E' interessante constatare l'evoluzione musicale e concettuale di una band. Prendete i Therion per esempio. Ora fanno un tipo di musica ricercato e molto personale, con tematiche che spaziano dall'esoterismo alla cabala, per finire con la filosofia. Una volta la loro musica, i loro testi erano completamente diversi. Un death metal puro e devastante fatto di riff maciullanti e continui, conditi da un growl profondo. Le lyrics invece trattano i più svariati temi:le multinazionali, la povertà, la guerra, le droghe, lo sfruttamento, i diritti umani. Tematiche che poco o nulla hanno a che fare con la concezione odierna di death metal.
La band, composta da quattro membri, vede alla voce il diciottenne Christopher Johnsson. Of Darkness rispecchia proprio la giovane età dei ragazzi:composizioni abbastanza lineari, lontanissime da ciò che verrà fatto in futuro, lyrics semplici. Proprio nella musica del platter troviamo la forza ma allo stesso tempo i punti deboli dell'album:composizioni certamente di valore con riff variegati e di assoluta pesantezza ma un po' troppo simili a loro stessi. Songs abbastanza uguali tra loro, nonostante una mostruosa attitudine distruttiva, con un imperioso drumming in primo piano.
Song come la cavernosa "A suburb to hell" o altre come "Asphyxiate with fear" e "Morbid reality", sebbene musicalmente impeccabili, danno un senso di staticità che finisce con il diventare mancanza d'idee. Of darkness è quindi un album di debutto un po' a se, completamente fuori campo rispetto a quello che odiernamente suona una delle maggiori band nel panorama symphonic mondiale.
Of darkness è ottima tecnica, sonorità possenti e growl abissale. Nulla più, nulla meno.
Da quì in poi, nonostante altri lavori in parte ancora decisamente legati al death (come i successivi "Beyond sanctorum" e in maniera minore "Symphony masses") i Therion evolveranno la loro musica e in generale la loro proposta artistica album dopo album, fino a generare capolavori di bellezza assoluta.
1. "The Return" (5:13)
2. "Asphyxiate With Fear" (4:00)
3. "Morbid Reality" (6:05)
4. "Megalomania" (4:10)
5. "A Suburb To Hell" (4:47)
6. "Genocidal Raids" (5:15)
7. "Time Shall Tell" (5:07)
8. "Dark Eternity" (4:49)
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01 The Return (05:15)
Strike at mother earth
No one will survive
Kill the human race
With radioactive air
Egregios disfiguring
Drubbing the earth
Edacious dynasty's denaturalise
Comminutes the nature
When come the return
Of a clean nature?
Without all the weapons
Without war and pain
Egregios disfiguring
Drubbing the earth
Edacious dynasty's denaturalise
Comminutes the nature
Will it ever come?
Or must we die
In a holocaust
Or in a poisoned world
Egregios disfiguring
Drubbing the earth
Edacious dynasty's denaturalise
Comminutes the nature
Death !!!
02 Asphyxiate With Fear (04:00)
The amazon
Is attacked
Jungles killed
Support no air
Coca Cola
Burns the woods
And plants fruit trees
To serve you drinks
Multinational corporations
That's what It's all about
To making money and feed their a--
That is the reason why
Suffercation
We all die
Burn the woods
And kill the air
Mutilation
Of the air
Devastation
And despair
God
Don't
Let
Us
Die
McDonalds
Feed their cows
With out children's
Lives
Ten years past
All are dead
Trees are gone
And so all life
03 Morbid Reality (06:05)
Oppression in your country takes you
Soon they will be able to rule you too
Onslaught from the east will come soon
Mesmerized you think it's a boon
You will be sacrificed
Clammy dungeons await
Addle in underground
Killed by your own choice
Delirium
Echants you
You are lost
In a pandemonium
Morbid way of life
Gory alliance
Asphyxiating lies has come true
Now they will be coming after you
Malady will step into your mind
You'll become a hypocondriac
Dynasty come to demise
Depauperise is here
Enchain the betrayals
The obituary's done
Delirium
Echants you
You are lost
In a pandemonium
Morbid way of life
Gory alliance
04 Megalomania (04:11)
The gods of war
Seeking madness
To massacre mankind
We all die
We are saying
Declare war
But no one won
An endless struggle for power
A lonely dynasty
Looks through the battlefield
Thinking of the lost souls
He has sent to death
Holyness exists no longer
No pain in his face
Bodys lies unburied
They rest in disgrace
war
A parasite that kills the human race
Fear of death
But we Live through world wide hate
Why must ee die
Is there nothing else but pain
Have we lost the hope
Of a world where freedom reigns
The gods of war
Seeking madness
To massacre mankind
We all die
We are saying
Declare war
But no one won
An endless struggle for power
05 A Suburb to Hell (04:47)
Death is near
Need the drugs
Poisoned blood
Transfuse death
Toxaemia
Transfix the veins
Overdose
By a shot
Makes you dead
A funeral
When no one cries
You're left alone
Land of the dead
Has taken your soul
Eradiates
Your moribund fate
Exonerate your head
Start to live a life
Erroneus erudition
Is left behind
Purgatorial blood in the chest
The epitaph describes a natural death
The trepidation stopped long ago
Got a real job forgot the past
Drugs can change a life
To an inner devastation
Drugs can make you high
But also make you dead
Death is near
Need the drugs
Poisoned blood
Transfuse death
Toxaemia
Transfix the veins
Overdose
By a shot
Makes you dead
A funeral
When no one cries
You're left alone
Land of the dead
Has taken your soul
Eradiates
06 Genocidal Raids (05:15)
Nascency of evil
Money genuflect
Inner mind excresence
Depraving object
Dollar paranoia
Dominance of hate
Enchanting like a drug
They need it desperate
Genocidal raids
They have praised the Oath
In Unitied States
Now they sell death
And they will die
Why buy death?
Die a certain death
Why
Must we take this hell?
Lunacy
Of the human race
Some are starved
Others live in galore
Just ain't right
That some are getting pittance
Carrion of a dog lying dead
Disembowl this animal eat the flesh
They're coming in the night
And they have to fight
About a piece of offal
That's the feral world
Eat the flesh and get sick, see the dead
Fatal life slips away get no help
They're coming in the night
And they have to fight
About a piece of offal
That's the feral world
Multinational
In South Africa
Give oppression gold
Help them blast the Black
Then you will die
Why buy death?
Why?
07 Time Shall Tell (05:07)
Death
Evicerate a child
Violence evokation
Insousiance of life
Face the truth
Governments is shit
In all countries
What shall we vote?
Violence in the streets
Violence everywhere
When shall you die?
Heaven or hell
Time shall tell
Everything's controlled
Except for the violence
Demented by blood
Betrayer of life
Abrogations of the laws
Aberrations
Filled with gore
Earth shall die
On satans altar
A fading cry
From the lessers
Torment
Til the end
Glory
Will descend
08 Dark Eternity (04:45)
Human rights
Has been lost
Inside the walls
Rules the pain
Prisoners
Live like swine
Working slaves
For the guards
Fading screams descends
Killing rape and death
Is part of their lives
They cannot appear
Without the violence
In darkness
Eternal
Fighter, rider of the human rights
The killing decision is coming from behind
Disinter the background of this obscene hell
Discover the fear, the sickness and the death
Slough of despond
Deny the human rights
Killing is a joy
No - it will never stop
Dark eternity
Human rights
Has been lost
Inside the walls
Rules the pain
Prisoners
Live like swine
Working slaves
For the guards
Fading screams descends
Killing rape and death
Is part of their lives
They cannot appear
Without the violence
In darkness
Eternal
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