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"Vempire" è il secondo album dei Cradle of Filth, band black/goth metal capitanata da Dani Filth, ma non credo ci siano bisogno di presentazioni. Chi li conosce o li ama o li odia. Io li amo, soprattutto per aver pubblicato questo splendido gioiello nero, che considero uno dei migliori esempi di black metal sinfonico.
Il disco si apre con "Ebony Dressed for Sunset" canzone di breve durata che fa da introduzione a "The Forest Whispers My Name". Essa era già presente nel primo album, "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh", ma qui è stata arricchita e migliorata. Essa si apre su note di tastiera per poi esplodere in tutta la sua potenza con la voce di Dani che si muove con facilità tra parti narrate, growl e lo scream acutissimo che l'ha reso famoso. "Queen of Winter, Throned" è probabilmente il miglior pezzo del disco, lunga e variegata, con le tastiere che fanno da tappeto per tutta la durata del brano. "Nocturnal Supremacy" è un altra stupenda canzone, con ritmi di batteria serrati e che per certi versi può essere considerato un preludio del successivo capolavoro "Dusk and Her Embrace", uscito lo stesso anno. "She Mourns a Lengthening Shadow" è una traccia strumentale semplice e d'effetto che introduce al brano più "tirato" dell'album, "The Rape and Ruin of Angels (Hosannas in Extremis). Questo lungo brano, che conclude il disco, è caratterizzato da sfuriate black metal e un intermezzo centrale molto dark e evocativo, il tutto concluso da una moltitudine di orgasmi femminili.
In sintesi, ritengo questo cd il picco massimo dei Cradle of Filth, quello che meglio amalgama il black metal più classico con le tastiere dark e le sensuali voci femminili. Mi piacerebbe avessero sempre continuato su questa strada, invece di fare dischi insulsi come "Nymphetamine" e "Thornography".
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Ebony Dressed For Sunset (02:49)
This is entitled ebony dressed for sunset
Unshadow thyselves children
The reign in flesh begins again
Vempire
Funereal majesty awake
Cneajna wreathed in snake
Draconis talons rake
So haunted is my silent heart
Dreaming only of the moon
When velvet darkness falls tonight
The thirst crescends anew
Only for you
Inspired to mortal nightmare
Ebony dressed for sunset
In the dulcet whispers of the damned
02 The Forest Whispers My Name (04:42)
Black candles dance to an overture
But I am drawn past their flickering lure
To the breathing forest that surrounds the room
Where the vigilant trees push out of the womb
I sip the blood-red wine
My thoughts weigh heavy with the burden of time
From knowledge drunk from the fountain of life
From chaos born out of love and the scythe
The forest beckons with her nocturnal call
To pull me close amid the baying of wolves
Where the bindings of Christ are downtrodden with scorn
In the dank, odiferous earth
We embrace like two lovers at death
A monument to the trapping of breath
As restriction is bled from the veins in my neck
To drop roses on my marbled breast
I lust for the wind and the flurry of leaves
And the perfume of flesh on the murderous breeze
To learn from the dark and the voices between
This is my will
The forest whispers my name
The forest whispers my name
Make some more fucking noise Nottingham
I walk the path
To the land of the Dark Immortals
Where the hungry ones will carry my soul
As the wild hunt careers through the boughs
Come to me my pale enchantress
In the moon of the woods we kiss
Artemis be near me
In the arms of the ancient oak
Where daylight hangs by a lunar noose
And the horned, hidden one is re-invoked
Dark fairy-tales in Phallestein
Symbols and signs to know us by
Is re-invoked
In Phallestein
The principle of evil
Evolution has been recalled
Beneath the spread of a magickal aeon
I stand enthralled
In the whispering forest
Yeah
What a fucking crap way to spend an Easter weekend
This is entitled
03 Queen Of Winter, Throned (10:27)
Even a man who is pure in the heart
And speaks in prayer by night
May become a wolf when the wolf's bane bloom
And the winter moon is bright
Listen to them
The children of the night
What sweet music they make
Iniquitous
I share Carmilla's mask
A gaunt mephitic voyeur
On the black side of the glass
Peering through the mirror
Deep dark and ominous
Consorting themes, demons I weave
Subservience from thee to lost
I am Corinthian light
A snake in flowers by night
The last temptation of Christ
Evil in mortal
Disguise the guilt
Sharp-eyed, impassive whore
Burn the asafoetida
And rank petriachor
Lure me panthered Faustia
With cunt and veiled womb
To prowl thy inner sanctum walls
In Tirgoviste to resume
Control
Control
Yeah
Seduction, my obsessive art
A pantheon of tragedies inscribed upon the stars
Like thistled ruin, garbed around thy heart
Bacchanal Cinderella, desirous midnight passed
Leaving thee as sacrifice asleep within my arms
'Midst dreams of robed redemption versed in sexual aftermath
When we ebb as tides together, carnal souls entwined
And orgasms expire, come puppet wires and the blind
Purge
Fires work in me
A lithe supremacy
I tear asunder heaven as I would all enemies
Impaler Lord
Flesh upon the sword
My lower lusts are sated, the greater herald
I am thirst, spearheaded hunger
Sacrament and pain
Nails raked in savagery
When the cruel Countessa came
Exalt!
