Ne è passata di acqua sotto i ponti dagli albori black. Questo album segna la definitiva consacrazione dei Tiamat come uno dei maggiori esponenti del Gothic Rock attuale. Non lasciatevi trarre in inganno dal nome dell'album, Edlund e soci, infatti, oltre ad abbandonare le atmosfere black degli esordi hanno anche definitivamente messo da parte la recrudescenza antireligiosa, ed anticristiana in particolare, raddrizzando un po' il tiro e spostando le loro invettive nei confronti della chiesa come istituzione, a loro dire, creata dagli uomini a discapito di altri uomini.
Tralasciando la filosofia di Johan Edlund, mente e singer dei Tiamat, musicalmente, a mio parere, i Tiamat con questo "Judas Christ" sono giunti alla piena maturazione. La novità rispetto ai dischi precedenti è che, dall'ascolto, traspare un'aria complessivamente più positiva e fresca sia dal punto di vista musicale che dei testi. Le sonorità decadenti non sono state completamente abbandonate e trovano campo in canzoni come "The Return of the Son of Nothing" e "So Much For Suicide". I picchi di quest'album, a parere di chi vi scrive, sono tuttavia da ricercare in quelle songs da cui emerge il nuovo corso dei Tiamat e cioè nella hit "Vote For Love", scritta dallo stesso Edlund per lasciare ai posteri un'immagine positiva di sè stesso, in "Angel Holograms" dal riff cadenzato e deciso, "Spine" e in "I am in Love With Myself", canzoni in cui eccelle il timbro vocale di Edlund (molto somigliante a quello di Andrew Eldritch). L'album si chiude con due splendide ballad, "Heaven Of High" e "Too Far Gone", songs molto dolci e scanzonate.
In conclusione un ottimo album per chi, come il sottoscritto, sente la mancanza di gruppi come i Sisters of Mercy, di cui, a mio modesto parere, i Tiamat sono i più degni successori.
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01 The Return of the Son of Nothing (04:58)
The warrior went back to Rome
The nomads settled for solid homes
The crusader returned to heathen
The snake searched for garden of Eden
The manikin went back in her cocoon
And NASA flew back to the moon
The great white returned to the coral reef
As the geisha stepped up on a water lily leaf
Everything was like before
And the pharaohs killed the first born son
Good lord Jesus Christ went back to his whore
The whore went back to Babylon
The pope went back on the dole
And Santa flew back to the northpole
Judas went back to Nazareth
And the president back in his jet
The raven flew back to Hades
And the shemales went back to the eighties
The dandy went back to Perth
And the dead went straight back to birth
02 So Much for Suicide (04:22)
We've been soaked in acid
always praised the downfall
the sound of cadent wings
it's a wonder we're standing tall
but in the truth of the morning glory
and the fear in our wishing well
we're on to another story
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
We are white zombies
chained to our own demise
decades of sleepwalking
no light's shining in out eyes
we've painted all doors bible black
Wir haben niemals kampflos aufgegeben
If there's light we'll claim it back
Time to clime it back....
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
03 Vote for Love (04:49)
We've been soaked in acid
Always praised the downfall
With the sound of cadent wings
It's a wonder we're standing tall
But in the truth of the morning glory
And the fear in our wishing well
We're on to another story
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
We are white zombies
Chained to our own demise
Decades of sleepwalking
No light's shining in out eyes
We've painted all doors bible black
Wir haben niemals kampflos aufgegeben
If there's light we'll claim it back
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
It's about time we all get out and vote for love
Time to claim it back
Time to claim it back
05 Fireflower (03:46)
You're only but so is the desolate one
You're drowning but so was the first born son
I'll soak you in fire, fill your black holes
And free your soul
Always cold outside
And it's freezing inside
Into the fire we ride
A shortcut out of the white
Until we're stitched to the night
Our faith our light
You're standing still but spinning around the sun
You're flying with your feet still on the ground
You're pray in this world, it's eating you
And that's what I'll do
12 Too Far Gone (04:50)
I've been through all of this a million times before
seems all my demons got me knocking on hell's door
I know it's too late to regret what I have done
but I still love you like the morning loves the sun
Too far gone to see the light
and I will never ever leave this place alive...
Too far gone to see the light
no I will never ever leave this place alive...
I guess it's fair to say that this round is on me
caribbean blue has turned to blackest misery
I've put a velvet cloth on everything we've done
but I still love you like a bullet loves the gun
Too far gone to see the light
and I will never ever leave this place alive...
Too far gone to see the light
and I will never ever leave this place alive...
Too far gone to see the light
and I will never ever leave this place alive...
Too far gone to see the light
no I will never ever leave this place alive...
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