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Fuori dagli schemi, brillante, elttronico, vibrante, possente, "Reign Of Light" è l'ultima fatica degli svizzeri Samael, naturale evoluzione del loro sound unico.
Facciamo un po' di storia. Fondati nel 1990 e dediti al Black Metal sin dagli esordi, seppero farsi riconoscere per il loro sound rallentato e cerimoniale e per un songwriting sempre brillante e mai scontato presagi in dischi come "Worship Him" e "Cerimony Of Opposites". La vera svolta avvenne nel 1996 con l'uscita del sorprendente "Passage". Tra i primi nel genere, incorporarono una drum machine ed adottarono un suono massicciamente elettronico, gelido, sideralmente disante, proseguendo il discorso col parimenti eccezionale "Ethernal".
"Reign Of Light" è una sorpresa. I Samael abbandonano il gelo e le distanze siderali e sfoggiano un disco terrificante, caldo e selvaggio.
L'opener "Moongate", con le sue percussioni, le chitarre sovraccariche ed il Sitar (già, un Sitar) sprigiona un groove spettacolare, quasi tribale. E' inutile procedere ad un track by track: "Reign Of Light" è un disco estremamente peculiare, in cui ogni traccia ha una sua chiara personalità, dai ritmi quasi dance di "On Earth" all'orientaleggiante "Heliopolis" fino alla conclusiva, solenne "Door To Celestial Peace" veniamo presi per mano e guidati in universo illuminato ed illuminante.
Un discorso a parte merita la produzione. Potente e cristallina, con suoni scelti con gusto e criterio, le tastiere di volta in volta glaciali o avvolgenti, un basso caldo e pulsante, la voce roca e le sue sovraincisioni....
Reign Of Light.
"While our souls fly high above
our bodies play their favorite games
We climb, we climb towards the light"
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06 Telepath (03:35)
What could one possibly say
To someone who ignores his way
Who's never been touched by grace
How could one eventually express
All the tension, all the stress
That can't be read on his face
All the people that one met
All the people that one left
They enrich, they develop
What one's got to reach the top
Being a sum of experiences
Giving life the consistence
Knowing details makes differences
Entering a heart of existence
Tune your mind to the right channel
Things get played at a higher scale
Go memorize the frequency
Isn't it phenomenal
Don't you think it's magical
The electric storm of ecstasy
Ride the wind, take on your destiny
You gotta get much higher
Fly your flight, get over society
The world is far much bigger
Nothing is impossible
Nothing is unreachable
Tune your mind to the right channel
Things get played at a higher scale
Go memorize the frequency
Isn't it phenomenal
Don't you think it's magical
This electric storm of ecstasy
Fear's got no place around here
What we see, what we hear
Format our comprehension
The un-thought, things we ignore
All the pulses and all the more
Wait to reach our perception
Spread your consistence to other territory
Your vision's gonna get much clearer
When the hunt is over parts meet in sympathy
World peace is getting nearer...
Spread your conscience to other territory
Your vision's gonna get much clearer
When the hunt is over parts meet in sympathy
World peace is getting nearer...
Nothing is impossible
Nothing is unreachable
What could one possibly say
To someone who ignores his way
Who's never been touched by grace
How could one eventually express
All the tension, all the stress
That can't be read on his face
All the people that one met
All the people that one left
They enrich, they develop
What one's got to reach the top
Being a sum of experiences
Giving life the consistence
Knowing details makes differences
Entering a heart of existence
Nothing is unreachable
Ride the wind, take on your destiny
You gotta get much higher
Fly your flight, get over society
The world is far much bigger
Nothing is impossible
Nothing is unreachable
So....
07 Oriental Dawn (04:24)
On the roof of one thought
On the edge of one world
Smell the flavor of glory
Infused in people's hearts
Certified and glorified
Pushed to a higher high
Crossing desert in a second
With a single breath
Surrounded by the Nation - Demonized
Against domination - Struggling, creating, modeling another world
Courage and obedience - Sanctified
Theatracalization - Of the past, of life, of pain that never lasts...
The taste of earth and blood
Stir up the thirst of life
In the chaos of the masses
Lost in Nemesis
At the call of better times
That have been once promised
Respond to a better life
Of happiness and joy...
Surrounded by the Nation - Demonized
Against domination - Struggling, creating, modeling another world
Courage and obedience - Sanctified
Theatracalization - Of the past, of life, of pain that never lasts...
Surrounded by the Nation - Demonized
Against domination - Struggling, creating, modeling another world
Courage and obedience - Sanctified
Theatracalization - Of the past, of life, of pain that never lasts...
08 As the Sun (03:39)
Focus on, optimize
Rearrange, reorganize
Define new borderline
See how bright, bright you can shine
Enlarge your horizon
Be your own weapon
Visualize your variations
Harmonize your vibrations
Expansion, concentration
Energy fluctuation
Extension, regeneration
Energetic pulsation
Travel in time/space
Meet your wonder face to face
Put the false in disgrace
And the truth will take its place
Fill your world with energy - Harmony and synergy
Fill your world with energy - Harmony and synergy
Explode formatted thoughts
Change references
Explore differences
Can be this, can be that, even can be both
Feel the heat all around when you hit it on and on
The dispatched universe that collapsed in your own
Feel the heat all around when you hit it on and on
The dispatched universe that collapsed in your own
Fill your world with energy - Harmony and synergy
Fill your world with energy - Harmony and synergy
Solemnly I arise
In a world that is mine
Radiantly I embrace
All the days of my life
Solemnly I arise
In a world that is mine
Radiantly I embrace
All the days of my life
Fill your world with energy - Harmony and synergy
Fill your world with energy - Harmony and synergy
Focus on, optimize
Rearrange, reorganize
Define new borderline
See how bright, bright you can shine
10 Heliopolis (03:56)
Sometimes it's all within your very heart and soul
Reaching the universe known and unknown
Penetrating mysteries well hidden to the world
Delivering secrecies of secret ecstasy
If you believe in your dreams it gives you the power
To transcend realities wich are not of your own
Recalling what you where projecting what you'll be
Looking at the picture of your next step in life
Feel alive, feel so unreal
Feel like I'm born again
Ruling over my dreams
Exulting, entering
The world of miracles
Doors are open, bright days are calling
The better of the best has to be different
Each angle of your view presents a new horizon
Satring at where you go, not looking where you are
A syptom of vertigo says you're gonna go far
Feel alive, feel so unreal
Feel like I'm born again
Ruling over my dreams
Exulting, entering
The world of miracles
Doors are open, bright days are calling
Pleasure and delight extended in souvenirs
Searching and hunting lights of upcoming voyages
Osmosis and rapture emphasized in actions
Settling foundations of an ever-changing life
A simple expression of the force in control
Self-realization by melting differences
Encrypted messages that one reads in others
That all things at all times aspire to be justified
Feel alive, feel so unreal
Feel like I'm born again
Ruling over my dreams
Exulting, entering
The world of miracles
Doors are open, bright days are calling
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