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Rating: Hello everyone, as my first review I've chosen the second to last album by Sentenced: "The Cold White Light."
Let's start with the intro "Konevitsan Kirkonkellot", characterized by a gothic setting and accompanied by a solemn arpeggio. "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die" is one of the most beautiful tracks on the album, if not the most beautiful, with a well-crafted intertwining of arpeggios, an explosive chorus, a chilling final solo, and a depressing lyric. "Brief Is the Light" opens with a semi-distorted arpeggio that continues to accompany the riff of the second guitar; the spoken part is also accompanied by an intertwining of guitar arpeggios with a nice bass line, then it continues with an engaging chorus and a well-made solo. "Neverlasting" is certainly the most immediate track on the CD, with a fast start, then the guitars stop and you can only hear the bass accompanying the voice. In the chorus, there is also a sort of duet between the main and secondary vocals followed by an energetic and fast solo. "Aika Multaa Muistot (Everything Is Nothing)" is a calm piece that becomes harder midway, certainly less involving than the previous tracks. Another energetic song is "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself" which has the best chorus on the CD and a nice interlude. "Blood & Tears" is yet another masterpiece of the album, following the path taken by the previous track. "You Are the One" is a sentimental love song with a very soppy text, but nonetheless superb. "Guilt and Regret" is accompanied by the use of the keyboard, and although it's a pleasant piece, it is inferior to most of the previous tracks. "The Luxury of a Grave" also gives an excellent contribution to the album.
Finally, the most melancholic piece, closing this masterpiece album beautifully: "No One There". Absolutely watch the video that will leave even the "hardest" hearts with a lump in their throats. I conclude by saying that this album will not please everyone; those who loved the old Sentenced (the death ones) were or will be a bit disappointed. But trust me... it is a masterpiece!!
Thanks for your attention, if I made too many "horrors" please forgive me!!!! DON'T HIT ME!!!!
Antoniomegadeth
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
04 Neverlasting (03:35)
Carpe diem...
Seize the day before your life fades away.
Reach for the skies - for the distant sun
and keep on hiding from the gun.
No! You need to sell your soul
for it's great to lose control.
Can't you feel that growing desire
to go down with the blazing fire?
You need to burn and reach to the point of no return.
- Waste no time dreaming in vain!
You and I aren't built to last
- Go astray - the only way!
You and I will make it fast
- Burn the candle at both ends!
Let's take a ride before we fall
- Leave no room for happy endings!
and make it right for once and for all.
Something's twisted in your head
for you live as you were dead.
Therefore you must play with the gun
and be sure to have your fun.
Take my hand and I'll lead you astray
for it's the only way.
Let's give in to the growing desire
and go down with the blazing fire.
We need to burn and reach the point of no return.
- Waste no time dreaming in vain!
You and I aren't built to last.
- Go astray - the only way!
You and I will make it fast
- Burn the candle at both ends!
Let's take a ride before we fall.
- Leave no room for happy endings!
And make it right for once and for all.
05 Aika multaa muistot (Everything Is Nothing) (04:33)
Everything is nothing to me, I couldn't care less
A stern cold man is what I am, hard, relentless
And thought I might have strayed the path I wouldn't change a thing
I've hated life to the fullest yet with longing deep within
For my name is sorrow and I'm a friend of misery
I deprived myself of love for eternal agony
And I don't even dare to try - I know I can only lose
Between this life I live and nothing I have to choose
Take me home...
...to the one I belong
Heyyy!!
I'll see you all go down and witness your demise
I'll be the last to close, the last to close my eyes
And forgive me nothing for I truly meant it all
- what I've said, what I've done
06 Excuse Me While I Kill Myself (03:48)
"How do you do? Have yourselves a pleasant afternoon!"
Well, fuck you, too!
"Good night" is the one I choose for you!
- I'll kill myself:
I'll blow my brains onto the wall!
- See you in Hell,
I will not take this anymore!
Now, this is where it ends,
this is where I will draw the line
So, 'scuse me while I end my life.
I will pull this through
Not having a reason is no excuse
What the Hell do you suppose I have left to lose?
- I'll kill myself:
I'll blow my brains onto the wall!
- See you in Hell,
I will not take this anymore!
Now, this is where it ends,
this is where I will draw the line
So, 'scuse me while I end my life.
[instrumental]
- I'll kill myself:
I'll blow my brains onto the wall!
- See you in Hell,
I will not take this anymore!
This is where it ends: I'll put a bullet in my head
And yes, drop dead!
This is where it ends, this is where I will draw the line:
- Excuse me while
I Kill myself.
07 Blood & Tears (04:15)
What is it that we're struggling for?
I don't quite see it anymore.
Life kicks us in the teeth
yet something makes us crawl back for more.
Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed.
Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death.
Hours like days, weeks like years
Decades of tears
yet somehow..
We'll lose the things we've fighted for
Each rise is followed by a fall
We'll lose the ones we love, the ones we most adore
Yet go on.. we go on
Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed.
Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death.
Hours like days, weeks like years
Decades of tears
Yet somehow everything seems so worthwhile
for a moment
What is it that we're waiting for?
Looking forward to, preparing for?
Life kicks us in the teeth
Yet something makes us crawl back for more
Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed.
Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death.
Hours like days, weeks like years
Decades of tears
Yet somehow everything seems so worthwhile
for a moment
09 Guilt and Regret (03:44)
Guilt and Regret, they are my two inbred brothers
Guilt and Regret
O god how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart
Guilt and Regret and me wake up into a brand new day
Guilt and Regret lively
I am still dead tired - the night has been long and hard
My brothers they ask me:
"Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"Nothing at all? Well, it must have been an evening of joy"
Guilt and Regret
O god how I hate them both from the bottom of my heart
Each morning like this they come, uninvited
Pale as ghosts, reeking of compost
Yet most I abhor their bloodshot eyes
My brothers they ask me:
"Do you recall anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"Nothing at all? Well, it must have been an evening of joy"
My brothers they tease me:
"Do you remember anything from yester-night, no?"
They laugh at me and go:
"O sure you do, we buried our little sister Hope"
Guilt and Regret and me - what a twisted family we are
Guilt and Regret
O god, how I hate you both from the bottom of my heart
11 No One There (06:14)
The axe, the bottle, and the rope
The feeling there really is no more hope
The thought of the great unknown
And facing it alone
The dark, the silent, and the cold
The feeling I have come to the end of my road
Yes these are the things I spend my remaining moments with
And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there
Why did it have to be so hard
For us to live our lives
Again I reach out in the dark in despair
The desperation and the snow
The feeling of finally coming back home
The melancholy and the hole in the soil so hard and cold
And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there
Your love for me, my love for you
Things we somehow managed to lose
Now there's only the ruthless wind
To blow right through
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
To think we both will die alone
And the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there
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By wwwhatemoornet
If you can’t stand HIM and their "love metal" (brrrrrr... gives me chills just to write it) go read something else because this CD is not for you.
"A coffin will be way too nice, a see-through plastic bag will do just fine" (The Luxury of a Grave) but we are not talking about a corpse, we are talking about how to hide the CD ;)
By fenriz87
The album in question is a great record.
A journey into the 'Cold White Light' is highly recommended, truly a great soundtrack during a winter day with some worries drifting away and some too many memories advancing menacingly...
