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 Музыка Realm напоминает сложную и сверхточную машину, работающую на полном ходу. Ближайшее сравнение – прогрессивный трэш марки Toxik. Это касается и работы двух талантливых гитаристов и, в особенности, высокого выразительного голоса Марка Антони. Только в отличие от Toxik, Realm играют более холодно и тяжело. Сложные копмозиции перевариваются с трудом, эта сузыка заставляет вслушиваться, вдумываться в себя. Просто даёшься диву мастерству не столько отдельных членов, сколько группы в целом. Момент, который порадовал особо – как прописан бас – его слышно на заднем фоне на протяжении всего альбома. Выделить отдельные песни трудно – альбом воспринимается как единое целое, не являясь концептуальным. Со скоростных трэшевых частей группа непринуждённо переходит на необычные размеры, хитрые риффы, но не блуждает по прогрессивным просторам, а всегда возвращается в собственно железо. Тексты, разумеется, соотвествуют, петь под такое музыкальное сопровождение детские стишки о чертях и трупах – непростительно. Лирика охватывает широкий спектр социальных проблем, что, вообще-то, в грамотном трэше не ново: от поисков себя, разрушения окружающей среды, человеческой склонности к насилию, сумашедших гениях, любителях садиться за руль подвипивши, до бунта в кибернетической антиутопии. Выбивается, в хорошем смысле, из строя One More Red Nightmare, вещица с прогрессивными заморочками, но чувствуется сразу, что не «рилмовская». Совершенно верно – это King Crimson! О единственной неприятной стороне альбома, о вокале, скажу только, что хотя и приятно слышать человека, прекрасно владеющего голосом, но хэви-металического писка я лично не люблю. Но это вопрос личного вкуса... Подозреваю, что Realm не стали супер-популярными именно потому, что играли слишком сложно. Но создали, можно сказать, шедевр – Siuciety. |
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Scream bloody murder
Cain in us all
Alive inside of you ... Scream
Scream bloody murder
Can you feel him, rising up ?
Are you willing to harden your heart ?
Don't harden your heart, no, no !
You start to anger when cain rose up and up and up
Can`t you feel it ?
Look up to the window
Explain my desire
I unload, open fire
It`s not the thrill of the game
It`s not the pleasure of pain
It`s what you feel from cain
2. Fragile Earth
Open your eyes to what will be lost in time
Our mother is dying, out father is waiting to judge
Knowledge without reason contaminates the truth
Time is against the wickedness of man
Acid rain, toxic waste
Fragile earth
Victims, you`re the cause
Plague upon the world
Forests die, polluted skies
Fragile earth
Victims, buried in waste
Legacy of man
Kill my world
Kill your earth, now
To start now is too late
Yet we wait, with no time left
Come on open your eyes to what will be lost
Barren wasteland
The end ...
3. Energetic Discontent
Look into the mirror that holds my sanity
Searching for questions, answers I hear
Release me from this prison, I can`t stand the pain
Obsession (depression)
Confusion (repression)
Decay
Energetic discontent
A screw is loose, my mind is bent
Energetic discontent
Product of society`s descent
I want someone to listen
I don`t know what to say
I need someone to be there
So I can be alone
I want someone to use me
Make me feel disturbed
Continued torment dwells inside
And turns to bitter ... violent, ... hateful, ... acts !
Energetic discontent
A screw is loose, my mind is bent
Energetic discontent
Product of society`s descent
Why did you lie to me ? Why ?
Why did you brainwash me with fear ? Why ?
I`ll make you pay for the desceit, you`ll pay
Energetic discontent
A screw is loose, my mind is bent
Energetic discontent
Your lying eyes breed violent, contempt
4. Gateway
I was on the highway headed east to El Paso
On the road all night, just 300 miles to go
The desert sun was hot it came to claim its toll
You know the road can hypnotize
The sky grew dark, storm winds began to blow
I couldn`t see the road I no longer had control
Kidnapped by an unknown force, journey to its cryptic source
I tried to resist
Blinded by darkness
Black hole draws me in
Grips my soul and body
Strips my mind of fear
Lifetimes pass away
Death and hate collide
My eyes are witness
My spirit free
Trapped in vortex I grasped infinity
Anything I dreamed became reality
Distant words were mine
Time and space converged
I was a prisoner lost in eternity
Somehow made it back to where I was before
The desert vision died the wisdom in me grew
Earth is but a womb life is our conception
Preparing us for birth into a new dimension
Somewhere in the desert on the open road
Gateway to another void beyond this world
Don`t try to find it, it has no control
The price for your journey may be your sanity
5. Final Solution
Black is the vision before me
Fear of mass devastation
Time for another messiah
Death the final solution
Millions dying for a cause
The few deciding all our laws
Swear yourself to church and state
Corporate profits are at stake
Blackest evil now controls the power thrones of earth
Metal masters mangle minds of intoxicated youth
Corrupted senile generals are nuclear obsessed
Dropping bombs, creating mutants that want to eat your flesh
It seems as though our future is hopeless
Rebels are now conformists
Fight for the truth you will win
Surrender your hope you will die
You must take what you can get to satisfy your greed
Forget the starving helpless innocent that bleed
Holocaustal prophecies envisioned now come true
Victims of our ignorance and the poisoned minds of fools
6. The Brainchild
Visions of mind, the power invested within
A force to conceive, effecting the world, standing alone ...
