The love of God
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| Studio album of Samsa's dream | ||||
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Publication |
1999 |
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| Label (s) | trisol music group | |||
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Format (s) |
CD |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
57 min 52 s |
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Sebastian Franke and Alexander Kaschte |
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Studio (s) |
SFX-Studio, Marburg |
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The love of God is the 1999 debut album of Samsa's dream .
The album was released again in 2005 by Trisol. The enclosed 70-minute bonus CD contains three reinterpretations, two unpublished tracks, three live recordings and a few rarities from out of print recordings.
Music genre
The band itself described this album as "magical black metal - Operetta ", a name connected to the operetta-like concept album The Jilemnice Occultist of Czech black metal band Master's Hammer recalls. In contrast to this is the love of God despite the presence of influences not Black Metal Album: Stylistically, the music can be described as a mix of extreme metal with orchestral and classical elements describe why the album best with the "collective term" dark metal are provided can.
action
Lyrically, many well-known elements of German literature are taken up, such as Goethe's Faust I and the story Die Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka . The film God's Army is also quoted. The album tells an ongoing story about the motives of evil , the despair of man and the "love of God". The story takes place in two places, heaven and earth. At first, two storylines run parallel here, but later they come together.
In heaven, the archangel Gabriel leads a revolution against God and his faithful. His motive is the envy he has against people: He believes he is unloved by God because God gave people a soul, but not the angels (especially here there are parallels to the film God's Army ). At the same time, the girl Lilith, lover and soul mate of the man Samuel, dies on earth . Samuel expressed the desperate desire of suicide to commit and to be able to follow her, but Lilith prohibits him because Samuels time has not yet expired and he therefore into the jaws of hell would fall. The key phrase here is: "The fire burns the tears to death, in love there is no place for perdition!". Samuel therefore curses the idle God because of his impotence and is disciplined by him. Desperate and filled with grief and a longing for death, Samuel embarks on an odyssey through the world.
In a forest he suddenly finds himself in the middle of the battle between good and evil, in a clearing he involuntarily observes the battle between the renegade Gabriel and the angelic prince Michael . Because the latter fails to carry out the fatal blow against his former friend Gabriel, the latter falls him to earth and goes up to heaven again to complete his work. Meanwhile, Samuel rushes to the dying Michael to help him. From this he finally learns about the battle that is raging in heaven and the resulting consequences: All mortal souls are condemned to stay on earth and cannot ascend to heaven. Samuel's only consolation that his Lilith has returned to paradise is broken and he desperately asks Michael what he can do. The angel therefore gives him a role on which there is a magic spell : "For whom someone worse than Gabriel must raise his voice", by which Lucifer is meant. Samuel, sent on a haphazard journey again, is even more desperate. Actually only set out with the intention of finding a quick death, he is now burdened with the responsibility for the fate of all humanity. Finally, on a mountain, the last essential actor appears: Lucifer himself. He tries to get Samuel to kill himself and to give him the magic spell with which he wants to tear down heaven himself.
But Samuel hesitates. Ironically, of all things, it is the appearance of Lilith's ghost, trying to keep him from doing the deed, that causes him to let himself go. Only when Lilith, unable to touch him, stands in front of him, does Samuel make up his mind. By making his pact with Lucifer, he hopes to become a legend for the people and end the war in heaven, which would bring the reopening of paradise, including for Lilith (Lucifer has his own plans, of course). In any case, the prince of hell has the opportunity to fall into heaven, where his and Gabriel's troops completely destroy each other. So finally the old arch enemies Gabriel and Lucifer meet in the destroyed sky, but deliver nothing more than childish verbal battles. The dead Samuel dragged along by Lucifer sees this from a distance and realizes the whole ridiculousness of the two beings filled with hate. Lucifer, who already believes himself to be the victor, now reads the magic spell with which he hopes to destroy Gabriel. At this point, however, the spirit of Lilith, who immediately rushed to heaven after the end of the war, reappears. She hovers between Lucifer and Gabriel and reads the true content of the role, the simple words "God still loves you!" The angel is shocked about this and collapses under the weight of his unwanted humility before God and his goodness.
