Location: 50’s
One of the top tracks off my favorite Woods album, Woods V: Grey Skies and Electric Light
(“Travelling Alone” also features somewhere in the middle of the 100). Top to
bottom the strongest of Woods’ albums, 5
contains little filler. Toning down the black metal gives room for David Gold
to showcase his strong clean vocals, and on this track he employs his own
version of the “beauty and the beast” vocal approach common to gothic metal.
Gold’s lyrics are as sharp as ever, continuing his Camus-like philosophy of
being pessimistic but never defeatist. Throw in a terrific solo halfway through
and a barnstorming end and you’ve got one of the best midpaced metal songs of
the decade.
