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Год выхода альбома представляет из себя некую отметку (грань) за пределами которой, в дальнейшем ходе истории, уже перестаёт биться пульс классического technical thrash. Я не утверждаю, что его не стало, всё дело в том, что он видоизменился и совершил слияние с другими поджанрами, отойдя от чистой формы былого изложения. Кто-то, как, например, CORONER или другой менее популярный пример - DEFIANCE, посчитали нужным не продолжать. Кто-то, как, например, DISCIPLES OF POWER, взял некоторый тайм-аут и в результате добился более свежего результата не в ущерб исходным методам. Для наших подопечных рассматриваемый альбом стал последним релизом в данной стилистике, но не последним в истории коллектива. Правда, объективно оценивать тот грув, который канадцы предложили после, у меня рука не поднимается (и не поднимется). Каждому своё, зато мы можем вдоволь насладиться двумя первыми кругляшками техничного переложения, и стоит отметить, что "Nemesis" показал большую глубину и манерность. Звук на описываемом опусе - чёткий, среднего ранжира тяжести. Композиционная манера не претерпела кардинальных изменений, лишь общая скорость игры снизилась, чтобы показать сцепку аккуратных риффовых завихрений с солидной среднетемповой ритм-секцией. Гитарная работа подобна невидимым путам - плетение размера по полотну ударных, и в тоже время, некая неуловимость, как образная неспособность ухватить ускользающий от восприятия рифф, потому что на его место следует другой такой же, но уже с модуляцией. Надрывный вокал не сгущает краски, а скорее призван блюсти динамический аспект. Приятно снова и снова возвращаться к таким вот проверенным временем альбомам, несущим в себе силу, вариативность и непоколебимый дух, для кого-то архаичного, но чрезвычайно близкого мне классического technical thrash. |
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Rising revenge
Rising revenge
I have returned
I'll leave no stone unturned
He who pays the piper calls the tune
I pay since so long
He who pays the piper calls the tune
So nothing is wrong
I'm calling revenge
Because it's what i deserve
Rising revenge
Rising revenge
Revenge up and coming
Revenge up and coming
Revenge up and coming
Revenge up and coming
Revenge up and coming
Revenge up and coming
Revenge up and coming
Revenge up and coming
Upcoming
loaded with drive
Slowly forging
Towards your fate
Revenge up and coming
2. The Thinker's Lair
Incorporeal magnets pulling me from every side
Obnubilation tries to throw me into its vortex
Psychic whirl of thoughts feeding the storm inside
Threshold of madness, situation getting complex
Pulling obstacles on my pathways to relief
Disruptions try to lead my soul into a pitfall
In the grip of lies, broken dreams and disbelief
Where can i find the needed help to climb this high wall?
Hidden in the thinker's lair
The only place where i feel free
Sheltering from winds of despair
Trying to know who i have to be
Taking breaths of inner air
I srcutinize inside of me
To return i will dare
Now i prepare my repartee
Watching, thinking, analysing
Watching, thinking, analysing
Incorporeal magnets pulling me from every side
Obnubilation abducts my life and makes it complex
Psychic whirl of thoughts, but this time i will not hide
Exhilirated by the will to avoid the vortex
I'm back from the thinker's lair
Returning where i have to be
Back from the thinker's lair
And i've prepared my repartee
I'm back from the thinker's lair
3. Obscure Mindways
A breach in incorporeality
An entrance to intensity
A passage to a strage immensity
Admission to intricacy
Intricacy
Life brought you in its galleries
And put you through all its mysteries
The galleries live, they have a soul
The galleries rule, they're in control
Another trap, you need another start
You've lost the map, now will you loose you heart
Endangered in the alleys of a mind
You strongly hankered exit you must find
The labyrinth debilitates
You better take care of your brain
The labyrinth adjudicates
Decides the way you'll go insane
Obscure mindways
Halls of craziness
Obscure mindways
It's time to rack your brains
Obscure mindways
Corridors of madness
Obscure mindways
How will you go insane?
Becoming flustered in disorientation
The maze obstetriciates your every torment
Every junction is subjected to dilemma
Each way leads to a different unknown
You may run towards a safer area
You may run towards a danger zone
Journey through arteries of complexity
Your at deadlock, lost and disconcerted
Journey through frightening insecurity
Trapped in fear, is freedom disconnected?
