Engel: Melodic Metal, Superb Song Texts, And One Hell Of An (Absolute) Design!

By Sebastiaan

I want you to leave me far behind,
To start over and create something new.
I want you to be free from me and find,
Someone special to call your own.

From: Casket Closing.

Another find from the budget corner: one, single euro for a CD by the melodic death metal band Engel, the album Absolute Design. I listened to it almost right away, and no, I did not know they existed, nor that they were this good. The CD cover design just intrigued me. Now, a few months later, I'm listening once more, and this time, some of the lyrics are really impressing me. I already noticed this the first time listening, but I didn't care to look them up in the booklet. Well, I finally did.

The lyrics at the top of the post are from Casket Closing, the second track of the album. It's the chorus, and what a chorus it is! To me, it's about coming to terms with having to let go of someone, which a lot of us have to go through at a certain point in their lives, because of illness, or at the end of a friend/relationship, or because of both. Or because of any number of reasons...

Oh, everything I've been fighting for,
Is behind the next closed door.
I've been fighting all my life,
I want to turn this page around.

From: Next Closed Door.


These lyrics are from the third track of the album, again, the chorus. For me this one means, well, literally turning the page: getting on with my life. Again, I am surely not the only one who has had to do this. In fact, I believe everyone is constantly turning pages: while you are reading, you enjoy life, but at the end of the page, the story turns sad, and you have to turn the page but it's really hard to do so, because you're afraid the story  will continue to be sad, even though in fact the story has not yet been written. You write your own story. It's not about standing still, waiting for the next page or chapter to unfold - you stand in the middle of your life, it's your call. So make the most of it. Now.

Overall, the Absolute Design album has a nice metal sound to it: mostly fast drums, nice guitar riffs, grunting when it's necessary, and a very melodic sound to it.

Plus, the cover design is absolutely brilliant!

Listen here.

Some more nice lyrics with which I will leave you:

Split my flesh to reveal
There's nothing left to curse.
Tearing my wounds in vain
when seeking for myself in pain.

From: Trial and Error.

Calling out so I'll change my ways,
working hard to turn me in to someone else,
they don't see why I choose to be me,
trying hard to end the reason of my life.

From: Calling Out.