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Before death-doom bands like Paradise Lost and Anathema decided to change their style and lighten their distressing sound, there was a historical precursor little known to most. We are talking about the German Pyogenesis, a band dear to a user of these pages and, at least back then, creators of excellent albums.
After debuting with the EP "Ignis Creatio" and continuing with the more subdued, but no less wrenching, "Sweet X-Rated Nothing," Pyogenesis decided it was time to turn the page. The year was 1996.
Out with the growl vocals, which will still appear sporadically in this work, out with the massive riffs, and out with that look of gloomy gothic metal ceremonialists. The metamorphosis was complete.
So, how might a band sound after clearing away all those characteristics attributable to a well-defined genre like extreme metal?
Take the melodies of the early Offspring and combine them with the melancholic rock of Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam. In short: a punk-grunge album with some ultra-metallic openings. It’s not bad at all!
Sure, the whole thing has a bit of the flavor of a commercial operation, but if only there were similar commercial operations nowadays!
"Twinaleblood" is an album that shows the band in a period of full inspiration, a period that unfortunately will not be repeated in the career of Pyogenesis, given the pop-punk junk produced a few years later and considering the fact that two members of the group would end up joining Liquido (yes, those Liquido!).
Noteworthy songs? I would say the catchy yet never trivial "Undead," a track that opens the album and immediately shows us how many and what changes have been made. It continues with the pop-punk of the title track and reaches what, at least in my opinion, is one of the best compositions on the album: "Weeping Sun." The grunge imprint is heavy but suddenly a guttural, almost growl, vocal erupts. By now everyone knows, I don't like analyzing albums track-by-track, so I'll list the songs that struck me the most.
Among them, certainly, are the aggressive "God Complex" and "Mutz Umbst Erben," a sort of tribute to the old sounds proposed by Pyogenesis. "Abstract Life" also makes a strong impression in this sonic vortex.
As mentioned, an album that excellently combines the sounds that were all the rage at the time (pop-punk and grunge) with bursts of good old metal. Melody and anger. Perhaps not an essential work but undoubtedly tasty and engaging. A work that, after twenty-three years, still feels fresh.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Twinaleblood (02:34)
Yeah you are my twinaleblood
Your life was my infinity, your shape was made by XTC
Yeah you are my twinaleblood
Whenever you will dream of me, just hold on to real XTC, XTC,
XTC
Entering the levels high
At my very first try
Drying all my hopeless tears
I've been crying through the years
All the people on this world are truely sad
Yeah you are my twinaleblood
Your life was my infinity, your shape was made by XTC
Yeah you are my twinaleblood
Whenever you will dream of me, just hold on to real XTC, XTC,
XTC
Created by a brand new style
Valentine please wait a while
Confusion of a senseless game
What a stupid unknown name
What a pain, what a sign
Can you read between the lines
Can you feel those waving words
And consume everything that hurts
04 Every Single Day (04:12)
(music and lyrics: Flo Schwarz)
time is running - my mind is changing
there's a difference hanging right over me
when in hopeless trying - senseless crying
sickness buying and in lifeless dying
in a cave of pleasure - a heart of treasure
where my love is coming right all over me
I was used to be a - handsome ligger
dirty beggar - until
and every single day
yearning for the day of my forgiveness
starving like a flower for the sun
lay down in the summerfield of life
I'm trapped like a sigh in my soul
Now I am here flowers sear
the incarnation of forbidden fear
I'm just stranded I'm just branded
like a rolling wheel that is standing still
I hear voices - from upon
can't make out where they're coming from
can't make out - what they're saying
but I'm still praying
and every single day
06 Empty Space (02:52)
All of those senseless things
With my life
In one who sees kids and sun
Art on the I'm one
The fire of the hearts burns quietly
And everything I want to do is wrong
But these are hopeless tears forever
Hopeless tears today
Hopeless tears and never...
We'll run and hide we'll hide and run
We're running all the way
Release the sweetest beast
And throw him to the sky
Autumns heat I will release don't wonder why
I always swim in milk and blood I'll burn in my own hell
After this you take a bath because you smell
But these are hopeless tears forever
Hopeless tears today
Hopeless tears and never...
