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ANATHEMA - "WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE'RE HERE"
by George Georgiou (song292@yahoo.gr)



"Life is not the opposite of death-death is the opposite of birth-life is eternal". The journey of a young man constantly staring at his inner world while he is leaving pieces of him behind, can find a lighthouse of peace in this phrase: stillness, calmness and light at last. Anathema have a new album after seven years and they kept digging inside them while being away. Their new, most awaited and furiously discussed piece of art keeps moving into a gentle melancholic clearing of post progressive melodic rock. Their familiar emotional blow carries the spirit of a man drowning in the waves of love, willing to leave behind the head and embrace the sentiment. This last music field is in fact the flame of love at its high when it becomes extremely smug and egoistic to question, to be afraid, to stare with suspicion against the history of love through the centuries. This recent, brave, strong light filling the rooms of the album is also interpretted with gentle shyness from a person whose aristocratical view indicates that has been hurt, has bled and paid the price.
In soundscapes of new acceptances and returns to emotional starting points, in lighthouses of support like being in a family, music spreads this bright material with a healing melancholy without never in fact closing the circle. Like the traveller that sooner or later will find the door closed against his face, Anathema celebrate with bittersweet drinks.And if you allow me a couple of them, I would willingly order "A simple mistake" and "Universal" over and over again until I'm drunk of their misty skill...