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Quello che vi descrivo oggi è un suicidio sonoro di rara spettacolarità.
Immaginate un genere saturo: evocate nella vostra mente un locale pieno il venerdì sera, la A22 in un week end invernale, la fila fuori dal cinema alla prima di Shrek 17 e così via. Bene ci siete! In questo genere musicale vi girate e ci sono decine e decine di band tutte uguali con una discreta dose di tecnica alle spalle e false speranze. Tutti hanno lo stesso obiettivo: cercare di entrare nel mercato discografico ed avere così la possibilità (e non la certezza) di decollare, se non sfondare.
I Sonata Arctica fanno parte delle "band paraculo" di questo genere saturo quanto le arterie di un obeso cronico. Non è che io ce l'abbia con loro, ma è un dato di fatto che la suddetta formazione sia stata favorita in modo spudorato dai connazionali Stratovarius. Grazie ad un buon album di power metal ("Ecliptica") con 0 innovazione, dotato di tanta melodica attrattiva, sono stati catapultati con i loro mentori in un tour europeo che li ha fatti conoscere ad un vasto bacino d'utenza. Il nome circola, fanno una buona impressione e da allora i nostri cari Sonata hanno cominciato camminare con le loro gambe. Hanno addirittura corso velocemente, nello stupefacente "Silence", al trotto in "Winterhear's Guild" e corrichiato abbastanza bene, zoppicando qua e là (una contratturina) in "Reckoning Night". Melodici, assolutamente power, ma pur sempre caratteristici riescono così facendo a conquistarsi una bella fetta del genere. Insomma i nostri ce l'hanno fatta!!! Adesso possono vivere di rendita, fare album con lo stampino, stereotiparsi e magari provare a dare alla luce anche un altro album di livello in attesa dell'ispirazione di Odino. Nel 2007 danno alle stampe il loro quinto album: "Unia".
In finnico significa sogno. A casa mia invece corrisponde ad una cagata pazzesca! Un suicidio sonoro, un aborto musicale, un mazzata negli zebedei, un autogol alla finale dei mondiali di calcio, un ti lascio perché ti amo troppo. Una situazione quindi che ti lascia di sale, con quel retrogusto di presa per il culo che ti fa dire: bello scherzo davvero, ma adesso dammi il cd vero!
L'album ovviamente dai fans e critici è stato definito come sperimentale "non è male, bisogna solo entrare nella giusta ottica in quanto stanno cercando un loro sound" oppure con la spassosa frase "è più difficile, ma con il tempo entra in testa". Profusione di dubitative del tipo "Se lo prendiamo per l'inizio di un nuovo corso, da un certo punto di vista è geniale". Una capatina nel futuro con il sempre verde "tra 10 anni vedrete che lo capirete". Si procede a grandi falcate sul tecnico: "ha una produzione terrificante, puoi alzare il volume a mille ed il suono rimane pulito e poi le doppie voci, il sound della chitarra di Jani è più sporco e bello, i cambi di tempo ecc...
Ok, bravi tutti, mi avete quasi convinto. Peccato che le mie orecchie non siano d'accordo! Forse è meglio se mi fermo un attimo.
D: "Scusa, sei di queste parti? Che genere del cazzo è questo (cfr. alzo il volume e gli faccio ascoltare il singolo)??? Starei cercando Unia alias il sogno musicale, mi sai dire la strada? Scusami sai, ma mi sono perso all'incrocio tra power, metal. Qua in Finlandia è freddo e c'è la nebbia... Lo so benissimo che è un lavoro geniale (lo dicono tutti) e mi sento un po' in imbarazzo perché non mi era mai capitato di smarrire la strada in quanto ascolto questa musica da anni...
R: Beh è molto semplice ... continua ad ascoltarlo e vedrai che per sfinimento ti prenderà di sicuro prima o poi ed allora troverai la via ed il genere.
D: Grazie, molto gentile!
R: Prego.
Mi sembra che i Sonata in questo gigantesco sogno musicale siano riusciti in un'impresa titanica: sputtanare la loro onesta carriera di power metal band per virare verso un sound che non sa di nulla. Prog??? Ma per favore, non bestemmiamo!!! Ho sentito anche questo e mica crederete che una pausa, all'interno di un mid tempo, significhi prog ?? Heavy?? Naaa... troppo moscio, poco diretti e soporifero nel suo insieme.
Si direi che è proprio che è cagata ed ho freddo. Mi sa tanto di Cagata arctica.