His hatred is suddenly condemned to ridicule in the face of God's never ending goodness. Also his hatred of people, because: "The love of God is the love of man". His whole war is suddenly robbed of the motive and the "dictator of the revolution", who believed himself unloved and hated, had to break. But even Lucifer, who at first makes fun of Gabriel and the sophistication of God, has to recognize that he, too, has suddenly been downgraded to a ridiculous figure, or as Lilith says: "Doesn't this universal rule also make your moaning happy?" Lucifer hates himself for this and disappears into hell with the threat of returning. The dead lovers Samuel and Lilith meet again and vow never to leave each other again (“Because love never ends”). Their fate is uncertain, but it is likely that they will be reborn with a view to the Tineoidea album . The last piece is Alexander Kashte's personal treatise on history.
Track list
| # | title | length |
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| CD 1 | ||
| 1 | Elite - foreplay in the theater | 4:09 |
| 2 | The Prologue in Heaven - Dedication by myself to my audience | 2:18 |
| 3 | Dying Love - The Decline | 5:12 |
| 4th | Tragic tears of mourning - The battle of the heavenly beings | 4:02 |
| 5 | The war in heaven - the dictators of the revolution | 1:45 |
| 6th | Satan's sky full of violins - The apparition of Lucifer | 5:44 |
| 7th | Wax wings - the essence of the archangel | 4:46 |
| 8th | The incursion into heaven - witching hour in Eden | 4:03 |
| 9 | The destruction of Gabriel - triumph of evil | 4:00 |
| 10 | My eyes are the stars - the essence of the lightbringer | 3:55 |
| 11 | But love never stops - The purple passion game | 4:23 |
| 12 | Epilogue on earth - For the sake of my change | First release: 13:33, re-release: 8:31 |
| 13 | Bullet in the face (9mm) (Samsa's dream version) Russia bonus track | 5:57 |
| 14th | A heart and a handful of ashes Russia bonus track | 3:48 |
| CD 2 of the new release | ||
| 1 | Dying love (reinterpretation) | 5:09 |
| 2 | Tragic tears of mourning (reinterpretation) | 4:40 |
| 3 | Satan's sky full of violins (re-interpretation) | 5:37 |
| 4th | Vengeance (unpublished) | 3:47 |
| 5 | Monster (Unreleased) | 3:47 |
| 6th | Endstation.Eden (Live) | 5:46 |
| 7th | Blood is in the wash shell (Live) | 7:14 |
| 8th | A fetus like you (Live) | 5:43 |
| 9 | My eyes are the stars (demo) | 4:13 |
| 10 | But love never stops (demo) | 4:23 |
| 11 | Happiness and ashes | 6:18 |
| 12 | The Solaris anthem | 4:26 |
| 13 | 20 Steps to Freedom (Part I) | 8:37 |
- 1–3: New recordings from 2005
- 4–5: New, unreleased pieces
- 6–8: Recorded live in Görlitz
- 9–10: From the demo, insight into an elite debut album
- 11-12: From EP Ipsissima Verba
- 13: New radio play, divided into four parts
Reviews
According to Asmondeus from metal.de , Die Liebe Gottes “ makes a very ambitious impression on the outside”, but the album sounds “immature, as if one had no clear path in mind”. The music is “really not badly done”, the sticking point is “definitely the singing”, and the spoken passages sound “a bit pubescent and ridiculous”. Metal Inside's dod also criticized the singing, the production and the musical skills, but it was "due to the ingeniously complex structure of the overall work and the ironic-satirical ideas [...] a really great debut".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Asmondeus: Samsa's dream - The love of God .
- ↑ dod: Samsa's dream - The love of God .