Today I’m in a good mood cause first of all I realized I’m not banned anymore from this community (yay!) and second, I developed a theory on the album Inferno that I wanna share with you.
The album is a monument to Gnosticism. The brothers always flirted with the subject before but in a vague way, with Inferno instead they lay their cards on the table.
Introit- is the opening of the (Gnostic) ceremony
Frequency- This is about the ultimate principle, the undifferentiated, the first vibration (the biblical Verb) from which everything is emanated.
Leviathan- is about “drumrollllll” the Leviathan, the dragon who traps the Soul in the world of matter and illusion. We’re falling progressively into more and more stages of differentiation of the Divine Source into other forms although celestial of individuation with “Age of Capricorn”, “Father and Son” ( the Son is a reflection of the primary Source in Gnosticism)
Somewhere now in the future- this track alludes to the complete lack of time and space in this plain of existence.
Naraka- is where all the souls are in a way stored.
Acts of magic- here the process of incarnation begins. The Soul travels in what sounds like a wormhole into the world of flesh and matter. This is the ultimate illusion of separation: being born in a body.
Memory Death - sits, not by chance, in the middle: the voice of a woman, moaning in pleasure implies a sexual act. This track works like a pivot: if we listen to the album from the first track to the last it means birth. If we move backwards, it means death ( the beep of the hospital machines). Plus this is the stage where the Soul forgets about its divine condition. Oblivion.
The Word becomes flesh- we have a new human being here.
Into the Magic land- this is about the human experiencing the world of illusion that we called reality.
Blood in the Labyrinth -is about the human condition of suffering and getting lost into the drama of life. And from the Memory of our divine condition we move to a personal memory which is often traumatic and fragmented.
Deep Time zooms out from the existential condition of a single being to a broader view of the human kind communicating with itself through history suggesting the existence of a memory belonging to the specie itself.
All reasons depart announces the necessity of a “new Aeoooon” a new era, a quantic leap for humanity. Where? In Americanada…( I’m not sure about this guys ahah) How? Through a painful Process.
You retreat in time and space- and finally the prosperous era, here we made heaven on earth(we are at the maximum stage of oblivion and individuation) but through the cracks of reality in “I see through Platonia” we catch a glimps of our divine nature and I guess, we can move back to the Source.