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 Да уж, Сакис-со-товарищи выдали просто гениальную работу! Дарк-блэк высшей пробы. Могу это утверждать так как этот альбом лично у меня прошёл прверку временем. RC остались верны себе. Всё та же мрачная атмосфера приправлена не то заклинаниями, не то взываниями к высшим тёмным силам, где клавиши играют первую скрипку (извините за каламбур). Ни одна банда, даже тру-блэковая, не может сравнится с ними в этом компоненте (не клавишам, конечно, а атмосферность :)) На альбоме нет НИ ОДНОЙ слабой песни посему и выделять ничего не стану - все они вместе, это, если хотите, есть некая концептуальная чёрная опера. Поэтому можно утверждать об исключительности работы. Ближе всего по стилю подачи из предыдущих работ стоит "Sleep Of The Angels", хотя во многом ему проигрывает. Звук - очень хороший (опять-таки вспоминаются первые работы с их туалетно-гаражным саундом :)) Вот и пришло время и для ложки дёгтя (хотя это не имеет никакого отношения к этому альбому). Следующий релиз RC должен выйти осенью этого года. Так вот - он то будет уже без клавишника, которого отправили в отставку. Что-ж. Поживём -увидим... |
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Материал на альбоме 2002г. был охарактеризован как «больше похожий на тот, который они играли в начале своей карьеры, но более сложный, брутальный и эпический», что недалеко от истины. Музыка группы представляет всё то же смешение скоростных блэковых и среднетемповых металических треков, что было начато в прошлом альбоме, да вот только звучание их слегка изменилось. Мрачные объёмные клавишные фоны как-то незаметно отошли на задний план, выпустив вперед мощные гитары, что звучат теперь не так размыто, как на 2000г., а жёстко, по-металически, со всеми присущими данному стилю ритмичными риффами. Так что стиль можно данного творения можно рискнуть назвать таким мудреным термином, как «Dark Trash Black Metal» (это опять же, если попытаться загнать талант Сакиса и Co в грубые стилистические рамки :)). Кстати, что до клавишных фонов, то главную роль тут теперь играют весьма красочные хоралы (не зря предыдущие рецензенты называли это «блэк-металической оперой»), что, похоже, стали фирменной фишкой данной группы. В некоторых песнях появились совершенно дисгармоничные моменты (начало в «Daemons», «The Call Of The Aethyrs»), что вовсе не положительно влияет на мнение слушателя о релизе. В целом, пластинка звучит резвее и гораздо жестче предшественника, теряя, правда, при этом ту мистическую атмосферу.
О жёсткости релиза говорят уже первые две песни – мощные боевики «Daemons» и «Lex Talionis». Второй трек переполнен теми самыми хоралами, о коих сказано выше, но вовсе не лишён мелодичности соло-гитарных партий. Следующий трек «Quintessence», начинаясь с мрачного мистического вступления, «озвученного» низким вокалом Сакиса, переходит в среднетемповый драйвовый метал a-la «утяжелённый Accept», переплетающийся с более ритмичными куплетами (помните песенку «Fateless»? Вот примерно в таком ритме получилось пол-альбома), и мелодичными припевами. Самый длинный трек альбома – жутковатый «Nightmare», опять же начинающийся с мрачных клавиш и вокала, переходит в ещё более жёсткий, и одновременно более мелодичный, среднетемповый метал; правда, с более ломаным ритмом. Песня ещё сильнее пропитана мрачным духом, коий ясно проявляется в клавишном Outro к песне. Далее – вроде бы более «знакомые» мотивы – скоростной боевик «In Domine Sathana» с открывающим её жёстким трешевым риффом. В припеве опять слышен грубый низкий голос и на заднем плане звучат мрачные клавиши. Затем идёт некоторое послабление – «Release Me» - вроде и неплохой среднетеповый боевик, но не очень выделяется среди остальных подобных (хотя начало забавное) и «The Call Of The Aethyrs» - типичный блэк-боевик с диссонансными гитарными звуками на заднем плане, что слегка портят впечатление. Интерес вновь просыпается на следующей «Dying». Неторопливый среднетемповый боевик с ритмичным трешевым риффом и красивыми припевами. Ближе к концу звучит гитарное соло, коих на данном альбоме явный недостаток.
