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Ho comprato un cd degli HIM? ...mmmm... no, c'è scritto Sentenced, anche sul cd c'è scritto Sentenced... Il cantante poi non è figo quindi non sono gli HIM.
Però a parte gli scherzi bisogna dire che i Sentenced dai gloriosi esordi death/black di North From Here e da quel capolavoro di Amok e soprattutto dalle prestazioni vocali di Tanel Jarva ne hanno fatti molti di cambiamenti.
Intanto se non sopportate gli HIM e il loro "love metal" (brrrrrr... vengono i brividi solo a scriverlo) andate a leggere qualcos'altro perché questo cd non fa per voi.
Melodie zuccherose che non sfigurerebbero su MTV allora? Sí, ma con qualche eccezione. Intanto nota di merito per la splendida confezione digipack/cartonata in edizione limitata che potrebbe almeno arricchire con un po' di eleganza la fila di cd che avete sul comodino pur non avendo alcun ruolo pratico dato che lo ascolterete sí e no cinque volte.
Se nei precedenti album, senza bisogno di scomodare Amok ma riferendoci solamente ai precedenti dell'era Ville Laihiala (voce) ovvero Frozen e Crimson, il feeling era sicuramente dark-oriented con melodie oscure, deprimenti e quant'altro ci si potrebbe aspettare da una band che è uno dei piloni del gothic made in Finland qui tutto è più ruffiano, anche le idee più innovative e geniali sono soffocate da una tale quantità di rock/gothic melenso e sdolcinato che di sicuro non dispiacerà a tante giovani amanti di questo genere.
Le eccezioni riguardano principalmente una manciata di canzoni che si discostano lievemente dal trend generale dell'album: Excuse While I'm Killing Myself che ha fondamentalmente il compito di risvegliarci dal coma in cui saremo sprofondati dopo le prime cinque tracce, The Luxury Of A Grave che ha più o meno lo scopo della sopraccitata solo con la differenza che è ancora più aggressiva e del resto deve esserlo perché se saremo arrivati tutto d'un fiato alla fine del cd meritiamo un bel premio.
L’ultima gemma è You Are The One che nonostante sia poco più che una melensa ballad rock/gothic riesce a coinvolgere soprattutto nel bellissimo chorus dove finalmente le chitarre esplodono con una vitalità e una freschezza che durante il resto del cd ce la sogniamo tranquillamente.
"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 ;)
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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 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."
Di fenriz87
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.
