the green manalishi

do not wander

I know, strabravi!

A great album, I grabbed it on the fly. Here too, as in the first album Space Metal, all the songs are based on movies or TV shows, this time not space-related, but that hypothesize the future downfall of humanity:
* Digital Rain - Matrix
* Earth That Was - Firefly / Serenity
* Victim of the Modern Age - A Clockwork Orange
* Human See, Human Do - Planet of the Apes
* 24 Hours - 1997: Escape from New York
* Cassandra Complex - 12 Monkeys
* It's Alive, She's Alive, We're Alive - Children of Men
* It All Ends Here - Blade Runner
* As the Crow Dies - The Road
* Two Plus Two Equals Five - 1984
* Lastday - Logan's Run
* Closer to the Stars - Gattaca
The sound is definitely much darker compared to the first album, but it is in no way comparable to last year's mediocre album by the side project Guilt Machine. I like that Lucassen hasn't changed the lineup from the first album of this project. And then that use of the synth along with the heavy guitars is amazing.
Among them all, the standout tracks are Digital Rain, 24 Hours, the title track, Closer to the Stars, and Cassandra Complex. They should release similar albums more often, damn it!

Well, honestly I didn't find them great books.

What a great great great great album! The only one I've never liked as much is Hats Off To (Roy) Harper, but aside from that, from Immigrant Song to Gallow's Pole, from That's The Way a Tangerine, I've always adored it!

I used to watch him on Mai dire tv as a youngster; if I’m not mistaken, it was the closing theme.

What a great great great great album! The only one I've never liked as much is Hats Off To (Roy) Harper, but aside from that, from Immigrant Song to Gallow's Pole, from That's The Way a Tangerine, I've always adored it!

I just finished reading it: mixed feelings. On one hand, for how it is written (Joyce is a master) and for what the stories represent, it is a wonderful book. In particular, I find "The Dead" magnificent, a synthesis and summa of Joyce's denunciation of a static Ireland, incapable of reacting, steeped in religious devotion and preferring to drown all its problems in a glass of whiskey rather than facing them. Death, as the reviewer rightly says, is the common thread in almost all the stories. On the other hand, as noted in comment 37, in terms of mere reading and literary delight, some stories truly have a weak ending, or lack one entirely, becoming ends in themselves (such as "After the Race," "An Encounter," or even the much-praised "The Sisters"), turning into “little tales” and nothing more. While it is a work of certain importance, this oscillation does not render it, in my humble opinion, a literary peak.

nothing short of unsettling

what a nice review, I will listen to it as soon as possible