Morlocks
Submerged Alive

LA RECENSIONE

Come and descend the staircase to hell, without heeding the miasmas rising from the slums, without fear of contamination, because you are not like the others if you go down those shaky steps.
Come and enter without hesitation, there's a place for you too.
It doesn't matter who you are, who possesses you, or what you possess.
Descend because you are a failure no matter what you do, you always lack that damned ace to break the bank at the poker table and ruin the smiling bastard sitting across from you.
You enter because you want to hurt yourself, tear your clothes, wound your flesh, dance, get overwhelmed until you collapse lifeless at the feet of the celebrant who vomits his malaise, his hatred upon you.
Leighton is waiting for you, seated at Lucifer's right hand.
When the gate closes behind you, Leighton angrily pushes away the syringe, rises, and with exasperating slowness moves to the center of the scene, flanked by three satanic figures worthy of him.
Buried alive, them, you, everyone.
Let the ceremony begin...
Slow, dark, two drumbeats, the malignant guitar; Leighton spits venom and bile and pushes that woman out of his life, and you can't believe that's Allen Toussaint, because you don't know Allen Toussaint; you've come down just for Leighton and Leighton repays you with emotions filled with disease.
It's not enough for you, Leighton looks into your eyes and understands it and doubles the dose of hallucination.
Here's Mick introducing you to Satan, here's Iggy pushing you to prostration, the lost gaze.
Welcome to hell.
Let the ceremony continue...
Leighton gives you his nightmares, compressed in a black box.
Leighton faces the demons, resists, and you resist with him.
Let the ceremony end...
The gate opens behind you, leave hell, climb the stairs and return to the world.
It's another day of punches in the face, you're a loser and you like being one, you do the impossible to be one.
But whoever claims hell is a good place to live has never been to hell.
Leighton is dead, has descended to hell, and has risen from it. He continues to celebrate his rites but a ceremony like «Submerged Alive» he will never officiate again.