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There’s personal pain and anguish, sure,” says Danny. “It doesn’t have to be about that. It can also be songs about gratitude for life – I’ve done them before. This one had that pain, cos the songs are all autobiographical. So if we’re singing about being in Springfield, feeling lost, that’s because I actually felt lost.” If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha” (1 Corinthians 16:22, KJV). Between these two events, something even more devastating happened: the Cavanagh’s mum died. It’s an understandably emotional subject, and in this case a complicated one too, but Danny doesn’t shy away from it.

It’s not that I don’t care,” he says. “I am proud of the recognition, and I am proud that people like it. And I’m proud that even in the difficult years, the band managed to keep creating these things. But that’s not the most important thing. The biggest deal to me would be health and happiness.”But their journey hasn’t been without its trials. There have been periods of personal and professional darkness, when it looked like they weren’t going to make it through. The Optimist itself was born of a troubled time in Danny Cavanagh’s life, though like the character at the centre of the record, both he and Anathema have emerged stronger and better. Brothers Daniel Cavanagh (above) and Vincent Cavanagh (below), both of them vocalists, guitarists and composers for the band

We, too, say: Maranatha!—“Our Lord, come!” And, also like them, we rely for salvation solely on the fact that Jesus came to live with us on Earth and die for us on the cross. Maranatha!—"Our Lord has come!” The release of Eternity came in 1996, relying more on atmospheric sounds, and starting the transition to clean vocals; [19] the album Judgement would later consolidate this style. A European tour followed the album's release.It's as though the book doesn't notice the shift from "an anathema" and "anathemas" to article-less "anathema"—or doesn't consider it important.

For Danny, life in Anathema – and out of it – is better now than it has been in a long time. “Right now, I feel some contentment with how it’s going,” he says. “The music’s getting better and better, the togetherness of the group is incredible. Music is healing for me, and it’s healing for people who listen to it. But it’s also the healing power of family. It’s the band that’s healed me, not the music. It’s being with them that’s cathartic.”Why insert a single Aramaic word in a letter written in Greek to Greek-speaking Christians? Paul must have assumed that those reading his letter would know what maranatha meant. But why didn’t he just say what he wanted to say in Greek? Why use the Aramaic— maranatha? Kahn-Harris, Keith (2007). Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. Berg. p.133. ISBN 978-1845203993. In the period between Anathema’s last album, 2014’s Distant Satellites, and the new record, Danny found himself struggling, mentally. He became a father for the first time just over four years ago, and the combination of parental responsibilities and the pressures that come with being an ambitious musician began to take their toll. Anathema began to change direction after the departure of Darren White in 1995. Previously just the guitarist, Vincent took over vocals duties on their second album, The Silent Enigma, but it was the follow-up, 1996’s Eternity, that marked a watershed. That album found them starting the process of phasing out their extreme metal past in favour of a more expansive sound that nodded to their beloved Pink Floyd. Vinnie was a reluctant singer at first. “I was learning on the go, and you can hear that,” he says (Danny is less critical: “Vinnie becoming the singer changed everything,” he says). If the KJV had included the period where it belongs, it would have expressed Paul’s meaning more clearly and accurately even though the KJV doesn’t translate either word into English. Why is Maranatha important to me today?