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 Американские первопроходцы сладжа. Первый альбом группы вышел в далеком 1991 году. Бытует расхожее заблуждение, что сладж – родственник дума. Ложь! Сладж зародился на американской хардкор-тусовке, и с думом его роднит лишь медленный темп и (зачастую) минорная направленность песен. Отличия: сладж использует хардкоровские приемы (звук, вокал, итд) и не исследует глубины депрессии и отчужденности, а концентрируется на злобе, ярости, раздражении. Здесь мы имеем канонический альбом, записанный согласно всем (писаным и неписаным) законам жанра. Медленный темп, гремящий бас, гулкий крик, монолитная тяжесть, что называется «из альбома песни не выкинешь». Очень любопытен третий трек, предельно меланхоличный, как будто «из другой оперы». Из серии «когда здоровые дядьки-хардкорщики тоже плачут». Почти баллада(ненавижу это слово):-) Нечто подобное было у Biohazard (помните песенку end of my rope с альбома New World Disorder?). По сравнению с асами из Grief или Eyehategod альбом более легкоусвояемый, так что милости просим! ПРИГОВОР: ВЫ хотели сладжа? Нате! |
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Too hard
Giving myself the power
to make it all end
Take it, take it
Be my own man
stand up and never look back
Never
Through my suffering
indulging in all that I could
No lie
Keep myself clean
a fight that I know I can't quit
I said
I know that time will be
The only factor
2. No More Can We Crawl
You'll never know, you'll never know
Know what it all means
Still I believe, always believe
I know that I've done right
You make it so hard, you make it so hard
You make it all so hard
Look at yourself, stare at yourself
Now how can we not hate?
No more can we crawl
You weak men bleed ignorance
You weak men bleed
All of our lives we gave it all up
We gave it all up
Too many years, too many tears
And too many lies
Never look down, never look back
And through it all we stand
Seeing the truth, knowing the truth
I know that I've done right
No more can we crawl
3. Time Heals Nothing
Gone six long years
It's been so hard without you
Deep in my head
I feel the way that you do
Never can I forget you're gone
Never can I forget you're gone
I've been so scared
But I have grown so far
You took your life
You made it all so hard
Never can I forget you're gone
Never can I forget you're gone
4. Leave It Behind
Grown so tired of the burning inside
Rising above
Live confined time to leave it behind
Leave it behind
Brick by brick got to tear it all down
Bringing it down
Been so hard got to set myself free
Learn to be free
I'll be strong
Too far to turn back
I'll be strong
Day and night got to live with myself
Die with myself
Still I strive that is all I can do
All I can do
Brick by brick learn to tear it all down
Bringing it down
Live confined time to leave it behind
Leave it behind
5. Through A Wall Of Tears
You feed me all I think I need
You held my hand through all the pain
How come I can't let go of you
Nothing you do for me is real
Whenever I trust in you I lose
Ending it all right here
I can't take no more
Losing it all right here
Although I've tried since we last met
I wish that I had never seen
How good you make me feel I'm numb
Noghint you do for me is real
Whenever I trust in you I lose
Ending it all right here
I can't take no more
Losing it all right here
6. Lack Of Tolerance
Take more than you give me
I can
taking it, after all these years
Close my mind to suffering
I will
Open my mind to all that's right
Making me
Making me hurt
Making me hurt so bad I feel it
No tolerance
No tolerance
Overcome this hatred
I can
Doing it after all these years
I see myself growing
I will
Knowing the man that I can be
7. Still I Reach
Lie here in a tortured world
So much I see
All the pain of a broken man
Still I believe
The truth never gets away
And so I reach
Want the answer to make it right
And so I seek
Isolated inside these walls
I do my time
Solitude is my enemy
I stay confined
Had to learn how to live again
Now it's complete
Found the answer to make it right
All I need
8. Embracing Emptiness
Long been down but never beend this low
Years of anguish finally start to show
I've seen so much in many years
With these broken hands
I've wiped the tears
God pray for me
Please take all that I'm offering
All that I have
I'm done
Through these eyes I saw a desperate man
Lost the grip I felt that I once had
I've seen so much in my many years
With these broken hands
I've wiped the tears
Learn from all this
Learn to be a man
Burn from all this
Burn my heart in my hand
9. A Perpetual Need
Confess, throwing the lies away
I come clean
Hate myself for another day
I come clean
Bound and tied got to break through
Still I slave
Feel all that you can do for me
Still I crave
Letting it go
Promised myself
This time I've got to hold my head up
Down, sick, worn on my knees again
I let go
Hold me up watch my every move
Let me grow
Bound and tied got to break through
Still I slave
Feel all that you can do for me
Still I crave
10. Numb Sensitive
My time to think
All that I need
My time to think
Never again - found my calling
Never again
It will not pull me down
Flesh over bone
Cut and bleeding
My frozen will
Never again - purge on my blood
Never again
I feel it all
Nomb to nothing - feel it all
Stand in my own
Cut and bleeding
I feel it all