The heart of the beast, or the beast in the heart?
Maybe because of the initial cover that had to be replaced by the (very nice) current one, the title of this album always makes me think of The Beast Within - second episode of the Gabriel Knight game trilogy, which tells the story of a forbidden passion and of a fight for life and principles. The hero's internal conflict is as powerful as the struggle against the enemy; and when the enemy also exerts a fatal attraction on his rival, the fight becomes a lot more than a matter of life and death.
I don't know if the album in question was inspired at all by the above story, but the music definitely has an insidious charm, accentuated by the splendid vocals and lyrics. A dark, unsettling atmosphere dominates; the passion and weird beauty of the melodies "bites" its way into the listener's heart, leaving behind a strange and bittersweet feeling...
An album worth discovering.
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