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Немцы Powergod дебютировали в 1999 на альбоме «Evilution Part I». За год, сменив вокалиста Лео Синга на харизматичного Алекса Коха, взявшего себе ник President Evil, музыканты прилично подняли уровень музыкального материала, разбавив и без того мощный пауэр хеви спид металическими влияниями, на грани трэша! Как вокалист Алекс засветился в последнем альбоме пауэрщиков Winters Bane, Spiral Tower, и прогстеров Scenes. Его техника всегда узнаваема, хотя весьма груба и порой не очень красива. Второй альбом музыкантов на голову выше дебютного творения. Взяв за основу немецкие корни в виде классики «Keeper Of The Seven Keys», разбавив их жёсткими и драйвовыми риффами, ребята создали достаточно неплохую работу, недостаток которой разве что в излишней простоте и прямолинейности мелодических решений, но с другой стороны это даже плюс для всех поклонник «тру» пауэра! И хотя альбом открывается не очень свежей, зато весьма забойной заглавной композицией «Back To Attack», дальше ребята успешно реабилитируются благодаря яркой и необычно позитивной песне «Lost Illusions», динамичность которой впечатляет! Отличный кач и приличную атмосферность можно услышать на несомненно хитовом номере «The Eagle & The Rainbow». Позитивные эмоции также вызывают угарные и незатейливые боевики «Temple Of Forbidden Eve», «Prisoner» и «Esper». Заключительным же номером идёт уже по традиции заложенной ещё на дебютном диске, сложный и разнообразный боевик «Evilution Part II» с различными вокалами и изменениями темпа, и он тоже опережает своего предшественника по успешности. В заключении, отмечу, что хоть группе и далеко до успехов грандов этого стиля, но на среднем уровне, она смотрится неплохо. |
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`Cause we're on the attack
You tried to ignore
Welcome to war
What are you going to do
No second opinion
On our dominion
Fuck you, we're Powergod
And who are you?
2. Lost Illusions
You say you want it
Say you need it
You're never gonna find
What you're searching
What you're missing
You have to leave behind
Look inside yourself
And tell me
Are you satisfied
At the end
Of your existence
You know it wasn't right
Time is running out on you
Do you believe
I don't think you do
Never been real
You stopped a turning wheel
It was not in the cards for you
Now try to understand
This is not the end
Lost illusions are now true
Swimming with the stream
Ain't gonna get you anywhere
Break the silence of the night
And suddenly you're there
Think about our mutual past
I tell you what I see
With you as my friend
I don't need no enemy
3. The Eagle & The Rainbow
I walk through the streets
That no longer are home
In the night
I try to escape
From the loneliness
Out of sight
Can it be true
I have to go through
This alone
The picture of you
That I'm staring at
Turns to stone
Let me escape from the darkness
I can't stand the pain
Let me see sunlight again
After the rain
In the name of the sun
The flight of the mighty goes on
Who's to blame who's the one
May the dreams in my mind carry on
With the eagle and the rainbow
The fear of insanity frightens me
To the end
The hope for a better tomorrow is my friend
4. Anybody Home?
You're the weekend warrior
Who knows what's going on
Tell me what's the real deal man
And I will prove you wrong
You're gonna make it
No need to fake it
It's pretty obvious there ain't
Anybody home
Anything inside your head
Anybody home
Seems to me your brain is dead
Building up the restrooms
That the winners have to use
With that kind of priorities
It's no surprise you lose
Knock, Knock
Is there anybody
Knock, Knock
Anybody home
5. Temple Of The Forbidden Eye
Welcome to the secret place
Feel the wind right in your face
You must decide which way to go
Hurry now don't be too slow
Battle of time, life an't no crime
Welcome to the...
Temple
Temple of the forbidden eye
The temple of the forbidden eye is burning
So run for your life
Arrows flying all around
Walls come down, a terrible sound
You cannot see, in darkness blind
Leave a burning bridge behind
6. Observator
Big eye on the wall
Watchin' every day
No you cannot fall
Cannot run away
The ecstasy of building pictures
Deep inside my brain
I can't escape the magic
Of the holy shrine
The beauty of it all
It takes my breath away
I do not really know
What's yours or mine
Observat^r
Hold it, keep it
Observat^r
Observator
Running through the aisles
Don't know where to go
Seeing different styles
Tell me what I know
7. Powergod
Gods from another point in history
Making it right
The way you want it to be
You don't who they are
Or where they're coming from
The only thing you know is that it makes you strong
Come join the crew
Something old something new
Enemies are gum
That we are going to chew
And if you don't know
What we're all about
Just learn the words
Raise your fist and shout
We came to fight
Right
In the night
`Cause we are
Powergod
Go down on your knees and pray to
Powergod God
Now you know who we are
And what you've got to do
We wanna kill you stereo
Gonna break it in two
With drums like thunder
Guitars and bass from hell
And the siren's screaming sound like
Hell's bell
Deep inside your heart you know it
This is really true
Come on tell your friends about it
What they have to do
You know there's no denying
Gotta face the truth
Even the road to ruin
Has a toll booth
8. Prisoner
Ignore
The daily trouble with a smile
Machines around you never ask you why
They say
Don't rest even for a while
Your head say yes
Don't lose
Your way gotta stick to your guns
My way is different from the normal ones
Take care
Thinking about my future life
I tell you that I know what's right
Don't tell me the rules
And what is right and where to go
Don't tell me what to think
And what I have to know
I cannot stand the pain
Prisoner
Locked in by myself
Prisoner
The world against me is my engine
To create myself
Can't you feel the fire burning inside my head
Ignore
The lies they tell you all the time
Machines around you never ask you why
They say you have to pay for what you want
Your body says no
9. Esper
"...?#*?$???!"
10. Evilution Part II
"...as I urinate on your pale face,
I crown myself `cause you have lost the race!"
In solitude you had to live
Tried to find the right solution
You did not find your way out of here
Welcome to Evilution
[spoken]
Now that you are here...defender of all that is good,
and that you have stepped on the holy territory of the
master of all evil...let me explain to you that this was
to be your destiny from the very beginning...
May those who believed in you finally see that I cannot
be destroyed...and may those who have doubt finally accept
that world domination now is mine! So feel the blade of my
sword, brave man, and die...!
Lion - taste my revenge
Left on my territory
Your carcass` stench
Liar - you had to die
I had to take your life
And you know why
Close your eyes
Ain't it nice
See your blood
I'm your god
Fate is sealed
Truth revealed
I'm the one
All I want
I want to have your head
Hanging on my wall
As I urinate on your pale face,
I crown myself `cause you have
Lost the race
Evil - this is my name
God could not help you my friend
He is to blame
Demon - be my guide
Give me the powers
I need From the inside
Dead and gone
I have won
Reign of fear
Now it's here
Never forget my name
Or I'll kill you
[spoken]
May the world never rest in peace...'cause
I am President Evil...
Fire - burning in hell
Light the world
Hail to the king
Ring the bell