Un sabato sera come tanti ritorno a casa a tarda notte, dopo una divertente serata con gli amici. L'insonnia mi aveva intrappolato nel suo castello e il sacro e dovuto sonno si allontanava sempre di più. Decisi di mettere su nel lettore un disco, con lo scopo di riuscire a cadere nelle braccia di Morfeo. "Still Life" degli Opeth fu la mia scelta per sconfiggere i fantasmi della notte.
Mi addormentai e il sogno cominciò...
I miei sensi provarono emozioni fortissime, inqualificabili. Venivo trasportato verso paesaggi fantastici ed evocativi. "The Moor", raffinata e inimitabile, è l'inizio della fine mentre tesse la sua ragnatela di chitarre acustiche, spettrali quanto affascinanti. La complessità del sound, mai banale, è accompagnata dalla meravigliosa voce Mikael Akerfeldt, pronta a implodere dentro il mio cuore con growl tetri e potenti. Vado avanti per la mia strada e incrocio sensazioni più forti con "Godhead's Lament", più decisa delle altre, ma pur sempre episodio di grande elaborazione e immediatezza.
Le mie cellule celebrali subiscono un rilassante stordimento sugli arpeggi di "Benighted", realizzati da Akerfeldt con l'ausilio di Lindgren.
Il sogno si interrompe per un limitato periodo: il tempo di tornare alla realtà e di percepire che "Moonlapse Vertigo" potrebbe diventare una delle colonne sonore della mia vita.
Riprendo la retta via è arrivo a toccare il cielo con un dito ascoltando "Face of Melinda", ispirata alla donna responsabile del finimondo raffigurato nei testi di tutto il disco. Tocchi di classe intrecciati a idee originali, che accarezzano il mio viso con delicatezza e passione.
"Serenity Painted Death" è buia e micidiale. Contiene un grande tocco geniale, reso ancora più forte da un'atmosfera affascinante, ricca di colori e suoni evocativi. Una voce melodiosa e trascinante reca piacere alla mia anima, regalandole sensazione uniche, complice un song-writing lungo, inimitabile, sensibile e mai stancabile, accompagnato dalla melodia che rende unica questa musica. Termino il mio viaggio con "White Cluster", mix finale di raffinatezza neoclassica e sperimentazioni oscure, sconfiggendo definitivamente le tenebre.
Il sogno è finito. Mi sveglio e torno alla dura realtà, affiancata da una vita piena di insidie e di bivi da affrontare con coraggio e determinazione.
Con una consapevolezza in più però: quella di avere nella mia bacheca personale un meraviglioso disco e che gli Opeth sono un gruppo unico, rei di aver inventato un genere garante di fantasia straordinaria, tecnica assurda e melodia affascinante.
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02 Godhead's Lament (09:47)
Marauder
Staining the soil, midst of stillness
Beloved fraternity to an end
Red eyes probe the scene
All the same
Stilted for the beholder
Depravity from the core
Hand carved death in stone laden aisles
I hide the scars from my past
Yet they sense my (mute) dirge
This is when it all falls apart
White hands grasping for straws
Sly smile, poisoned glare behind
Undisguised manmade nova
Mute cry, don't dare to tread
Searing beams tracking you down
Adoring what never has been
Some will bring with them all they have seen
Searching my way to perplexion
The gleam of her eyes
In that moment she knew
Thought I could not leave this place
On this imminent day
As I've reached the final dawn
To what's gone astray
What would they care if I did stay
No one would know
What would they care if I did stay
No one should know
Thought I could not leave this place
On this imminent day
As I've reached the final dawn
To what's gone astray
What would they care if I did stay
No one would know
What would they care if I did stay
No one should know
Still brooding, soothing calm
That rigid, twisted face
Blank godhead, tear my name
Lost virtue, frantic lust
Sly smile, poisoned glare behind
Undisguised manmade nova
Mute cry, don't dare to tread
Searing beams tracking you down
Adoring what never has been
Some will bring with them all they have seen
Searching my way to perplexion
In crumbling faith I saw her
Bearing her pain in the wilderness
The gleam of her eyes
In that moment she knew
03 Benighted (05:00)
Come into this night
Here we'll be gone
So far away
From our weak and crumbling lives
Come into this night
When days are done
Lost and astray
In what's vanished from your eyes
What came and distorted your sight
Saw you benighted by your fright
Come into this night
Your plight alone
Carry your weight
You are flawed as all of us
Come into this night
You only home
It's never too late
To repent, Suffer the loss
What came and distorted your sight
Saw you benighted by your fright
What came and distorted your sight
Saw you benighted by your fright
Come into this night
When you're able
To undo your deeds
And atone with your lonely soul
Once you're into this night
All minds are stable
Forget all your needs
Lose the grip of all control
04 Moonlapse Vertigo (09:00)
Kept warm by the light of the lantern
Lost sight of everything tonight
My presence blackens their pattern
A pock in the healthy and calm
Their scorn behind your back
My promise would put them down
No trace of reverance left
Immemorial fire in their eyes
I would perish at the given signal
At the slightest touch from my soul
Tainted prophet in flesh
For all the plagued and lost
Dripping sin
Decision in stalemate
Dare to feel death at hand
Surprised me with its voice
Through the forest came the morn
Across the leafy pathway
Their deeds smeared in blood
For all to behold
The council of the cross
Must have sensed my coming
The pest through the air
With despise for squalor
Lashing out at the poor
I turned away my eyes
In pallor escape from the end
Fading time to leave from here
And less to fulfill my task
She would be safe and firm
Nothing of this is in vain
Taken away from stifling grace
And saved from the past
05 Face of Melinda (07:58)
By the turnstile beckons a damsel fair
The face of Melinda neath blackened hair
No joy would flicker in her eyes
Brooding sadness came to a rise
Words would falter to atone
Failure had passed the stepping stone
She sworn her vows to another
This is when no-one will bother
And conceded pain in crumbling mirth
A harlot of God upon the earth
Found where she sacrificed her ways
That hollow love in her face
Still I plotted to have her back
The contentment that would fill the crack
My soul released a fluttering sigh
This day fell, the darkness night
I took her by the hand to say
All faith forever has been washed away
I returned for you in great dismay
Come with me, far away to stay
Endlessly gazing in nocturnal prime
She spoke of her vice and broke the rhyme
But baffled herself with the final line
My promise is made but my heart is thine
07 White Cluster (10:02)
Still it came passing by
The pieces weaved together rose the sun
And fooled me with another day
The knocking message called for my life
Sealed the spell of my scrawny body
Soil to skin, My next of kin
Damp air grasped, Stole the words
And greeted me with a hiss
This is forgiveness, So I know
Once I repent I seal the lid
I slither for you and I'm dying
I find trust in hate
They wear white for me
Seemingly jaded and lost
I forge myself into your dreams
And here I am your life
Hangman, Clutching at his tools
I will come for you
The noose is tied
Murmur through the crowd
Plunging into anywhere but here
Cloak-captured sighs of relief
As the primal touch brought me back
And the last sight I did see is still here
Beckoning right behind me
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Di Roland
"Gli Opeth abbiano dato vita ad un loro personalissimo genere che li rende unici e riconoscibili in ogni loro ascolto."
"Non fatevi guidare dal pregiudizio ma cercate di esplorare fino in fondo ciò che vi intimorisce solo per sentito dire, potrebbe sorprendervi."
