"Ambitions" by Katatonia

Katatonia:"Ambitions", (from the album "Dead end kings", 2012):

Hear my thin voice
Hear my words fall down
See my ambitions fade out
Had so much better times

At night
Walking on the tracks
Change my perspective
Idle hands
With wounds and cracks
Stale
Ineffective
But past the veil
The memories of things
Still so in love with you

So dense this strife
Kick the life
I feel this weight upon my heart

Indecision
Sow the seed
Aspiration is never within reach
At night there is no other view
Sing a song for the ones who never made it

In the word
Under yellow lights
Under linden trees I am
Transparent
And led to believe
That things would change if I go away
The lowering sky under which we go

Constant noise
Behind the overcoming
I had no choice but to rearrange
The scar is open
I am not allowed to understand
I take it as you´re not coming back

(lyrics: Jonas Renkse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBHDzyDIPg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVVuPWFKAho

http://katatonia.com/

(I know a woman, who knows a guy, who knows Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström from Katatonia....Yes, the world is certainly a small place to be :-) Katatonia have a new full-length out these days called "Dead end kings", and I actually think, it´s their best release in recent years, or at least since "Viva emptiness" saw the light of day back in 2003...

"Dead end kings" is such a great experience both musically and when it comes to the lyrics....Maybe not that obvious the first couple of listenings, but it´s definitely an album, that goes deep in your mind after a while :-) Life may be very painful, that´s for sure, and the overwhelming atmosphere of melancholy throughout "Dead end kings" doesn´t help much changing this impression....But on the other hand I´ll rather face the tough facts of life, hand in hand with Katatonia, than be superficial trying to ignore the truth....

I´ve got three favorite "Dead end kings"-tracks", (actually I´ve got a whole lot more....ha ha....), but especially "Hypnone", "Lethean" and "Ambitions" seem, to say the least, fine to me!!! And the winner is...."AMBITIONS"....In fact I could easily be listening to this song all day long :-)

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, where I´ll take your hand and lead you back in time....663 years(?!?!) It´s definitely going to be utterly weird :-)

See you!

Kind regards
Carsten

"Drown my sorrow" by Saturnus

Saturnus:"Drown my sorrow", (from the album "Martyre", 2000):

I fall back into pain
With your empty kiss
Beneath this rain
You´re still the one I miss

Drown my sorrow
In the colours of your aura
Embalm me with your innocence

And save my soul
The fire burns
But why am I still so cold

I fall back into pain
With your emptiness
Beneath this rain
I couldn´t care less

(lyrics: Kim Larsen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8o2TZWWa8

http://da-dk.facebook.com/pages/Saturnus/8935853109

(My brother, who turned 40 this spring, is NOT into heavy metal, or at least he pretends so....:-) Because I remember clearly him being on a Rage Against The Machine-/Clawfinger-trip back in the 1990´s!! But....well....let us just be straight with each other: he´s NOT into heavy metal....

One saturday afternoon in the year of 2001, (I think it was either april or may), I was visiting my brother in his house somewhere in Denmark, and we were entertaining ourselves with this awesome PLAYSTATION-MOTORBIKE-GAME....(Please, don´t ask me about the title....ha ha....). While we were....erm...speeding up, so to speak, the "Martyre"-album from danish doomsters Saturnus filled the atmosphere in the livingroom, and guess once, who was responsible for that :-) When "Drown my sorrow" ran out of the speakers, I remember clearly my brother saying: "It´s actually not that bad, the music....". And I was like "Yeeeeeeesssssss!!!!!!!", but cards on table: he hasn´t really been talking about heavy metal since....ha ha....

Saturnus were much beloved in the danish metal-scene back in the late 1990´s and in the very beginning of our new century, thanks to excellent full-length-releases "Paradise belongs to you" (1996) and "Martyre" (2000). But since that successfull time, the band have been....ern....less successfull, and have in fact only released one album: The slightly average "Veronika decides to die" from 2006. That said, a new full-length "Saturn in ascension" is coming up later this month, so maybe now it´s time again for something GREAT....who knows? :-)

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, where we´ll be crossing the ocean between Denmark and Sweeden, and drown ourselves in....MELANCHOLY!!!

See you :-)

Kind regards
Carsten