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The Butterfly Effect non mi era piaciuto: va bene, sì, la sperimentazione...vada pure l'elettronica, ma le idee (seppur buone) erano confuse; la teoria del chaos era diventata la pratica del casino. Se fosse stato gestito meglio sarebbe stato un capolavoro, e loro ancora una volta dei pionieri in campo gotico.
Ero curioso di sapere dopo quel passo falso (anche in termine di vendite fu un disastro) se i nostri prodi sarebbero riusciti a tenere alto l'onore del gothic (non è né doom né black, questo senz'altro) soprattutto in virtù del fatto che loro stessi avevano portato una ventata di freschezza a partire dal MCD "Under the Moonspell" del 1994.
Darkness and hope, questo il titolo di un album dal compito così difficile. Sicuramente, però, è valsa la pena di sfornarlo, sì, perché sebbene non sia un capolavoro mi riporta alla mente la loro vera natura.
La copertina è splendida seppur stringata, il booklet completo di tutti i testi e di figure adatte ai vari brani.
Dopo questa premessa, passiamo al disco. Ci apre le porte la title track, tipica traccia gotica superoscura, forse inusuale come inizio ma estremamente piacevole.Segue la breve Firewalking, anch'essa stile-Moonspell e che -come Nocturna e Made of storm- rimanda ai capolavori del passato. Piace anche l'orecchiabile Heartshaped abyss, che pur non essendo trascendentale si fa ascoltare, e bene. Ghostsong e How we became fire sono episodi easy listening carini, ma rappresentano il punto più basso del disco.
Vorrei soffermarmi ancora su Made of storm: stupenda, fa ripensare ai tempi di Opium (lacrimuccia), anche se..."she doesn't know she's fucking with the lord of lies"!
Interessante il resto (Devilred, anch'essa oscura, Rapaces molto diretta e Than the serpents in my hand con il suo incedere cupo ma non come le altre). hiude il disco una cover dei Madredeus, "Os senhores da guerra" in versione gothic!!!(Incredibile non ci credevo...). Comunque bella l'originale e bella anche questa "variazione" di Ribeiro, che in questo album dimostra tutto il suo valore canoro, alternando il growl alla voce calda e tenebrosa. Imprescindibile!
Insomma sicuramente migliore dei precedenti Sin/Pecado e del già citato The butterfly effect anche se non è all'altezza dei fasti del passato (e a questo punto dubito ci possano riuscire, basta ascoltare l'ultimo The antidote) ma contiene alcuni momenti veramente di rilievo. Vorrei dargli 7/10, ma i mezzi punti non ci sono e allora arrotondo per eccesso, per l'umiltà con cui hanno affrontato questo lavoro e perché ci sono due video bonus tracks: Magdalene da Sin/Pecado (carina) e Butterfly FX (la canzone che preferisco di TBE; il video, poi, è molto bello).
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Darkness and Hope (04:46)
So this is
the exemplar deathstyle
you told me about;
you want my seed in
is this the treason
I bare the fame from?
my fatal freedom;
the omniswansong
I carry the news of Darkness and hope
So this is
the underworld
you have in your heart;
you hide in your room
I'm so sorry to say
it only makes me laugh
I carry the news of Darkness and hope
So here I have-your act of love
within the poison-of your every word
each night you stay in-each night I will have to run
knowing from darkness and hope
there is no return.
I carry the news of darkness and hope.
