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 Третий по счету альбом финской "Ice Cold Nordic Metal Band" (как они себя сами называют). Во всех альбомах основной темой была (и остается по сей день) зима, север,холод, волки и все что с этим связано. Музыка очень хорошо это характеризует и передает. Когда слушаешь альбом, очень хорошо передается атмосфера холодного нордического металла - среднетемповый блэк метал с очень красивыми мелодиями и характерным для Катамении приятным блэковым неистеричным вокалом. Надо сказать, что альбом превзошел все предыдущие альбомы (как ни хорош был дебют Halls of Frozen North - который сразу после выхода мне очень понравился) и является на сей день пиковым для группы - остался тот напор, отличный ритм и великолепное чувство меры у музыкантов (очень гармонично сочетаются все инструменты,вокал и не заглушают друг друга,тем самым не создавая впечатления перегруженности музыки). Также сильно повлияло на музыку перемены в составе - выкинули ритм-гитариста Sampo Ukkola и смена драммера - на Sir Kimmo Luttinen известного по Impaled Nazarene и Legenda. Действительно, с приходом Люттинена музыка стала немного отдавать в сторону Legenda (что бесспорно только радует). Кто-то найдет для себя в альбоме отголоски Dimmu Borgir (ранних альбомов) из-за удачно вписывающихся в общую атмосферу клавишных. Прекрасное оформление диска только подчеркивает всю красоту проделанной работы. |
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Один из самых стоящих альбомов 2000 года (из тех, что слышал я, конечно). Хороший пример того, что просто хорошая музыка иногда не вызывает сильного резонанса - видимо, из-за того, что люди играют музыку, а не фигней всякой страдают. Дебют был очень хорош, но эта работа мне нравится даже больше - здесь всё попродуманней, ничего лишнего, никакой фрагмент не звучит уныло, совершенно отсутствуют примитивные и избитые блэковые штучки. Достаточно редкий по атмосфере альбом - в голове возникают не зарисовки на тему "Толпа разукрашеных человеков избивает мертвое тело священника", а красивые северные пейзажи, тьфу меня и извините за банальные аналогии. Крутой продукт. |
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( 1 )
Is here heaven or is it hell?
no-one came back, no-one can tell
veil of secrets, ahead of sight
before we learn to see we had to die.
Looking back like something would change
no choice to choose the side on the way
just prepare forgot your past life
through the gates of anubis...
[Chorus]
Is here heaven...
Through the starlight
we are heading into ending
sword of orion
is waiting for the dying.
[Chorus]
Is here heaven...
2. Soror Mystica
Under black moon flamed a fire
like storm the time all dreams has gone
and the time of might has dawned
as the stars she shines in a darkest sky.
Fiery hearts of mountains throbbed
oceans ran, shores wept alone
paths misguided, winds raped the trees
until the silence dropped on it`s knees.
Soror...Mystica.
[Chorus]
They laid their gazes to the ground
at the ancient graves of time
and mountains embraced them
ceased all the changes made.
Under thousand stars, extinguished a fire
took the blackened throat of flame
we cry for emptiness, we cry for coldness
still is the sky motionless why.
But in the mist, under burning steams
smiles with the mask of death on her face
believing, and giving to the darkness the strenght.
Soror...Mystica
[Chorus X2]
They laid their...
3. Blackmension
Burn your mind, that no one will find
turn your mind to the twisted kind
searching for the true belief
seeking, bleeding, is this all just a dream.
Answer is mine, answer is lie...
emotions, reflections, passing through your life
sweating, burning, cracking and thinking
what is the thing you should be twisting.
[chorus]
Let it all in, make no resistance
black thoughts are crawling deeper
why to battle against the stronger one
realize that you are one of us.
Deny the world, deny yourself
only hope is your lonely face
should I be me, should I be test
illusions of red, it`s pressing my chest.
[chorus]
Let it all in...
[solo]
[chorus x2]
Let it all in...
4. Kingdom of Legions
Through the damned halls of frozen north
I ride with silver dragons of Drakal
to make despair and spread sorrow
`cause then my dark kingdom will come.
I gathered with legions of thunder
in mountain of fallen stars
where no-man have been losted
and where evil takes it`s form...dragon.
[Chorus]
God`s of war...
masters of despair...
dragonlords of the skies...
rulers of mighty kingdom...
In crimson morning`s mist we battle
against whirlwinds of east.
[Chorus]
God`s of war...
masters of despair...
dragonlords of the skies...
rulers of mighty kingdom...
Way to perfect victory is bloody
armies fall under the king`s name
everything destroyed from the legions path
which is just forwarding towards...
5. Forever Night
Blackhearted angel, open the gates for me
let me walk through the skies eternal.
[Chorus]
Embrace me with your flaming nightwings.
Together we will dominate and grow stronger,
so there`s no defeats for us.
