Lichtgestalt

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Lichtgestalt
Lichtgestalt cover
Studio album by Lacrimosa
Released May 2, 2005
Recorded 2005
Genre Gothic metal
Length 1:09:12
Label Hall of Sermon
Producer Tilo Wolff
Lacrimosa chronology
Echos
(2003)		 Lichtgestalt
(2005)

Lichtgestalt is a 2005 album by German gothic rock duo Lacrimosa.

[edit] Music

Recorded in 2005, it consists of 9 tracks, including the two different versions of The Party Is Over. The album has strong elements of symphonic metal. The album continues in the musical vein of Lacrimosa's previous albums, in contrast to Tilo Wolff's other musical project, Snakeskin.

Lyrics cover Lacrimosa's by-now standard themes of love, estrangement and loneliness. A notable exception is the last individual track, Hohelied der Liebe, a song written entirely for orchestra and choir with no rock elements at all, and with lyrics taken from St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. 'Hohelied' is the Lutheran name for the Old Testament book Song of Songs.

[edit] Track listing

English translations of the German titles have been shown in (brackets).

  1. Sapphire - 11:14
  2. Kelch der Liebe (Chalice Of Love) - 06:05
  3. Lichtgestalt (Luminous Figure) - 05:18
  4. Nachtschatten (Night Shadows) - 07:08
  5. My Last Goodbye - 08:18
  6. The Party Is Over -05:29
  7. Letzte Ausfahrt: Leben (Last Exit: Life) - 05:44
  8. Hohelied der Liebe (Lovesong of Lovesongs) - 14:30
  9. The Party Is Over (piano) - 05:33