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Discography · Studio album

Party Music for Graveyards

Released
7 September 2010
By
Bloody Mary
Label
Valery Records
Format
CD-DA
Catalogue
VRCD070
Length
48:38

Didascalic Concept

The 1920s, somewhere in the mountains between Germany and Austria: a laboratory beside a graveyard. A scientist has lost his wife, and like a new Frankenstein he means to bring her back — not her body, but her self: her whole complex, many-sided personality, stitched together from pieces of brains.

The party of the title is his. It is the nights he spends going from graveyard to graveyard in search of the pieces, happy in the hope of having her back: a macabre joy, moved by love. The theremin that enters the band's sound here is the sound of his experiments. He never succeeds, and he is left alone with his laboratory, somewhere in the Teutonic mountains.

His notes are in the booklet: biochemical formulas he never solved. Whoever solves them will find what he could not have known.

Though the record never says so, the world around him is no longer ours: a few years earlier, history turned another way. This is the second chapter of the Didascalic Concept.

12 songs

Tracks

  1. 01 Velvet 4:24
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran, Dr. Frog

    Reflection of a mystic spire massive blood flow to the wire,
    contortion of romantic pyre refrain hatred, crime, a liar
    between a fragrant needle cry, you’re to fix what I can buy,
    between the line I’m passing by, feed my hunger lest I die,
    till I’m dry.

    My mind distortion goes to trade, pollution of my soul to aid,
    would you escort me ‘fore I fade? Take my hand and you’ll be saved.
    A bitter slime that you betrayed pleading mercy like a slave,
    a sweaty velvet virgin made, feed my hunger lest I fade,
    ‘fore I’m scathed

    You’re diggin up my grave,
    deep petal you can’t save
    a wretched fortune for the brave.
    You’re diggin up my grave,
    nobody you can save
    a better carnal junk head slave.

    Would you give up your precious time and get me out from this decline?
    The psychotropic state of mind Will never render you divine.
    Just see that I’m sorry, see me sorry, see me sorry, know that I forgot,
    a sweaty velvet girl desire, feed my hunger in the fire,
    deem me your sire

    Taken from my grave, forsaken from my grave...

    Would you give up your precious time and get me out from this decline? The psychotropic state of mind Will never render you divine.

  2. 02 Better down 4:23
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran, Jürgen, Dr. Frog

    Everything should be alright, ain’t gotta penny to my name,
    everything should be alright, even my house burned down.
    Everything should be alright, the final notice arrived,
    everything should be alright and you waved me goodbye.

    Left me to burn and you waved me goodbye,
    why should I hear another goodbye?

    Everything should be alright, you only gave me strife,
    everything should be alright and you waved me goodbye.

    I want to cut the ties,
    don’t wonna see you ever no never again,
    wanted you to stop me
    but you didn’t and you waved me goodbye.

    I picked up the first fuckin’ train that went by,
    maybe the last escape from your pig sty.

    I liberated myself from these polluted shores,
    gave me a deep infection filled my rotten sores.
    The grass is always greener on the other side,
    leave me in the garden that bears my name,
    I’d be better down.

    Everything should be alright, my solitude I taste,
    everything should be alright, like a weeping princess.

    I want to break these chains,
    don’t wonna see you ever, no never again,
    wanted you to stop me
    but you didn’t and you waved me goodbye.

    I’d be better down, won’t you send me down.

  3. 03 Sobibor 3:47
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran, Dr. Frog

    Sobibor, how many people pass through...
    Sobibor and now it’s time for you.

    Ripped inside, bleeding tide on their side,
    beaten dried kicked aside lest I hide,
    wish that I’d, never cried for my bride,
    suffer eternal divide.

    Nothing gained through my strain in this pain,
    ash in rain, taste your stain, in my brain
    will I wain for a grain, love in rain,
    will my love only be feigned.

    Has come for you, suffer eternal divide,
    has come for you, for my bride eternal Divide.

    I’m still dreamin’ of you.

  4. 04 Fallen Christ 4:10
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran, Jürgen, Dr. Frog

    I saw you, I caught you in a blue time,
    I lost you, you fled me meanwhile.
    Possession in your virgin redemption made me Godlike,
    a blood bond forever to make you mine.

    Don’t blame me, forget me, I’m a "Fallen Christ",
    that even the Devil denied, with huge disguise.
    Beat me, looking for the better solution fulfill my pride,
    ‘cause I know, that you can’t fill my heart.

    I wish you filled my heart, I tried to hide my lies
    but when I woke myself I realized... Forget me.

    Could you ever feel my ego staring at your eyes?
    Did you ever feel an echo overstep the line?
    Can you teach your inner secret to the "Fallen Christ"?
    I think I’ve lost my own direction, one more time!

    I wish you were the one, to be the only one
    but when I looked at you I saw myself.