Завершают альбом две длинных 6-иминутных «адских» композиции. «Ad Noctis» - быстрый блэковый трек с жуткими хоровыми распевами в начале. Надо сказать, что эта «демоническая» атмосфера царит вообще на протяжении всей песни. Но дальше – ещё мрачнее – «Under The Name Of Legion». Во вступлении снова звучит низкий адский голос под акомпонимент тревожных клавиш. Затем всё взрывается мощной гитарой, а Сакис весьма эмоционально читает какое-то адское заклинание (такого не было года этак с 1994). Сам трек представляет собой ещё один боевик в стиле «Fateless», только вот звучит красивее всех преведущих песен, а outro в лице печальных хоралов и клавиш – это вообще нечто! Умеют всё-таки ребята более чем достойно завершить финальную тему альбома...
Вот такой вот диск. С одной стороны, видна явная тяга «к корням» - ещё большее утяжеление гитар, мощные гитарные запилы. С другой – введение в музыку мрачных хоралов. Это, как мне кажется, придаёт песням ещё больше демонического настроения. Эксперименты с этими хорами продолжатся и дальше, достигнув апогея на следующем альбоме с совсем уж первобытно – демоничным названием «Святой Дьявол»... Когда RC впервые за много лет постигнет изменение в составе…но это другая история…
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Feel the crude natural power
Give birth to what I had dig lower
Evoke the source of creation
Control the power of salvation
Lay down to the powers of universe
Internalize the harmony of universe
Destroy the naive paths of ignorance
Control the inner cries of desperation of vitiation
The purely major
The purely minor
Sign of expansion
Sign of paradox
Touch the joy of the absolute
Wear the mask of fighting rule
Swear the oath of macro
Turn the chapter of micro
Chase the inner freedom
Forbidden paths of liberation
Follow the voices the crush your mind
Beyond the unseen cries of a wasted life
The purely major
2. Lex Talionis
Hate for hate and ruth for ruth
Eye for eye and tooth for tooth
Scorn for scorn and smite for smite
Love for love and guile for guile
He who is without sin
He who mantles passion with fear
He who turns the other cheek
He who drowns wrath with fire
War for war and woe for woe
Blood for blood and blow for blow
Scorn for scorn and smite for smite
Love for love and guile for guile
He who to evil resist
He who creates wraith from clay
He who declaims never to judge
He who divides seas and skies
He who reveals love as an arm
He who creates shields by fire
He who serves slaves and faints
He who builds walls with tears
[CHORUS]
Fire and tears enlighten my world
This world dressed in fear
Awe the emotions of wrath
Behold the serpent's fear
He who to evil resist
He who creates wraith from clay
He who declaims never to judge
He who divides seas and skies
He who reveals love as an arm
He who creates shields by fire
He who serves slaves and faints
He who builds walls with tears
[CHORUS]
Hate for hate and ruth for ruth
Eye for eye and tooth for tooth
Scorn for scorn and smite for smite
Love for love and guile for guile
War for war and woe for woe
Blood for blood and blow for blow
Scorn for scorn and smite for smite
Love for love and guile for guile
3. Quintessence
Here stays enthroned the one that breathes the night
The blood ruler of great fights
Here stays enthroned the virgin of ten thousand sins
The virgin whose beauty dreams all light
She is the one that her love is lethal sweet
She is the one that owns the fate of clever fools
She is the one whose smile: means your defeat
Behold her name the threefold breath
The veil under her eyes portends only death
Her breast is venomous, her kiss rebirths
Go further and further close to the death
Be wise to time, be strong to hold
Her pleasure for the gods, orison for the souls
Her joy is earth, the color of gold
Her absence is named cold
The lady from the end of all life
Her power is the world, her fear is the life
Behold thyself do not make her your wife
Your soul belongs to her, to her knife
Fear not her lethal eternal grip
Her loss does not make you weak, keeps you strict
A demon is for you, for you to keep
Her ecstasy on your feet
[CHORUS]
The one that breathes the night
Blood ruler of great fights
Virgin of thousand sins
Her beauty dims all light
She walks on semi-dead souls
Her love is lethal sweet
She owns the fate of clever fools
Her smile, your defeat
Ice in her eyes-soil in her soul
Hard in her heart-harm in her arm
Death in her breath-pain in her name
She is inside-deep in your life
Miss you side-take my harm
Breathe my heart-in your side
We are in her-we must now hide
She is inside-deep in your life
Behold her name the threefold breath
The veil under her eyes portends only death
Her breast is venomous, her kiss rebirths
Go further and further close to the death
Be wise to time, be strong to hold
Her pleasure for the gods, orison for the souls
Her joy is earth, the color of gold
Her absence is named cold
[CHORUS]
4. Nightmare
Beyond inconceivable agony, to the dark tunnel of pain
I here your voice flickering, into the silent drop of rain
I here your cry of despair, the expectancy of escape
Please help me, help me, help me, get me out of here:
My words have been lost, my fright has brought
The unexpected, vision that shakes me
My limbs have frozen, my hearts beats so strong
Am I dreaming? How real the feeling?
