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 Если не ошибаюсь, это всё же последний опус от Xentrix, хотя и его ждали достаточно долго, и после него долго ничего не было слышно. Медленный, тяжёлый, если не сказать – тяжкий, но с типичными аранжировками и новым вокалистом, поющим под Криса Эстли. Чтобы дослушать до конца, нужно запастись терпением. Это то, что становится ясно с самого начала. А понравится материал или нет – это уже дело другое. На мой вкус – фифти-фифти. Xentrix, судя по всему, всегда интересно мыслили (это они демонстрируют и здесь), но “Scourge” на удивление хорошо вписывается в картину общего упадка сцены в середине девяностых. Местами мощно и быстро, местами чуть ли не понуро и не от всего сердца, местами – оригинально, а местами и теряясь в общих местах а ля Testament или Annihilator времён индустриальных экспериментов. Или неубедительная попытка сыграть “Kin” (1993) ещё раз, но более “модно”? В конце концов, по крайней мере две песни, которые были готовы ещё во время “Kin” здесь во всей красе: “Never Be” и “The Hand That Feeds Itself”. Но не то что-то, хотя и придраться серьёзно к чему-то, кроме затянутости и среднетемповой гладкости, не получается.
Вторая половина девяностых... Не хорошо, не плохо: "Scourge". Слушать вполне можно. Получение удовольствие - не исключено. |
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I am a life disdain
Total resistance leaves me cold
13 years of pain
Count on me for nothing, you shall receive
Countless are the dreams that I've been having
Forcing you to bleed
Take all from the weak and never give
These tears aphrodisiac to me
Halted...
I am existence...
What you felt for me once you'll feel again
On the shame
On the last day
This knowledge I have found because I am shame
This is you pain and this my strength
Fed sick on deception we are one
Hatred...
I am existence...
2. Scourge
Where there's life you bring pain
Where there's light the dark stain
Bleed the colour of the shame
Where there's with speak only lies
Where there was laughter hear the cries
I am the truth that you despise
One world, your aim is destruction
The time that tells is your one enemy
Should you, ever see nobility
Truth hurts so you breed dishonesty
You're pulling the strings of the toy humanity
That you have soiled
The killing
You force my mind
To discharge lies
Where there's joy you bring tears
Where they dream implant fear
You are ever near
Into hope inject despair
With remorse you charge the air
Find only blackness in the stare
Cut down, the sane will never rise
You've taken another slice from the dream they sacrifice
And now I stand a better man
Big words but your weakness I despise
You know the tremor betrays a thin disguise
And we will crush and you will crawl
You force my mind
To discharge lies
Broken, torn from security
Deaf, dumb, blind to the profanity
Fathers, sons are the pawns you send
They march to fuel the bitter end
3. Incite
I am the one your prophets speak of as a curse
Defile my name among the righteous
The vibe I'm giving out is something you conceive as violation
Cling onto icons made of bone
I fight your false opinions
Destroy with war of nerve
Grip life and strength within me
Until the pain returns
Rise, Erase
Distort a million reasons to despise
A million hollow outlets for your lies
My degradation your stepping stone
This discharge I can take, immune to poison ideals freeborn
I fight your false
Redress, reanimate the lifeless wills of men
Rejuvenate as one with strength of ten
To take their place in a sick society
And heal from inside lame, afflicted country torn
I fight your false...
4. Caught You Living
First your anger then take your mind
I use it all and I leave nothing behind
I am the first last and only son
And your submission is the way to get along
Shout out. You wont be heard
I feed the people and I fill their ears with dirt
Fifteen years and I've been the people's voice
And now you listen cos you haven't got a choice
You fool, I own you
You're not the only one
I've taken another son
And it I caught you living
You'd be better off dead
Fists are raised in protest again
Wont be so long until the fire begin
Because the last time the hate will rise
Will bring an end to this the way I terrorise
Fuck you, I couldn't give a shit
More lives are forced into my fear pit
Vote for me and I'll take away the pain
And you'll feel nothing cos I've smashed your brain
You fool, I own you
You're not the only one
I'll take you where no one goes
I'll blind you and I'm in control
Nobody's gonna save you now
Fuck you I'm in control
Black on white I cause you to fight
I sat and laugh at the riots tonight
Because it's all a part of the master plant
You kill each other then I'm the only man
Left alive to rule and obey
You hear me talk but I've got nothing new to say
Look at me I got where I am by being
Right place, right time now I'm the man
You fool. I'm you
You're not the only one...