02 Firewalking (03:05)
Help me fall from grace
Need you to be incomplete
I am the impostor at your feet
Is it your first time
Or have you been tempted before
Downward into the pulsing life
Laying below
Try firewalking inside of me
when everything falls apart
Try firewalking inside of me
When everything falls apart
Won't you fall from grace
I am at a wingbeat
from my retreat
Is it your first time or have you been tempted before
Downward the pulsing secret
Laying below
Try firewalking inside of me
when everything falls apart
Try firewalking inside of me
when everything else falls apart
03 Nocturna (03:52)
High heels of crystal
stuck in the heart
daylight that heals
the fullmoon scars
Spider strategy
and the wish to be
at one with me
throughout the fright
It is so real
So full of light
(when)Nocturna steals the night
Sister of cain
all our breed slain
the youthful oath
remains the same
le mal de vivre
that never ends
but the hunt (for you) goes on
throughout the night
It is so real
So full of light
(when) Nocturna steals the night
04 Heartshaped Abyss (04:08)
Never resist
The firewalker
He has been sent
To educate you
never look back
at the great Deep
and never dance to
that curse he sings
Never resist
The life long Pessimist
he is the leader
and not the enemy
My heart complete
put to destroy you
my darkness is obsolete
please let me follow you
And when we meet there
Into the Heartshaped abyss
you'll scar me with your kiss
and when we meet there
into the heartshaped abyss
you'll forgive me everything
scared away
get away
Never resist the firewalker
he has been sent to lay a curse on you
never resist,never look back
Liar I am ready to push you
And when we meet there
Into the Heartshaped abyss
you'll scar me with your kiss
and when we meet there
into the heartshaped abyss
you'll forgive me everything
scared away
get away
Let's get away from this world
to a place we are still beautiful
Abismo..., em forma de coração
05 Devilred (03:25)
She wears devilRed
she sweats the poison
-all over her
keeps me quiet
-inside her storm
she has the method
-no other knows
red as the veins,she likes to swim in
floating so gently,through this human misery
She must be a part
Of a Highest Plan
Something I can't understand
she wears devilRed
She's selling a damned soul
To whoever pays the most
Her body-the cure
for all evil and good
red as the veins
she likes to swim in
floating so gently
through this human misery
She must be a part
Of the Highest Plan
Something I can't understand
she wears devilRed
devilred
06 Ghostsong (04:21)
Outside the mythic Rains
let us know we are not insane
Blood debts still to be paid
(Instead) We celebrate the Stranger
Inside the mythic Pains
are played
Blood doubts are asked again
Beware the Answers - you cannot tame
(Might) Take you too far away
Say what you are
Come here to haunt you
Say what you will
I am going to haunt you
And protect you
I am going to hurt you
And if we survive this Dawn
We wish we'd see the Day
Die to come back a Single-Time
That face in the window
Is never the same
Say what you are
Come here to haunt you
Say what you will
I am going to haunt you
And protect you
I am going to hurt you
08 Made of Storm (04:09)
I am the flood
who drags the dirt
and lives on it
survives through it
She is the soil
with whom I flirt
and rots with it
I am the flood
who purifies
I guess she calls Me
the Lord of Lies
when I'm inside her
feels like she is
made of Storm
I am the flood
who likes the dirt
and sleeps with it
and dreams with it
she is the soil
with whom I flirt
she rots within
I am the flood
who purifies
She does not know
she's fucking with
the Lord of Lies
when I'm inside her
feels like she is
made of Storm
10 Than the Serpents in My Arms (05:53)
"Dorme, dorme meu menino!
Dorme - no mar dos sargacos;
Que mais vale o mar a pino
Que as Serpentes nos meus bracos!"
MÁRIO CESÁRINY
And when all Life as you know it - Fails
All ghostlike lips taste just the - same
What better comfort can you find
Than the Serpents in my Arms
Sleep, sleep - now, my Child
In the Sea of crystal Trouble
For better is the violent Sight
than all that you leave behind
In your Eyes - a Dark so subtile
It tells you walk, but never fly
To leave us all behind
And when all Life as you know it - Fails
All ghostlike Lips taste just the - same
What better comfort can you find
Than the Serpents in my Arms
Down, down - terrible Child
To look at It, it is a Sin
For better is to hold that Smile
That´s all you leave behind
In your Eyes - a Mark so subtile
It tells you walk, but never fly
Never fly - to leave us all
To leave us all behind
And when all Life as you know it - fails
All ghostlike Lips taste just the......same
What better comfort can you find
Than the Serpents in my Arms
What better comfort can you find
than
The Serpents
In my Arms
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Di +Zephyro+
Darkness and Hope si presenta all’ascoltatore come una cruda poesia pietrosa, nuda, gelida.
Una storia fatta di corde, pallottole argentate, pillole magiche e radici di mandragora.
Di _Ozzy
Questo disco, tristemente, segna la fine del mio rapporto con i Moonspell.
Personalmente rabbrividisco a pensare una di queste canzoni riproposte live accanto ad Opium, Alma Mater e chissà quante altre!
