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Metal-Archives - Asylum 45 |
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Sunday, 11 November 2007 |
I don't wanna sleep... - 80%
Written by hunchback on September 5th, 2007
So here it is: Non-Divine's debute album Asylum 45, voted 'CD of the month' july 2007 in Aardschok magazine. This album is a concept album on psychopaths, each song dealing with another psychopath in the fictional Asylum 45. Texts are written from the psychopath's point of view, and let them say how they see themselves, how they see life, sometimes why they are in the asylum, or, like the song Love Loss, there are no lyrics at all, however every song is about a person. On Non-Divine's official website the full stories of all the persons are given, with longer stories than the lyrics tell.
Non-Divine play heavy metal, just heavy metal in it's true form. Vocals are clean, Ivor van Beek does a really good job, really living in as if he were the psychopath himself. The guitars show some good solos, like on the album's opener, One Man, One Soul.
One Man, One Soul is on a para-medic that couldn't handle the stress and felt guilty when people died, and in the end, went mad of it. Lyrics are short and vague, really of a madman. The song starts off with a solo, and has two more solos later on in the song, and during the lyrics guitars are merely there for the rythm than for melody. The second song, In Shame, dealing with a person that thinks he's extremely ugly while he's not, is a bit like the opener, it starts off with a solo, after that, mostly lyrics, only once interrupted for a solo. During the chorus, the volume goes down a bit, and a melody is played. The other songs on the album are much like these two songs.
Exceptions are the brilliant Sleep and the short instrumental Love Loss. Sleep is a ballad, starting off soft, with two harder parts. Lyrics deal with someone scared to sleep due to extreme nightmares, and the middle part of the song is sung with another voice, presumably under hypnosis. The instrumental Love Loss opens melodic, only after a short time bass and drums jump in. According to their website, it deals with a woman that had a traumatic experience and doesn't speak nor react to anyone, just stares at the walls (therefore there are no lyrics). It's a bit short in my opinion, and forgettable ('instrumental? I didn't hear an instrumental'), but the idea is there.
The most important of this album is the concept and its lyrics. If you only go for the music, well...it is really enjoyable then, but it's far more if you know the lyrics. Best songs are Sleep and Sympathy.
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