Analysing DSBM, 2 - Suicidal Emotions, Abyssic Hate
(No actual cover because it gets my post banned)
Real sorry for the delay. As before - choose the next album in the comments, let's begin
So, as I see this album, it's also pretty conceptual (somehow I really missed out on Abyssic Hate, so I've never read their lyrics before), the main themes are - Suicide (who could have guessed. And specifically - how one comes to this decision) and self-harm
Depression pt.1 - One of the best opening riffs in the entire DSBM, I could listen to just it again and again. Lyrically - the begging of the final stage of suicidal ideation, where he shows his absolute certainty in that his only true way and rest is death. He doesn't crawl to his goal, he stands proudly, and not in the scars of life, but in his own ones, as his blood (that's my own phantasy detour) paths his red-carpet road of razorblades. Now, in our times this album might look lyrically+- typical (still better than almost all of the works today, it's sincere, it's alive, unlike the tick-tock wave bands, manufacturing the skin without any knowledge of its muscle and bones, not even talking about vital organs. Sorry for the rant, but Lucifer, does it annoy me! I could start leaving my own poems under my analysis), reminds me of Make A Change... Kill Yourself, as they probably took inspiration from Abyssic Hate
Betrayed - Not so stoic suicider now, aren't you? After his partner leaves him (is it really that painful? I've never felt anything resembling love, so I have no idea) this new scar, along with his other that we have no idea with (as they're never lyrically shown) open up. It also may metaphorically be understood as the happiness itself left him, leaving him to die alone in his own scars, I actually think it's the most likely variant. Another step towards suicide, he feels betrayed, but does not understand his role in that he's lost
Depression pt.2 - Complete abandonment of even the idea of life or will to live. Sadness and fear choking his neck turn into hatred towards life, the world and mankind. Thinking that solely the people around him lead him to his suicidal state he wishes to have powers to destroy every and each trace of mankind, of course, he will never have it fulfilled. I think his hatred is the attempt of his mind to appear as an aggressive and powerful opponent towards perceived danger (other people in his life, who supposedly lead him in his abyss) and not to show his resentment towards them, for that nobody heard him when he was in agony, that nobody stopped his fly to the sun, and he had to experience how wax from his wings leaves blisters on his skin. Now he rejects everyone in his choice of death
Despondency - The act. His confusion, resentment and fear, sublimating in his hatred, sums up the last song of his album. Lyrically it's mostly just the repeating of themes of other songs, just culminating. It's interesting to me how he tries to accuse everyone of being afraid (precisely: of death), without insight of his own fear. Moreso, he might actually understand that he's afraid (like in the first song), but there's no insight of that, no understanding on how it affects other aspects of him and his life, just acknowledge of the fact he's afraid, and at his point, he's very unlikely to have that insight, as his view based on the emotions trying to protect him from that fear is completely taken over him (honestly, I'm no better, even with understanding, rather the opposite, this album is really close to me). And at that point, he presumably does it, as his soul finds peace within the realm of dark (or whatever he believes in, I just think about this solely from lyrics, I know nothing about the men behind the project).
So, I hope you've enjoyed my analysis, suggest the next album, bye