Bruce’s relationship with his father, described elliptically with Biblical imagery and tense, angry music. When I first heard Darkness, the LoudGuitarNerd™ in me totally dug the distorted guitar lines that this song is built around. Bruce takes that solo, one that has everything to do with strangled, barely-controlled passion, which then pauses for that anguished, almost tribal cry…before dropping back into the next even more feverish verse. It’s a moment so common on this album, where emotions run high and dark — and relentless.
The video shown below is the opener from a Boston show I saw back in 1999. They kind of telegraphed it by setting up a wall of slowly-building feedback. That was no spoiler though as they pretty much exploded into it. And yeah, so did we.
Up next: Something In The Night
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