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02 Paid in Full (04:24)
I was nowhere near ready when all it ended
So I hoped we could find a new day, cannot live without you
You gave me the chance, time and again, in vain
Now my feelings for you, every tear, every smile, paid in full
Break the chain, but no longer can I take the pain
It's hard for me to love myself right now,
I've waited, hated, blamed it all on you
Needed to be strong, yet I was always too weak
So I can only blame myself for this state we are in
I will take what you have for me now, if it's not too late
Did you change? I did too. Love can grow from the last grain
It's hard for me to love myself right now,
I've waited, hated, blamed it all on...
You...
I need you...less and less...
Every day feeds this moral decay
Yet I have grown to love you even more
I fall back, and I turn another cheek.
You mouth the words you're not ready to speak
You're scared of me now; no I never had a clue
That I'd become so much stronger than you.
I will take - what you have - for me now, if it's not too late
If you like, I will leave; I will not miss the last train again
It's hard for me to love myself right now,
I've waited, hated, blamed it all on you...
It's hard for me to love your face right now
I'm waiting, hating, needing being
Me...
I need you...less and less...
Every day leads us farther away...
From that moment
It's hard for me to hate myself right now
Finally I'm understanding me
One day we may have all new mes and yous
But first I need to learn to love me too....
03 For the Sake of Revenge (03:23)
We have been stuck in here a day
Seeking answers for all eternity
Or something
Hear the meaning speaking in me
Have faith in me, have faith in me
I cannot say that I am fine and
Take all you say at face value
I talk to you more than I have
Have faith in me, have faith in me
I've talked too much today
you don't trust me
So I keep on talking in every way
[Chorus]
Across the sea
I hear you calling me
For the sake of revenge you'll not let me
This ain't over
It's never over
Till the fat lady sings you love me
I am tired, yet I am swimming
You will not let go of me, you are drowning
As you're quietly pulling me under
We will never make it unless you let go
There's no crime
Yet I stand accused
And I see the solution naked before me
You reduced me to a weapon unlike you
Have faith in me, have faith in me
I cannot hear though I incline my ear
Why do I even try?
I've told you all about what I am
Have faith in me, have faith in me
I'm feeling weak today
Please don't crush me
I keep on walking far away
I keep on rolling all in vain
I'm feeling slow today
So don't rush me
We live this wretched serenade
You keep me playing anyway
[Chorus]
Across the sea
I hear you calling me
For the sake of revenge you'll not let me
This ain't over
It's never over
Till the fat lady sings you love me
I'm so tired, yet keep on swimming
You will not let go of me, you are drowning
Now you're quietly pulling me under
Oh, so quietly pulling me under
04 It Won't Fade (05:58)
You borrow the moment, betray your own heavens
The darkness is thickening, breathing gets harder
The balance is off, some take more than give back,
the attitude, ignorance, proved to be fatal
for that tiny spark that led our way
you poisoned the air, should you stay away, hence
Wish to be one of us, follow the trail
Take the time offered, don't toss it away
Requesting no trial, defendant is guilty
and we are the judges and sentence the jury
to pay for forgiveness with silent contentment
Stand in the line with the rest of us
We cannot carry you further today
hear what you don't say, thus help... in any way
Need you to learn how to cry without darkness
Face like the others the pain that is harmless
Feel the world has let you down
somehow, we cannot see this
Have to bear the winterburn
You can only wait, if it will fade with time
Secrecy, silence, a stench of treason
the glow of the darkness, you brought in the daylight
The cure will not kill you, there's no such mercy.
rules of the nature are fair and cruel...
we cannot wait for you, for limbo, forever
don't make us walk away, packs stay together
Fear would be justified. Will be there soon.
The things that you do will infect us too
Feel the world has let you down
somehow, we cannot see this
Have to bear the winterburn
You can only wait, if it will fade with time
Where's your trust, where's your heart, where's your soul?
Who's your friend? Who'll be there in the end?
Who do you call a friend...
should we start to bewail?
a lot of things are changing
and re-arranging
I have to say I saw it coming
yet did nothing...
In the darkest of times
B.o.B's earn the right for the name
Not all shared the idea to give you the chance to
fail us again, to bite off
the feeding hand...
counting one, two...see?
odds defying the gravity...
we'll move along, well fed puppy...
you are too confident and careless to cut it
had no rules, that is to change
or you'll forever run alone
but you never will, the little child of the wild
you've got a skin, gray coat, they hate
no, you cannot hide behind your glowing eyes
you bear the sign and it won't fade
Feel the world has let you down
somehow, we cannot see this
Have to bear the winterburn
You can only wait if it will fade with time
It won't fade
05 Under Your Tree (05:14)
The leaves they fall
Upon the day that makes a memory
Those bleeding eyes
They call me silently in (?)
