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 Затворники от метал-музыки, любители заповедного сверхтехничного дэт-метала, подвязавшиеся на этом поприще 1992 года, начинали, конечно, с немного другого стиля. Оно и понятно – в 1989 такого понятия как «техно-дэт» еще не существовало, команды вроде Atheist, Disharmonic Orchestra или немецких Atrocity только готовились к грядущим открытиям, да и сам «смертельный» метал едва только состоялся как стиль. Disciples of Power уроки наиболее агрессивных соратников усвоили, но распорядились ими по-своему. Язык не поворачивается назвать их стиль дэт-трэшем (ибо обычно под этим термином подразумевают различного рода милые страшилки типа Possessed). Канадцы делают акцент на прогрессивной стороне своей музыки – тут и обилие акустики, и то чистый вокал, и сложные перепады ритма, и характерная для 80-х мелодичность. Мне «Power Trap» так и вовсе напоминает творчество немцев Destruction периода 1987-1989 гг., только изрядно обогащенное прогрессивными элементами и бронированное мощной ритм-секцией. При этом плотность техничной вязи еще не достигла той предельной концентрации, которой отличались классические альбомы команды. Музыка Disciples of Power образца 1989 года – свободомыслящий, живой трэш. Его девиз – атмосфера, мрачность, изящество и эпичность. В общем, такой странный «креативный» подход вряд ли можно назвать обычным – оккультно-прогрессивный метал у канадцев звучит не только экзотично, но еще и естественно. Ну и самое главное - умеет увлечь своей предельной самоотдачей, когда после очередной хитрой «петли» или акустического пассажа команда увлекается оголтелой рубкой. Не хватает только собранности – слишком уж неаккуратно и по-юношески звучит большинство композиций (а может быть, оно и к лучшему – чрезмерно взрослым материалом команда в избытке снабдит поклонника позже). Трудно сказать, к каким ассоциациям «Power Trap» приводит вернее всего, то ли вызывает желание потрясти головой под «Bitch of Doom», то ли погрузится в мистику с «Shade of Grey», то ли посмаковать сложные риффы на «Ice Demons». И ведь обидно как, что делаешь это почти один – о Disciples of Power любители ни того, ни другого, ни третьего отчего-то знать не желают. |
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is so clear to see
Starving hoards pray to false lords
Reduced to skin and bone
Atomic threat nuclear death
Into the shadow zone
Shades of grey look more and more
Distinct to me each day vividly
apparent it seems
Mankind's turn to be extinct redeemed
Wars go on no battles won
Who will reign supreme? Terrorist bomb its limbs are gone
No souls to be redeemed
Antibodies victims rotting
Still alive, but why?
Death infection immune defection
Virus born to die
Massive death starvation test
Pangs that don't subside
Weakening race diminishing space
As they drop and die
Toxic waste and sewage space
Are needed so they say
Meltdown towns into the ground
The reactor broke down today
2. Powertrap
Pay the price for your previous life
End it slow use a butcher knife
Forced to live in this society
Ruled by uncontrolled biology
Dissect your brain infectious drain
Your mind deranged no cells remain
(M W FILL)
Branded you will die
No control of your meaningless high
You will learn
Distorted mentally burned
Erosive ultimately spurned
No control now you are caught in
this Power Trap
Controlled by lethal charm
You will taste the toxic death crack
On death's domain you will trespass
You pay the price in sacrificial pipe
Rituals of death that delight and excite
forced to fix to survive
Control your life by the needle's eye
This craving pain you must refrain
The streets again to fix your vein
(M W FILL)
Living a hell deep within
Forseeing that you are trapped in
Creeping to pay the price
3. Ice Demons
Long ago when the Earth was young
The webs of evil were then spun
Banished demons forced to show fear
of lords who controlled hemispheres
Buried deep inside these icy graves
Inch by inch they
scraped the holy caves
To be freed from this damnation
To redeem their own salvation
Confined in this Frozen prison
For now they know
their lord has risen
Demons of the snow and ice
Punished by dark gods of Hell
Wicked death of The Antichrist
Amongst us all the gods will fall
The power feeds the Ice Demons
Ice demons Ice demons
(M W SOLO)
Centuries have long since passed by
Inch by inch Ice Demons will rise
Confined in this frozen wasteland
Ruled by instinct
and black Death's hand
Now they are freed from
icy crypts of snow
The winds of magic
mystic crystal blow