Where is freedom?
4. Dynamo
Let's call it dynamo
The energy, the electricity
Let's call it dynamo
Infinity, the omnipotency
It's like a storm, a squall of energy
A powerburst, the strongest force that you will ever know
Plug your faith into it and it will be
A powerburst, feel the power of the dynamo
It's the dynamo
Let's call it dynamo
Let's call it dynamo
infinity, the omnipotency
Dynamo
powered by the dynamo
Dynamo
powered by the dynamo
Turn the booster on
Drive the power up to the maximum
Climax, highest impulse
Turn the booster on
Drive the power up to the maximum
Climax, highest impulse
5. Frosted avowals
Cold, cold kingdom of ice
Bring me the sun
Cold, cold kingdom of ice
Bring me the sun
I made a kingdom in wich i am the king
The king of ice and frozen drops of emotions
I made a rampart, a chilling shield
Once protection, now just a cruel isolation
Frosted avowals
Sad revelations through the ice
Frosted avowals
Sad revelations through the ice
No love can penetrate my icy fortitude
Now i have to declare my painful solitude
I made a realm in which i became a slave
My frosted eyes are dropping their tears in darkness
My heart is cold, for love i crave
Break the ice, heat me with a warm caress
Cold, cold kingdom of ice
Bring me the sun
Cold, cold kingdom of ice
Bring me the sun
Bring me the sun
6. Factory Of Delusions
Hear the sad doctrine of lost ones again
Ride on the furrow of despair
Obey the factory until you meet the end
To runaway you should not dare
Supremacy is the factory
Bow and obey to the factory
A psychodisleptical place
Where i have to dwell
Secluded here with the insane
Sharing their hell
Supremacy they keep telling me
But i don't believe in the factory
The fragrance of blinded consciences
lunacy stinks
A machine until obsolescence
No need to think
But secretly i do
Feeling the conspiracy
The moving spirit in the plot
The want me to be conditioned to lunacy
They keep me from reality
Somehow i have to stop the rot
Their master program hasn't worked for me
Factory of delusions
Producing only scars from broken dreams
Factory of delusions
My anger is now bursting at the seams
Now i'm the factory
I see just what i want to see
I'm the factory
I won't be long before i am free
7. Estranging Abduction
clinging to your soul
They reach you from far
Sucked onto a hole
Resisting is war
The unwanted trip begins
Off beam, bedevilled
You're struck by mystery
The meaning of this remains out of sight
What is it all in aid of?
Estranged and wandered
abstruse, this state is recondite
Dark blurs in the waving space
Negative undulations in the light
Time to face a shapeless race
fluid spectres you will have to fight
Intricate
Estranging intromission
Highly confused
estranging obscuration
We are now returning to the matter
Far away, we're in another world
We are now returning to the matter
Far away, we're in another world
Yonder is hiter
But you know you're elsewhere
Somwhere you have never been
What is it all in aid of?
What is this?
Something your eyes have never seen
Dark blurs in the waving space
Negative undulations in the light
Time to face a shapeless race
fluid spectres you will have to fight
8. Strays Of The Soul
When the heart as to defy the reason
You find yourself in a deep confusion
Reach the wisdom of the overself
Otherwise your mind is blocked and stray through blurs
stray through blurs
All is scrambled and muddled up
stray through blurs
That's enough, that think must stop
stray through blurs
All is scrambled and muddled up
stray through blurs
That's enough, that think must stop
You think and you think and you think you think
But while wheels are turning you go mad
It clinks, it drones, it roars and runs through you
But what do you get? What you already had
Confused, clouded
anxiety grows
Confused, clouded
anxiety grows
Whole lots of thoughts, scribbles and words
thoughts you believed to be solutions
But all the answers bring their questions
Encyclical reproduction
Confused, clouded
anxiety grows
Confused, clouded
anxiety grows
All is scrambled and muddled up
stray through blurs
That's enough, that think must stop
stray through blurs
All is scrambled and muddled up
stray through blurs
That's enough
Sometimes the heart has to defy the reason
Time now to listen to your emotions
Wandering inside your hell is building your prison
Different winds, different seasons
Get out of blurs
Before they hurt you too much
Get out of blurs
Before they hurt you too much