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White Skull
« Tales from the North »
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1 | The Quest 02:21
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| 2 | Tales From the North 04:12
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| 3 | Asgard 06:26
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| 4 | Gods of the Sea 07:44
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| 5 | Viking's Tomb 06:37
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| 6 | Kriemhild Story 04:13
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| 7 | The Killing Queen 04:01
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| 8 | The Terrible Slaughter 06:12
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| 9 | Horant 03:52
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| 10 | Fighting and Feasting 05:44
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| 11 | Here We Are 05:42
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| 12 | Still Alive 01:23 |
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Federica De Boni - vocals
Tony Fonto - guitars
B.B Nick Savio - guitars
Fabio Pozzato - bass
Alex Mantiero - drums
Guest musicians:
Chris Boltendahl - vocals |
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| 2. Tales From The North
[Fonto]
Oh please ODIN tell us the secret
Why the Vikings were
The conquerors of the North
The winners of all wars
At the nightfall Hugin and Munin
Whisper in your ears
All the secrets of the world
All they've seen and heard
Tell us about THOR God of Thunder
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В 1999 году итальянская пауэр металл группа White Skull выпустила свой самый лучший альбом, на одном из самых престижных лейблов Нуклеар Бласт. Перед полноформатным альбомом был выпущен сингл «Asgard» дабы ещё более разогреть публику. И уже с сингла все узнали, какой чудесный сюрприз ожидает нас всех, а именно гостевое участие легендарного Криса Больтендаля, вокалиста и лидера немецкой звезды пауэр-спид металла Grave Digger. «Tales From The North» это концептуальное творение, основанное на подвигах викингов и скандинавской мифологии, что уже подразумевает героические и эпические тексты. Качество записи удивительно качественного образца. Звук на альбоме настолько идеален, что им бы не побрезговал ни один гранд тяжёлого металла – будь то Grave Digger или сам Ozzy Osbourne. Сам же музыкальный материал технически не перетерпел никаких изменений – музыка итальянцев до сих пор находиться на территории пауэр металла, только более усложненного за счёт клавишных аранжировок (на это создано даже интро и аутро с хоровыми вставками и средневековыми барабанами), умных, но не прогрессивных смен ритма, а также интересных риффосплетений. Переходя непосредственно к музыкальному материалу, стоит сказать, что Крис Больтендаль спел в двух замечательных песнях – открывающей заглавной и грустной «Tales From The North», и заключительной драйвовой «Here We Are», где он своим рыком может и мёртвого испугать, на пару с не менее рычащей Фредерикой, которая настолько усовершенствовалась в выработке этих самых хрипов, что попробуй определить, кто же это поёт – очередной молоденький вокалеро или же представительница женского пола? Среди сильного материала, а он действительно без преувеличения сильный, резко выделяется пара шедевров, это при том, что каждая песня хит, - убийственный номер «Gods Of The Sea» с мощным хоровым припевом, а также средне темповый гимн «Kriemhild Story», наделённый таким фоном величественности, что может лёгко поспорить с лучшими творениями Диггеров-концептуальщиков. Сингловая композиция «Asgard» тоже получилась весьма удачной и отличается, прежде всего, викингским, или же фолковым припевом и настроением. В этом круговороте забойных тем нашлось место и грустной лирической балладе «The Terrible Slaughter», которая как нельзя лучше дополняет и без того великолепную картину. Подводя итог, замечу, что минусов обнаружить не удалось, поэтому работа справедливо заслуживает самой высшей оценки. Думаю, что этот альбом должен послушать каждый пауэрщик или хэви металлист независимо от возраста, ведь шедевры никогда не бывают старыми или слишком молодыми – они вечны. |
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Поглядев на оформление диска и на название я было решил , что это очередной блэковой опус. Ан нет - это пауэр, оказывается, такой...Опять налицо стандартные пауэровые рифы, выполненные с безукоризненной техничностью, ровненькая и привычная мелодика с целой кучей закосов под "великих", в первую очередь Grave Digger(вокалист Grave Digger, кстати. помогал группе при записи, и даже кое-где исполнял партии бэк-вокала).Ну и еще кого-то мне эта музыка напомнила, только не разберусь кого именно.
