Se c'è un album che ha reso celebri i finlandesi Sentenced all'interno della scena gothic, quello è certamente "Crimson". Terzo album del nuovo corso della band, che dopo aver abbandonato le radici death ed aver cambiato cantante con l'ingresso di Ville Laihiala, produce due album abbastanza buoni come "Down" e "Frozen" senza però lasciare completamente il segno. Le lacune presenti in questi due album vengono qui colmate: "Crimson" infatti è un album completo e senza evidenti punti deboli.
Già l'opener "Bleed in my Arms" lascia presagire le coordinate dell'album e mostra una maturità compositiva finalmente acquisita dal combo finlandese, grazie a degli arrangiamenti perfettiche rendono i brani piccole gemme tutte da scoprire. La roca voce di Ville dona le giuste tonalità di grigio a questi brani narranti di morte, amore e solitudine, ma è il lavoro ditutta la band che viene esaltato in brani come "Broken", "With Bitterness and Joy" e "No More Beating as One". Il suicidio, topos ricorrente nelle lyrics della band, viene qui trattato nella forma di due splendide canzoni (le migliori dell'album a mio avviso): "Fragile" e "Killing Me, Killing You".
È davvero un peccato che al giorno d'oggi la band sia sciolta, perché da "Crimson" in poi aveva intrapeso una strada in crescendo che la vedeva regalarci sempre album all'altezza del suo nome. I Sentenced hanno lasciato un vuoto al momento incolmabile nella scena metal, ma possiamo ancora apprezzarne la vena artistica grazie ad album come questo, che consiglio a chiunque voglia avvicinarsi alla musica della band.
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01 Bleed in My Arms (05:09)
No, you don't want me to be there�
To kiss your eyes, caress your hair� or kill that pain away
As pain is my companion, solitude my guide
Your sweet affection solely offers me a threat I cannot abide
Yet you'll lose yourself in me� in me
Bleed in my arms wounds within
Fall from grace as I offer you sin
Sacrifice yourself so frail�
This pseudo-love is as good as betrayal
So place your love in the palm of my hand�
where temptation lies within� that something you've yet to feel
And as I close my fist and awake your sleeping fears
Without forbearance I will quench my thirst of your crimson tears
You've lost yourself in me� in me
Bleed in my arms wounds within
Fall from grace as I offer you sin
Sacrifice yourself so frail�
This pseudo-love is as good as betrayal
Weep for promises which all died
A drop of tear for every lie
Love forever torn away�
I am only to cherish your pain
�I am only to cherish your pain�
02 Home in Despair (03:48)
Again the sky has fallen down on me
Once more a world has crumbled down and over me
And yet in some twisted way
I enjoy my misery
And in some strange way
I have grown together with my agony
I feel home in despair for I dwell in grief
and I feel home when the air's too thick to breathe
and I feel home anywhere human lives are going down the drain
For as long as I remember life has been hard
I guess they have "misery" written somewhere in my stars
For I have mourned for so damn long�
that I've forgotten what it was for
Everything has gone so wrong
that I really couldn't think of anything more
I feel home in despair for I dwell in grief
and I feel home when the air's too thick to breathe
and I feel home anywhere human lives are flowing down the drain
I feel home in despair for I dwell in grief
and I feel home when the air's too thick to breathe
and I feel home anywhere the light of day is drowned in heavy rain
Yet I know the worst is still to come
03 Fragile (05:55)
So many times I have brought you down
That I have already lost all count
And I seem to be doing it again
No matter how hard I have tried
I have crumbled time after time
And kept failing in the end
Sometimes it feels it would be better for you all
If I ceased to exist or was never born at all
So many times I have let you down
Shadowed the shine of our sun and drowned
You in tears and misery
That it is hard for me to see
How you can after all these years
Still be standing by me
Sometimes it feels it would be better for us all
If I ceased to exist or was never born at all
Sometimes it feels it would be easier to fall
Than to flutter in the air with these wings so weak and torn
Sometimes it feels it would be better for us all
If I ceased to exist or was never born at all
Sometimes it feels it would be easier to fall
Than to flutter in the air with these wings so weak and torn
05 Broken (04:31)
I have come a long way where I started from
but I'm still not even close to where I'm going
(and now) I can no longer see the shine
that has been lighting up my way
I cannot feel its glowing
The fire in my heart is dying
and the zeal I had is gone
This path that I've chosen's a rocky one
Long, hard and frozen it has become
Each turn that I've taken on the way
has only led me back to Hell
I am dying down growing weaker now
It could seem that I'm doing fine
but I'm broken to little pieces deep inside
Why did I ever choose to go this way
The question I keep asking myself all the time
I guess it was my instinct for self-destruction
that pointed me down this way
The fire in my eyes is dying
and the dream I had is gone
This path that I've chosen's a rocky one
Long, hard and frozen it has become
Each turn that I've taken on the way
has only led me back to Hell
I am dying down growing weaker now
It could seem that I'm doing fine
but I'm broken to little pieces deep inside
10 With Bitterness and Joy (04:43)
It has now spread itself all over inside me
all the way to the brain and down to my knees
My time comes closer with each day it lets me see
- with each night the pain keeps me from sleep
Life has given me much - maybe taken more
but those good times were always worth waiting for
When it's time for goodbyes I will leave grieving and yet so relieved
with bitterness and joy
Pleasure and pain; Heaven and Hell - my memories
What a long and strange trip this has been for me
What a short and strange life this has been
It has given me much - maybe taken more
but those good times were always worth waiting for
When it's time to take leave of this world
I will leave with bitterness and joy
What a long and strange trip this has been for me
What a short and strange life this has been
It has given me much - maybe taken more
but those good times were always worth waiting for
When it's time for goodbyes I will leave grieving and yet so relieved
with bitterness and joy
Life has given me much - maybe taken more
but those good times were always worth waiting for
When it's time to take leave of this world
I will leave with bitterness and joy
11 My Slowing Heart (11:06)
I gave and gave - gave all I had
I took and took - all I could grab
I had it all and I had none
Now the game is over and it's all gone
My heart is worn out to keep beating
My lungs exhausted by all this breathing
My mind's too tired to keep grieving
I was against and I was for
I wanted less and wanted more
I won I lost, I lost and won
Now it's all over and I am done
My throat is too sore for more screaming
My eyes too swollen for more weeping
My wounds are too dry for more bleeding
My blood too drained for more streaming
My heart is slowing down
Long short is life is short and long
Strong weak am I am weak and strong
My crop is ready for the Reaping
My being ready for releasing
My heart is slowing down
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