The final night
I guard her sleep
I can't do without
The fears down deep
There's nothing good in this mourning
Oh, and I know
(?) feelings in the one I would out last
My little friend is getting tired
Fading last
Did not want to see the signs of the dimming flame
I need to help or die
Tonight I fear I'll say goodbye to my little friend
Don't want to let you down
The warmest heart I found
I (lower) into the ground
My tears forever with you
Resting under your tree
You have always loved this place
It now belongs to you
I need to set you free
And go all alone
One day in my feeble (?)
You gave me your heart
And stole my heart
And knowledge came too fast for me
To hear yours (close) I (meant) goodbye
The kindest heart I found
I (lower) into the ground
Your smile kept me alive
Back (when) the skies (were still)
You always liked this place
Now sleep under the tree
I planted here the day [that you were born]
I should have been (ready, seen the need in the air)
My little old friend I tried
(a way to want) to let you (go)
The day I had to say goodbye and turn (?)
But I never left though
06 Caleb (06:16)
His mother came up with such a clever way to save the day with a little white lie. He thinks he missed the point back then, but now he's grown to understand it, in a way. "Father said "I'm sorry" only once, as I remember" "The words were not meant to hurt, only destroy you, my stupid son..." One person can make a difference, sometimes... Just turn his head when the kid is still and has a weak neck. Smiled at his funeral, "happy you're dead." All his solutions, it seemed, were only problems in disguise Glueing on his drinkin� face, got ready to erase another day... Mother was yet confident, although they had it tight, taught her son At the end of every tunnel�s a little light. It wasn't a lie, it was her hope, that everything would be fine one day "He can fulfill his every dream, I�m happy as long as he�s not." "I hate it and fear can't face it the child is not right, he's my greatest shame Go out, create thunder, and stand right under That old apple tree Where dead snakes let him feed on those Lost hopes, all those kind words could hurt him even more, now Somehow, lost one more way back home Out on the lake, he rows towards a monster he should�ve been running away from, years ago. The past had made him blind to the way he�d turned the pain into a way of life. Followed his father, tucked him in, Caleb knows the trade. He�s the portrait of a man his mother drew to hate forever. She was a beast, a deadly saint, wrong in many ways Wanted to keep up the charade, until the end waltzing together Over the hills, under the sea, Fighting the will, whole Universe Why does a man driving a hearse Live in fear, Gift and a Curse Taking �em out, taking �em all, Shooting the wall, over and out When nothing moves, all�s well, A decision he can find a way to live with ...and dried up flowers are so beautiful. And it applies to all things living, and dead. For that I serve my time... in my suite in Hell. "Now I ring the bell to tell the world, I'm ready when they bring out the soon to be dead against the wall ..." oo-oo-ooo This necessary evil has no heart ooo-oo-ooo Flowers and people he will now enlace A price he must pay serving a cold ...whatevergod.
07 The Vice (04:08)
Number nine out of eleven little littermates
Rotten apples, all the way...
Littermates, all with different fates...
Taught them almost all I knew
and now, the best, the primus
Number Nine of eleven little littermates,
feeling almighty,
is after my throne.
In the bright daylight, little Number Nine
Dressed to kill, much like me
Takes a look at the free world behind the gate
Of a castle and escapes.
I leave the baits, the night awaits
Snare well hidden for the littermate.
Evaded all but one, one by one.
Eleven little littermates
Annihilate.
Only Number Nine's not in sight...
Hiding, for the moonlight eats the day
Kisses burn the paperthin wings away
If you hate me, hate me, if they want you to break me
Love – is – for - the weak
And the restless, relief in the end.
A broken lock and a twisted dream
for an early tomb, destiny's overruled
Trailed it back to the Pagan Cathedral."
Don´t love me, don´t you dare!
I lie, I cheat and I don´t care
Don't you go telling me tales about fidelity.
truth ain't safe with me
In (sane), in (pain)
Ran into a needle
I (love), I (hate)
don´t need anyone
Lights (on), Lights (out)
read it loud and clear...
and hear the lion roar.
without my eyes, they failed me,
knots untied.