5. Strength Of Persuasion
Cry out at another.street protest
Against the power crimes
Is my voice heard?
I have no time for this, I have no-time to waste
I feel he hate surge
Fucked up and cynical, influences criminal
Wearing he colours of respectability
I see them cowered into loyalty
I feel the hate surge
I feel your silver tongue destroying me
I feel he hate surge through
Eighteen in the gutter with a hate sign
In the real world
How could you stand by
Some blame the films we rent
I say the system sent them to their suicide
Run around never look down
At the rags on the underground
I see your lips move but you're saving nothing
I can hear
I see them cowered...
When the time comes where are you gonna be?
Anywhere near me?
Inside us all there-burns a self-destructive urge
On which you prey and feed
Twenty four with a future
You wanna give me a new job
May sound ungrateful but there's some of us don't want to bleed
I see them cowered...
6. Never Be
Who will bleed for your belief
Who will mourn and who will grieve
Out of sight not out of danger
Never be the same again
Forever thinking where and when
The deepest cut remains the fear
It'll never be the same again
Never be the same
Who will suffer for your cause
Or live in fear behind closed doors
How much blood will equal freedom
Count the cost or count your dead
Colours rule but all bleed red
The terror here will stay forever
It'll never be the same again
Never be the same
Who will bleed for you?
It'll never be the same again
Who will mourn for you?
It'll never be the same
7. The Hand That Feeds Itself
Changes, reasons, controlling, but still one problem
I bite the hand that feeds itself
No give and take it's all take with you
I understand your twisted mind
My trust in you faded, no faith just paranoid
I bite the hand that feeds itself
No give and take it's all take with you
I understand your twisted mind
A word has never meant so much
So much hate and so much pain
I see you for what you are
I trusted you, believed in you
I have no time for you my friend
New lease of life, like then no fucking compromise
I bite the hand that feeds itself
No give and take, it's all take with you
I understand your twisted mind
A word has never...
8. Blood Nation
They told you my name, now you think that you own me
We're living in ruthless times
In heartless times
This is the new life, this is the new power
The bitter point the linger of prejudice
But we will rise to break their accusations
I am the one, only reason
Never will be, never received
The first or the last
I am the one, only reason
We're blinded by the lies
The promise falsified
Let chaos rise
The strength in my soul is the power of knowing
That we are the have-nots but we will not
Beg or crawl
The sickness they sutler consumes and destroys them
A cancer of greed and deception
We stand. they fall, I spit, they crawl
They piss on everything
I am the one...
We're blinded...
Corrupt and divided the dream is derided
You're living by values created by twisted minds
You're trying to gag me, the word is hypocrisy
The gun is the symbol of freedom
Build new from old destroy, dispose, unite and justify
I am the one
We're blinded...
9. Creed
My anger is blood from the oldest stone
And I'm not the only one
What I face tomorrow, never face alone
Take what should be mine
For you justice colourised
You've been taking a weak man brainwashed
Like a comatose, take him to your own
So speak of pride, the crimes you hide
The poison speeches and vicious lies
So this is the web you weave
This calm deceit
And you call me brother no friend to me
Take what...
So speak of pride
Behind the terror mask lies the fear
You mask it with cold belief
You convince each other you have a voice to hear
Take what...
So speak of pride...
10. Breathe
I feel the currents shifting
Still dragging me down
The light above still fading
No one near to help me, cannot reach the sun
Alone
Through the water cleanses
The stain from in me
The coldness I can hardly stand
Once I knew the answers
Now the questions wound my thoughts
Take this soul and make it your own
Take this mind, this misery's home
Take this body, this body in pain
I will live 1 will breathe again
Now the weight of darkness bows
The doubt inside my mind
That I've never felt before
Once I knew the answers
Now the questions wound my thoughts
Take this soul
Broken, defeated and left for dead, pain still lingers where wounds once bled
Anger, frustration, no sympathy, the ocean that drowns me in apathy
Holding out a hand to help me, determination I will breathe
Never more destroyed and angry, determination, I will breathe
Rotten and spiking the core remains, festers unnoticed but still the same
All that remains is the will to breathe the air I once trusted you took from me