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Сольный альбом популярного вокалиста групп Импилитери и в свое время M.A.R.S. Странно что за более чем 15-и летнюю карьеру этот музыкант только недавно выпустил первый сольник - при его-то возможностях и связях крайне необычно оставаться в тени. Вобщем, как и обычно подсуетился Rob Z., который для многих хеви проектов является той пружиной, которая таки заставляет работать и выпускать новые альбомы. Качество музыки на сольнике интереснее даже чем в последнем их совместном релизе WARRIOR. Сиграно все отлично, записано в их духе: ритм-секция идеально, гитара - чуть грязновато. Пилят отличные соло, да и вокал на высоте -) Лучшие вещи - ковер ABBA "Eagle", потом еще Judgement Day и просто блестящая Forever. Мастхэв...но только для фэнов классического хеви метал. |
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Роб Рок - великолепный вокалист, один из моих любимых солистов наравне с Тобиасом Самметом и Михаэлем Киске. Следить за его творчеством начал как раз из-за его вокальных способностей. Вообщем и Warrior'е он неплохо пел, но в принципе музыка казалась однообразной. Подтвердил свои потрясные вокальные способности Рок на Tobias Sammet's Avantasia. Сольняк тоже неплох, с удовольствием послушал, ностальгия по хорошему heavy metal'у - так бы я охарактеризовал этот альбом. Действительно хеви высшей пробы, без слабых мест, солист Рок всё также зажигает. Почему не 10 тогда, спросите вы? Да, просто альбом, как многие хеви творения, малость однообразен. |
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Роб Рок - это один из самых харизматичных и талантливых вокалистов восьмидесятых годов, несущий настоящий, такой, каким он сам видит хэви метал, и в наше время. Для меня всегда оставалось загадкой, почему же Роб не очутился в каком-то культовом проекте наподобие Пристов или Мэйденов и тем самым не увековечил своё имя на доске почёта? Однако, история показала что есть место и этому великому человеку в сердцах многих миллионов рокеров. Карьера Роба Рока началась в 1986 году с выпуском альбома группы M.A.R.S. «Project: Driver», который принёс певцу огромную популярность, а сама пластинка стала одним из самых лучших примеров хэви метала в восьмидесятых. И вот оказалось, что МАРС в прошлом, и Роб попадает в Joshua, позже судьба забрасывает его в Impellitteri и Axel Rudi Pell, если быть точным, то ещё фигурируют проекты под названием Warrior и Angelica в более позднее время. Особенную популярность Роб получил конечно же у Импелитери и Акселя Руди Пелла, но в очередной раз ситуация коренным образом изменилась, и в итоге Рок остаётся без коллектива и единственным правильным решением находит основание бэнда под своим собственным именем. Рискованно, не правда ли? Да, но только не для Роба Рока! Заручившись поддержкой модного продюсера Роя З (Helloween, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, Judas Priest) Роб в 2000 записывает свой дебютный альбом, партии гитар и клавиш на котором и исполняет сам Рой З, а на некоторых песнях засветился даже легендарный Джейк Е Ли (Ozzy Osbourne). Музыка на «Rage Of Creation» характеризуется качественным хэви металом, с элементам пауэра и NWOBHM, хотя ничего нового музыкант, конечно, не открыл, зато вспомнил, как звучал раньше МАРС и Импеллитери пока он в них вокалировал! Событие это, конечно, было весьма шумным, тем более что диск множество как поклонников самого Роба, так и простых хэви металистов приняли очень хорошо, соответственно, оценил и я данный опус. Прекрасные композиции, такие как забойная открывашка «The Sun Will Rise Again», эпическая «Judgment Day», яркая «Streets Of Madness» и печальная мидтемповая «Forever» радуют красивыми мелодиями и мощным драйвом, а кавер на Аббу «Eagle» получился вообще великолепно! Кое-что здесь конечно заслуживает и острой критики, это, например, весьма посредственный и неоригинальный саунд, и где же популярный низкий и мощный звук Роя З?! Да и сам музыкальный материал иногда выглядит весьма плоско, хотя самым большим минусом можно будет назвать разве что только непримечательную обложку диска! Но в целом же, «Rage Of Creation» - очень сильный релиз, который послужит отличным подарком всем поклонникам Impellitteri, Axel Rudi Pell и самого Роба Рока. Хорошее начало… |
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Although the scars will leave a trace
The sun will rise again
Just like a killer of time
Don't let depression define you
You've got to make up your mind
Now it's your turn to fly
No matter what we have to face
The sun will shine again
Although the scars will leave a trace
The sun will rise again
You know that life isn't fair
Nobody owes you tomorrow
You're in the pit of despair
Turn the page on your sorrow
No matter what we have to face
The sun will shine again
Although the scars will leave a trace
The sun will rise again
It's time to turn another page
The sun will shine again
Somehow this too shall pass away
The sun will rise again
3. One Way Out
Liar, selling you lies from the start
Deceiver, feeding on you like a shark
See it coming, feel it breaking you down
Time is running, wasting away for so long
There's only one way out
Tear down the walls that cover your mind
One way out
Open your eyes to the lies
Seeker, you search for the meaning of life
Changes, waiting for you to ignite
See it coming, feel it burning your soul
Tide is turning, leaving you out in the cold
There's only one way out
Tear down the walls and open your mind
One way out
Leave all this mayhem behind
One way out
Tear down the walls that cover your mind
One way out
Open your eyes to the lies
One way out
Tear down the walls that color your mind
One way out
Leave all this mayhem behind
One Way Out!!!
