1. Faith ways 7:07 2. All my thoughts 5:03 3. Lucifer's shapes 6:52 4. ...On my skin 5:10 5. Luxuria 4:18 6. Ascension 4:19 7. Gloomily dressed 6:14 8. No truth 5:10 total time 44:13
Faith Ways Faith ways Faith. What's faith? You'll never know it. 'cause your soul is worn out (by sin) It just closed your eyes since you did mistake now infinity is waiting about You're alone walking in a lake of tears A breath of pain wraps around you and your blames Lonely is the existance of your being Of your nature, of your faith, of your name How many will fall down Down from the crying wall All empty souls coming out Out from their prison-world (no world) Kissed by death you'll see just the dark A veil of deceit that covers your eyes Once you held out your hands, selling your conscience To those ones who filled your mind with lies Slowly raped by sententious commands In this 'inferno' punishment for you is done Sadly fading now your inner light dies Roaming endlessly, your destiny is gone Feel your life as it's starting to die The truth is not what you've created this false consciousness is an easier way To hide yourself from what you just can't find Snake shaped knife in your heart Deep inside by the wings of doubt (remember) Sin just closed your eyes since you did mistake Now infinity is waiting about ...And the oppressive fear of knowing nothing Ruthlessly turns into a certainty A new kind of knowledge will rise From the bottom of your enslaved soul now screaming: ...(no return) All My Thoughts ...And I thought I had always Always watched ahead ...Though I had walked by the steps of a man Who knows. Perfectly himself... Looking on, how the sun rises And dies within a day But did I sincerely see What I am, anyway? Losing my glance in the vacuum After so many whys Finally realized I was wrong... (I know I was wrong) In my haunted mind I feel The doubt of existence growing And surrounded with a dying tomorrow A vain breath of life crawling I get closer to nothing To my enemy's hands All is covered with an obscure cloak in which My lifeless answers stand But someday I'll understand And see beyond your eyes I'll know my truth by my awareness Rediscovering my rise No more light in my tired mind No more strength in my arms No existence bars opposed to our being Just the satisfied thirst for living Indeed I'll never know myself In spite of my strong will ...And yet I thought I had walked so long... Lucifer's Shapes Reflection soon Puts before you A thousand questions Temptation and sin Just what a human being Condemns through his eyes (but man judges man...) Giving our life a sense Why do we go so low? Perhaps our thoughts, so intense Make our weakness grow Always so strong And unfailing among The asperities of life But so weak in front of What is unknown Feeble but conscious 'cause to yield is to want And the desire is all For those who surrender Parallel concepts Touching eachother In the sound of a silent echo... A drop of instinct In the rationality Of an inner ocean Or a sharp reflection Lost in the passion (of a real life) A derived choice Or a suffocated voice Influence our mind? But without freedom Just on your own Are you sure to condemn what's wrong... ...On My Skin Memories burning in your brain As you mentally die Always right or wrong in your deeds, real... ...Belief wasn't your why Feel your bare thought boiling in pain and Making your dream no more Now all this drifting through life is Faking you to a slow decline That will Finish your helpless soul off (Remember, your disgrace is the strength of another...) You were tempted to share your remorse Or to pray for the end But on the road to your conclusion Your path steeply descends Now, giving yourself up to despair, you... ...Feel consumed by the time Past no longer tortures your eyes, but All I see is no lack of Sadness Coldness towards your own life You did never look for freedom Tied to the schemes of humanity And your frailties are easy to see But regarding all my wisdom In front of this sad reality No more my life is scaring me... ...And the solitude in its cold embrace Is silently touching you Your nerves need frustration... ...An instrument of torture, so pure Now almost mortal The oblivion's coils you're in Another star dying away The umpteenth sign on my... ...Skin Luxuria The sound of a desperate desire A call from your own, frozen inside Primitive, uncontrolled instinct A wilder need standing by your side Look at yourself, man. Trapped in your wishes Reason doesn't act anymore Only a primordial, corporal necessity Strong as will in your thoughts This truth mirrors the lies You always try to deny To your conscious mind... Tough this extreme appetite Natural outburst of sensations Express your attitude in your lust A concrete form of all your passions Far from every ill-disposed outline Just as pure as semplicity Free as only man can be without His morbid objectivity Victim of an oppressing innocence Your unhurt soul starts to bleed As you realise you're powerless in front of This reflection of your being This truth mirrors the lies You just cannot deny To your conscious mind To the whole mankind This truth mirrors the lies You just cannot deny To your pale, conscious mind! Ascension (instrumental) Gloomily Dressed Here I am, gloomily dressed To blend in with the night To be as one with the shades And let their hidden silence dim my sight Here I am keeping my balance on the threat of life Unaware of the solar messages Attracted by the ones behind the walls of decease Paralyzed by their invisible voices Gloomily dressed I think How much obscure air was in the womb And in an old man's glance Now, prepared for my passing away I can feel your fear of death Of finding yourself dressed in your own bones Here I am, gloomily dressed To perform my anguish, to display my anxiety In the theatre of shadows And the night still holds me New in compliance with my fading existence The dark is my only dress That dark in which I can hear the reverb of my cries And enrich my feelings with lonelyness No Truth Nature of something takes you To generate false prides inside Never an absolute truth Along this endless way, denied Only a mass of dull cries Mixed into our reality Confused they're as one with lies Pain and deceit... If nothing lasts forever Feel how uncertain it all sounds In life through all its shades Beyond its inexistent bounds If the doubt overhangs My senses just can get no truth If you believe, your faith so strong Got nothing to prove No sadness in your hollow voice 'cause life never waits for your choice No need for all your useless wails 'cause there's no future in your cries... (Perhaps everything seems to be But nothing is... Does existence succeed existence? No start, no end, no truth... Perhaps no life!) Two different essences cause A depressive inconsistency Our innocent condition Always restrains our innate will A deep sorrow leaves us alone Entangled into all our fears Which find their shelter into hate Or lying tears... Lyrics in plain text format	Line up Rob Messina - Vocals, lead & acoustic guitars Adriano Cucinotta - Piano, synths & drum machine Luca Correnti - Rhythm guitar & voices Enrico Sorbello - Basses Andrea Tilenni - Drums Artwork Info Recorded at "Random Music House" (Rome) September / October 1995 Produced by Giovanni Dolce Engineered by Gianfranco Tassella and Amelia Rossi Landi Mixed by Daniele Conte Mastered by Massimiliano Nevi at Cantoberon Studios, Rome Front cover artwork by Roberto Messina Band photos by Carmelo Merola Graphics by Domenico Tringali We wish to dedicate "Research" to the loving memory of Salvo Accordino, (we know you will be always by our side 'cause inside us you will live forever, friend) Review Don't be emberrased if you've never heard of this band or album before... Neither had I. Sinoath are an Italian melodic death metal band, who have lots of keyboards in their music. They sound maybe a bit like Crematory, only more death metal, and the singer has more of an old-fashioned 'shouting' grunt. It's very nice to listen to, only I suggest not to read the lyrics. They're so packed with Christian Morals that they make me slightly sick... But the music is okay Rating: 7 out of 10