"Puritanical Euphoric Misantropia", il più violento della loro carriera e per molti versi viene giudicato come uno tra i migliori c.d. black metal. Intanto è un Brutal Black sinfonico da far paura persino ai più violenti Cannibal Corpse, c'è un Barker impazzito dietro le pelli di tamburo, questo gruppo è veramente distruttivo. Inoltre in copertina c'è una donzella, che per disgrazia gli hanno segato cambe, bracci e testa, tutta nuda su un pentacolo. E' tutto di mio gradimento perché i Dimmu Borgir sono una tra le mie band black preferite, sia perché sono gli unici a essere decenti nel Black Sinfonico, sia per la bellissima sezione ritmica, di Barker , che da quando è uscito dai Cradle Of Filth è migliorato nettamente.
L'album si apre con Fear And Wonder, che è un intro di musica classica. Blessings Upon The Throne Of Tyranny, è un vero è proprio attacco death black distruttivo, con bellissime melodie, che danno al black metal, un segno di vera e propria bellezza, poi la batteria è veramente paurosa, si vede che Barker da quando se ne andato dai Cradle Of Filth è migliorato, c'è una doppia cassa bellissima, poi ci sono quei vocioni, che tanto erano amati dai Megadeth nel periodo 'Rust In Peace' (stiamo parlando di un'altra cosa…). Kings Of The Carnival Creation, è una tra le canzoni più famose dei Dimmu Borgir, le melodie non mancano, e di fatti rendono il black molto più aggressivo, poi Shagrath dà sempre il meglio di se dando vita a growl e scream, bellissimi, le tastiere non mancano mai. Non mancano i bellissimi assoli di chitarra. Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy è una canzone che all'inizio può dare fumo negli occhi, perché è molto groove e poco melodica, anche se l'orchestra non manca mai, il è tastierista in questa canzone mostra la sua grande tecnica. Il segreto dei Dimmu Borgir è proprio questo, le atmosfere cupe e melodiche, orchestrali e molto teatrali. Architecture Of A Genocidal Nature è molto thrash nello stile Destruction, arricchito di una bellissima base ritmica, dotata di tastiere bellissime, e di un basso spaventoso che nei Dimmu Borgir è molto difficile da trovare, un altro dei segreti sul perché quest'album, sia il più potente della loro carriera, le tastiere sono bellissime, però vengono rotte da un Thrash Black molto distruttivo e veloce.
Indocrination è la canzone più brutale dei Dimmu Borgir, infatti si sente anche quella magnifica venatura grindcore (sono pronto alle critiche…), che tanto piace a loro, le chitarre sono più pesanti che mai, la batteria esegue dei bellissimi assoli. Le tastiere molto sinfoniche fanno degli assoli con le chitarre che fanno un po' ridere. Per poi ritornare alla distruzione da dove sono partite. The Maelstrom Mephisto, c'è sempre quella venatura brutal death alla Nile, che non ti lascia indifferente nell'ascolto. Poi ci sono le parti vocali liriche stupendamente teatrale ma anche volgari e sataniche. Le chitarre non sono mai state così aggressive nei Dimmu Borgir, i bassi non sono mai stati così presenti. Sympozium, inizia con delle tastiere che a loro volta si mescolano con magnifiche parti di chitarra, che più avanti diventeranno un po' più alla Swedish Death Metal, di scuola Entombed, Dismember e Dissection. Le liriche in questa canzone sono molto presenti e accompagnate da una base Gothic Rock, che ripartono dal death metal svedese da cui sono partite.
L'album si conclude con Perfection Or Vanity, che è un outro strumentale melodica con basi Gothic/Doom/Dark arricchito di bellissime tastiere.
