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Quietly returning with a good work are these 5 German musicians. Vanden Plas, for those who might not know, is a band dedicated to progressive metal without too many innovations, thus following the standards of this genre: melody, endless technique, and the usual concept concoction narrated throughout the album.
Yet perhaps in this album, one can notice a more symphonic attitude compared to previous works, with the use of keyboards more oriented towards a symphonicality that gives the album power and solemnity at the same time. It is needless to dwell on the guitar work, which is masterful as in all progressive records. So expect furious solos and drum rhythms in constant time changes. However, by following these standards, the album flows pleasantly and enjoyably. The concept is based on the story of The Count of Monte Cristo.
A sweet melodic vein stands out especially in the vocal parts. The singer Andy Kuntz demonstrates excellent control over his vocal cords both in moments of pure sweetness and in the heavier moments of the album. The band moves well both in rhythmic and solo parts, always closely following the "models" set by the bands that gave birth to the genre. So it's obvious how Vanden Plas is inspired by Symphony X and Dream Theater. Analyzing the work track by track would be pointless; I would risk finding citations or references to tracks by their more illustrious colleagues in every song, and this would take a lot away from this group, which does its duty excellently. Especially since we are faced with an inspired work, well-played, with interesting flashes particularly in the title track and the bonus track "Gethsemane", a sort of cover taken from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.
There are indeed episodes of value, but the rest partly refers to what has already been said by the fathers of the genre. Altogether pleasant even though more can always be done.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Christ 0 (05:33)
Here I stand alone, I'm a sacrifice
Like a fallen angel, die here without your love
Now I understand, let the sentenced dog I'm in
Swallow all the hate I can eat
...gave you my heart gave you my heart
I just gave you my heart and
They take it away take it away
Now I gather somebodies elses' lives
Till the day we'll meet again
You are the reason why my day of living
I gave you my soul away to the unforgiven
Sucide would save me from my thoughts
I'll try now to freeze on these walls here
My uncertain eternity
In broken words
Said from the other part of me
Give me your heart give me your soul
Can you give me your life then
I take it away break it in two and
Dancing in enemy elses' blood
Pouring down on me like rain
They are the reason for my day of living
I gave my soul away to the unforgiven
Ghost ship * dezember 11
2:00 am * my name x
You are my death part 1
The new edition is called my life part 2
You are the reason why my day of living
I know I know we'll meet again
On the fifth of seasons
I'm alive christ-0
See the light - christ-0 - I'm alive
04 Silently (08:31)
When I open up the door and I step into a floor
See me running down the way
To another place I'll stay
In this room there is a door
From another endless floor
So I walk it 'til the end
Am coming back where I began
Then I fall into a dream
Within a dream within a dream
Of the murder from "the silence of the lambs"
Silently deeply creep in my heart and soul
Silently deeply creep all my love has gone
In my private picture dome
After 1000 days alone
I am meeting depardieu
And he asked me here to stay
An ambiguous sequel in many ways
Concerning my own situation
The translation "de son nom"
Implies that all the gods are gone
And I'm falling into the scenes
Inside my movie gathering
Living timeless in a "casket irony" here
Silently 1, 2, 3 see the hours flow
Siently 39, 40 nights ago
Silently days and weeks slowly counting by
Not a second not the years
Reign our measured time
Silently deeply creep in my heart and soul
Silently deeply creep under skin and bones
Say why minutes take one life
But years run out of hands
Here I play "capture time" try to understand
Silently deeply creep in my heart and soul
Silently deeply creep all my love has gone
05 Shadow I Am (05:28)
The book of mankind's brain
Was written for a thousand times
And must be isolated seen
Research can not slip inside individuality
Or under neuropsychics seals
Now every storm that I breathe
And every curse I pray
Can make me see the night
And stronger every day
Shadow I am, and I ever will, and I ever will
Shadow I am in a world, in a land of shades
That forever rains the night on me
When the crows falling down in the neighborhood
Left no mark on the surface of dark
Then every storm that I breathe and every curse I pray
Can let me be the night and stronger every day
Shadow I am, and I ever will, and I ever will be
Shadow I am in my world, in the land of shades
That forever rain sundown on me
Not more than a gun to rule the world
Not more than a license for the fabric of my shade
Climbing out of torches - I left without a mark
Shadow I am, there's a chain reaction released
By the rebound of will and mind
Shadow in my neural world
This chain reaction's magnetism
Let's transform ourselves in each and any kind
Here's my cognition research
What is intelligence?
Shadows are human and not unable to think
06 Fireroses Dance (06:02)
One day, when the fires eat the lands
And the widows start to dance
Then it shows all the beauty
In just one day
Why is it ever too late and why, is it ever
Why is it ever too late and why, is it ever
Too late
See the beauty of the world
For a second just a glance
One day when the fire roses dance
One day when I am crying for this song
Now it's written to the end
I could save all their children
In just one day
Why is it ever too late
And why is it ever too late
See the beauty of the world
In a clear vermilion sky
One day feels like indian summer
Lose the beauty of the world
So in common with the dying
One day
When the flame of innocence
Lets the fire roses dance
Missa ignis, missa ultoris
Missa presteris et saltatus
See the beauty of the world
In a clear vermilion sky
One day, one day
Plant the trees to cut them down
Burn my city to the ground
Count seconds - steal the time
Waste your words to build a rhyme
For all holes in me to fill
I need the newborn lives to...
Pray my true amens
After fire roses dance
07 Somewhere Alone in the Dark (05:30)
Talk to me, I am here to say farewell my son
Now talk to me, I'm your season running out
I offer my equations
For everything you stole
And I claim now my expenses
I'm your private vertigo
You don't breathe anymore
When I walk out the door
Something older than love
Waiting right in the line of the storm
Somewhere alone in the dark
A phantom from the arc
Somewhere alone in the night
Is counting all broken lives
Talk to me, my face had left a scar
Inside your memory, now I see it in your eyes
Aren't you dying to forget me
Call me wizard of your oz
Since you raised my deus machina
I'm in a godless rush
You don't breathe anymore
When I walk out the door
Something older than love
Lays you down in the line of the storm
And after a long time in nowhere
Five thousand and nineteen days
You pay the account for my kingdom
The rent for a spider's home
For the love of my life
I return in the night from the eye of the storm
And I'm willing your life to transform
Somewhere alone in the dark
The ghosts of dumas acting alone in the night
His legend of taking lives
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