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К наследию, которое нам оставили легендарные Black Sabbath, очень неравнодушны многие коллективы. Ли Дориан, значительно утяжеливший саббатовские риффы, открыл новую интерпретацию их звучания - тяжелый и мрачный дум (хотя первыми это все же сделали Candlemass). Эту нить и подхватил коллектив Elecric Wizard. Джастин Оборн начал играть в 80-х под разными названиями: Lord of Putrefaction, Thy Grief Eternal, Eternal - до тех пор, когда в 1993-м, объединившись с басистом Тимом Багшоу и ударником Марком Гринингом, организовал Electric Wizard. Свой одноименный дебютник они записали на лейбле Ли Дориана (да-да, его самого) Rise Above Records.
К описанию материала, представленного на данном диске, можно подойти с разных сторон: c одной, он сразу говорит об очевидном влиянии Cathedral (посмотрите хотя бы на обложку), с другой, чувствуется собственный вклад музыкантов. Одного не отнять - это тяжелый, "мясистый", тягучий гитарный звук, ставший фирменной чертой стоунер-групп, вдохновленных звуком ранних Саббатов. Порой проскакивают до боли знакомые блюзово-ориентированные соляки. В общем, весьма неплохой релиз, который должен быть в коллекции уважающего себя думстера. |
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High up here is where I'm really free
Listen people, you've got to free the weed
Oh yeah
Yeah, you knew the deal
You knew I would make you feel
But look around you, what you got
No hope, no future, no fuckin' job
Yeah
02. Mourning Prayer
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Poison clouds in the sky
Acid rain in my eyes
Starving children of my TV
Victims of technology
Politicians, can't they see
Their greed is destroying me
Politicians, are they blind
Time's run out for mankind
Devil plunges into the sun
Things were said but nothing done
Now too late, can't you see
Human race wants their disease
03. Mountains Of Mars
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04. Behemoth
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His blackened wings shadow the Earth
This age of fire is his rebirth
Awakened now in these troubled times
He's come to judge us for our crimes
Behemoth
Behemoth
Day of judgment, it has arrived
All you sinners, you're gonna die
The Lord has shown you the way to live
Stop your hate, you've got to give
Behemoth
Behemoth
Were you a slave
And told what to do
If that's so
He's come for you
Did you follow
Religion is a lie
Be not afraid
You're gonna die
You're gonna die
So change now, before it's too late
Or life in servitude will be your fate
Be free, do as you will
Love and happiness, you take your fill
Behemoth
Behemoth
05. Devil's Bride
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Dressed in black
Satan's bride
No turning back
She'll bear his child
Devil's bride
Devil's bride
The Devil's nod
Initiate her
Thirteen candles
Upon the altar
Devil's bride
Devil's bride
Alright
The chanting grows
The time is near
Lucifer's consort
She shows no fear
Devil's bride
Devil's bride
06. Black Butterfly
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Terror above, beautiful as the night
Black butterfly in full flight
Traveling through the void of space
To this long forgotten place
Druids gather at the circle of stones
To worship the ancient ones
In the glow of the dying red sun
Their rites of evil have only just begun
Evil monks fall to their knees
Black colossus, they must not see
Crystal shards drop from inside
Filling circles in their minds
Thirteen maidens awaiting sacrifice
Screaming, naked, they will slowly die
Blood has mingled with crystal drips ice (?)
Open caverns of eternal midnight
07. Electric Wizard
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One day we were sitting and wondering where it's at
When down came a dragon with a wizard on his back
He said to us, step up, wanna take you for a trip
Then up we flew off into space and the astral gates we slipped
Alright
Looking back behind us, to the freaks and heads we wave
And off beyond our system out until they're deep in space
And on the edge of time and space there stood two towers black
But on we flew, the wizard knew there was no turning back
Cast your spell on me
Higher and higher, through the cosmos we had tripped
Seeing stars turned inside out, we thought our minds had flipped
Colors swirling, sounds are drifting, thinking we were dead
The wizard turned and spoke to us and, this is what he said
Through the virgin universe, upon his back we played
Creating and destroying with the music we made
Undulate the cosmic rhythm, galaxies were born
Clouds of blue, fluorescent dunes, spreading out before