Голос кстати, доволько специфический, он несколько спас бы положение, если бы не сопровождался бэк вокалом мужика из Grave Digger(ну никакого сравнения, Grave Digger рулез!!! ;)
Так в целом все хорошо, но в усмерть невыразительно, ни одной запоминающейся мелодии.
Все ведь это уже играно-переиграно, тут одним профессионализмом не возьмешь, надо и душу вкладывать.
В общем до Grave Digger не дотянули...
Хотя пара отличных вещей все же есть... |
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Goddess HELA was the Death
The unlighted world she ruled
Can you see my secret illusion
To break the social links ?
I wanna see this heavy chains
Dropped from my hands
[chorus]
Can't you see my misery
Will I stay behind or ahead
Should I live my life in compromise
Will I stay behind or ahead
Oh please ODIN tell us the secret
Why the Vikings were
True defenders of the faith
In fightin' times they lived
Tell us about the God of Darkness
BALDUR God of Light
LOKI was the Evil one
The father of the sin
[chorus]
Can't you see...
3. Asgard
[Fonto]
Norsemen hearts belong to you
Ancient God of war
You have created a sacred world
In ASGARD is your throne
Time has come to praise the God
Crazy beings were living here
In superstitious fear
Angry Gods would ever cause
Pestilence or war
Time has come to praise it has come
Do it over and over again
Praise him for the upcoming war
You won't feel astray
He's got power in his hand
So cry aloud his name
ODIN used to overlook
From the exalted throne
Gazed towards south and west
The goal of all the hopes
Time has come to praise it has come
Do it over and over again
Praise him for the upcoming war
You won't feel astray
He's got power in his hand
So cry aloud his name
[chorus]
Asgard protects the warriors
Asgard shelter of Gods
Evil grew among the Gods
Holy Asgard fault
Noone praise it started now
The twilight of the Gods
Time has come to praise it has come
Do it over and over again
Praise him for the upcoming war
You won't feel astray
He's got power in his hand
So cry aloud his name
[chorus]
Asgard protects the warriors
Asgard shelter of Gods
4. Gods Of The Sea
[Fonto]
No here now comes the lord
In his deep blue eyes
The secret of the world
See RAN is over him
She's looking for the gold
Vassels carry on
Sea it is the way to glory
Sea it is the sailor grave
Sea it is the way to glory
Now the waves are crying
[chorus]
They were daring men from the icy land
And they've tried to find a future in this storm
Please old God of the sea
Take away the pain
From your vast domain
RAN Goddess of the dark
We don't wanna reach
The bottom of the sea
Sea it is the...
[chorus]
They were daring...
See the siren maiden sits
With shining golden hair
Lorelei she's named
No the mariner is lost
The enchantin melodies
Are evil songs of death
Sea it is the....
Gold, on sweetheart ramblings
Powerful is and pleasant
Who goes empty-handed
Down to sea-blue ran
Cold her kiss strike, and
Fleeting her embrace is
But we ocean's bride be
Troth with purest gold
[chorus]
They were daring...
