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Ora, potrei parlarvi dell'intera discografia della band finlandese facendo leva sul loro coraggio di cambiare musica a un certo punto rispetto agli esordi, del fatto che il loro frontman sia un gigante malinconico di nome Ville e della sottile ironia che pervade il loro pessimismo.
E invece vi tocca semplicemente sapere che il disco in questione é un gran bel disco. Partendo dall'opener (intro strumentale) che, in pochi secondi, ci scaraventa nella malinconica landa finlandese, subito veniamo sedotti dall'oscura dolcezza degli arpeggi di Tenkula (lo so, lo so...) e soci che spesso sfocia in piacevoli melodie che, con buon benestare dei nostri vicini, ci ritroviamo a cantare mentre facciamo la doccia, falciamo il prato e portiamo il cane a spasso.
Se proprio vogliam parlare di generi, ok, ci troviamo all'interno di un gothic metal (sopratutto nell'atmosfera e nei testi) che strizza l'occhiolino a un certo hard rock oscuro, che ha nei suoi nomi tutelari gente come The Cult e The Sisters of Mercy. Che poi, in Finlandia, 'sto genere lo sanno fare bene, personalizzandolo con un groove da depressi piacioni alcolizzati misteriosi.
Tornando a noi, le canzoni scorrono via che é un piacere. Da "Cross my heart" a "Neverlasting", passando dalla più melodica "Brief is the light", Lahiala e compari ci conducono in uno scenario sì malinconico, ma mai troppo pesante, anche grazie a un ritmo assai godibile e melodie azzeccate. Un mix riuscito e convincente di romanticismo e potenza, filo comune dell'intero album, ma anche dell'attitudine Sentenced da qualche anno a questa parte.
Particolare menzione merita l'introspettiva "Everything is nothing", delicata e gelida gemma. E come non spendere due parole per le *divertenti* e cazzute "Excuse me while I kill myself" (notare anche riff Maideniano) e "The luxury of a grave", dove i nostri ironizzano su dei luoghi comuni del gothic, ma magari lo noto solo io eh, sciorinando ottimo sound e interpretazione vocale. Sì, c'è anche "You're the one", tipica ballad finlandese melensa che piacerà anche a chi ascolta i connazionali Him, ma personalmente la trovo l'unica traccia poco ispirata dell'album, ma é soggettivo.
Ma, carissimi, se ho scritto tutto ciò é anche per sottolineare la gelida bellezza di "No one there". Autentico apice, emozionale e compositivo, dell'album, una poesia dedicata alla terra natia che, tramite un ottima melodia e intensità, regala una conclusione magica, nostalgica, commovente al viaggio che i Nostri ci fanno fare sin dalle prime note dell'album, e viene subito voglia di riviverlo per apprezzare delle sfumature che a un primo disattento ascolto possono mancare.
Un viaggio nella "Fredda luce bianca" ve lo consiglio, davvero una gran colonna sonora durante una giornata invernale con qualche preoccupazione che va naufragando e qualche ricordo di troppo che avanza minaccioso...
Grazie Sentenced, i mesi freddi senza la vostra musica sarebbero meno affascinanti. Un plaid fatto di note.
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04 Neverlasting (03:35)
Carpe diem...
Seize the day before your life fades away.
Reach for the skies - for the distant sun
and keep on hiding from the gun.
No! You need to sell your soul
for it's great to lose control.
Can't you feel that growing desire
to go down with the blazing fire?
You need to burn and reach to the point of no return.
- Waste no time dreaming in vain!
You and I aren't built to last
- Go astray - the only way!
You and I will make it fast
- Burn the candle at both ends!
Let's take a ride before we fall
- Leave no room for happy endings!
and make it right for once and for all.
Something's twisted in your head
for you live as you were dead.
Therefore you must play with the gun
and be sure to have your fun.
Take my hand and I'll lead you astray
for it's the only way.
Let's give in to the growing desire
and go down with the blazing fire.
We need to burn and reach the point of no return.
- Waste no time dreaming in vain!
You and I aren't built to last.
- Go astray - the only way!
You and I will make it fast
- Burn the candle at both ends!
Let's take a ride before we fall.
- Leave no room for happy endings!
And make it right for once and for all.
