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Cask of Amontillado

from Suicide In B Minor by Whispers In Crimson

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This track is named after a poem by Edgar Allan Poe by the same title. The fast parts depict Montresor’s urge to take revenge on Fortunado and punish him with impunity. No one knows why, except for Poe, or so we hope.

Montresor lures the rich Fortunado into a vault promising him his favorite wine, Amontillado. When Fortunado tastes the wine, he realizes that he has been walled in by his host while he was engaged with the spirit.

The slower part focuses on Poe’s own life and his obsession with his step mother with whom he wanted to die.

In short, the song is a rather superficial attempt to bring Poe’s life and art to the metal audience. Allan Parson did a great job in 1970s writing a beautiful song about the story. Allan Parson was my introduction to Poe at the age of 15. This song shows my literary and musical influences, but also serve as a prelude to my next album which will deal with genius “insane” artists like Poe and Gustav Klimt.

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Verse 1:
A thousand wounds I’d borne, but when he came to slander, I vowed revenge.

I made no threats at all. You who know my soul, at last, I’ll be avenged.
Lured him into the vaults, oh no, I am the master.
As he took a sip among the dead men, the last stone I plastered.

Pre-chorus
This is the tale of vengeance on Fortunado.
See this deadly shine, this is the wine.
Did you get to taste Amontillado?
Beware of your host. He’s in for the kill and more.
Chorus:
This is the cask, the cask of Amontillado.
To kill is my task. Will he live behind these walls?
His future and past, for a glass of Amontillado,
But his legend I’ll pass on to the house of Montresor.

Verse 2:
Thousand and one wounds, but only one slander, he’ll be ashamed.
I made no threats, you who know me well. I’ll take revenge
Lured him into the vaults, oh no, I am the master.

As he took a sip among the dead men, the last stone I plastered .
Pre-chorus
This is the tale of vengeance on Fortunado.
See this deadly shine, this is the wine.
Did you get to taste Amontillado?
Beware of your host, he’s in for the kill and more.
Chorus:
This is the cask, the cask of Amontillado.
To kill is my task. Will he live behind these walls?
His future and past, for a glass of Amontillado,
But this legend I’ll pass on to the house of Montresor.

Verse 3:
When you look inside of me, you see division.
It’s split personality, one man and his visions.
It’s me, and him, both in sane,
It’s me, and him both in pain,
It’s me, and her, we share one grave.
It’s me, it’s her, master and slave.

credits

from Suicide In B Minor, released June 26, 2014
Amirali Nourbakhsh electric and acoustic guitars
Hadi Kiani Keyboards
Herbie Langhans Vocals
Arash Moghaddam Drums
Dara Darai Bass

All songs written by Amirali Nourbakhsh

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Whispers In Crimson Tehran, Iran

The tracks on Whispers in Crimson’s first album, Suicide in B Minor, reflect the political mindset of the band’s founder, Amirali Nourbakhsh.
He was 13 when the Islamic Revolution took place in Iran overthrowing the Shah. As a son of an American-Iranian trained naval officer under the Shah’s regime, he witnessed how the 1979 revolution changed his life overnight. ... more

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