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 Если кому-то кажется, что power metal – это лишь веселье, бесхитростные запилы и героическая тематика – данный альбом лучший тому антитезис. Нет, были конечно еще Adramelch, но у них мрачность музыки смягчалась фэнтизийным антуражем. End Amen - совсем другой коленкор, и пощады от них не жди. Авангардный апокалиптический power metal – кто бы мог подумать, что такое вообще может сочетаться? В этом проекте, где экология традиционного метала загрязнена миазмами других стилей, оно не только сочетается, но и сверкает всеми цветами ядовитой бензиновой пленки, переливается тревожными клавишными интерлюдиями и разнообразнейшими гитарными соло. А чтобы не выглядеть слишком дружелюбно, растянуто это полотно на каркасе грубой трэшевой ритм-секции, из которой периодически щерятся сбивками запрограммированные ударные («End Amen», «Silence») или, наоборот, перкуссия («A New Day Absurdity», «Mystic Mountans»). Заправкой служат многочисленные разговорные вставки и электронные сэмплы – возможно, из фильмов, или собственного авторства. Понятно, что на этот раз досталось не драконам и сказочным злодеям, а обществу в целом. Вернее, той его части, которая еще влачит жалкое существование в пост-апокалиптическом мире «Your Last Orison». Ответственны за это судилище Уве Остерленер, превративший тремя годами ранее заурядных Deathrow в интересных экспериментаторов, и музыканты Psychotic Waltz, выкроившие небольшой творческий отпуск в ходе очередного турне. Итак, злодеи выявлены («World in Decay»). Обвинительная часть зачитывается еще посреди одноименной альбому песни («look into the mirror of society, you will see a face that's signed by sins»), под звуки сирен («Rebirth») следует запоздалое признание с перечислением всех грехов, приговор («A New Day's Absurdity» с мольбами о помощи «please let me die on this day / it's time to give up / enjoy your execution») и, наконец, выдача билета на суд более суровый, чем земной – «Your Last Orison». «Take the message of the gods: come with us». Вместо грохочущего похоронного марша, который уже успел прозвучать чуть раньше, только зловещая «Тишина» – виновными и недостойными жизни были признаны все: судьи, подсудимые, свидетели. Аминь.
Сказал бы, что это лучший power metal, что я слышал, но тут боюсь промахнуться. Потому как адресован диск не поклонникам Blind Guardian и Helloween, а тем, кто пятью годами позже сумеет оценить Arcturus, которые, как известно, играют музыку в совсем другом стиле. Отличная музыка, чтобы завершить под нее этот год. |
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but what real future is teach the seconds and days
some of us walk the false way and believe what they say
a world in an abstract dress
that's spun by a material consciousness
where are the ideals which god created
they're weak and fall in the deep
where the damned souls creep
some of us don't know what's going on
life is a game of chess
we're just the figures in the hands of a growing disease
we've grown blind
our eyes are scarred by the flames of the burning lands
some of us walk the false way and believe what they say
world in decay
world in decay
world in decay
world in decay
who would betray
who doesn't see the winds over peculiar faces
crossing the fields with the scars of the past
but what real future is teach the seconds and days
[solo: Dan]
we've grown blind
2. Prisons Of Posterity
[solo: Dan]
silence in the desert of forgotten civilizations
the ground is stained with blood
the only testimony of the past
memories you've got melt away in the sand
no hope just the expanse of nothingness
hear!
there's someone in the silence
their screams are at the end of the horizon
damned, they do penance fo the history
in the prisons of posterity
one day they will march under red skies
nomads on the hunt for the promised paradise
when the walls are wounded from internal pain
the instincts will be stronger than a morbid brain
and there's feelings inside
but there's life outside
hear!
there's someone in the silence
their screams are at the end of the horizon
damned, they do penance for the history
in the prisons of posterity
[solo: Uwe]
hear!
there's someone in the silence
their screams are at the end of the horizon
damned, they do penance fo the history
in the prisons of posterity
3. End Amen
look into the mirror of society
you will see a face that's signed by sins
the physionomy of a conscious cruelty
not touched by the fears of the innocent
who cry for help
end amen
end amen
end amen
[solo: Dan]
4. Rebirth
lost in a labyrinth
of growing hatred and cold winds
cabaret on wasted places
theatre with human faces
consumed by my own thoughts
bowing to almighty gods
a torment for the living body
please please please redeem me
walls of sadness seas of tears
filled by rivers of human fears
like needles on every nerve
I'm waiting for my rebirth
eternal lights shall rise
to show the way I have to go
sleepless nights and restless days
all I loved a fucked up haze
insensible ready for exit
to leave behind this growing shit
a torment for the living body
please please please redeem me
walls of sadness seas of tears
filled by rivers of human fears
like needles on every nerve
I'm waiting for my rebirth
[solo: Uwe]
lost in a labyrinth
of growing hatred and cold winds
cabaret on wasted places
theatre with human faces
consumed by my own thoughts
bowing to almighty gods
a torment for the living body
please please please redeem me
walls of sadness seas of tears
filled by rivers of human fears
like needles on every nerve
I'm waiting for my rebirth
5. Mystic Mountains
[instrumental]
6. A New Day's Absurdity
awakening is meaningless now
just loneliness
a slave of self-deception
in the suction of destruction
please let me die
please let me die
please let me die
please let me die
please let me die on this day
I see mutated bodies in the sector
trapped and controlled
no reason fo existence
watch the signs of the forthcoming epoch
signs which means repirsal
it's time to give up
it's time to give up
enjoy your execution
[solo: Uwe]
it's time to give up
it's time to give up
it's time to give up
enjoy your execution
a new day's absurdity
on the front court of eternity
a new day's absurdity
on the front court of eternity
[solo: Uwe]
a new day's absurdity
on the front court of eternity
a new day's absurdity
on the front court of eternity
the chains of hegemony are torn
the wings of the angels are broken
they're falling from the sky
lacerated by the hungry one
it's just a scene of insanity
on the front court of insanity
a new day's absurdity
on the front court of eternity
a new day's absurdity
on the front court of eternity
a new day's absurdity
on the front court of eternity
7. Nocturnal March
nocturnal fright of the survivors
their opinions all over the earth
you can hear the awful murmur
disturbed only by their cries
some of them believe in groups
and choose who will be their leader
primitive objects in an over-civilised world
they start to fight for their lives
in legions of hate they march
please stay away from me
leave me alone with your same mistakes
my long wished freedom I can see
and I'm waiting till earth shakes
squalid areas everywhere in sight
all inhabitants are predetermined
a second arc or a natural process
who comprehends get heaviness
awful and grey, dust and decay
the sunlight doesn't find it's way
burials in holy ruins
when the storm of the legions is over
please stay away from me
leave me alone with your same mistakes
my long wished freedom I can see
and I'm waiting till earth shakes
[solo: Uwe]
please stay away from me
leave me alone with your same mistakes
my long wished freedom I can see
and I'm waiting till earth shakes
8. Your Last Orison
human race is history now
destoyed by themselves
unable for more
timely before we seize more space
good luck for the universe
we leave you alone
I kneel down for my last orison
thanks for all that I got in my life
now it's time to say goodbye to mother earth
thanks for all that I got after birth
the end of time has been reached now
the end of time has been reached now
take the message of the gods: come with us
our blue planet sinks in ashes
deformed and wasted
no generation can heal the wounds
corruption has won
but who is the winner
I kneel down for my last orison
thanks for all that I got in my life
now it's time to say goodbye to mother eatrth
the end of time has been reached now
the end of time has been reached now
the end of time has been reached now
take the message of the gods: come with us