05 Aika multaa muistot (Everything Is Nothing) (04:33)
Everything is nothing to me, I couldn't care less
A stern cold man is what I am, hard, relentless
And thought I might have strayed the path I wouldn't change a thing
I've hated life to the fullest yet with longing deep within
For my name is sorrow and I'm a friend of misery
I deprived myself of love for eternal agony
And I don't even dare to try - I know I can only lose
Between this life I live and nothing I have to choose
Take me home...
...to the one I belong
Heyyy!!
I'll see you all go down and witness your demise
I'll be the last to close, the last to close my eyes
And forgive me nothing for I truly meant it all
- what I've said, what I've done
06 Excuse Me While I Kill Myself (03:48)
"How do you do? Have yourselves a pleasant afternoon!"
Well, fuck you, too!
"Good night" is the one I choose for you!
- I'll kill myself:
I'll blow my brains onto the wall!
- See you in Hell,
I will not take this anymore!
Now, this is where it ends,
this is where I will draw the line
So, 'scuse me while I end my life.
I will pull this through
Not having a reason is no excuse
What the Hell do you suppose I have left to lose?
- I'll kill myself:
I'll blow my brains onto the wall!
- See you in Hell,
I will not take this anymore!
Now, this is where it ends,
this is where I will draw the line
So, 'scuse me while I end my life.
[instrumental]
- I'll kill myself:
I'll blow my brains onto the wall!
- See you in Hell,
I will not take this anymore!
This is where it ends: I'll put a bullet in my head
And yes, drop dead!
This is where it ends, this is where I will draw the line:
- Excuse me while
I Kill myself.
07 Blood & Tears (04:15)
What is it that we're struggling for?
I don't quite see it anymore.
Life kicks us in the teeth
yet something makes us crawl back for more.
Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed.
Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death.
Hours like days, weeks like years
Decades of tears
yet somehow..
We'll lose the things we've fighted for
Each rise is followed by a fall
We'll lose the ones we love, the ones we most adore
Yet go on.. we go on
Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed.
Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death.
Hours like days, weeks like years
Decades of tears
Yet somehow everything seems so worthwhile
for a moment
What is it that we're waiting for?
Looking forward to, preparing for?
Life kicks us in the teeth
Yet something makes us crawl back for more
Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed.
Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death.
Hours like days, weeks like years
Decades of tears
Yet somehow everything seems so worthwhile
for a moment
09 Guilt and Regret (03:44)
Guilt and Regret, they are my two inbred brothers
Guilt and Regret
O god how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart
Guilt and Regret and me wake up into a brand new day
Guilt and Regret lively
I am still dead tired - the night has been long and hard
My brothers they ask me:
"Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"Nothing at all? Well, it must have been an evening of joy"
Guilt and Regret
O god how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart
Each morning like this they come, uninvited
Pale as ghosts, reeking of compost
Yet most I abhor their bloodshot eyes
My brothers they ask me:
"Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"Nothing at all? Well, it must have been an evening of joy"
My brothers they tease me:
"Do you remember anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"O sure you do, we buried our little sister Hope"
Guilt and Regret and me - what a twisted family we are
Guilt and Regret
O god, how I hate you both from the bottom of my heart
11 No One There (06:14)
The axe, the bottle, and the rope
The feeling there really is no more hope
The thought of the great unknown
And facing it alone
The dark, the silent, and the cold
The feeling I have come to the end of my road
Yes these are the things I spend my remaining moments with
And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there
Why did it have to be so hard
For us to live our lives
Again I reach out in the dark in despair
The desperation and the snow
The feeling of finally coming back home
The melancholy and the hole in the soil so hard and cold
And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there
Your love for me, my love for you
Things we somehow managed to lose
Now there's only the ruthless wind
To blow right through
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
To think we both will die alone
And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there
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Di wwwhatemoornet
Se nei precedenti album il feeling era sicuramente dark-oriented ... qui tutto è più ruffiano.
"A coffin will be way to nice, a see-through plastic bag will do just fine" (The Luxury of a Grave) ma non si sta parlando di un cadavere si sta parlando di come nascondere il cd ;)
Di Megadave#1
"Cross my heart and hope to die è uno dei pezzi più belli dell'album, con un assolo conclusivo da brividi."
"No one there chiude in bellezza questo album-capolavoro, un pezzo malinconico che lascia un nodo in gola."
