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 Первый полноформатный альбом Skinlab, группы из Сан-Франциско, лабающей в стиле groove /angry metal. Уже на на первых двух демо группа начала совершенствовать свой жесткий, сокрушительный саунд, и благодаря помощи небезызвестного Robb’a Flynn’a (Machine Head), приложившего руку к записи дебютника, мы слышим некий гибрид, звучащий в духе Machine Head, – плотные, жесткие гитары, сногсшибательные барабаны и рычащий цепляющий вокал Steev’a Esquivel’a. В качестве продюсера выступил легендарный Andy Sneap (Arch Enemy, Machine Head, Napalm Death).
Обложка альбома сразу говорит, что нас ждут боль, злость и ненависть. Уже с первого забойного трека "When Pain Comes to Surface" может сложиться впечатление, что альбом будет исполнен в духе Machine Head. Ан нет, последующие композиции ставят все на свои места. Группе удалось, как говорится, "выплавить", "выковать" свой мощный метал-саунд. Музыка команды берет простотой структуры – два-три качёвых рифа, растянутых на всю композицию, как правило, без сольной партии. В целом, альбом исполнен в среднем темпе, и скоростных композиций, на мой взгляд, не хватает, кроме хитовых "When Pain Comes to Surface","Race of Hate" и "Paleface".
После выхода дебютника последовали масштабные туры по Америке и Европе вместе с вышеупомянутыми Machine Head и др. грандами метал-сцены. Пресса и критика также тепло отозвались о дебютном релизе. 10 лет спустя Century Media решили переиздать этот альбом в честь юбилея. Обновленное издание содержит полностью пересведенный оригинальный альбом и бонус-трек на одном диске, и 10 демо-песен с на другом.
Ну что ж, хорошая во всех отношениях дебютная работа Skinlab. |
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Complex of a little man
Complex of a little man
Pain comes to surface
Pain comes to surface
Life ain't so perfect
When your pain comes to surface
Want you... want you to be yourself
But you don't even know yourself
Don't even like yourself
Pain comes to surface when you...
Pain comes to surface when you...
Complex of a little man
So blind you don't understand
Pain comes to surface
When pain comes to surface
Your pain comes to surface
And your life ain't so perfect any more, yeah!
Come on... bitch
Come on... watch the motherfucker burn
Come on... bitch
Come on... watch the motherfucker burn
Come on... what does it take to be a man?
Come on... watch the motherfucker burn
So come on, what does it take to be a man?
With your complex of a little man
And your life ain't so perfect
When your pain comes to surface
2. Dissolve
It's not what they call you, it's what you answer to
Just because I'm suffering through and through
Yeah, I've been floating my whole life
The only thing you've done to me
Is partening us to make me stronger
I'm like a newborn child that you have never seen
Like a newborn child that you have never believed
It's not what they call you, it's what you answer to
You're suffering through and through
You make me dissolve
Dissolve
Dissolve
Dissolve
You make me dissolve
I'm like a newborn child that you have never seen
Like a newborn child that you have never believed
You're suffering through and through
You never promised, did you?
Oh, the bottom is you're fucking cruel
What kind of father were you?
I dissolve
Look what you've done to me
Like I believe in you
Look what you've done to me
Look what you've done to me
Look what you've done to me
Just because I'm suffering through and through
Yeah, I've been floating my whole life
The only thing you've done to me
Partening us to make me stronger, yeah!
Dissolve
Dissolve
Dissolve
You make me dissolve
It's not what they call you, it's what you answer to
You make me dissolve
Dissolve
Dissolve
Dissolve
What kind of father were you?
You!
3. Race Of Hate
Am I disabled to you?
What's my dysfunction to you?
Open your eyes and kill me
World war inside of my head
You feed this hatred burning inside me
Yeah, I took her off them, a weight of life, oh
Oh, won't you let me take you for granted?
Just fuck it away!
Now father, can you hear me?
God damn it, help me, help me
Dear mother, can you feel me?
Just call me, spoken to me
Am I broken in this part of me?
Am I worth this war inside my head?
Just fuck it away!
Just fuck it away!
Am I disabled to you?
Am I disabled to you?
Am I broken?
Am I worth this?
Am I broken?
Am I worth this?
This motherfucking race
You breed a race of hate
You breed a race of hate
You breed a race of hate
Am I disabled to you?
What's my dysfunction to you?
What's my dysfunction to you?
What's my dysfunction to you?
Am I disabled to you?
What's my dysfunction to you?
I work the same as you do
4. Paleface
Show me your paleface
You've been the paleface all the day
Yeah, you never meant anything
You're just a paleface anyway
The blind walk the blind
Blind will see
Show me your paleface
Blind will see
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
You've been the paleface all the day
Yeah, you never meant anything
You're just a paleface anyway
The blind walk the blind
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
The blind walk the blind
Blind will see
Show me your paleface
Blind will see
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
No, you never meant anything
You never meant a fucking thing to me, paleface!