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02 Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny (05:19)
Infected by invalid behaviour
While capturing the stench of divine purefaction
Confess to slavery for the world saviour
Give praise and inhale the corruption
(chorus:)
The Enfeebled provides the fool
The Disabled provides the tool
The Apathtic demands the affection
To those suffering from their own satisfaction
Devour in self-deceit, conjure the righteous plage,
testify today's contradiction, glorify tomorrows deed
Inconceivable immoral priest, hide in preferable dress,
invite to another pleasure feast, the concealment of joyful laughter
The decrepit innocence of your correctness and well-chosen
Elicitss the source of the need for immediate forgiveness
Submits to no grace but the spiteful of your disease
Apply to join the unlimited grace and a settlement in the skies
And turn the confusion among your children into self-stimulation
The incarnation of your prostitution, the true Evil in disguise
With the ignorance from your cross as the witness,
the truth of your tragedy make you justice
In your mirror the high spirits of kindness looks like malice
Condemnation of life by the living dead, what a premature judgement,
contradiction to the core
How unfortunate I am, cursed to spend time on a battle already won
The shame that will be guarding your grave says it all,
retreat to the crypt and make it worthwhile
Recall my sins furthermore but still be watching yours with a smile.
03 Kings of the Carnival Creation (07:48)
Incarnated marvels simplefied, effects from such a disconsalate kind
Impotence of the once so perfect living, erase and rewind
Stand rigid for the next battle, peace means reloading your guns
The love for life is all hatred in disguise, a carnival creation with masks undone
In search for the guideliness to the gateways of sin
Through mires of misanthropy with wrath in mind
Sophistication as cruelty and perfection as virulent truth
Confidently dawned, to pick the best of enemies
An abyss womb strech wide open, exposed to retaliate
(chorus:)
With the stigma feasting on your flesh as I wish you well, thorns from the fountains of faith licking lepered skin
Worshipped by anyone's mass on your planet hell, what on earth possessed you
Consuming illusions made from hysteria and swallowed tongues
Devoured by doubt, conducting arts of misconception
Testimonial suffiency declaring numbess of all perceptions
Glance into the blackness hidden beneath your surface
And enjoy the suffering, sanity drained in disrespect
With such bedevilled faith in good, subsequently trusting evil
Next step for mankind will be the last seasons in sin
Left are the kings of the carnival creation, carrying out of the echoes of the fallen
Sense the withering eternity as it fades away, the ultimate graceskess voyage of all times
Only death will be guarding your angels, silently
Cripples joining arms in clamour, institionalized for the rebirth, the herd will be hunted
05 Architecture of a Genocidal Nature (06:09)
A dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn
The brush that sweeps across the spectral fields
This landscape is not without a sense of epic wonder
A vast scale that places this sprawling underworld
Into a realm of frames
With a blood-storm fading into the distance
Floating without directions over this smouldering landscape
Caught in a moment of transformation
These shades of anatomic malignant nature
Approached on another in an unpleasant way
Frozen in the act of speech, desperate to express it's state
Created in a shape to accommodate a wide variety of demonic forms
The realm of the benighted aristocracy of evil most pure
This is where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep
Emerged from the depths of the earth gasps
It rages against mankind, to annihilate the earth and worse
It spills the blood like rain, the beauty of death it represents
Devouring their flesh with a razorblade smile
Genes would still blindly carry on smouldering ember of hell
Limned with gold leaf, the scarlet brush
That sweep all traces of time, place and pattern
Total death in every nation
Monuments of vanquished civilization
Just as brilliantly removed ruthlessly eliminated
The cornerstone of human emotions
Has now been drained away
I saw death of a most uncommon nature
[music: Silenoz and Shagrath]
[lyrics: Shagrath]
06 Puritania (03:06)
We do away with your kind
Count down to exterminate the human race
4,3,2,1
Let chaos entwine
On defenseless soil
Remove errors of man
And sweep all the weakening kind
I am war, I am pain
I am all you've ever slain
I am tears in your eyes
I am grief, I am lies
Bygone are intolerance
And presence of grace
Scavengers are sent out
To cleanse the human filth parades
I am pure, I am true
I am all over you
I am laugh, I am smile
I am the earth defiled
I am the cosmic storm
I am the tiny worms
I am fear in the night
I am bringer of light
Earth...successfully...erased...
