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Debut album for Carl Mc Coy's combo. We are in 1987. Elements, not even too veiled, that recall the sound material contained in the EPs "Burning The Fields" and "Returning To Gehenna." However, to all of this, we must add some hard rock 'n' roll Mothoread-style, powerful vocals and notes that owe much to the Sisters of Mercy. No less interesting are the Morricone-like elements (which made these cowboys' fortune) and a distinctly psychedelic imprint.
The founding fathers of gothic metal? Too simple and hasty to answer this question affirmatively! Mc Coy's beastly vocals, at some points, do resemble certain grunts very common in extreme metal, but the music, in particular, is still distant from certain riffs and distortions. Even the solos, very few to be honest, are quite different from those of various "heavy" bands of the time. Certainly, without them, various Moonspell, Tiamat, and Paradise Lost would be somewhat different from how they, for better or worse, expressed and presented themselves during the tumultuous '90s.
If the Sisters Of Mercy were still treading gothic and "wave" grounds, ours, with style and personality, were seeking a point of conjunction between darkness and "hard" music.
As if that weren't enough, Mc Coy & company loved (and still love!) to narrate morbid and disturbing stories. A strong interest in Aleister Crowley's thought, in esotericism, and in now forgotten cults. Unusual and brilliant guys! I write this despite the current disinterest I hold for the project in question. Unfortunately, one cannot be eternally faithful to all bands!
The songs that stand out the most on this release are the epic "Slow Kill", the angry "Preacher Man", the haunting and sleepwalking "Volcane (Mr. Jealousy Has Returned)", the long and captivating "Vet for the insane", the rock 'n' roll of "Reanimator", and the macabre slowness of the title track.
Even "Laura II" isn't bad at all! But, until proven otherwise, I prefer the version contained in the debut EP.
An excellent debut followed, in my opinion, by a fluctuating second chapter. The first phase of the group, which reformed a few years ago, concludes with an excellent epitaph. I am talking about the extraordinary and magical "Elizium." But others have already described it.
It may not be a revolutionary group, but it's certainly a group that knows how to entertain and transport listeners... into darkness and mystery!
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
02 Slow Kill (03:45)
Don't cry on the bridge of starving
So cold, first light
Up here on the bridge of night
Forsake me but listen
So lonely
So lonely
So lonely
For what
Up here on the bridge of night
To fall it would be so nice
Chase this misery out of this town
Bury my face into the ground
Now jump
Now jump
Jump
Into a smile mesmerised
She wants you
She wants you
Up here I can see for miles
Such a fire as burns inside
I'm up here because I wanted to die
I'm up here like a dying messiah
I'm up here because I wanted to die
I'm up here
I lie here
The pain
Don't cry
Now jump
Now jump
Jump
04 Preacher Man (04:53)
Well he talks in confusion
and he faults your point of view
You talk about his apparition
and he talks
hear him laughing at you
Contamination and radiation
Let it crawl while the city sleeps
Your turn to lay for bait for a while
Now you're melting through your burning fields
and all my people say oh
Stop!
When he talks
connected scars reopen
A thousand fingers
reach out for you
We don't feel no contamination
We don't feel no contamination
We don't feel no contamination
We don't feel no contamination
Oh keep talking
You're a hunter I'm a wolf
Yeah keep talking
I'm the preacher you're a fool
Contamination and radiation
Let it crawl while the city sleeps
Your turn to lay for bait for a while
Now you're melting through your burning fields
That's when my people say oh
We don't feel no contamination
Radiation, contamination
Radiation, contamination
Radiation, contamination
Radiation
05 Volcane (Mr. Jealousy Has Returned) (05:04)
Mr. Jealousy has returned
Yearning, yearning
Mr. Jealousy has returned to reality
All secured by humanity
You're living in danger
Mr. Jealousy has returned your hurting me
Can't you see?
Our love is in danger
Living inside her this love volcane
Now burn inside her this love volcane
Living inside her this love volcane
Now burn inside her this love volcane
Mr. Jealousy has returned
Mr. Jealousy has returned
Living inside her
Now burn inside her
Volcane...
Walk on...
Volcane, Volcane, Volcane
Yearning...
06 Vet for the Insane (07:03)
Disheartening dreams
For tonight
Relax
Just try to sleep
Relax, relax...
You've got to hold to your past
So bad, so bad...
I'm gonna pull you all to pieces
So sad, so sad...
Flowers in your kitchen
They weep for you
I'm gonna shred them all to pieces
Like I did to you
Relax, relax...
Relax, relax...
I want to go home
In this asylum I cry for you
I want to go home
Look what you've put me through
Put me through
The wolves gather round
To a droning sound
Like the hunter that's beat
What am I here for?
Relax, relax...
Relax, relax...
I want to go home
What am I here for?
