Where secret passions are whispered into darkness, where dream and waking, intoxication and hangover dance closely, "Open Wounds" feels at home: Morbid Mafia folklore for hedonistic self-destructors, murder ballads for decadent lotus-eaters. Like a heavy red wine, SPIRITUAL FRONTâ¶s music gets better and better over the years - ever more exhilarating, ever more effective. As if SIMONE SALVATORI had to reach a certain age to understand his music properly. As if he had to accept that living means suffering. Now, the erotic enchantment of his masterpiece "Armageddon Gigolo" is back. On "Open Wounds", it mates with delicate prowess and baffling arrangements that would invoke envy in every Mafia orchestra.
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