Spiritual War Songs 2018

POPOFOBIC - "SPIRITUAL WAR SONGS" (ALBUM - 2018 - VUV RECORDS 034) - REVIEW


"Spirital War songs" is the latest album from "Popofobic". It starts off with a intro-track called "Tuning Back To Creation 432 Khz" and it refers to the tuning in which we can play bass and guitars for example. It also features a basun or trumpet-like sounding the alarm, just like the angels did in Revelations 8:7:


"7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. 
A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up."


The next song is "Yeshua King Of All..." and here we get the clear message that Jesus Christ, our saviour, is coming. Heavy riffing with a melodic guitar-part over the chorus "The Heavens will shake, the beast will break". What´s great in general, not only with track 2, but with the complete album is that it is sounding like a great live-recording in a small room. 

"Got No Sorrow" follows as the third track. It almost got some "delta-blues-rock"-riffing to it. "There will always be tomorrow...the times has come" is one of the lines, which deals with the "sorrow-topic". Yet we should not despair, the hope is real and it´s God.


Next up is "Song 19", which starts of with some "NHL-hockey-like" organ. For those of you familiar with "progg-rock" this track will give you a glimpse of that yet with God as the ultimate goal and not anything else. Perhaps that it is instrumental, gives it a bit more of that "progg-rock"-vibe. Alternatively it´s like the organ-player in a church in southern America before the Sunday service doing some solo-bits before the body of the church arrives.


"Bow Down Before Jerusalem" again deals with Christ coming and that many people are "lost in their own world", and not "ready". "Get ready, are you ready?"

Next track is "All Out Spiritual War" and it screams out that "...Christ is the lord". Perhaps a hint to what is going on in Syria and Iraq. While we think that it´s a "concrete war" between "people", it might be a greater "Spiritual War" going on with the spirits of "Antichrist", who tricks and plays with peoples minds.


"Song 18" is another interlude-track with instrumental synths and bass. A piece that synth/ambient-master "Eno" would like to steal.


"Take Me Out Of Babylon" is quoting the Revelation, chapter 18. This is quoted in Swedish. The chorus is sung in english and repeats "Take Me Out Of Babylon".

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“‘Come out of her, my people,’[b]
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
5 
for her sins are piled up to heaven,
    and God has remembered her crimes.
6 
Give back to her as she has given;
    pay her back double for what she has done.
    Pour her a double portion from her own cup.
7 
Give her as much torment and grief
    as the glory and luxury she gave herself.
In her heart she boasts,
    ‘I sit enthroned as queen.
I am not a widow;[c]
    I will never mourn.’
8 
Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her:
    death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,
    for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.



The second to last track is "Dry lands, Wet hearts", which is another instrumental piece that would fit perfectly in a "New Testament"-movie. Preferably when Peter (Petrus) has realised that he has denied that he knew Jesus Christ:

54 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance. 55 And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. 56 Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” 57 But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” 58 And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.” 59 And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.” 60 But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. 61 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” 62 And he went out and wept bitterly.
(Luke 22:54-62)

"Song 17" ends the record with a instrumental piece with a blues-rock-riff and some guitars-solos over it. A great end to a excellent record. Perhaps the best record from the back-catalogue!