Global Gothic Chart - Top 20 April 2009

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TOP 20 Songs of April 2009: 13 New Entries, and 7 Down
Status	Rank	Song Title	Artist / Group
*N.E.*	1	Is Heaven All That You Hear	Feeding Fingers
*N.E.*	2	To Believe In Something	The Eden House (feat. Monica Richards)
-2	3	In Chains	Depeche Mode
*N.E.*	4	The Pain	Lacuna Coil
*N.E.*	5	Breakdown	HDK
*N.E.*	6	My Little Tragedy	Zeromancer
*N.E.*	7	Tears of Autumn Rain	Eternal Tears of Sorrow
*N.E.*	8	To Catch A Thief	Anneke Van Giersbergen
-5	9	Shadowhaunt	My Dying Bride
*N.E.*	10	Earthling	Frozen Plasma
-8	11	Little Dolls	Indochine
*-10*	12	The Wedding	Diary of Dreams
*N.E.*	13	New Dawn Fades	Deathcamp Project
-9	14	All My Love	The Eden House (feat. Julianne Regan)
*N.E.*	15	April Rain	Delain
*-10*	16	To Lose My Life	White Lies
*N.E.*	17	One	Saints of Eden
*N.E.*	18	Kingdom of Rust	Doves
*-12*	19	Nightfall	Blutengel
*N.E.*	20	Hand of the Host	Isis

FEEDING FINGERS
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The trio Feeding Fingers is an American post-punk band founded in 2006. Baby Teeth is their second album, a full gothic and dark wave provocateur. Songs easy to mix with the old Cure, Bauhaus, and others. It's a cloudy winter, and the bass guitar reigns, and the songs creep you out if listened to in the darkness of your room at midnight. Is heaven all that you hear? It depends what you mean by heaven?

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Selected Lyrics of the Month...

Lacuna Coil - The Pain

I wake up to a smoking gun
The evidence is in your head
There's no proof of guilt or innocence
I'm finished with you taking me through
A line of questioning that feeds you
I'm must confess I'm here to kill the pain

To kill the pain (x4)
Chorus:
What can I do?
To kill the pain
How hard I fight?
To kill the pain
No matter how
To kill the pain
How long I've tried

The sword of justice in your hand
You cut me down, sharp like a blade
You make me want to never trust again
I'm finished with you draging me through
More lies and deceipt that feeds you
I'm must confess I'm here to kill the pain

To kill the pain (x4)
Chorus

Doesn't matter, if it mattered I would never have tried
To save us both from losing our minds
Doesn't matter if you shatter me now
I have to get away
The rain comes, the rain comes
Nothing's gonna buy you time
The rain comes, the rain comes
You know it's gonna come

Chorus

HDK - Breakdown

The seeds had been planted in advance
Still all this despair has made a mess
Revenge on my lips tastes sickly sweet
In wake of my pride’s bitterness

Devotion is poison, so toxic
Passion is venom, it’s deadly
Love is a cancer, a liar
Weaving corruption through every organ
It’s always been easy, too basic
Life is now dealing in credit
All of my debts come together
Fate is an agent wanting repayment

I made my bed, I crossed the lines
I tasted seduction so malign
It’s purring a warning in my ear
Confirming the fears I define

Hypocrisy sickens and haunts me
Fuels the fire, the hunger
Wary and scheming, I want this
Dulling the blade was never an option
Skeletons buried much deeper
Hidden and padlocked, this closet
Proffers the nerve to point fingers
Throw accusations, keeping my secrets

Chorus:
What is this grief surging through my veins
Devouring me whole?
What is this sting crippling me?
A total breakdown

Thrown out of balance, caught off-guard
Seeing the end before the start
In spite of my sense, I lost control
Leaving me battered and scarred

Feeling mistreated, resentful
Boundaries are bleeding, uncertain
Blurred by the act of commencement
No reservation and no discretion
Driven by predicting the future
Test every option ruthlessly
All these emotions confound me
Feel like a stranger in my own skin now

Chorus

Notes of the DARKMASTER

It's full full this month: From the post-punk number 1 to the progressive rock number 20.

Feeding Fingers are the biggest surprise of the year so far.
The Eden House are a marvellous number 2, a psychonaut feel for the 21st century.
Lacuna Coil are as strong as they can be. The pain is catching.
HDK, the new musical project of After Forever guitarist Sander Gommans. An aggressive style for a master.

Along with Depeche Mode, the top 5 this month is absolutely crazy and quite comprehensive.

Finally, just a word about the remake of the Joy Division song New Dawn Fades by the Deathcamp Project: it's a must hear!

Darkmaster
April 30, 2009

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