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【简介】【看心情再翻。。。
“What if Jack the Ripper had played in aband? A heavy metal band?”
This is the question that formed andinfluenced WE SELL THE DEAD, this is the question that made the band.
Revolving around Niclas Engelin (In Flames,Engel), Drömriket’s Jonas Slättung, Gas Lipstick (former HIM) and the voice ofApollo Papathanasio (Spiritual Beggars, Firewind), WE SELL THE DEAD go beyondthe strains of conventional storytelling and create a multi-media experience ofpremium quality heavy metal music embedded in visually stimulating andatmospheric visuals.
WE SELL THE DEAD’s debut album “HeavenDoesn’t Want You And Hell Is Full” is going to be released on February 23rd,2018 on earMUSIC.
Heavy, yet melodic sounds transport thelistener into a Victorian inspired world that is defined by pompous manors anddaunting luxury standing in deep contrast to the harshness and cruelty of thegutter. It is a world that reeks of hysteria, but above all a sense ofmysticism and dark romanticism. WE SELL THE DEAD’s music rises above this, notmerely pointing out this injustice, but expanding the narrative into theextreme, playing with themes of ghosts, death or religion.
But not only…
Despite a reference to Victorian times, WeSell The Dead maintains a very modern and ever-so-current approach thattranslates to the world we live in today.
Explains Jonas Slättung: “From the late1800, an era that has inspired our band enormously, comes one of the greatestand darkest crime mysteries of them all: Jack the Ripper.
We don’t know 100% who he was but we knowhis horrendous deeds. All the visuals we had in our mind, combined with thesometimes slightly morbid lyrics, made us think that this is what music wouldhave sounded like if heavy metal had existed in the 19th century, or if Jackthe Ripper had travelled forward in time to join a metal band. We Sell the Deadwould have been his natural choice for a backing band. He probably would havefelt right at home with us.
But, at the same time, the world hasn’texactly evolved into a beautiful place since the 1880’s.
In the 1979 movie, ‘Time After Time’, Jackthe Ripper escapes justice by, indeed, fleeing in a time machine to 1979. Aftergetting caught by his followers, The Ripper utters this line of wisdom:
– back in 1893, I was a monster.Today...I’m an amateur.”
2017年12月08日 03点12分
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