The Queen of death-white winter enthroned
Evil resplendent, in dusk red seething skies
Foam-flecked nightmares drag a moon
Of Draconian design
A love that never dies
Nefarious as her winds
Stirring silhouettes to rise
When stars fall pale
And to drown back in her eyes
Is to madden ghosts within
To unhinge a thousand sins
From Death's dark vale
Blessed be these spells of winter
Unto us that wait with patience in
This secret garden
To storm our way into another
As yes undone
Surge!
Desert claims Eden
And Hyperborean
Visions of Utopia are driven from the sun
Iconoclast
Before thee Angels clasped
In nakedness their ochre flesh
Shall yield to thy advance
She is all to me
Mysterious, alive
The howling in the deep woods
When cold festal stars aligned
Exalt!
The Queen of death-white winter enthroned
Evil resplendent, in dusk red seething skies
Foam-flecked nightmares drag a moon
Of Draconian design
A love that never dies
Nefarious as her winds
Stirring silhouettes to rise
When stars fall pale
And to drown back in her eyes
Is to madden ghosts within
To unhinge a thousand sins
From Death's dark vale
A lurid moon looms; phosphorent, evil
Yesod vested in despotic upheaval
Silvering wolves that scarlet forest snow
Forgotten ones ebter as above, so below
The trees groan aghast as ghostly pallored clouds are rent
When the drunken earth heaves, sweep aside seas to ascend
From Sheol's dank haunted wilderness
Thy seal upon Nuit's starry vault to incense the sleepers
The murderess lurked in vulgar caresses
Vestal masturbation
Purity
Overthrown
Darkness
In raven feathered dress
Sides with Death at chess
Their pawns are many and the enemy
Powerless
When the miscreants fell dead
She took to conjuring spells in the cusp of the night
And the bestial floor shook with terrible life
I rise before thee Queen
To feed our lusts on the blood of the weak
To rule heaven and worlds crawling beneath
Satanic Tyranny
Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate
Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate
Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate
Thank you Nottingham
And as always, God bless
04 Nocturnal Supremacy (05:53)
Weak midnight promises of love
Were wept upon her grave
And shunned by stars above
In mortal life lurks my dismay
An Angel stole my heart
And Death took her away
She sleeps beyond the grace of God
A dreaming beauty
If wishes could only fray that bond
The dead would sing for me
The dead would sing for me
Twelth moon arose with ghostly voice
A poet's serenade
Her name a whisper 'pon my lips
And lo, Rorasa came
Fear me not my grieving King
Funereal in breath
The secrets of the dark I know
And thus, we shall cheat Death
My promises wrought though despondence that night
Have delivered me gifts from the grave
Rorasa enshadowed and eternal life
Never a Devil so vain
The Angel is fallen, for I thought her lost
And no heaven would silence the pain
Teach me these secrets, the sensual frost
Desire for warm blood again
Princess lay down thy florid cheek
In drunken splendour
Tonight rare regal fate has cast
The wolves among the sheep
Dark nature clasp my soul
Around her throat mine arms enfold
To sleep, perchance to dream
And then
To dusk and flesh ascend
The sun descends, magenta spirits fill the skies
And wreak erotic maladies where sex and death abide
From writhing tides where gothick siren
Weave their song to shore
Through the ashes of the battlefields
Where ravens and angels war
As phantoms we have fled the basilisk of day
To rise as phoenix taloned, nightly taking prey
We rule like the red and risen moon upon the sea
The stars of judgement silent, for we share joyous eternity
Damnation
Salvation
Stigmata plague
The wine of Bacchus flows
Listen to the thunder rage
Deceivers dragged before their cross
I am he that vanquished Death
And bore the sting of loss
What vulgar Christ will unprise my grasp?
His temple, ruined, burns
And sweet Rorasa laughs
I am enamoured and imparadised
To catch the fires dancing profanely in her eyes
I will crush them all
If this holds thy delight
Rather dead forever than to lose her
Nymph-lascivious Aphrodite
Aphrodite
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