Vampire Valentine – Broken Sins

Between organ crypt and confessions

With ‘Broken Sins’, Vampire Valentine have delivered a real banger that is abso­lutely at home on their latest EP, ‘Scarred And Sacred’. Here, the English band explores the dark­er sides of the human psyche, both music­ally and lyr­ic­ally. At the heart of the song is the story of a man bur­ied under the weight of his sins and past deeds, who pleads daily for for­give­ness for the sal­va­tion of his soul. It’s a lyr­ic­al theme that really gripped me from the very first line.

I’m par­tic­u­larly impressed by the instru­ment­al real­isa­tion of this inner drama. The track picks up the tempo at a pleas­antly brisk pace and imme­di­ately invites you to dance, without los­ing any of its depth. What makes this song so spe­cial to me are the eer­ie organ melod­ies, which sound as though they’ve sprung straight from a clas­sic hor­ror film. Alongside this, care­fully placed syn­thes­iser accents provide strik­ing and clearly aud­ible high­lights. Vampire Valentine demon­strate a keen sense of atmo­sphere here, cre­at­ing a beau­ti­ful, sombre, old-school dark wave sound.

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Lyrics of "Vampire Valentine – Broken Sins"

A broken man I was today
A broken man like yesterday
All of my feel­ings swept away
I’ll hope and pray like yesterday
That all these feel­ings go away

all of my feel­ings swept away
while all the thoughts start to decay
ill hope and pray like yesterday
that all these feel­ings go away

A broken man I was today
A broken man like yesterday
All of my feel­ings swept away
While all the thoughts start to decay
I’ll hope and pray like yesterday
That all my feel­ings go away
I’ll hope and pray like yesterday
A Broken man I shall remain

A broken man I am today
A broken man like yesterday
A broken man I shall remain
A broken man like yesterday