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Rating: After the bold experiments carried out on the previous "34.788%... Complete" in 1999, My Dying Bride takes a step back, and the much-anticipated return to the band’s typical sound is realized with this THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE WORLD, opened by a dark, funereal lament of the guitar.
The opening track is SHE'S THE DARK, one of the greatest masterpieces ever composed by My Dying Bride, an unforgettable track that alternates between atmospheric, as usual, touching parts, and very aggressive others led by Aaron’s intense and wondrous growl. A majestic and captivating composition, also featuring a stunning text. Personally, I believe it is one of the tracks that best represents the quintessence of My Dying Bride and is worth purchasing the album on its own.
If before the already mentioned "34.788," the compositions had perhaps become excessively concentrated on the romantic side (Like Gods Of The Sun was a good album but suffered from a total lack of more furious and heavy tracks), The Light At The End Of The World perfectly alternates these digressions with others that are decidedly more aggressive.
Other key points to the album’s excellent success are the title track, a very poetic and evocative song with a text that is an authentic masterpiece worthy of the best poets in literature, and INTO THE LAKE OF GHOSTS.
In conclusion, an immense work that shows why poetry, decadence, and art have never had better interpreters in the Metal field.
Let no one forget that these art forms can perhaps be the greatest light amidst the darkness. The light at the end of the world.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 She Is the Dark (08:26)
A cruel sleep 'cross our land
All withered and dying
As the fall, the victims
They're dying a sad death
In our land, we lay down
And suffer again
A dark girl'cross our land
Is pacing. Is preying
And with her, a fever
A marching black fever
No eyes see. No features
Just black form, suffering
You have her sympathy
You have her tears
She tries only to take
All your fears
The pain she feels
When she drinks your soul
Is hers to suffer
It is her toll
Believe me, she's helpless
When she curses our land
When she swallows light
It's not her hand
Poison awaits when you kiss her
Her heart cries out for you, for me
Untold misery is hers to serve
out for eternity
Out cold. Mankind will stay
forevermore if she gets her way
She can't help it. It's her curse
To sing your pain in her own verse
She is the dark
The nightmares you hide
The pain you feel
The suffering inside
Though she was like you
Through her dark past
But now, the conqueror
Her choirs vast
Oh, please forgive her
As mankind dies
As angels weep
And heaven cries
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By bede
"Turn off the light, close your eyes, and let yourself be carried away... perhaps then you will see it, the light at the end of the world..."
"A masterpiece supported by intense and dark riffs like few others and by Aaron’s disarming vocal performance in its perfection."