4. Judgment Day
Violence, wrath and chaos
Blood fills the street
Generals lead their masses
Children at their feet
Judgment Day
Will the sun refuse to shine
Judgment Day
When the stars fall from the sky
Come Armageddon
The woman rides the beast
Wisdom from the heavens
Anger, plagues, disease
Judgment Day
When the stars fall from the sky
Judgment Day
Good and evil will collide
Judgment Day
There's a rider on the storm
Judgment Day
Bringing justice and the sword
Kings of earth are unclean
Babylon demon seed
Riches, splendor, blinded by her luxuries
Lead the nations astray
Kill the prophets and saints
Deluded and fallen, the mark of the beast
The beast and the dragon are false
Weeping and mourning cry out
Scavengers feast, eating your flesh
Judgment Day
When the stars fall from the sky
Judgment Day
Good and evil will collide
Judgment Day
There's a rider on the storm
Judgment Day
Bringing justice and the sword
5. Streets Of Madness
Voices in the shadows, whispers in the night
Telling him that vengeance will make everything all right
Tortured as a child, condemned by all his peers
Thoughts that have no reason and a heart that's full of fear
Caught between denial and delusions of his mind
No mercy in the system, there's no place left to hide
Crazy like an angel who has fallen from on high
Filled with rage and violence, he will not be denied
A twisted world of killing and crime
The handiwork of Lucifer's kind
On the streets of madness
The predator rules, stalking the night
On the streets of madness
The demons alive
Gaze into the valley, the valley of your greed
Where money is the master, holding all the keys
No time to raise the children, they're drowning in the sea
Everyone's a victim in the city full of dreams
A twisted world of flesh and desire
The handiwork of Lucifer's choir
On the streets of madness
The predator rules, stalking the night
On the streets of madness
The demons alive
On the streets of madness
A sweet appetite for taking a life
On the streets of madness
Demons will rise
Voices in the shadows, whispers in the night
Telling him that vengeance will make everything all right
On the streets of madness
The predator rules, stalking the night
On the streets of madness
The demons alive
On the streets of madness
A sweet appetite for taking a life
On the streets of madness
Demons will rise
Ruling the night, with killings and crime
On the streets of madness
6. Eagle
[ABBA Cover]
They came flying from far away
Now I'm under their spell
I love hearing the stories that they tell
They've seen places beyond my land
And they found new horizons
They speak strangely but I understand
And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings
Flying high, high, like a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please
I saw good friends we talked all night
And we fly wing to wing
I have questions and they know everything
There's no limit to what I feel
We climb higher and higher
Am I dreaming or is this all real?
And I dream I'm an eagle?
Is it true I can spread my wings?
Flying high, high, like a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please
Is it true I'm an eagle?
Is it true I can spread my wings?
Flying high, high, like a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
High, high, like a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please...
7. Beautiful Lady
[Japanese Bonus]
Beautiful Lady, tell me what you looking for
Beautiful Lady, let me help you find the door
She was just a lonely child, left out in the street
She was lost and she was wild, no shoes on her feet
She stands upon the corner, with life passing by
What's locked behind those distant eyes?
Beautiful Lady, tell me what you looking for
Beautiful Lady, let me help you find the door
A tender face, a heart of stone, her pain is her own
Every night when the sun goes down, it chills to the bone
No place to rest her head, no place to call home
How can you make it on your own?
