{"id":213,"date":"2009-12-03T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=213"},"modified":"2009-12-03T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:02:35","slug":"black-heart-procession-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2009\/12\/03\/black-heart-procession-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Heart Procession &#8211; Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-214\" title=\"black-heart-procession\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-heart-procession.jpg\" alt=\"black-heart-procession\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>While I don\u2019t believe any of their subsequent albums have rivaled their 2002 album Amore del Tropico (Tropics of Love), the Black Heart Procession have nonetheless made a valiant effort to reach for those heights. Returning to the counting scheme of their first three records, the San Diego band also retains the foreboding tone they\u2019ve honed through all their prior recordings\u2014atmospheric strings, ominous, impassioned vocals and rumbling bass, all supporting vocalist Paulo Zappoli\u2019s dark tales. Love, death and the intersection between the two have long been lyrical tropes for the Black Heart Procession, and Six finds them digging fresh holes in the same graveyard. \u201cWhen You Finish Me\u201d speaks of being buried by a lover and \u201cWasteland\u201d finds the protagonist hearing \u201cghosts calling me back to the grave.\u201d Things don\u2019t end in the ground though, as characters pursue their lovers through \u201cHeaven and Hell\u201d and burn in flames (\u201cAll My Steps\u201d). Clearly this isn\u2019t a voyage for the faint of heart and neither is an album by the Black Heart Procession\u2014though you\u2019d expect nothing less considering their moniker and their catalogue. This is a bleak and troubled listen, but there\u2019s a dark beauty buried in its heart. (Temporary Residence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.temporaryresidence.com\">www.temporaryresidence.com<\/a>) <strong>Michael Elves<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I don\u2019t believe any of their subsequent albums have rivaled their 2002 album Amore del Tropico (Tropics of Love), the Black Heart Procession have nonetheless made a valiant effort to reach for those heights. Returning to the counting scheme of their first three records, the San Diego band also retains the foreboding tone they\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}