그로테스크한 음침함과 전위적 실험을 통해메틀의 새로운 표현양식을 구축한 시대를 초월한 명작! 암흑미학을 추구하는 후배들에게 사상적 지표가 되었으며, 다양하고 전위적인 실험을 통해 90년대에 만개할 익스트림 씬의 실험주의자들 에게 표본이 되었던 이들의 3집 앨범으로, 전작보다 광폭함은 완화되었지만 음침함이 전체를 장악하며 전위적인 실험이 극대화된 명반! 관능적인 내레이션과 기이한 스트링이 어우러진 그로테스크한 미학을 선보인 “Tristesses de la Lune"와 음향 효과와 무드의 실험이 극치에 이른 “One In Their Pride", 이슬람교의 영창(詠唱)을 통해 이국적이고 신비로운 분위기를 조성하고, 흐느끼는 보컬이 느슨한 스래쉬 리프를 치장하는 “Caress into Oblivion" 등 전작과는 또 다른 아방가르드 노선을 선보인다. 특히 그로테스크한 바이올린과 소프라노 등의 클래시컬한 요소들이 어두운 메틀과 만나고 후반의 질주와 함께 혼돈을 이루는 “Rex Irae(Requiem)”는 이 앨범의 백미! 고쓰와 헤비니스, 그로테스크와 에로티시즘이 범벅이된 [Into The Pandemonium]은 주술적인 분위기의 진행과 함께 전위적 실험이 더욱 적극적으로 활용되어지며 기묘함을 연출하고 있으며, 기이한 화풍으로 유명한 15세기 화가 히에로니무스 보쉬(Hieronymus Bosch)의 “빛의 정원”의 일부분을 사용한 커버 아트 또한 탁월한 선택 이었다. .... ....
Sleep brings no joy to me Remembrance never dies My soul is given to misery And lives in sighs ... The shadows of the dead, My waken eyes may never see, Surround my bed That from which they sprung - eternity
Beneath the turf The silent dead
Sleep brings no wish to knit My harrassed heart beneath My only wish is to forget In the sleep of death Death is my joy I long to be at rest I wish the damp earth covered This desolate brest
Beneath the mould The silent dead
But the glad eyes around us Must weep as we have done And we must see the same gloom Eclipse their morning sun
Oh not for them - Should we despair The grave is drear - But they're not there Their dust is mingled - With the sod Their pale souls - Are gone, to god
Well, may they live in ecstasy Their long eternity of joy At least I wouldn't bring them down With me to weep, to groan And what's the future A sea beneath the cloudless sun A mighty, glorious, dazzling sea Stretching into infinity
Ce soir la Lune reve avec plus de paresse Ainsi qu'ne beaute sur de nombreux coussins Qui d'ne main discrete et legere caresse Avant de s'endormir le contour de ses seins Sur le dos satine, des molles avalanches Mourante elle se livre aux longues pamoisons Et promene ses yeux sur les visions blanches Qui montent dans l'azur comme des floraisons Quand parfois sur ce globe en sa longueur oisive Elle laisse filer une larme furtive Un poete pieu ennemi du sommeil Dans le creux de sa main prend cette larme pale Aux reflets urizes comme un fragment d'opale Et l'amener de son corps loin des yeux du Soleil
is it addiction to prevail or mute marble words my heart. coarse and fallen into the sand oblivion into grief millenniums perish pillars of desire therefore I have seen meurt et seduction des comptes morbides tasting rhetoric hate an attraction verified fall of luster and fake caresses mundane beggars costume of death a purified doctrine and communal repentance my mortalized quest the enigma still unborn oceans of grime and stone shores of wasted might soaring remains forfeit my visionary dream wings of lust temptation and fame temples of prowess left a man among ruins caress into oblivion
I did taste their only dream As denial is still unborn Secrets beyond those dethroned walls And echoes of a martyr's scream Deterrent vibrates the allurements face As my barque drowns toward conquest Don't quieten the elder's tears For they've forseen our past Covered lies our remembrance As symbols turn to dust I won't dance I won't dance I won't dance within despair I won't dance The elder's orient Journey into a wicked world My body beneath the skies Erotic wishes, my heart has failed Incalculable is the surface's breath Paralyzed form - the ring of death Steps on the stairs to my silent ecstacy Caress of the mental space Thrones of fake life (Gods) didn't you believe my earthbound call? Eternal addition towards those eyes Slipping into the hidden sun Intoxicated by an endless fall
This evening the moon dreams more lazily As some fair woman, lost in cushions deep With gentle hand caresses listlessly The contour of her breasts before she sleeps On velvet backs of avalanches soft She often lies enraptured as she dies And gazes on white visions aloft Which like a blossoming to heaven rise When sometimes on this globe, in indolence She lets a secret tear drop down, by chance A poet, set against oblivion Takes in his hand this pale and furtive tear This opal drop where rainbow hues appear And hides it in his breast far from the sun
Introduction Rex lrae ... Dream Encounter King Wrath: "You ..." Dream Voice: "... have joined your father's feast Those who saw: Essence or fall Floods of dramatic silence And words, from whom we don't know" Overture King Wrath: "Let me dream ... Flee from false ... I have tasted the weight of lust My hands on the skein of height" Dream Voice: "... A pallid death Mirage into dark The horizons echo your glance Following a detractive sleep" I am the wrath beneath the heavens The downfall's monologue Fallen into the vision of effect Quiet as gods can be Orgies of fear lnbreeding and death I have walked Carthagia's sands l've touched those buried walls I am the ... All mortal is love? Remembrance has won Breathing glorified innonce Quiescence has died therefore I am the ... Remembrance I King Wrath: "We stood before the portals of Babylon And saw it's petrified fall We tasted the wine of Persepolis, As mute as our era's breath" Dream Voice: "... Have seen your decline's symbols But carried another life Death was never a fragment of Exalting fantasy ..." Remembrance III
King Wrath: "This last region - Last of fire Orgasmic cries - Tears and words Wrath and strenght - Oh, gods! For you! Before the throne ... - Death" Overture: Final King Wrath: "Fright and praise A faded light Intimate rests my book Unwritten what seems true I am the ..." Dream Voice: "Art of might! You remaining king Take your predesessor's hand You son of my Jade gift ... I am the ..."