notevole che le rende corpose, direte ed efficaci. In definitiva un buon lavoro che getterà le basi per ottimi album futuri come, per esempio, l'epico-oscuro "Downhearted" che regaleranno all'act finnico un successo meritato (in particolar modo in patria).
Destinato agli amanti del heavy-dark finlandese di fine anni novanta "Tearstained" non è pero' consigliato a chi cerca originalità a tutti i costi. I Charon non si scostano dai patterns per nulla, ma cio' che realizzano è qualitativamente ineccepibile.
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01 Worthless (03:35)
No you don't want me,
I will break you again.
Life don't mean anything.
No you don't call me,
I will hate you again.
Life don't mean everything.
Easy, easy as closing eyes wide shut.
Easy, easy as grieving the last goodbyes.
Already my heart is,
Killing Sunday, killing Sunday, killing me.
Oh why to spend these,
Why to spend my precious moments for this life.
I couldn't hold you,
So why should I hold now.
I will break down and fall.
Easy, easy as closing eyes wide shut.
Easy, easy as grieving the last goodbyes.
Already my heart is,
Killing Sunday, killing Sunday, killing me.
You broke me in thousand pieces, and threw me all around,
My heart is all that is buried, inside of profound pain.
Easy, easy as closing eyes wide shut.
Easy, easy as grieving,
Already my heart is, killing me.
04 Christina Bleeds (03:06)
On the seventh day,
He arrived to stay,
A sky so grey, opened up for him.
Like a hallow man,
He kneels down to pray, without a shame,
Calling her name.
Christina bleeds.
The rope's caress, is oh so tight.
The hanged man's love his last despise.
Christina bleeds.
The rope is tight, so fucking tight,
Her fragile touch the last thing he felt.
Christina bleeds.
As the evening crawls,
She feels the loss when the wind weeps through,
The promise carved in cross.
In the evil dusk,
She disappears, for the lust,
The lost love that sears.
Christina bleeds.
Christina bleeds.
The rope's caress, is oh so tight.
The hanged man's love his last despise.
Christina bleeds.
The rope is tight, so fucking tight,
Her fragile touch the last thing he felt.
Christina bleeds.
05 Deepest Scar (04:28)
My deepest scar is where they all see my despair.
Everything I build for you collapses to soon.
And I saw who you are,
why I'm falling, falling in grace.
Everything I had from life were scars made by myself.
Everything I made were lies 'cause I can't love myself.
Everything is haunting me,
everything is everything and
dying wish through razor's kiss
'cause I can't love myself.
Oh, this weights on me,
I'll leave you to find what I was before.
From bedroom floor I'll leave like this ride is the last that I get for.
And I saw how it came.
06 The Drift (02:35)
Darkness crawls inside tonight.
I'm half the man I used to be as she drifts to me.
Call and I will come to you.
Time has gone, life has gone into cold.
My shadow over you.
I'll take you away. Oh, you can't stay anymore.
They don't know anything.
I was half the shape I used to be now I drift away.
08 Holy (05:01)
I hear my voice again.
It's longing for you.
And heart that is twisted and stained,
is crying relief to be burnt.
I hear your god is dying over again.
She is burning.
Mary, your eyes are bleeding.
Once again you are holy.
Oh, holy death that I gave.
I gave it all for you.
So full with tears and hate.
I save it all for you.
Oh, holy death I obey,
I'll give it all for me.
And echo that traces my voice is fading away.
I hear your god is dying over again.
She is burning.
Mary, your eyes are bleeding.
Once again you are holy.
Holy for her.
11 The Stone (05:45)
I'm ready to go.
I'm ready to fall into her black.
Oh, how can it stain.
Why is her eyes so full of pain.
Oh, why can't I bleed like you do.
Why can't I breath like I did.
Nothing inside of my heart.
Nothing to crave like you have.
I'm throwing the stone.
I'm ready to blend inside her nest.
My roam is a cry,
I cry that is dark inside its frame.
It's like her lips were made to scream.
Oh, why just I can't see her fear.
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