07 IndoctriNation (05:57)
Oh, look at those lifeless leaves
All their precious pride is taken away
A lost creation for a graven image
Trembling of nothing but their own fear
[chorus:]
On behalf of water made to wine
Elements of deception must entwine
Righteous greed and derangement divine
Vacuum is given to the blind
To surrender to a faith so fake
To not comprehend while you're awake
Thrive on your deity for heaven's sake
Do loose your battle before actual birth
For some sheep need the company of a shepherd
To face the scorn of the earth
Existential parasite drama across the lands
What a relief never bother the why's
Investing illusions and folding hands
The passion for mankind's ignorance feeding you lies
All those naked faces, empty shells
Procreation of the mind put to rest
Crippled and caged, anaesthesia adjust
The lambs of slaughter preoccupied in disgust
08 The Maelstrom Mephisto (04:42)
Ride the vortex winds with the beast inside
Cast down all memories from a past and future world
The cynic icons and the cryptic writings
As a picturesque creation in force and spirit
Against their reason and will, it is time
Give darkness it's passion plea
The venomous tongue
The inevitable poison
Paralyze the angels
Freeze the forgiven
Baptize in fire
Unleash the devil at heart
Unleash the maelstrom mephisto
[chorus:]
So sinner, mourn well
Make all the swans suffer in hell
The maelstrom of the mephisto left the trace
To revel and feast in undelivered grace
Pledged to judgmental arrogance in
Drawn principles of ignorant falsehood
To comprehend that the sin of life is life itself
A tyranny in torment, an inner-sanctum stealing sleep
In the dimness surrounding the towers of the castle
Where the ravens spread their wings out wide
Dwell in depths of the darker self at any shore of infinity
And watch the relentless paint the soil black
What is being formed echoes throughout eternity
As the painter chooses color no more
Hold your shadows close when the comedy is over
As the days of mourning seem to be the days of joy
Fragments fell from the sky in order to penetrate the eyes
A convict wallowing in a lifetime of lies:lies
09 Absolute Sole Right (06:26)
As cyclones detach from the world above
And all the other worlds beneath them flow
Timewinds caressing the dust of cold memories
Sought, to strive in twilight mist and penal fire
[chorus:]
As daylight suffers, night time recollects
For what wind hath drawn near, so near:
Death has a contract on life and hell in-between
What was once not certain is now foreseen
When the pendulum is in it's reverse factor
Rivers run red and skies turn black
Accuracies of bloodbaths liberate from within
Conquests of a crooked cross and its coming loss
A magisterial maintenance of diabolic education
Where the opposite of innocence paves way for intelligence
Where pearls are chained for each tragic event
The glorification of deviance in progress
Liars in wait tries to quench their thirst for more
Drowning victims of a parallel universe
The scum of the earth, a rejoice of fouls
The world hates you for being precise
[music: Silenoz and Shagrath]
[lyrics: Silenoz]
10 Sympozium (05:14)
Chains of despair cloacked by darkness
The thundering echoes of great destruction to come
Mankind's mysteries,the dying world
[chorus:]
Madness in it's sweetest form, what shrivels and dies must face the tempest
The angelic heaven bows to the ultimate truth and melancholy grew
Anticipation mender through madness,condemned to the same horrid fate
Insanity applauds,how sharp the awakening
Pale as disease...mocking...maddening...
Give up the ghost,cease the gloomy awakening
12 Burn in Hell (05:06)
Welcome to the abandoned land
Come on in, child; Take my hand
Here there's no work or play
Only one bill to pay
There's just five words to say
As you go down, down, down
You're gonna Burn in Hell
Oh, Burn in Hell
You can't believe all the things I've done wrong in my life
Without even trying I've lived on the Edge of a Knife
Well, I've played with fire, but I don't want to get myself burned
To thyn known self be true, so I think that it's time for a change
Before I Burn in Hell
Oh, Burn in Hell
Take a good look in your heart; Tell me what do you see ?
It's black and it's dark, now is that how you want it to be ?
It's up to you; What you do will decide your own fate
Make your choice now for tomorrow may be far too late
Hear no Evil, don't you
See no Evil, don't you
Lay no Evil down on me
Speak no Evil, don't you
Think no Evil don't you
Play with Evil, 'cause I'm free.
And then you'll Burn in Hell
[REPEAT CHORUS/FADE]
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Di BathoryAria
L'orchestra è l'asso della manica di questo full-length, creando capolavori di pura melodia.
Un lavoro assolutamente nuovo e personale, che influenzerà sicuramente le prossime release del combo norvegese.