I turned my weakness into a
fine profession
more I hear, more I see
I can feel
the path I choose
What I did was a must,
Faced the music, away from the light, alone...
Without a view.
Someone thought to know me well
Drowned me in a wishing well...
Making mistakes, we all do,
Worst of mine was trusting in a stranger.
For now I'm feeling fine
Drank poison, liked the sign
Now touch the greatest fear
Impaired, to look sincere.
One step behind you, turn around and I am gone with what I need.
The essense of timely death, cold and dark, Loveless Heart.
09 The Harvest (04:18)
The weight of days on me....
I am done.
The corn is burning under my feet
The words like circles and
I'm waiting for someone to catch my fall
in the deepest void of all
Haven't seen you in weeks
No clouds in the sky to rain me a drop
loving touch I need
and I am killing time by the lake
diving off the cliff, many times
scarring myself, colliding
on the lake bed so dry....
The world's without virginity
And souls have no intergrity
The Word of grave old danger -Love,
It's all I'm after, oh
I am done...
The ground's not shaking under my feet
The World's not turning anymore
Wind is a thief, lonelier than me
and it - does - not - want - me - in here...
plant a Flower of Love, care for it, water it,
Lounge in the shade of the stale champagne
A flower so fatal, yet beautiful
Showed the Bee where to fly
and then let it die
The world's without virginity
The souls have no intergrity
The Word of grave old danger -Love,
It's all I'm after, oh
I am done...
Bring me to recovery
give it to me, I'm after tranquillity
I somehow lost my line of sight
Before I cast the final die...
Once planted plastic grapes,
The harvest of a lifetime,
Real bad wine.
The sum of false virginity
and my lost integrity
The Word of grave old danger -Love,
For you I'm after, oh
I am done
The world without virginity
A soul with no integrity
The Word of grave old danger -Love,
Bring me to recovery
give it to me, I'm after tranquillity
I somehow lost my line of sight
Before I cast the final die...
Once planted plastic grapes,
The harvest of a lifetime,
Real bad wine.
The ground is shaking under my feet
The World is turning,
and the
Wind has a friend in Misery,
but I know - she - only - loves - me...
10 The Worlds Forgotten, the Words Forbidden (02:57)
The world's forgotten, the word's forbidden
If you were my child
I'd carry you away
I'd travel through time
Before silence was born
No hope for the child
This world has gone bad
When when's today
The machines say
What is a man to do?
No light, only suffocating dark
Deep, burning pain
I'm losing everything I am
Remember nothing of my past
Now it's all gone
And I fear the game is over
Save me, save me, save me
Take me away, away from this time
But where lies my home?
My grass isn't green
My sky isn't blue
The river runs dry
My flower has died
This isn't my home
I follow the moon to find the path
Away from the scorching sun
I follow the stars to my abode
It's burning
I seize the moment to hear the story
No one's telling anymore
The world's forgotten, the word's forbidden
I follow the moon to find the path
Away from the scorching sun
I follow the stars to my abode
It's burning
I seize the moment to hear the story
No one's telling anymore
The world's forgotten, the word's forbidden
Se possivel, alguem corrija por favor
12 Good Enough Is Good Enough (05:31)
It was not hard
Choose all the words that I should
Put in your mouth
In my own play of shadows
Between lines, word for word, honey
See who I am
Out where nothing's forgiven
A small yet very loud part of me is still screaming after you
[Chorus]
Good enough was good enough for me
As it should always be
You broke my heart when it was weak
Guess you were not meant for me
I had a dream
You broke with your twisted ways
Still leaving me
Please, take your time but go away
Don't flash that light anymore, Honey
The seasons change
I was the summer to your heart
The winter lured you away more than once, now I know I am free
[Chorus]
Good enough was good enough for me
As it should always be
You broke my heart and still I grieve
How can you be over me?
I always thought we'd made it
Found a way to live together
You saved the best for last and now it's too late
I count the hours of the day that seems to last forever
Words through the door
A glance from a broken window
I found your key from the floor
and my heart, suddenly, cut off clean
[Chorus]
Good enough was good enough for me
As it should always be
You broke my heart and still I grieve
How can you be over me?
[Chorus]
Good enough was good enough for me
As it should always be
You spread a tale of lies about me
And I believed it
My heart's got a leak.
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Di Anatas
"Unia è un viaggio introspettivo e dinamico attraverso song sorrette da perfetti muri sonori e riff concatenati."
"Il cantante preferisce cantare con voce mascolina, a volte morbida e il più delle volte incazzata e dura."