They are freed from
their cave like prisons
Wizards fight with magic prisms
The beast is freed to spread its evil
The evil spreads time will now
stand still
4. Slave to No One
Black magician you seem to be
Enslaved to lords who sent you free
Anathematized to serve in Hell
Abuse your mind your soul caves in
Take your evil to extremes
I live my life in extremes
I live my life in between
In between the border lines
Of good and evil's Satanic crimes
Slave in chains in your brains
Slave to no one
for a god we have none
In this world we all
feel mass frustration
You are manipulated I have
control of your situation
Slave to no one
(M W SOLO)(H B SOLO)
White wizard of the gods of high
Behind your mask commit suicide
Pretend to be a saint within
Within your soul committing sin
Some take their calling much too far
Wish for a dream wish on a star
You will find the biggest sin
Is this world we are living in
5. Protector
Missiles of steel guardians of peace
Trapped inside laws
Breached by a clause
Settle the score with x missiles more
Protecting the deal chances decreased
(M W FILL)
Lie and cheat kiss thy boots
Protect your own life
Your soul is lost
If the contract is breached
Time will be lost
Phantom giant sleeping titan
Protector of our destiny
Earth rulers play in dismay
(M W SOLO)
With powerful venom
They will protect our world
And then Armageddon
will soon unfurl
And then life will soon cease to exist
Are you protector?
Do you protect or die?
I ask protector for the reason why
Why, protector?
I the button's pushed time will be lost
Situation of detonation
Protector of the Earth's destiny
Humanoids pray in dismay
(M W SOLO)
6. Night of the Priest
Death to those who can't see our way
We crush and kill another day
Destroy all those who call themselves king
Pillage every living thing
The bastard moon is full tonight
Fools us all to do its bidding
Anarchy controls the night
Their eyes go black with blood
You stare into its soul
Then only you will know
The power
This is the night of the priest
Walking the streets
Preparing a feast
Lock up your doors
Sensing young whores
Night of the priest slaughter your mind
Destroy all mankind
Piercing the nerve
Praise all who serve him
Creature from the lower planes
Rules all the night from Hell it reigns
So bow down fall to your knees
Respect this beast do as it pleases
This sacrifice we offer now
Is of mind and of metal
So give your soul repeat these vows
Your eyes go black with blood
The dagger rises then it falls
The sacrifice has blessed us all
In the name of Heaven and of Hell
No one can break this evil spell
(M W SOLO)
7. Crisis
I am Earth the living planet
Don't think you can push me too far
I will get back at you
Your lies left a permanent scar
Why do you do these things to me? Now we will pay 'til our death day
Butcher the Earth for what it's worth
Feel like we're sinking in quicksand
The world won't listen to what we say
The world is being run the wrong way
The world is sadly lost
Now we must take a new stand
The people hear cries of agony
The people see death without mercy
The people must pay the cost
Of the crisis
(M W SOLO)
The Earth betrayed lost and lonely
There is nothing more that we can do
The Earth betrayed lost and lonely
There is nothing more that we can do
(H B SOLO)
I am the Earth the living planet
We take the Earth
our home, for granted
Crisis
I am Earth the dying planet
We now hide in the darkness
Daylight destroys our souls
These scans are a permanent mark
Of this earth of no control
Our world tortured strip mine fortunes
Pollute her core butchered with war
With war
Crisis
8. Hidden Worlds
Deep inside your hidden world
No one feels pain as you do
The sadness shows within your eyes
Time to wash the pain away
Today well surely be your last day
Hidden world that no one sees
Depression controls
Your mind's disease
Reaper take us to our home
We are tired of living this
life of misery
Emptiness torments your mind
Days flow into months of grey
Happiness you no longer feel
Nothing more to do or say
There was a time when life was mine
That time is gone paid for my crimes
Enslave the lords who fell to flame
Eternal death to end this game
(M W SOLO)
Losing life's eternal flame
You feel bitterness from these cruelties
Barriers you cannot fight
Time to give your life or will you
try to change the future for you
So turn the page, die
(M W SOLO)
Those who wish to come this way
You must be warned the path is hard
Destroy your life and kill your dreams
The lords of death will rape your souls
Repent