But, What Ends When Symbols Shatter?

Death in June (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 1, 2001)
• Label: Ner
• ASIN: B00005IAGQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #460,717 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the project of ambiguity, September 24, 2003

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Luis Santiago Baptista "Luis Santiago Baptista" (Lisboa, Portugal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: But, What Ends When Symbols Shatter? (Audio CD)

This is an astonishing record. DIJ achieves here the peak of his main theme: ambiguity. If «the world that summer», «brown book» and «the wall of sacrifice» are indeed excellent albuns the tone is still mainly one-sided: apocaliptic both in sound and lyrics. The difference that I find in this record in contrast with the previous ones is that for the first time ambiguity reigns. The lyrics are darker («death is the martyr of beauty») but the base of some of them are indeed altered Christian songs, that maintain the religious sound and tone. Some of the songs have really problematic ideas («helping one race, one creed to meet their need», «to love, to cull, to share», «let us try today to live and die the same way», «when out of men's hearts all hate is gone it's better to die than forever live on», «don't you know God is disabled», etc). All this is not new in DIJ («to love is to lose, and to lose is to die», «my hate is love to me», etc). But the most relevant thing in «what ends when the symbols shatter» is that paradoxically the apocaliptic message is presented in a harmonious beauty to catch us by feeling. This is the possible future that Douglas P. dream of and believe in that can be found in the end of the line through the inversion of all values, his new world. And here he expresses it not mainly by racional ideas but by an excess of sensibility. For us it's not a question of supporting his ideas (its all built in a world of ambiguity, remember) but a way of experiencing this fragmented world we live in. To appropriate this record is mainly to experience our irreversible ambiguity as human beings. For those who fall in the trap of the pure racional approach, there is no ambiguity and conversely no way of entering this/our world.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, May 12, 2001

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Joseph Henderson (Pine Mountain, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: But, What Ends When Symbols Shatter? (Audio CD)

If anyone is looking for a great, dark,landmark album, death in june's "but what happens..."is waiting for you! not only does it supply the dark and beautiful voice of douglas P. but also the awesome depressing,mystical and mellow sound of witch these songs portray. i love every song on here, except:"daedalus rising." but alas, there unforgetable songs like "little black angel" alot of acoustic,but very dark. also one of my favorites "the giddy edge of light." you can loose yourself in this song and lyrics.if you love the dark yet the beautiful,dont deny it, get it now!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Ends Indeed!, July 20, 2004

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Gregor "Ravenrune" (New Albion) - See all my reviews

This review is from: But, What Ends When Symbols Shatter? (Audio CD)

The question asked in the title sets the tone and theme of this CD. What happens when the archtypes of our culture are destroyed? This is a call to the real cultural war, a call to return to the pre-Christian symbols driven deep into our souls.