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Rating: Most likely, the beautiful dark adventure of Paradise Lost, which started out from the Halifax area (England) back in 1988, should, in some way, make all their biggest supporters think carefully.
Since their youth, they have worked incredibly hard, released beautiful albums always full of magical innovation ("Gothic," "Icon," "Draconian Times," "One Second," etc.), and by the late nineties, they completely lost their heads over Depeche Mode and Sisters of Mercy, coming close to physical and psychological saturation with the overly soft "Believe in Nothing." Finally, they returned once again to occupy the usual "gothic" lane by releasing the album of reconciliation with their glorious past in 2007.
And today, in a music business where too many things are programmed to excess, Holmes and company are still here and have decided to release two immensely precious gems that the most ardent fans could hardly overlook: a DVD with the concert held in April 2007 at the Koko in London and a live album, composed of 2 CDs, which equally represents the most important songs of their entire brilliant career (including synth rock).
It’s a journey marked Paradise Lost, from which we can draw the very first track, the famous single "The Enemy" belonging to their latest album "In Requiem" released in May of last year, historical, ancient, and milestone pieces such as "Gothic," "As I Die," "Say Just a Word," "One Second" and "Embers Fire" alongside the indispensable synth rock singles from the middle albums such as "Mouth," "So Much is Lost," "Erased" and "No Celebration." The job of completing everything in the best way is entrusted to many other tracks, which, despite not having had as much success as the ones I mentioned, fit perfectly and have been included by the English band with a lot of attention and special accuracy. If you happen to get the DVD directly, you would also have, in addition to the aforementioned concert, the two official videos for "The Enemy" and "Praise Lamented Shade," an enduring and interesting documentary, and the interview with Paradise Lost themselves.
One thing that highly disappointed me was the fact that, last March, the promoter on duty, here in Italy, had them perform as a supporting act for HIM (let me say it and rightly contest me greatly if you do not agree), one of the most useless and insignificant bands on our planet, and someone rightly shouted "scandal!" I think they have let things slide a bit in this last period; I believe that through the interviews I have had the chance to read ("Stop once and for all, you journalists, with this story of Paradise Lost as 'godfathers' of gothic metal and HIM as their faithful disciples"), they have underestimated themselves a bit too much and have abandoned any stance about everything they achieved, brilliantly and highly exhaustively, in the past. However, this was just a small parenthesis and I would invite fans to purchase this very useful and fresh "anatomy of melancholy."
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 The Enemy (03:50)
Why can't you say sorrow
Why can't you say think I believe
Thou must not steal borrow
Why must you steal things I receive?
Why can't you say sorrow
Why can't you say think I believe
Why must you steal borrow
Always conceal cling to belief
Damaged this way hollowed
Living the lie that you can't take
Damaged maintained solemn
Living for rules you only break
How can you say?
The enemy is thrown into the sadness,
For the enemy there's only pain and sadness then death...
03 Grey (03:47)
In this autumn rain
We're blessed with autumn skies (autumn skies)
I'm doing it for myself
Not somebody else
I'm doing it for myself
Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
Crying out your name
Something wrong but beautiful, so beautiful
In this awesome rage
Rejecting compromise (compromise)
Undoing it for myself
Not somebody else
Undoing for myself
Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
Crying out your name
Something wrong but beautiful, so beautiful
Like the dead fade away
Life a debt... fade away
Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
Crying out your name
Something wrong but beautiful, so beautiful
Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
04 Erased (04:07)
I don't owe anything
I don't owe anyone
Shoot pride for all it's worth
I don't belong
In a situation now
That I could not repair
I assert myself to sleep
Show others that I've cared
How cold is this poor life
Lay ashes at my grave
If it takes me away from you
A subtle gesture
I don't know anyone (cherish my religion)
I don't know anyone (faith is only fiction)
I don't know anyone (cherish my religion)
I don't know anyone (faith is only fiction)
This is erased I promise not a trace
This is erased I promise no delay not a trace
07 Sweetness (04:51)
you have a history of holding back
a certain sweetness that I lack
sensitive till the day of the final strike
hatred coming on from greater heights
won't you stay away
I'll pass away a different day
won't you stay away
don't hold it against me...
looking down on a rogue this lonely frame
it's predictable the killing game
the sickness knows not what feels right
you gotta hold on to what feels right
won't you stay away
I'll pass away a different day
won't you stay away
together it's impossible
together it's impossible
I see blood on the robe
cold hearts will still haunt you
09 Pity the Sadness (05:32)
Sadness lives after we die
The pains of life increased outright
Contempt and sins priorities...
To crush good fortune to its knees
Morning...
Morning's calm, inside I cry
This painful live has raped my mind
Take me down, slow release
From sorrow's penetration
Morning...
Life is there for me
Hell is there for me
Sunlight greets my open wounds
Morning's light reflects the doom
My soul is free, it lives again
To roam alone in darkness
Morning...
I've cried for god
And I've cried for you
I pray that in the end your sense will break though
Sadness lives after we die
The pains of life increased outright
Contest my sins priorities
Crushed my spirit to its knees
11 Once Solemn (03:27)
Once solemn, the thing I'm leaving alone
Once solemn, the looks that turn one to stone
And I'm learning the highs and the lows of the panic inside
And I'm learning the highs and the lows of the fake promises
Your powers electrify me
Your prowess repels apathy
Your image can turn your soul to stone
I can't find another way
I can't find the words to say......
Unchaining the thing that's holding me down
And it's frustrating, the pressure's getting me down
And it's trying to live with a bad decision every day
It's a fever that's eating away in search for a fast release
Your powers electrify me
Devour the one that's guilty
Your image can turn a soul to stone
I can't find another way
I can't find the words to say......
Your powers electrify me
Devour the one who's guilty
Your prowess repels apathy
Your image can turn a soul to stone
I can't find another way
I can't find the words to say......
12 As I Die (04:01)
As I die
Stare as eyes uphold me
And wait to see right through
And curse me... The love has crippled you
Shadows haunt the night
Burning my disguise
As I die
Reaping through the truth
Life becomes untrue
Sin the last diversion
My fate will be untouched
Dismissed now, the anger of a fool
Shadows haunt the night
Forgive me as I die
Taking a chance
And take what you gain
My soul it has no price
Total release is out of harms way until I can decide
You punish me, can't you see, I'm not real
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