Anneke van Giersbergen: una delle voci più sensuali che abbia mai sentito
I "the Gathering" è un complesso olandese che nasce agli inizi degli anni 90 suonando un doom metal dalle atmosfere cupe. Con Mandylion (1995) il punto di svolta della band: entra in formazione la cantante Anneke van Giersbergen, singer dalla voce pulita che ben si adatta alle più alle atmosfere
gothic che a quelle
doom. Nel corso degli anni questo gruppo camaleontico, pur mantenendo un sound che lo contraddistingue, cambia di nuovo genere e si avvicina ad un alternative rock molto particolare
Il brano seguente è tratto da
Souvenirs (2003), secondo me il miglior album del gruppo (ed il più sperimentale)
Now that we're through
the hell with you
We dont mind
We just give it a sigh
We hardly knew
what you were capable
of doing
But why don't you give it a try
Oh, you learn about it
Oh, you harvest (untill you can make no more)
All that's eating inside
All that's eating inside
We hardly knew
what you were capable
of doing
But why don't you give it a try
Oh, you learn about it
Oh, you harvest (untill you can make no more)
All that's eating inside
All that's eating inside
Can't take no more..
Oh, you learn about it
Oh, you harvest (untill you can make no more)
All that's eating inside
All that's eating inside
Can't take no more..
And love was there in vain, PROFOUND and deep but traced with pain - too early for a child of TEN
Loving the pure and sane he sought the goddess unstained - watching them turn to flesh again
HUNGRY for both the PURITY and SIN
Life seemed to him merely like a GALLERY of how to be
And he was always much more HUMAN than he wished to be
But there is a LOGIC to his world, if they could only see
(Pain of Salvation - Beyond the pale)