Show me your paleface
You've been the paleface all the day
Yeah, you never meant anything
You're just a paleface anyway
The blind walk the blind
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
The blind walk the blind
You mean nothing
Blind will see
Show me your paleface
Blind will see
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
No, you never meant anything
You never meant a fucking thing to me, paleface!
Show me your paleface
No, you never meant anything
You never meant a fucking thing to me, paleface!
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
Show me your paleface
5. Down
I've got a low self-esteem today
My inner strength is slowly seeping away
Won't someone come and wake me?, problems I have
I feel no life, I feed the pride, don't take my self-esteem
Break down my walls of pain
Break down my walls of pain
Break down my walls of pain
Won't you lay my bitterness?
With my eyes seperated by day
I'm alone
With nothing to call my own
So alone
Throw it away
I'm so lonely
Throw it away, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
I'm so lonely
Celebrate the aging of my new skill
Won't you celebrate the aging of my old skill?
Somebody told me I was wasted
Somebody told me I was gone
Somebody told me I was useless
Somebody told me...
I've got a low self-esteem today
My inner strength is slowly seeping away
Won't someone come and wake me?, problems I have
I feel no life, I feed the pride, don't take my self-esteem
Break down my walls of pain
Break down my walls of pain
Break down my walls of pain
Won't you lay my bitterness?
6. Promised
Everything I have said to you
You could not take away
And everything I've done to you
You let me seep beneath your skin
But you try and you try to burn me
Oh, let me black malice
You'll see your darkness, rusted gun to your head
Won't let you love again
Time won't heal these wounds
Won't love
Yeah, I promised you I would not do it
I promised everything to you
But you try and you try to burn me
Oh, let me black malice
Won't love again
Time won't heal these wounds
Yeah, I promised you I would not do it
I promised everything to you
Won't love again
Taking whole
Let my soul
Thank you Jesus Christ for letting me live
Taking whole
Let my soul
Thank you Jesus Christ for letting me live
Taking whole
Let my soul
Thank you Jesus Christ for letting me live
Won't love
Won't love
Won't love again
7. Stumble
The more I put you, believe thee or believe me
You didn't feel like you're the one that doesn't care
Yeah, could you mind and believe it's not forever
So tell me that the little think you aren't who you're under
Stumbling on one thing
Stumbling on one thing
One day you're stumbling, yeah!
You motherfucker, stumble
If I could jump right through your life
If I could scream right through your cries
And when I woke right over you
You're stumbling, you're fucking stumbling
Wake
You're stumbling
Wake
Yeah, you motherfucker, stumble
If I could live with no more lies
If I could scream right through your cries
And then I woke right over you
You're stumbling, you're fucking stumbling
8. Wake
You're stumbling
Wake
Yeah, you motherfucker, stumble
Wake
You're stumbling
Wake
Yeah, you motherfucker, stumble
Yeah, my region's mine so I'm living of hatred
You didn't suffer as long as she was running away and away and away
You motherfucker, stumble
The Art Of Suffering
And give this world
Of all suffering
My eyes see you're unpure
Of the unsaid
If I walk away
To my own proud space
What would you do for me?
What would you do?
And if I corrode
And if I corrode away
What would you do for me?
What could you do for me?
And give my life a shame
I'm so fucking proud
I can't believe the things I've done to myself
I can't believe the things you've done to me
And if I corrode
And if I corrode away
What would you do for me?
What could you do for me?
Away
How do you feel?
Away
How do you feel?
Empty... crawling again, yeah!
Broken in shame
Away
How do you feel?
Away
How do you feel?
9. Ten Seconds
Ten seconds before your suicide
Ten seconds before your drive, will you survive?
Ten years gone by, still I wonder why
Sterilize these four walls of my mind
Now that I'm alone
There's nothing left to get me through a time
The pain goes on and on and on and on
Sterilize these four walls of my mind
Who am I to blame?
Always a part of me
When nothing feels the same
Ten seconds to your last breath
Always a part of me
Always a part of you
Your world will never be the same
So close, but nothing left to gain
All I have is a memory
So pure, so fucking pure
Your world will never be the same
So close, but nothing left to gain
Ten seconds to your last breath
I'm counting my ten seconds
Will never be the same
Will never be the same
Who am I to blame?
Always a part of me
When nothing feels the same
Ten seconds to your last breath
Always a part of me
Always a part of you
Your world will never be the same
So close, but nothing left to gain
All I have is a memory
So pure, so fucking pure
Your world will never be the same
So close, but nothing left to gain
Ten seconds to your last breath
I'm counting my ten seconds
Will never be the same
Will never be the same
Ten seconds before your suicide
Ten seconds before your drive, will you survive?
Now that I'm alone
There's nothing left to get me through a time
The pain goes on and on and on and on
Sterilize these four walls of my mind