5. Viking's Tomb
[Fonto]
Will I step out from this dark world
And awake to life
And hardly fight until the Valkyrs came
And I've seen bleeding warriors falling down
And I wish to be one of the choosen slain
Suddently the world turns grey
Death's like a cold embrace
Icy drop in my face
Suddently the war is out
They've fought it day by day
On the floor they have found
The Viking's body laying
And all the knights have tried the warriors to revive
Sad hearted they prepare
The King's funeral pyre
The fire is burning high
Sea and sky on fire
Valhalla's open gates
Are waiting for the Brave
And all the knights draw near
They wanna say goodbye
Thru' Gods he will enjoy the eternal life
[chorus]
Oh Oh
See, see the drakkar sails alone
Now it has become the Viking's Tomb
6. Kriemhild Story
[Fonto]
Kriemhild princess was the young beautiful daughter
Of the king and the queen of Burgundy
One day the valiant Siegfried came to her court
The noble prince she would love and marry
They were as happy as only lovers can be
Ten years gone by in peace they were living
She couldn't know the cruel Hagen had plot
Her husband death Siegfried the hero
[chorus]
He deceived the gentle queen
Her husband's secret she revealed
Then he met the poor Siegfried
Thru' his body he drove his spear
She fell senseless upon him
Cursing Hagen treachery
She'd avenge her dead beloved
Kriemhild mournin had just began
7. The Killing Queen
[Fonto]
Kill the fierce her only deep desire
She waited years her anger getting higher
No way she wanted revenge
Hagen knew he left the land forever
He was well aware, he slained the hero
Its guilt, he'll never deny
[chorus]
Nor could the king
Stop the killin' queen
Time was for sure
Only an evil truce
Watch out
The queen bosom swell with fury 'n' anger
Didn't care how many lives were endin'
Their lives she will never spare
Day by day the cruel queen was plannin'
Her invitation to the bloody slaughter
No way she wanted revenge
[chorus]
Nor could the king
Stop the killin' queen
Time was for sure
Only an evil truce
8. The Terrible Slaughter
[Fonto]
Now it's all done
She made up her mind and she's still believin'
The last knight's gone
He promised the queen he would kill the evil
Once more brave knights fell on evry side
Once more they fought in such deadly earnest
But noone was able to be back again
Noone could survive
Long before
She was a lovely gentle maiden
Then she turned
Into a monster she don't surrender
In spite of the terrible slaughter she caused
Kriemhild lust was not appeased
She couldn't forget the day Siegfried died
She couldn't forget that day
[chorus]
Kriemhild hatred killed them all
But it has no sense at all
'cause too many innocents fell
The story end
She cut off the head of the hated Hagen
One knight came
Exasperated he slew the queen
In spite of the terrible slaughter she caused
Kriemhild lust was not appeased
She couldn't forget the day Siegfried died
She couldn't forget that day
[chorus]
Kriemhild hatred...
9. Horant
[Fonto]
Now the time has come the demons approache
In their satan eyes there's satan's course
But king Horant always says "It will be all right"
He won't reach the ODIN's reign he will win the fight
The world has got it wrong and we see the outcome
My heart began to flutter in this bloodstorm
But king Horant always says "It will be all right"
He won't reach the ODIN's reign he will win the fight
[chorus]
Horant always says the same
Time has come for the brave
Just time to say a quick hello
Time has come for the war
Now the time has come the demons approache
In their satan eyes there's satan's course
But king Horant always says "It will be all right"
He won't reach the ODIN's reign he will win the fight
[chorus]
Horant always says the same
Time has come for the brave
Just time to say a quick hello
Time has come for the brave
10. Fighting And Feasting
[Fonto]
The northern warriors pray
The hurted bodies raise
TYR God of war they praise
He's really proud to fall
Fall under the sharp blade
The only way to die
They vowed to die arms in hand (in hand)
Valhalla joy's waiting for them
White-armed maidens named
The choosers of the slain
Will take them to the Reign
They fill the Heroes horns
Someone looks like a skull
The drink of Gods they taste
[chorus]
Fightin' hardly the Heroes die
But the wounds are healed
Feasting the Heroes days
They will live forever
Oh, Oh
11. Here We Are
[Fonto]
I have heard the prophecy
It's about to be fulfilled
Hard's the world sinners grow
And the man no longer spare
Feel the breeze of severe winds
Three full seasons without breaks
Seething flames burning hills
World is lost in venom flood
Too late the Gods realized who I am
In many shapes I threaten the man
My daughter's HEL, Goddess of death
Chaos has now its former shape
[chorus]
Here we are Raise
Bore with them the germ of death
Gods are doomed to be slained
Hard is the world sinner grows
And the man no longer spare
I have seen the tragedy
Will the Gods be back again ?
Seething flames burning hills
World is lost in venom flood
Too late the gods realized who I am
In many shapes I threaten the man
My daughter's HEL, Goddess of death
Chaos has now its former shape
[chorus]
Here we are Raise
12. Still Alive (Outro)