    I cry, I shout but you’re still not mine,
    in spite of all the things I’ve done you’ll never be mine.

    I’m a Fallen Christ,

  5. 05 Somebody to love 4:39
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran

    Did the cold night disturb you?
    Did a feeling insert you?
    Was it someone who hurt you?
    Does the solitude warm your heart?

    Are you harbouring poison?
    You still trust in the dreams you had?
    Are you broken inside you?
    Who is suffering? Would you know?

    Never let go, it’s harder than we know...
    Don’t suffer alone ‘couse everyone knows:
    Everyone needs somebody...

    Nobody can be without somebody to love.

    It takes a lot time to unstain you,
    don’t think time don’t take patience,
    blood is thicker than water,
    will your brothers pick you up?

    You won’t drown, you won’t drown...

    Feel the light from around you,
    feel the light that won’t drown you,
    we dig up for the party
    and you’ll never be like before...

  6. 06 Before you fade 3:48
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran

    What are you doing inside your dark room?
    Crystal reflection, what are you dying from?
    Look in the mirror, searching for your form,
    never respecting What you got deep inside.

    You’re wasting your life across the emotion,
    in yourself confide, reflective over oceans.

    What are you feeling outside your ego?
    No one to follow to find your equal.
    Look in the mirror, never let you go,
    not superficial, what you got deep inside.

    I know it...

    You’re wasting your life across the emotion,
    in yourself confide, reflective over oceans.
    Don’t spend your whole life trust love in potions,
    in others confide, try sharing your emotions.

    Spread out your own emotions, before you fade.

  7. 07 Dreamer 3:41
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran

    Dreamer... Just a cast away,
    I’ve always been and now, I realize.

    Tasting the sorrow I’ve learnt to understand:
    It’s just sorrow that makes you blind.

    The dreamer, dreams other worlds
    to escape tediousness of grey tired days.

    Tasting the sorrow I’ve learnt to understand:
    It’s just sorrow that makes you blind,
    and then you don’t care for the rest, of the world,
    no one cares if you’re falling down.

    My world is dying and I don’t cry,
    You are so fine, sorry, but I’m so blind.

    A dreamer takes on a mile
    happiness an inch betray, run away.

    Dreamer... Just a cast away,
    I’ve always been and now, I realize...

  8. 08 Gettin' older 3:56
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran

    Like a grey eyeball filter for comfort
    nothing unstable, too prone to contort,
    in a throne plastic, rivets and solder,
    everything gettin' older.
    Biophysical acid to hold you
    dripping pure you're still hoping to pull through,
    saddened mother a counterfeit shoulder,
    everything gettin' older.

    Sleeping suffering never should I betray you,
    weeping wondering never could I dismay you.

    Come for my shoulder, come for me colder...
    Come for, I told her, everything gettin' older.

    Is a throne mechanism for envy,
    hatred, spite, jealous prison you send me,
    broken frame, maybe I need a shoulder...
    Maybe I'm gettin' older

  9. 09 Pet Sematary 3:25
    Lyrics · words by Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey

    Under the arc of a weather stain boards
    ancient goblins and warlords
    come out the ground not making a sound,
    the smell of death is all around
    and the night when the cold wind blows
    no one cares, nobody knows.

    I don’t want to be buried in a pet sematary,
    I don’t want to live my life again.
    I don’t want to be buried in a pet sematary,
    I don’t want to live my life again.

    Follow victor to the sacred place,
    this aint a dream, I cant escape,
    molars and fangs, the clicking of bones,
    spirits moaning among the tombstones
    and the night, when the moon is bright,
    someone cries, something aint right.

    The moon is full, the air is still,
    all of the sudden I feel a chain,
    Victor is grinning, flesh rotting away,
    skeletons dance, I curse this day
    and the night when the wolves cry out,
    listen close and you can hear me shout.

  10. 10 The Right Way 3:36
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran, Jürgen, Dr. Frog

    I was enough to be by myself,
    I didn’t need anyone else,
    enough to be the right way?
    The desolation was the answer
    and nothing could ever touch me,
    enough to be the right way?

    I was spending all my days to find something
    to keep me more alive or made me just rise?
    But liven up my mind psychotropic start,
    enough to be the right way?

    But I’m in love with you, I’m in love with you too,
    but what I really need is to be loved like I love.

    ‘Cause I know what you think
    when you look in my eyes,
    when I start to cry how can you still smile?
    Who are you to believe that I lie when I say:
    "I'm trying to leave, that I’m trying to fly".

    I think I could be wrong,
    a faux pas cold like stone,
    not enough to be the right way.
    We are made of flesh and blood
    but something burns our veins
    like carbonated chains.

  11. 11 Deathly gone 4:04
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran, Dr. Frog

    All the seasons change, slowly rearrange,
    all theese feelings make me afraid,
    I can see the trees, broken flowerpots
    rusting brown autumn leaves, like me...
    Icy river flows freezes everything,
    all the sealife beneath remains,
    like a fish I feel, I can’t break this ice
    and I will float away.