No ! You can`t take my mind, I don`t know you
I won`t go with you, don`t influence my mind
Stand all alone, undamaged by your fears
Born to conquer walls, thoughts ahead in years
In touch with the future, pour forth thoughts portrayed
Will we ever understand, all that he`s foreseen
What lies behind his eyes, behold, the brainchild
Strange to common man, visionary obsessed
Possessed to create, believe the feeling soul
See through the mind`s eye, hear those voices inside
Will we ever understand, all that he`s foreseen
What lies behind his eyes, behold, the brainchild
I will not give up my mind
I won`t listen anymore to the media wars
I must not conform, endure the mental strain
Believe what I say, powers of your soul
Will we ever understand, all that he`s foreseen
What lies behind his eyes, behold, the brainchild
Possess the spirit, inspiration felt from the force
Never accepting what`s been done before, standing alone ...
7. La Flamme's Theory
Twisted thinking, what`s next ?
No more nightmares, they`re real
Maybe tomorrow you`ll know
Knowledge that hides is found
Someday you`ll see
There is this madman
Somaday you`ll see
Revelations, running wild
Risking death for the dead
Raging inflection, insight
Concentration to unveil
Someday you`ll see
To find a madman ...
Someday you`ll see
But it will be too late
To stop his dreams ...
13, he`s out there somewhere
Learning to control his psychotic dreams
Picking at brains
Remains on the curb from a dead dog
What kind of child is this ?
What does the future hold ?
You`ll see what I hope to find
Your respect will be mine
Fame and praise in time
I will look inside, my theory to prove
He`s working, the mind and the spirit
Sickness lost deep within himself, going insane
Secrets untold for your own good
What kind of man is this ?
What does the future hold ?
You`ll see what I hope to find
Your respect will be mine
It will be mine
Looking for the key to set the spirit free
8. Dick
Sick of living the same old way
I wish everything would go away
Hanging out drinking whisky at the bar
Closing time and I get into my car
See Dick live
See Dick drive
See Dick drink
See Dick die
See Dick die
Crusin` home gonna push it faster
So messed up really doesn`t matter
Sharp tuned I almost spilled
Didn`t see those people I killed
See Dick live
See Dick drive
See Dick drink
See Dick die
See Dick die
Now Dick made his own hell
The bars he sees keeps him in his cell
Happens everyday
He sits back doing his time
Going over the crime in his mind
It never goes away
How can you sleep at night ?
Never meant to take anyone`s life
Nothing left to say
9. Knee Deep In Blood
When will we learn, the world must change
We have the power to kill and maim
Death toll is high, must it climb higher ?
Why does man have this killing desire ?
Here I stand knee deep in blood
Slaughter of man knee deep in blood
Categorical knaves, what`s there to prove ?
Violent bound slaves are satan`s fools
What`s the solution, can you tell me now ?
Blood rains from heaven, are they tears of god ?
Here I stand knee deep in blood
Slaughter of man knee deep in blood
When will we learn, the world must change
We have the power to kill and maim
Death toll is high, must it climb higher ?
Why does man have this killing desire ?
Here I stand knee deep in blood
Slaughter of man knee deep in blood
10. Suiciety
Do or die, the time has come to destroy the system
Soon we`ll be free
Set time for detonation, the bomb lay at my feet
Smoke my last cigarette, mission now complete
All were born into the system, every need provided for
Programmed into conformity, deviants destroyed
Built to help us, in time it took control
I must fight to save our minds
Master of forgotten knowledge
Breeding ignorance at our expense
Why are we so blind ?
One by one it slaughters us
We must not be blind
Stand and fight, destroy the system
The time has come, we have no choise
Must kill the system, to set ourselves free
Detonation time is set, a bomb lay at my feet
A fair trade for freedom, death or defeat
Some are immune to the mind control
But how can they pretend ?
Deviants can be detected
Curiosity condemned by death
I can see through the guise
My mind is my own
I can break the hold
Time is short, the system knows
Suiciety
Suiciety
I`m not afraid to kill myself
I took the bomb I made and ran
To the heart of the system
Level 10, sector 3