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 Маэстро Девон Грейвс продолжает радовать всех поклонников мрачного и исключительно оригинального прогрессива! С тех самых пор, как тогда еще Бадди Лакей покинул стремительно шедший ко дну корабль Psychotic Waltz, новый флагманский эсминец Dead Soul Tribe неустанно бороздит просторы бескрайнего океана боли, печали и разочарования. И вот уже в четвертый раз мы имеем удовольствие ознакомится с новым студийным альбомом сего замечательного коллектива. Скажу сразу - "The Dead Word" крепко держит уровень заданный предыдущими работами группы, но уже явно не дотягивает до абсолютного шедевра темной меланхолии в лице диска "A Murder Of Crows". Прошлогодний "The January Tree" лишь немного опустил ту высочайшую планку качества, и новая работа Dead Soul Tribe продолжила эту неприятную тенденцию. Тем не менее, бить тревогу ни в коем случае не стоит. Во-первых, диски подобные "Убийству Воронов" выходят очень и очень редко, и, во-вторых - при тотальном клишировании рынка прогрессив металической музыки под Dream Theater, "The Dead Word" выглядит самым настоящим глотком свежего воздуха. Хотя, не совсем свежего. Скорее душного и спёртого. Ведь "фирменная" беспросветная и мрачная атмосфера от Девона никуда и не думала деваться. Абсолютно депрессивное оформление буклета, не менее депрессивные песни. И самое главное (впрочем, как и раньше) - увидеть во всем этом океане меланхолии лучик света, который всегда есть, его надо только уметь найти. Поиски будут интересными - новый материал на редкость разнообразен. Тут и страшный монолог человека стоящего на грани самоубийства в "A Flight On An Angel's Wing", и египетская сага о любви в мощнейшем хите "To My Beloved...", и жесткий напор скоростного прогрессива в боевике "Don't You Ever Hurt?", и размышления о судьбе нашего мира в качовом номере "Let The Hammer Fall". Есть даже некое подобие позитива в почти мажорной полу балладе "Some Sane Advice". Также соблюдены и традиции звучания группы - лязгающий бас, натужно звенящие гитары, продирающий до костей вокал Девона, африканские рисунки барабанов Аделя Мустафы, все на своих местах. В общем, "The Dead Word" - это исключительно хороший и качественный образец нестандартной металической музыки. Главное, не воспринимайте этот диск буквально, а то мало ли что... (Диск предоставлен компанией Soyuz Music) |
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Come and leave your world behind you
Never too late to change your direction
Don't be afraid, you won't walk alone
I'm gonna take a flight on an angel's wing
Far and away, she'll carry me, carry me home
Come to me when the sirens sing
With the cry of a world gone insane
This sadness and this fear was not meant to be here
But the feeling has come over me
Taker, desecrater
Shaker, sorrow maker
Nation decimation
Democration, desolation coming
To My Beloved...
(Graves)
When the rains of the Earth stood still
In the faith of the darkest will
Sorcerers of the ageless one
Cursed the world for the days to come
In the gaze of the Pharaoh
Through the midnight the desert wind
Cold as serpent skin
To the scorching Cairo days
High noon, the sun ablaze
We dragged great stones through the Egypt sands
Built the walls with shackled hands
Lived and died by the priests demands
Sweet Mary, sweet Mary
My heart is broken
Now my soul is dead
The words are spoken
Sweet Mary, sweet Mary
One day I'm gonna break this cage
Unleash this human rage
Crush their bones underneath these stones
Sweet Mary, sweet Mary
More than life could give
While seasons turned I devised my plan
The perfect way we could make our stand
We'll mark this day with blood red stains
They've got whips but we've got chains
And we've got the numbers, nearly ten to one
When their eyes are blind by the setting sun
We'll rise up to engage them
Sweet Mary, sweet Mary
My heart is broken
Now my soul is dead
The words are spoken
Sweet Mary, sweet Mary
One day I'm gonna break this cage
Unleash this human rage
Crush their bones underneath these stones
Sweet Mary, sweet Mary
More than life could give
Don't You Ever Hurt?
(Graves)
I hear the words that you're telling me
I don't believe what you say
I fear the world that you're selling me
It's not worth what we must pay
Don't you ever hurt?
The weight of my wishes is breaking me
But I would not put them down
Don't like the places they're taking me
But I would not turn around
I have no time for the scenery
To watch the sun going down
The hands of time seemingly
Turning faster around
Don't you ever hurt?
Don't you feel this frustration?
Feel it burning inside
Don't you feel this temptation?
To let this whole thing collide together
Take me back to the place we're from
Back to where you and I belong
Pray this madness has come and gone
Change is coming, we have not long
All of this cold machinery
One day won't be around
Our possessions, our everything
Won't be keeping us bound
Don't you ever hurt?
Some Sane Advice
(Graves)
Hey, man! Where you going to?
Mind if I'm heading with you?
I'd say but it isn't clear
Only that it could be far from here
So walk with me
Hey, man! While we're passing through
Mind if I confided in you?