    My world is flooding down and I’m try to swim again
    but it’s hard for me to stay in this cryogenic state.

    Birds have flown away suffering broken wings
    that nobody is able to cure,
    who will heal these wounds
    that have burdened me like a harrowing scar.

    You know what I mean, you know what I mean,
    you know when these thing can change.
    You know what I mean, you know what I mean,
    you know when these feelings cause pain.
    You know what I mean, you know what I mean,
    when my world is flooding down...
    When my life is deathly gone.

    A burning masquerade I have to let it be,
    if I can realize my face will never hide.

    It’s flooding down... It’s flooding right down.

  12. 12 The Reason 4:41
    Lyrics · words by Aldebran, Jürgen, Dr. Frog

    Night or day, black or white, sun or rain, live or die...
    Maybe just the same.
    Everything is a face, we reveal just a side
    of the same refrain.

    Come to see the Dark Fool,
    Jester’s on the altar shout his fairy tale, here we go!

    Spinning around through the vicious circle,
    I'm facing the ground, I’m destined for nowhere.

    I really need to see the reason,
    I’m searching for another way to understand
    why you’re still so far from me,
    while other things join together.

    Dusk to dawn you’re afar, anger spent 'gainst the wall,
    time is flowing slow.
    Wretched bitch, carnal way, heathen way but anyway
    I won’t be your drip.

    Staring at the outside waiting like
    a fooled bride I devour myself,
    I’m alone, sacred whore... I’m alone!

    Fool me again with unholy torture but
    never again will I be your lighthouse.

    I realise today the reason,
    I don’t need another way to understand,
    a little variation can change everything.

18 press items

What they wrote

Interview

Ritual

Aldebran: With their albums Bloody Mary are as if on a time machine, exploring particular historical periods. Our albums are a sort of concept, but not in the common sense of the term: I developed the technique of the didactic concept, where the topos of the story is not stated by the lyrics but, anagogically, by…

on Party Music for Graveyards

Review

Metallus

8/10

"Party Music For Graveyards" is the long-awaited new album by Milan's Bloody Mary. The band is devoted to an interesting gothic rock, influenced as much by the work of sacred monsters such as Fields of The Nephilim and The Cult as by the new wave of the eighties, all of it heightened by Tim Burton-like atmospheres and…

by Eva Cocianion Party Music for Graveyards

Review

Metal.it

7.5/10

Milan's Bloody Mary reach their third release, confirming themselves as one of the most interesting realities in the gothic world, and not only at a national level. An absolutely enjoyable record, full of eighties atmospheres, that would not look out of place at all next to other masterpieces of the genre.

by Alessandro Queroon Party Music for Graveyards

Review

Ver Sacrum

I fear many will hastily compare Party music for graveyards with the latest release by the Finns The 69 Eyes. An unforgivable mistake, if we carefully analyse the contents of this record and, above all, the concrete substance that has set apart what the two bands have produced over the years.

by Hadrianuson Party Music for Graveyards

Interview

Ver Sacrum

Hot off the press, Party music for graveyards, the second album from the Bloody Mary crew, the fruit of an ambitious and demanding creative process that makes the narrative the soundtrack of the music, the protagonist of the record in a sort of reversal of the usual notion of a concept album.

by Hadrianuson Party Music for Graveyards

Review

Roxx Zone

7.5/9

At last (it was supposed to come out in 2007!) here is Party Music For Graveyards, Bloody Mary's second full-length: as the earlier appetiser for the trade, Dig Up For The Party, suggested, this new full-length is the ideal continuation of the debut Blood n Roll, released in 2005 by the English SixSixSix Records,…

by Stefano Gottardion Party Music for Graveyards

Interview

Metallus

Stranger: Bloody Mary were born in Milan in 2000 with the absolute will to play excellent gothic rock in total freedom of expression. Thanks to our first EPs, which were very well received by both the public and the press, and to Aldebran's charisma, we began playing all over Italy.

by Eva Cocianion Party Music for Graveyards

Review

Metal Italia

6.5/10

The beautiful cover by Marco Hassman (who also draws for Disney) takes us into the colourful but dangerous world created by Bloody Mary, an Italian band now at its second full-length after the debut "Blood'N'Roll" and the mini-album "Dig Up For The Party", which already partly anticipated the sound of the new record…

by Luca Paronon Party Music for Graveyards

Review

Dark Italia

8/10

After HIM's embarrassing "Screamworks.." (lost for years now in a limbo of colourless pop..), a work that wipes out even what could be saved in "Venus doom", and with the 69 eyes lost behind fake gothic-street poses in the style of a "poor man's Motley Crue", the genre's salvation comes from Italy, with the new CD by…

by Lunariaon Party Music for Graveyards

Videos

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