Heart's Blood (Subway to Sally)
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April 2, 2001 |
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CD |
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11 |
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49 min 42 s |
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Studio (s) |
Nucleus-Studio and NF Studio |
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Herzblut is the sixth studio album by the Potsdam band Subway to Sally . Many see this album as the last album of the "old" Sallys, the last chapter of medieval music, before the Angel Warrior CD was released in 2003 . Indeed, for the last time the bagpipes , shawms , oboes and violins are in the foreground, the guitars further back.
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The cover is almost completely white, apart from the lettering and a single red rose petal with several drops of blood. The band took up this colorful theme on the tour that followed - the six male musicians in white, the only woman in the band, violinist Ms. Schmitt, in a red dress. The color scheme seems to have been influenced by the song "Kleid aus Rosen". In the song, the theme of "innocence meets sin" is taken up. An innocent girl asks a “master” to give her a dress made of roses, stabbed in the skin with a needle.
With “Kleid aus Rosen”, a song has appeared twice on a record for the first and only time in the band's history: As a “normal version”, which is played on most tours, and as an acoustic version ( unplugged ), the it could be heard as a surprise song on the second part of the Angel Warrior Tour, and was also played on the Naked acoustic tour and the Crossfire Tour.
Musically Herzblut seems softer and more melodic than the previous wedding - but also more playful and more adventurous. The spectrum includes church chants as well as tribal drums, right at the beginning of the album, as an intro to “Die Schlacht”. Old forms of singing such as counter-function were used, on the other hand the band experimented more than ever with electronic sounds. In retrospect, the album is a bit of the band's stepchild "because of the over-softened production" (Bodenski), but the most popular album with fans (according to a poll on the Subway-to-Sally website).
Thematically, the texts deal with the broad spectrum of love and passion, in other words “heart and soul”: with the bitter aftertaste of a one-night stand in “Das Messer”, with the pain that goes hand in hand with an unfulfilled longing in love "Mistress of Fire", with the tenderness and vulnerability of the first love in the ballad "So Rot", with a night of love outdoors in "Toad Love", in which the text was implemented musically using violins in a unique way, or as mentioned above, with the subject of innocence and the fall of man. The opposite pole to love also has its place in "When Angels Hate". Criticism of the church is thematized in "Three Angels", the fight against one's own fears in "The Battle", confusion from love and passion through to madness in "St. Vitus Dance". Contrary to the opinion of many, “Accingite vos” is not a re-edition of a medieval church choir, but an original composition that attempts to sound like one.
Track list
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- The battle - 4:02
- Vitus dance - 4:39
- The knife - 4:29
- Mistress of Fire - 7:05
- Dress made of roses - 4:57
- When angels hate - 6:29
- Toad Love - 3:42
- Accingite Vos - 4:17
- So red - 3:45
- Three angels - 1:15
- Dress made of roses (acoustic) - 5:07
Individual evidence
- ↑ musicline.de: Subway To Sally in the German album charts ( Memento from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ austriancharts.at: Subway To Sally in the Austrian hit parade