I want to go home
Help me
I want to go home
07 Secrets (03:37)
He rides on the crest of a wave
his anger running out
he acts as if the same way
as I ride across town to town
I forgive you follow me
I forgive you follow me
I forgive you follow me
I'll forgive you
I'll forgive you
I've seen the hardest men fall
I've seen them crawl
secrets I know where noone can find them
behind the darkened door
I can feel what she wants me to be
I can see the movements she'll make
'cause
I can see
I can see
I can see
I can see
I can see
I can see
I've seen harder men fall
I've seen them crawl
secrets I know where noone can find them
behind the darkened door
darkened door
darkened door
darkened door
I forgive you follow me
I forgive you follow me
I forgive you follow me
I'll forgive...
I've seen harder men fall
I've seen them crawl
secrets I know where noone can find them
behind the darkened door
the darkened door
the darkened door
the darkened door
08 Dust (04:22)
Blood, want to wash away
Got to heat this love
As she breaks
Dust
We fade the scene
Gotta reason in peace Now explain
Feelings go on and on
The killing is all in my name
The rhythm of life is all too strong
To get back
Come down
Riding on a train
In this swirling pool
of blood and brains
Well that's fate
My mind is made
09 Reanimator (02:58)
Pain, we are transforming
With your daughters underground
Pain, we look like sisters
Caught up in a landslide
Falling down
Too far you can't feel it
Too far you can't reach it
Too far
Reanimator
Reanimator now
Reanimator
Reanimator now
Pain, entranced by fire
Your world stinks
Your world stinks of you
Pain
The world's unwired
Your mind burns
Your mind burns on through
Too far you can't feel it
Too far you can't reach it
Too far
Too far
Reanimator
Reanimator now
Reanimator
Reanimator now
10 Power (04:39)
Power...
power feeds you long,
loving hours
I can give everlasting power
Flower...
the world opens
you need simple flower
A feeling, a feeling all so sour
Drain me, now drain me
from power
Drain me, now drain me
from power.
Oh, the wide open stench of all - so sour.
I can't give, but I recieve for hours
oh...
Drain me, now drain me
from power
Drain me, now drain me
from power.
Drain it - static from the attic,
attic walls...
Oh...
Drain me, now drain me
from power
Drain me, now drain me
from power.
Drain it - static from the attic,
attic walls...
A power, so somatic
See the heart is burning -
I call it static
(attic walls...)
I need static
so charismatic
You're so tragic -
my love's so manic
(attic walls...)
I have the power
use it, frantic
your body's turned -
I'm systematic
(attic walls...)
See my touch,
Those who cower
drain me of
my breathing hours
(attic walls...)
11 The Tower (05:41)
She lifts the flowers from the window box
Summer's fouled now winter flocks
She lifts her veil to the morning rain
Wipes her eyes to the summer again
Pearls of dew shimmer on her face
Cut inside she would dream to taste
She knocks her flowers from the window side
They fall to the ground they fall to the ground
Hide away from the raging sun
You hide your love from the fire beyond
Now the woman in an aging form
She's tangled in the bushes tall
Cowering down with head in hands
She cries out loud, she cries out loud
"Seems so cold, it seems so cold tonight.
Seems so cold, seems so cold tonight"
Hide away from the raging sun
You hide your love from the fire beyond
She can't see visions of this force below
Freezes her life through (garbled "in a joke" ???)
She heads to the voice of this rainy day
And it cries like a choir in her mind to stay
It's "Sister hold now, hold now, hold your head
Dream a cloud put out the fire which is your bed!"
She then danced through the kitchen through the force below
And it cries "How fun! But oh so slow..."
Just living, like a dreamless child with hatred
Just living, like a dreamless child with hatred
She's never been quite as cut by life before,
Never been cut by way of life before
Hide away from the raging sun,
You hide your love from the fire beyond
She can't see visions of this force below
Freezes her life through... (garbled "in a joke" ???)
She heads to the voice of this rainy day
It cries like a choir in her mind "Just stay!"
"Sister hold now, hold now, hold your head
Dream a cloud put out the fire which is your bed"
She then danced through the kitchen through the force below
And it cries "Now fun! but oh so slow... but oh so slow... but oh so slow... but oh so slow..."
12 Dawnrazor (07:10)
Cutting razors and violence
Recalling cutthroats razor sin
Ee're watching heaven as the sun goes down
I watch the sun burst it hits the ground
You've gone too far
Dawnrazor's falling brush their skin
Dawnrazor's falling brush their skin
Dawnrazor
Dawnrazor well now
Dawnrazor
Dawnrazor well now
Only dreams survive
Been lost before
Only dreams survive
Been cut before
Cutting razors and violence
Recalling cutthroats razor sin
You've gone to far
Dawnrazor's falling brush their skin
Dawnrazor's falling brush their skin
Dawnrazor's falling brush their skin
Our dark angel has fallen brush their skin
13 The Sequel (03:16)
Well, I'm back...
What do you cry for?
When I'm dead,
will you cry more?
Well, I'm back...
what do you cry for?
When I'm dead,
will you cry more?
This has been a sequel
this is how the sequel ends
this has been a sequel
this is how the sequel ends...
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