003 . Interlude Part 1

Time for sad ballads and end-of-days sights. In 5inDUSTries we are supposed to talk even about slow and acoustic music, not only about listenable noise, as you can notice if you download the Ur EP that you find on the Gehenna pages (alternatively click HERE).

So, two great cds to start: “Satyriasis, Somewhere Between Nihilism and Equilibrium”, performed by Spiritual Front + Ordo Rosario Equilibrio and “Planetary Confinement”, the last opus of Antimatter. Satyriasis is a split cd of the mentioned bands: 3 songs of Spiritual Front, 3 songs of ORE and 2 songs performed togheter. My respect to ORE, but the work of Simone Salvadori is totally amazing, confirming that he’s probably the best Italian apocalyptic folk singer so far. Melancholic songs, with great melodies and an impressing “almost narrating” voice, bonded togheter by the topics of desperate love and submission. Stuff to play at dusk, dudes. Curiously, two of the songs talk about this archetypal vision of the “father”, with a strange kind of cruel and harsh sweetness…Here, for example the lyrics of the track “Song For The Old Man”:

[…]

I will sing my worst south American song at your funeral
I will sing my worst south American song at your funeral…my old man

Twenty years in the tropics
One hundred years of regrets
Life is long to repent and too short to deify the bitterness
Your ironed shirt, your brushed hair, your perfect dye go beyond
Every political conviction and against every class fight
I loved your stile and your hatred for your hatred for mediocrity
God will not give you an honoured place but he will envy your shined shoes

I will sing my worst south American song at your funeral
I will sing my worst south American song at your funeral…my old man

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I think I’m not wrong if you can get even some political/ideological meaning out of this song.

But, look at the lyrics in conjunction with the ones of “Border”:

[…]

Leave those like me at the end of this road
Leave those like me on the edge of this blade

Elegant men like you have created a great road to march on
And a father like you inflicted it on a son without quality
Make it weigh strongly on my pale body
Force me to feel the cruel crime of remorse
And the obsessive nausea of ideals
Faith will not save me from myself
Nor will your words make me a saint

Leave those like me at the end of this road
Leave those like me on the edge of this blade

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The connection is just weird, it appears to me that there’s a mix of love and regret for somebody. Listen to the songs and then leave your comments, I'll be happy the read your opinion.

You can have two good samples of "Somewhere between..." following these links:

. Autopsy Of A Love (SF)
. Three Is An Orgy, Four Is Forever (ORE)

Please note that a different version of the song Autopsy Of A Love also appeared in the Nihilistic EP of SF, available only on vinyl. Support this great band and buy Satyriasis (to save money, order directly from HERE, in 2 days I got it at home directly from Sweden)!

Some opinions about “Planetary Confinement” on the next post.