Beautiful Lady, tell me what you looking for
Beautiful Lady, let me help you find the door
Beautiful Lady, here's my hand we'll take this road
Beautiful Lady, to the place that we call home
8. All I Need
You come unraveled at the slightest glance
I'd like to go but I can't take the chance
Your crazy love's got a power trip on me
Tell me something, show me how you feel
Imagination gets the best of me
Every breath on the edge is so surreal
All I need is you to drive me insane because
All I want is you to love me again and again
Your cold emotions got me wild and tense
I got my guard up but it's no defense
Just help me find the way to read your mind
It's never easy 'cuz you make it hard
Communication like a house of cards
Takes everything I've got to keep a hold on you
All I need is you, you drive me insane because
All I want is you, to love me again
All I need is you, don't lead me astray because
All I want is you, to hold me again
All I need is you, you drive me insane
All I want is you, don't lead me astray
All I need is you, you drive me insane because
All I want is you, don't treat me this way
All I need is you, come on love me again
All I want is you, you're all that I need in my heart.
9. Media Machine
Headlines, staring in your face, trying to catch your eye
Question, words upon the page only criticize
Speculation dramatized
Media Machine
It's an evil in disguise
Media Machine
Your privacy denied
Media Machine
Deception, an angle on the scene selling magazines
Perception, revealing what to see on your TV screen
Rich and famous pay the price
Media Machine
It's an evil in disguise
Media Machine
Your privacy denied
Media Machine
Reputation on the line
Media Machine
The public will decide
Put on a spin and open wide
Sympathy or victimize
Media Machine
Expose the darkest side
Media Machine
Manipulate the lines
Media Machine
Investigate the crime
Media Machine
Discretion left behind
Media Machine
You've seen it all before
Media Machine
Still you want some more
Yea, eat it up!
10. In The Night
I can't believe all the time that passed between our lives
Just yesterday it was a dream too far to come true
I've fallen for the last time, I can see the sun it's in your eyes
I've waited for a lifetime just to have you here by my side
In the night, I feel you hold me tight
I feel my love's alive, as you're taking me through the night
Taken for granted, taken for a ride across that line
Into the crossfire between body, soul, and you're mind
Emotion is a fine line, you can be deceived when you spill the wine
Blinded by a compromise, you can throw away so much time
But we can make a run for heaven now
In the night, I feel you hold me tight
I feel my love's alive, as you're taking me through the night
In your eyes I see there's no disguise and now I realize
That I finally found paradise
In the night
In the night
I've fallen for the last time
I've waited for a lifetime
Blinded by a compromise
Taking me through the night
11. Never Too Late
By your broken words, I feel your tables turn
Don't try to feed me with your lies
By the way you talk, I'd say you need a friend
It's time to throw off your disguise
It's never too late to start again
You'll find the answers in your heart
It's never too late to turn away
From all those things that do you wrong
You need to be yourself, see who you really are
So decide what you want to do
Only you can tell what you need to be free
Don't want to go on playing the fool
It's never too late to start again
You'll find the answers in your heart
It's never too late to turn away
From all those things that do you wrong
You think you got it made, you better take a look
Because you can't hide what's in your eyes
It's never too late to start again
You'll find the answers in your heart
It's never too late to turn away
From all those things that do you wrong
It's never too late to start again
You'll find the answers in your heart
It's never too late to turn away
From all those things that do you wrong
12. Forever
Now; now that you have gone away
Where will you run, where will you stay?
You know you've been hiding for so long
See; see all the love you left behind
Leaving you stranded all alone
What will you do your lost and lonely
Caught, caught in a web of sin again
I was so blind like you I ran
Somehow I found the light to guide my way....
After all that we've been through
Love of my life, I will remember you
Forever, Forever
Forever, Love of my life
Fear; fear all the things that you once knew
Trapped in a hell lying to you
Trying to keep you from the only truth
Take; take what you want it's your own choice
And after all we hear this voice
Because we've found a love that just won't go away....
After all that we've been through
Love of my life, Lord, I long to be with you
Forever, Forever
Forever, Love of my life
Forever, Forever
Forever, Love of my life
Now, now that you have gone away
Where will you run, where will you stay?
You know you've been hiding for so long
Forever, Forever
Forever, Love of my life
Forever, Forever
Forever, Love of my life
Forever...
It was your grace that fell on me
Now your love has set me free
Forever...
Forever, Love of my life...
Forever, Forever...
Forever