Black souls, firestorms, lead us in this endless journey.
blizzard winds, creations of ice, make us immortal against the light.
We shall conquer and crush all our enemies.
This is the moment we have been waited, forever night at last.
[Chorus]
Embrace me...
Our visions and thundering words, those what we have spoken, became a truth as our victory agains feeble ones.
6. Eternal Winter's Prophecy
Do you hear the winds of the flames,
passing through the ancient gates.
Do you hear they`re calling my name,
free the spirits from endless pain.
Mourning souls, chanting voices,
desperate cries, follow all over.
Sky is dark, stars are bright,
sacrifice the ending light.
Darkness upon now unholy land,
prophecies told from blood of my hand.
`Weaks are slaves living in sorrow,
see it only from blackened mirrow.
Gather as the five-point star,
to call my master distant far.
mistress of night, come, seduce me,
take me, hide me, to black prophecy.
[Chorus]
I can see the angels falling,
bury them deep into blood red sky.
I can hear the last one breathing,
suffocate, kill that everyone die...
Visions shown, battles won
my mission`s done, days are gone
no people with a soul, exist on earth anymore
burning men, in moonlight dusk
smell of fear`s, raising my lust
eternal winter`s, thrones for me
I am finally the black prophecy.
[Chorus x2]
7. Half Moons, Half Centuries
From the stairway he threw with the languages unknown,
the words of truth and the cohort of fools.
Named the man of black for the back of his hands,
where marked in numbers fourteen and two fours.
From below the stairway, he entered the door
the torches were lit a fire, his marks were glowing more.
He entered the room, lighting the walls of stone
as the cohort at the door were pounding for his blood
the candle in his left and the book in his right
his heart spoke the names and his hands were all a light.
The man called of black
his hands were lightning the night
the night of dead moon
And the moon wept in blood,
and his words pierced it`s fragile heart.
The man called of black
his hands were lighting the night
the night of the dead moon
They were many at the door, when he spoke towards,
the icon at the aisle, was the night he ever adored.
8. In the Void
The time drifts backwards, to the moment of nothingness.
Only weeping and silent questions in the deep, deep dark.
[Chorus]
There, somewhere, in the whirlwind of pain
her face gleams of satisfaction,
victory and glory light the hollow fields.
In the glow of the flames sounds the avalanche of thoughts.
For the moment of it`s birth
the heaven there awaits for nothing,
only calmness and the everlasting flow of the time dance,
wrap and join in it`s force.
[Chorus]
There, somewhere, in the...
She casts the shadows, of the eternal night upon their souls.
The innocents yeild, drown in their benevolence.
For our hearts we wish the pain to bring the wisdom,
to give it`s power to crush the feeble,
in the void there is the lust of the dark.
[Chorus]
There, somewhere, in the...
9. The Darkening Sun
Sun`s not rising but stays behind the shore of sky
the autumn is on it`s beaty and winter makes her way
northern wind is blowing the leafs from the trees
and the rain is pressing them on a ground, vanish thee
Surrounding darkness can be touched by a hand
coldness achieves the lands and waters
wolves howl for the rising fullmoon
which reflects light on the lake`s dark surface.
[Chorus]
To the gloomy forest the light will not make a way
the nature is ready for the winter here to stay
mist is near of it`s red crimson colour
mist`s moist makes the nature color...blood
Stormy clouds arrive and stand above the land
the north gets the snowbarricades from them
water drifts deeper and deeper into the ground
everything freezes and the sun vanishes forever.
[Chorus]
To the gloomy forest...
10. Dawn of the Chosen World
Am I the chosen one
king of the darkest thrones
blessed with demons blood
which makes my way through the christian flood.
Am I the poisoned one
from the bite of serpent`s crown
marked with seventh fire
which makes my way to desire.
[Chorus]
Bury the sun into eternity
that dark shall come upon
hail the future for chosens
in the world of endless coldness.
Am I the seduced one
by the mistress of the night
lusting for bloodpath
take my arms and cut the veins with wrath.
[Chorus]
Bury the sun into eternity...
I am the chosen one...
I am the poisoned one...
I am the seduced one...
with these aspects, I take the control to this world...
[Chorus]
Bury the sun into eternity...
11. In the Capricorn's Cradle
Oh, the divine ones
lo thy eyes on these flames
for eleven more times
I will spurn the light, I will burn herein this night.
And seeth the rise of a-man
the rise of the beast
and the fall of the light
[Chorus]
Aah...the night, embracing me thou winds by my side.
Aah...the night, feeling the night in the god`s throne...
a-night!
And the deeds done, one-three
here, god-forsaken, I forever bleed
And seeth the seed of the night
the one, bleeding
forever spurning the light
Oh, the heavenly ones
lo thy eyes on me
for eleven more times
I will be roaming this forever night
Seeth the fall of a-man
the fall of man-beast
the rise of the chaoschrist
[Chorus]
Aah...the night...