Beyond the wall of truth I here myself crying
Searching for a exit on a foggy side of life
I need to find the line, I am forced to touch the sign
Where das salvation dwell?
My soul praises the light, surrounded by the night
My wishes perished, all hopes vanished
My body fades away, illusions painted in gray
Am I living or am I dreaming
Beyond the wall of truth I here myself crying
Searching for a exit on a foggy side of life
I need to find the line, I am forced to touch the sign
Before the dawn I am buried
Into the tunnel of death
I here your voice that begs
For an exit to escape
Before the dawn I am buried
Feeling so dull so plain
Your fate starts to fade
It's time to face the flame
[CHORUS]
It's time to face the flame
It's time to face your dream drowned in pain
I stare and then stare again
There is no place just counting days
My hopes have been lost, my heart beats so strong
I am not dreaming, true is the feeling
Counting the time - so alone, expecting the inevitable
Shredding my wishes scatter my feelings
Beyond the wall of truth I here myself crying
Searching for a exit on a foggy side of life
I need to find the line, I am forced to touch the sign
Before the dawn I am buried
Into the tunnel of death
I here your voice that begs
For an exit to escape
Before the dawn I am buried
Feeling so dull so plain
Your fate starts to fade
It's time to face the flame
[CHORUS]
5. In Domine Sathana
[CHORUS]
IN NOMINE
SATANI
IN DOMINE
SATANI
MALEUS
SATANI
AVE
SATANI
IN NOMINE
SATANI
IN DOMINE
SATANI
AVE
SATANI
DEUS
SATANI
Vital existence to those who claim indulgence
Being captured to the wasted bright of displeasure
Cordial existence to those who refuse abstinence
Trapped in the swinging hope of eternal pleasure
[CHORUS]
Unsullied wisdom to those who strikes the ingrates
Relieved from the pipedreams of a decadent power
Fulfilled desire for those who accomplish their sins
Escaping from the naked side of expurgation
[CHORUS]
They want you dead, your unsullied wisdom a lambent flame
They want the sigh of your existence, the star of sustenance
They want you alive, prophet and slave of the glorious one
They want you secret your fainting will for eminence
The shadow of the omnipresent, feed to your indulgence
Feed to your abstinence, feed to your ignorance
Cause:
OBLIVION DECAY AND DEATH
Three of my children without birth
[CHORUS]
Vital existence to those who claim indulgence
Being captured to the wasted bright of displeasure
Cordial existence to those who refuse abstinence
Trapped in the swinging hope of eternal pleasure
Unsullied wisdom to those who strikes the ingrates
Relieved from the pipedreams of a decadent power
Fulfilled desire for those who accomplish their sins
Escaping from the naked side of expurgation
IN NOMINE
SATANI
AVE
SATANI
6. Release Me
I am trapped within a fabled dream
The one that hunts at the edge of horror
What do I love there is no form no being
To witch I do not give my self alone
Awake from dreaming the truth is the known
Awake from waking the truth is unknown
Show me the dream that leads me to trueness
Show me the truth that releases me from madness
Awake from dreaming, awake from waking
Show me the dream that leads me to the truth
Show me the truth that wakes me from the nightmare
I am trapped within an unending line
The one that hurts the value of hollow
What is the sign, what is the omen?