We'll run and hide we'll hide and run
We're running all the way
Whenever I move carefully, yes without bodies
One with all those broken dreams, senseless grief
No one cares and no one loves - I'm still alone
My thoughts they play dead - everything's ruined
But these are hopeless tears forever
Hopeless tears today
Hopeless tears and never...
We'll run and hide we'll hide and run
We're running all the way
This is my empty space
09 Snakehole (03:19)
(music: Roman Sch�nsee/Wolle Maier lyrics: Tim Eiermann)
listen to me babe
you're the one I never want to be
start right here damned thing
can't you see the things you've never changed
so close your evil eyes
always or never I don't mind these stupid things
it's a shame, such a shame
I remember you my dear - in the snakehole
when you are breaking my golden seal - in the snakehole
the golden seal of innocence - in the snakehole
I still remember your promised lands - in the snakehole
listen to me twice
shut up your mouth I hate the way you talk
punishment will come
a rope around your neck, the bleeding if your dawn
so close your evil eyes always or never
I don't mind these stupid things
it's a shame, such a shame
I remember you my dear - in the snakehole
when you are breaking my golden seal - in the snakehole
the golden seal of innocence - in the snakehole
I still remember your promised lands - in the snakehole
after all these years
my dreams have become reality to me
a bleeding with no end
isn't that fair? is that fair?
I remember you my dear - in the snakehole
when you are breaking my golden seal - in the snakehole
the golden seal of innocence - in the snakehole
I still remember your promised lands - in the snakehole
10 Addiction Pole (01:57)
(music: Tim Eiermann / Flo Schwarz lyrics: Tim Eiermann / Flo Schwarz)
you're my dearest
definitely you are the one
of those darker individuals
how could I know
how could I see the things the way you do
how could I feel that your heart is crying
I try to turn whenver I see her
I know my eyes will burn
a split from my addiction pole, today
I'm all tied up, my eyes are already shut
it's all too strong, too tough to cut
our love seeds here, planted to grow
take my breath and I will go
I try to turn whenver I see her
I know my eyes will burn
a split from my addiction pole, today
oh damned lady, can't you hear the churchbell ring
the eternal moon comes soon, much too soon
I try to turn whenver I see her
I know my eyes will burn
a split from my addiction pole, today
11 God Complex (06:04)
straight from the brain
my vision is strong
maybe too strong and strange for you
psychomanic, physological freak
with distorted epileptical dreams
the thoughts become clearer
and visions reality
down with distortion of this agony
I'm runnin'
thinkin' about the past
I'm waitin', I'm waiting
Do you think we'll
drift into the lower sands
- god complex
will we ever hold each others hands
- god complex
I am god !?! I am god !?!
and I know what I'm doing
just the best for you
everything do to be well known
and I'm healing all the wounds of you
still walking in your holy shoes
so alone with my dreams
fading away to a pitch black rose
so alone pray to your godfather - yeah
do you hear me, do you feel me
do you want me, do you love me
do you hear me, do you feel me
your godfather
13 Bar Infernale (01:05)
Do you remember the days
When we got lost in the rain
Two silver tears in a sugar sea
Coloured these gray walls to cherry red
WHen the sun in your glance
Still kept me warm
14 I'm Coming (06:54)
Deep black morning
No easy way out of life
The dead still callin'
Soon I will arise
Just one step to the edge of the final match
Doubts changin' my mind
I'm a graveyard singer a slow death bringer
A gambler, a liar,
A still burning fire
I'm coming - yeah
Now is all over my throne is gone
At the gallon I'm hanging right beside my son
Tears of joy runnin' down my skin
My soul is laughing, they'll never win
I'm coming - yeah
Blood red dawning
Slowly passing by
The wind is calling
Just fly away
Just one step to the edge of the final match
Doubts changin' my mind
I'm a graveyard singer a slow death bringer
A gambler, a liar,
A still burning fire
Fire
I'm coming - yeah
Here the shadows shining bright
Once I'm gleaming in the night
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