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Nightfall - одна из незаслуженно забытых слушателем греческих групп. Помнят Septic Flesh, Rotting Christ, но не Nighfall. А ведь сию формацию вполне можно было бы поставить в один ряд с вышеуказанными коллективами. Их музыка достаточно самобытна. Каждый новый релиз был чем-то новым и неожиданным. Греки умудрялись и умудряются не повторяться. Как и Septic Flesh, своё творчество группа начала с атмосферного дэта. А дальше стало гораздо интереснее. Появились элементы блэка, эксперименты с электроникой, мелодичным дэтом. Итогом стало то, что группу тяжело отнести к какому-то конкретному стилю метала.
Данный альбом представляет собой дарк-метал с электронными вставками, которые тут весьма и весьма кстати. Они успешно нагнетают атмосферу и придают пикантности партиям гитары. Последняя же особо радует запоминающимися проигрышами и соло в таких песнях как "Diva", "Master, Faster, Sweet Disaster". Представляет собой интерес и практически полностью электронная песня "Lowve". Она сочетает в себе относительно мягкий звук по сравнению с другими треками альбома и шизофреническое повторение одних и тех же слов на протяжении всей длительности трека. Вообще говоря, ни один из треков не является проходным. Каждый из них запоминается каким-то своим элементом: будь то гитара, необычные интонации голоса и т.д. Вокал заслуживает отдельного разговора. При первом прослушивании он может показаться достаточно специфическим и вызвать неприятие. На самом же деле, эту работу без именно вот такого вокала представить нельзя. Это достаточно хриплый и полный неподдельный эмоций голос. Иногда он переходит в харш, а иногда в чересчур низкий (благодаря электронике) вокал. Тематика песен - это воспоминания, пережитая любовь, одиночество, обособленность в толпе.
Хотелось бы ещё сказать, что сравнения Nightfall с теми же Septic Flesh не слишком уместны. Несмотря на похожее начало, их пути разошлись. Ныне Septic Flesh играют достаточно помпезный симфонический дэт-метал, в то время как Nightfall не сбиваются с выбранного курса на тёмный метал.
Вердикт таков: побольше бы таких групп как Nightfall (хотя, возможно, большое количество тоже было бы перебором). |
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Hazy dream
Hazy life
Say saw the sun
I say you're lying
Why you denied you forgot you left by all those castles that
I built in the name of your light.
You betrayed what you created like a dream of a mid summer night
I feel, I breathe your skin your smell still haunts me,
I can't escape, I dream of you
Love, pain, emotional paint will never let your rust come through
2. Sin
Horny feelings haunt my mind
And I'm afraid I can't escape
How a dream can turn so black
Or it's again that female god
Or it's again that devil's mark
She's so real, full of beauty
Everlasting like hope, I hope
Please turn away and leave my tranquil mind
My christian flesh cannot stand a devil's night
Liar, you wanna kiss her
Liar, you really feel her
Liar, you wanna love her, that's you the moral face
Horny feelings haunt my mind
I am afraid I won't escape
How a dream can be my dope
Or it's again that female god
Or it's again my female god
She's surreal, full of beauty
Everlasting like hope, I love her so
Please turn away and leave my tranquil mind
My moral eyes cannot stand your sinful sight
3. The Sheet Misfits
Please teach me father how should I love
When all love is gone I feel another nail in my hand
Hold me mother I think I'm lost again
Words so many words try to warm me up but still I'm cold
Lies so many lies to compose my life's song
Please sister help me I wanna live
When all love is gone
Please brotha help me a bright star to be
A sheer misfit it's what I am, a black flame, my soul burns
4. Diva
Somebody's running after you
There are times I do the same
But I cannot stand the way you live
I cannot simply follow sweet
My mind is drowned in a sea of thoughts, my heart is bleeding
My mind is black I need no more, oh sister release me
And I always love what others hate - but I never give up faith
Out in their world I feel insane - at her eyes I'm dying to stare
And I always love what others hate - but I never give up faith
Give me a hug please do it now, sister never, never, never, never let me down
How much I adored your inviting eyes
How much I hated to see you cry
Your love I wanted once not now
Feeling strange enough you cannot understand
5. Licked One's Iced Lips
Solid cold and ice
A snowing world in your eyes
Crystal tears hide your shine
All your love is dying
Love, easy comes and easy goes
Tears always haunted me
Come in my life, teach me love
Come and bring the light, sing me a song my favorite song
6. Picture Me
Do you remember when we both watched the stars
Can you recall the thoughts we did for their airy dance
It's what I'm doing now with my own life;
I make it fast, I make it lust living for the moment's light
I've missed the days; I've missed the nights
I've missed the sun, the moon my life's flaming eyes
I ride the wind, I touch the stars, I blow away
I wanna taste what fairytales say
My life, I feel her vibes she makes me shine
My life, fulfils my soul, she makes me strong
7. Some Deaths Take For Ever
What I'd ask my fair
Is to sort this world out
So to get rid of you
From this pity my self hold out
What I'd your gald is
To give you wisdom
So to understand
What the hell's going on with you, morals beware of your creation
In what life my dreams are sinking
Said you care but you've never meant it
In what dream my life's sinking
Said you see but you've never seen it
Strange aeons
Are what I'm living in
What's bright fancy white
It's what everyone believes in
Strange love
It's what you do feel
I'd rather hate my self
Than feeling the way you feel, morals beware of your creation
8. Lowve
In the name of my love I've got to kill you
Lowve
All of my love has come to its end
My feelings are lying down dead
9. Ceaseless
One million nights, for one million nights
I've been wondered about this world that shinny dream I turned dim and called
it life
One million lies, with one million lies
I stole that light from your eyes, made you cry, forgive me for I was blind
All those dreams that you've made now fall apart
And I'm the one the damned to blame for the thorns that surround your heart
One million days, one million days
I counted them all it's long the fall, but please don't ever, never leave
me alone
One million suns, one million suns
You've denied for that love I tried to give you but never did at all
10. My Trator's Kiss
Humans, a race so bloody weak
Strange points of view that make me sick
On that cross they wear their faith all is lying
It's a confused world that's slowly dying
How many times I've felt betrayed
So many times I feel insane
I have an eye for them all, I grow strong
The traitor's kiss many missed
The beasts nobody dares to kiss
I'm just a child of this earth
That's how I got the traitor's kiss
11. Pleasure
What I feel, what I think it is purely negative
Once you pushed me down to fall
I felt betrayed, I felt alone
It's such a pleasure to meet you here again
Since you denied me I turned out mean
I wasn't really, I had to be
It's such a pleasure
And as the time goes by I see regret penetrating your mind
With your eyes downcast, crying, glad to see your gray pride's dying
So many years and a wide lake of tears
So many years for my wounds to be cured by your bloody tears
Stay away, away from me
A giver never again will be
It's such a pleasure
Since you denied me I turned out mean
I felt betrayed and still I feel
It's such a pleasure
And as the time goes by
So many years and a lake full of
12. Crucifix Me (Japanese version bonus track)
Show me what you feel sister
Show me what you need
Show me how much you want me
Your kiss my lethal dose will be
My lethal dose your love will be
Love me, kiss me feel me bliss me touch me kill me all I want is
You, my savior, please take me away from here
You
Dear goddess I feel you
I feel you deep in me
My soul reflects your body
My senses bear your skin your skin
My lethal dose your love will be
Love me
Lyrics by Efthimis Karadimas