To witch I have to base upon
The truth that dwells in the dark night of soul
Beware of every herald of the dawn
Find me the soul that truth doesn't dwell in darkness
Find me the herald to proclaim me the sadness
Find me the silence the light side of truth
Fill me with hopes with reasons with wisdom
Awake (me) from dreaming that truth is the known
Awake (me) from waking truth is unknown: the fear is the known
Law / reason / time / space blind us to truth
All that we know is that we know not
Law / reason / time / space blind us to truth
All that we know is that we know not
The truth that dwells in the dark night of soul
Beware of every herald of the dawn
Find me the soul that truth doesn't dwell in darkness
Find me the herald to proclaim me the sadness
Find me the silence the light side of truth
Fill me with hopes with reasons with wisdom
Awake (me) from dreaming that truth is the known
Awake (me) from waking truth is unknown
7. The Call Of The Aethyrs
Skies who dwell into the aethyrs
Are all powerful into the earth
They execute the crisis of him
They serve the will they follow the will of them
Here / is / the face / of your god
Rule of the blessing / lord of the skies
Reign / the earth / with power / of / respect
Reign / the earth / agreed / with his wish
Let the earth be reigned from its parts
Let the vision rise its glory up
In its route in route with the skies
And as servant let them serve without lies
Ohh / you / skies / raise upon
Inferior skies / lower skies
Command the ruling / command the forceful
Destroy / those who fall / those who go down
Creatures of earth or man let outrage
The one another with darkness
Opus of mankind let extinct
Its creation cares for beasts
The call of the thirty aethyrs
Born with those that compound
The call of the thirty aethyrs
Destroy all those branded around
The call of the thirty aethyrs
Let no land remain the same as was found
The call of the thirty aethyrs
Add and withdraw till only stones you count
Born with those that compound
Destroy all those branded around
Let no land remain the same as was found
Add and withdraw till only stones you count
Move and appear in front of his words
For that swore with us to his justice
(Make us) mystics to the knowledge of procreation
Crowned in a land of abomination
[CHORUS]
Let the earth be familiar be strange
Let the earth be the locus of pain
Let the earth be the cradle of the whore
Let the earth be the place of those who fall
8. Dying
All I have dies by days
All I want has your face
All I see has your name
All I love dies in pain
All I aim is for you
Entire afflictions is sad but true
All I tell you is the truth
Dying off a way to ensure
All I dream is fading
All I dream off does fade
All I love hides away
All I live has make me die
All I feel truth of lies
All I own lost too fast
Hyaline dreams that all disappeared like dust
All I touch begins to rust
Creaky castles in the sand
All I will my will knot
All I live with will rot
All I knew leaves my brain
All I aim dies again
[CHORUS]
Broken dreams that fades away
Like muddy footsteps in the rain
Dusty hopes frozen lies
Reveal the end so lost behind
Silent screams that wipe away
Seeking life in my brain
Broken hopes unending lies
Reveal from fog the rusty life
All I have dies by days
All I want has your face
All I see has your name
All I love dies in pain
All I aim is for you
All I tell you is the truth
All I dream off does fade
All I love hides away
[CHORUS]
All I love makes me die
Like deep blue painting in the twilight
All I touch tern to dust
Creaky castles in the sand
All I own lost too fast
Hyaline dreams disappeared to dust
All I live with will rot
Forbidden lust to be reborn
9. Ad Noctis
I am the healer and the deceiver
I am the sober eye of fate
I always take to be the giver
I am the crimson eye of hate
My love is sloth corrupting order
I am the secret hand of pain
I am the builder of this wanderland
My face is known by the insane
My work is black the sin moves
As horrific and as cold
I am the horns with golden hooves
The balance of the gods
Oblivion decay and death
Three of my children without birth
I am into the inner dark
The tension of the kill
The first of murders had my mark
I am in restricted thrills
My work is black the sin moves
As horrific and as cold
I am the horns with golden hooves
The balance of the gods
Not being me, yet I am life
The lover and the wife
In nothing I am the essence all, the things in which you exist
Still I am more you couldn't hold, the corpse's biggest feast
My work is black the sin moves as horrific and as cold
I am the horns with golden hooves, the balance of the god
...the balance of the god
Staring at me is a simple thing
But may affect you a lot
I am inside you in every thing
GOD'S OWN ETERNAL HOST
I am the healer and the deceiver
I am the sober eye of fate
I always take to be the giver
I am the crimson eye of hate
My love is sloth corrupting order
I am the secret hand of pain
I am the builder of this wanderland
My face is known by the insane
My work is black the sin moves
As horrific and as cold
I am the horns with golden hooves
The balance of the gods
I am the burning side of rules
The balance of the gods
The balance of the gods
The balance of the gods
10. Under The Name Of Legion
I saw the full face of the menstrual hecate
Four and forty virgins make the form of the gate
It is the key inside me, it is the glyph of the vision
To have a god within, under the name of legion
Love of night manifests infinitely eternally
Love of darkness signifies the enlightened life eternally
Into the divine water, deviation fulfilled
Wisdom is clear, all logic is killed
By the ancient way I project my soul
The task was given it is the death of all
My son has offered blood, his mother her tears
Full of joy they mingle, to feed the fear
Behold the moon is crowned, I raise thy sign
For the lord destruction is always blind
By bliss of pain I move the spirit
Into oblivion calls I will never hear it
An ancient voice calling from the mouth of hell
Beyond this passage there lies hole for my sell
I found him waiting in the name of dirt
Illusion's face my weakness is his strength
1000 daughters bind the runners of pain
Oh be merciful magic with the corpse of my brain
His tongue is nailed with the spikes of Christ
Divides the unity calls death for a life
Laughs at the ground that keeps the realm gold
Another still life for me to love for me to grow
[CHORUS]
Another life for me to love for me to grow in sadness
It is the key inside me to have a good within in the name of madness