Can't stand the grappling hands
Clawing away at everything they can
Holding on to a ludicrous plan
A day in the life of a modern man
And where do we go from here?
Sane advice is all I'm hoping to find
Sane advice is all that I'm hoping to find
Hey, man! In the civil life
Everybody's scared
And hanging on to broken promises
The whole damn thing is coming unwound
Isn't it disillusioning?
Every day's the same old thing
And only closer to the bitter end
Searching for something to never be found
Am I mistaken on the path I've taken?
Am I forsaken? Will the world reawaken?
Old man illusion, pardon my intrusion
This mad confusion here I don't understand, can you make it clear?
Hey, man! In the civil life
Everybody's scared
And hanging on to broken promises
The whole damn thing is coming unwound
Isn't it disillusioning?
Every day's the same old thing
And only closer to the bitter end
Searching for something to never be found
Hey, man! Is it over then?
Think that I'm headed back again
Let The Hammer Fall
(Graves)
Wanted to feel something real
Can't find it in the city
As long as I stay
Ain't no way I'm gonna find it here
Want to conceal what I feel
Because it ain't too pretty
Let the hammer fall down
Won't you let the hammer fall down?
Some people say that the day
Is going to be tomorrow
Others contend that the end
Is never coming here
One thing I know is that no one
Will be safe from sorrow
When the hammer falls down, honey
When the hammer falls down
Always know that I will love you
Let the hammer fall down
Always know that I still love you
Let the hammer fall down
Part of the scheme in my dream
Is clouded in my vision
All that I say takes away
Another part of me
One thing for sure
There's the cure for this sad condition
Let the hammer fall down
Won't you let the hammer fall down?
One blade of grass
Through the cracks in the broken city
Kind of reminds me
That Eden wants to come again
The mightiest tower standing
Obliterated
When the hammer falls down, honey
When the hammer falls down
Always know that I will love you
Let the hammer fall down
Always know that I still love you
Let the hammer fall down
Waiting In Line
(Graves)
In search of something I hope to find
Could be the one thing always on my mind
To find the key, to unlock this chain
To break away but somehow I remain
With such a hunger, in such a pain
I'd like to cry but somehow I refrain
Your eyes are saying you feel the same
You'd like to fly but somehow you're restrained
Waiting in line
Waiting in line
Wasting away my time
Waiting in line
Waiting in line
And I'm still on the outside now
Within my heart and in my dreams
I have no use for all these shiny things
To seek our fortune in all that gleams
We fill the world with walking dead machines
Waiting in line
Waiting in line
Wasting away my time
Waiting in line
Waiting in line
Still on the outside
Thirsting, needing, hurting, pleading cries
And it's turning, reeling, burning me inside
Cursed to bleed in burden, greed and pride
When the voices speak the truth to spread the lie
Waiting to die
Waiting to die now
To break the spell cast on this Earth
Look to your heart and find what life is worth
Waiting in line
Waiting in line
Wasting away my time
Waiting in line
Waiting in line
Still on the outside
Thirsting, needing, hurting, pleading cries
And it's turning, reeling, burning me inside
Cursed to bleed in burden, greed and pride
When the voices speak the truth to spread the lie
Someday
(Graves)
I've been waiting for something to take me from this life
Waiting for something to dim this blinding light
Waiting for something that can make this wrong feel right
Hanging, hanging in hopeless endless plight
Aiming, firing
But there's no one there to fight
Someday, someday
But nothing on this night
My Dying Wish
(Graves)
On the day I die
Don't pray for me, soulstealer
In the place I lie
Set me free, soulstealer
Take your crosses from my grave
All the tokens of your faith
Far from me
When the voices of the saints
Call to send me on my way
Don't you let them speak for me
Like the ocean turns to rain
I will come back to reclaim
My space of love
Where I will rise again
Take me to the place where I belong
Take me to the grace we've fallen from
On the day I die
Don't you let them pray for me
Take me to the place where I belong
Take me to the grace we've fallen from
Take me to the place where I belong
Take me to the grace we've fallen from
A Fistful Of Bended Nails
(Graves)
So far away
The wings of a butterfly
Pounding away
Stir the breeze into hurricanes
Into this day
Echoes of past lives resounding in me
Crash like the waves
Fleeing like a ghosts from their mortal remains
Blood on our hands
All of these waves can't wash away
People of faith
Cry at the feet of a dying God
Tears of their face
I know they cry for themselves
Because if they cared
They'd stand with a fistful of bended nails
We're rejoicing
Spinning through this hollow void
We're rejoicing
Could it be? We laugh a bit too loud
We're rejoicing
We're rejoicing
The Long Ride Home
(Graves/Moustafa)
Haven't I gave it all for you?
Haven't I paid enough
For what you say and what you do?
I've found the way
I've found the way
I'd love to take you to my world
Haven't I waited long for you?
Haven't I singed my song?
Prayed so long for something new
I know the way
I'm on my way
I'd love to take you to my world