This is incredibly cinematographic. I still remember the picture I had in my mind the first time I listened to this. Plus, this is so well put together I initially thought it was a successful single, or something made by a full professional band. I didn't know it was just two normal people on a very low budget recording.
I think Bloodhail is the most representative song out of Deathconsciousness: it's dark, brutal, dramatic but also so vivid and romantic.
The vast majority of albums ... read more
As a form of art and expression, you can't push music any further than this. Only few other songs in music history are this intense. The only word I would use to describe It, which I would not for anything else but this, is transcendental.
The song itself is not even that bad. The point is she already used a very similar refrain in Juno, plus the instrumentation is very tacky in some spots, particularly in the intro with those synths that would have been disgusting in the 80's as well. An acoustic Tiny desk style rendition would do much more justice to the song.
Giving a low score to a song just because you disagree with the lyrics is the most stupid thing ever, unless the song is centered not around the music but mainly on the lyrics themselves. Of course the lyrics are a protagonist element in the title track, but I think the song is musically good, so the lyrical superficiality pales against that. My argument would have been different if the lyrics were seriously bad like Kanye's (to the point they are intrusive), but I think it's really ... read more