Il nuovo lavoro dei Dark Tranquillity era molto atteso. Anticipato da una raccolta di rarità e dall'EP "Lost To Apathy", era davvero atteso da tutti. Da tutti, ma non da me. Non sono mai stato un grande fan dell'oscura tranquillità, nonostante mi siano sempre piaciuti ed abbia sempre riconosciuto il grande valore artistico di album come "The Gallery" e "Damage Done". Ma come comportarmi nei confronti del nuovo album proprio non lo sapevo e ogni tanto faceva capolino in me quell'idea tremenda del tipo "avranno esaurito le idee?". Ho sempre aspettato da loro un'album che sapesse emozionarmi in maniera davvero completa, ma sentivo dentro in me una strana sensazione, un brutto presentimento che mi faceva salire sospetti del tipo: sarà un delusione. Solo quando un mio amico lo comprò e insieme in macchina (dopo aver dato un'occhiata al curatissimo booklet che riassume splendidamente il concept del disco) ce lo siamo ascoltato a tutto volume ho potuto affermare che questo mio fantomatico sesto senso non era nient'altro che una grandissima stronzata.
Finalmente i Dark Tranquillity hanno composto quell'album in grado di farmi esaltare dall'inizio alla fine, donando un'ennesima dimostrazione di classe e talento: undici tracce spettacolari che si incastrano nelle strutture di un melodicissmo death metal svedese, come da sempre la band di Stanne ci ha abituato. Questa volta però qualcosa è cambiato: non c'è più la ricercatezza melodica del passato, bensì pura aggressività, senza traccia alcuna di clean vocals, con un'oscurità di fondo come non si era mai vista prima, incentivata dal continuo graffiare di distorsioni siderali (ai limiti dell'industrial), dove la melodia è dettata da un subdolo uso dell'elettronica e soprattutto da fenomenali tastiere, mai come ora presenti ed incastonate con il resto degli strumenti. Canzoni come l'opener "The New Build" o "Lost To Apathy" non si dimenticano facilmente e sono la dimostrazione che i Dark Tranquillity non solo non hanno perso il colpo ma sono tornati più forti di prima. Riff serrati e potenti, tastiere che fanno emozionare, cadenzatezza pichedelica, colpi di batteria secchi e veloci, atmosfera futuristica e tanto, tanto amore per il death melodico, quello stesso death melodico che loro stessi hanno contribuito a creare e diffondere con passione. Bentornati.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
03 Out of Nothing (03:52)
Make enemies of truth and reason
In that a rage is born
Start out a promise and a venture
Where direction was never the goal
How does it feel
To run out of nothing
Where do you go
When you run out?
Never you mind
The grand perspective
Other forces kept at bay
As you narrow the field of vision
To retain a sense of control
Your focus will remain unfixed
In the haze of a world unhinged
Create a sense of purpose
Around which you base your faith
The doubt that haunts your skin
An itch that willl linger on
Forever
How does it feel
To run out of nothing
Where do you go
When you run out?
You wave off
Critique as an offender
Never question
Where your motives lie
As a part of the greatest fable
The beast all had forgotten
Instincts in a dead end rampage
Destruction as a saving grace
You run out of nothing
How does it feel
To run out of nothing
Where do you go
When you run out?
How does it feel
To run out of nothing
Where do you go?
Where do you go?
05 Lost to Apathy (04:36)
The unsaid tone of weak despair
Fail to resonate
Frayed end of our binding threads
Will disintegrate
By the laws our phiysique state
Failure to communicate
None too sentient
Hear no, see no works its magic
Against all function
Ongoing choices the trials will end
Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left
Indecision/nonvision what matters taken away
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
So overcome with pointless tears
To test pain receptors
Nothing matters ever here
Put up a nonreaction
These eyes will never see
Covered up from reality
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
The unknown world that you deny
No priority
Cannot fail if you never start
How predictable
I want to know where did it end
For madness to start
Always the sceptic never be part
Introvertive/indescriptive
It matters not, not
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
The shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Now the battle is over
Lost to apathy
06 Mind Matters (03:29)
You are all that matters
In my private demonology
Those who fear** us now
The sons of wishes
The bastard child of dream
Enemies of hope
Let it be gone
It's all pretend
Mind matters matters not
Never again
In perfect clarity
See the day in childlike vision
Where does it lead from here
On without that guidance
Disaster
Role model without a part
Our search is wider
Cast off those wide-eyed hopes and dreams
Mind matters matters not
No need to see you there
The path we made is clear
Just stay ahead of me
This is not for me to see
Mind matters matters not
This time a prayer onto nothing
Project again
Direct oppose to action
All across the board
Shortcoming close to call
Let it be gone
It's all pretend
Mind matters matters not
10 Senses Tied (04:02)
Riddled by the trappings
Of words that makes the edges blur
Here on the outskirts
Of sincerity and pride
Stretched as far as words can reach
By the lure of higher meaning
There's something out there
Lost behind the power lines
It's all the same to me
It's all the same to me
Lost all faith in promises
And deadlines closing in
Tired of deciphering the wayward
Stands of truth
I don't care
'Cause I can't feel
I don't know
Anymore
Sure we've had a good run
With vowels, nouns and letters
But within its very nature
The ability to distort
There's nothing in the words I hear
That makes me want to take a stand
It has gone on for far too long
I chose to disengage
It's all the same to me
It's all the same to me
The ends of our conditioning
To swallow, take and like it
Rather keep me in the dark
Than look me in the eye
I don't care
'Cause I can't feel
I don't know
Anymore
It's all these same things pulling us down
To senses gone I cheer
It's all these same things making us blind
There's nothing here for me
Hear it coming
Heading for you now
I can't even stand the tone of arrogance
And denial on display
Here you are listless
Left for deaf
Thinking about what standards we set
In times of weary tongues
And ears that hear no end to it
Unwilling or unable
The difference left for times
Judgement
It's all the same to me
It's all the same to me
It passes on from wicked mouths
As victim takes on another role
New bold oppressor
Our teacher's product
Now stands tall
I don't care
'Cause I can't feel
I don't know
Anymore
It's all these same things pulling us down
To senses gone I cheer
It's all these same things making us blind
There's nothing here for me
Hear it coming
Heading for you now
Hear
11 My Negation (06:39)
It's all this reeking ego craves
The sun to never set
Why do threads of anger never linger?
Why does the ember turn to stone?
To where the longing goes
In with the sins of old
A face of nothing, to never see
As blind as free
Everything I want
Is in at the end of this
Everything I need
Will be at the end of me
My negation
How will you know my name
And sense the danger coming?
My negation
How can you see my face?
What's to become of me?
The art of reduction
Stripped down through
What seems defendable
Scaled to bare revisions
To stop making sense
Levelling pillars of towering fear
Rational instincts and insight to spare
End of falseness, end of grace
Everything I fear
Is in this failing
Nothing of what I am
Is in this end
My negation
How will you know my name
And sense the danger coming?
My negation
How can you see my face?
What's to become of me?
How will you know my name?
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