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"Whatever It May Take" - грандиозная работа, на тот момент еще только начинающих и неопытных немецких ребят, именующих себя Heaven Shall Burn. Очень долго можно спорить насчет музыкального жанра, к которому стоит причислить данный лонгплей. На альбоме можно услышать даже элементы дэта, создающие впечатление, что это "Bolt Thrower XXI века", только играющие на современный манер. Мощные гитарные риффы, яростный вокал и очень плотный звук ударных не заставит скучать даже убежденных любителей олдскульного метала. Именно такой материал создали немцы, и он не смог остаться незаметным на современной тяжелой сцене.
Одна из главных особенностей альбома, на мой взгляд, это лирика. Длинные строчки, которые Маркус, используя силу своего голоса, без особых затруднений формирует в идеальные куплеты. Его голос сложно с кем-либо спутать или сравнить, поскольку вокалист он, по-моему, довольно уникальный. Это в полной мере раскрывается слушателю в классической версии "Implore the Darken Sky", где он спел красивым чистым вокалом в несвойственной для группы манере.
Стоит также обратить внимание на то, что альбом далеко не однообразный - местами на нем можно услышать по-настоящему скоростные боевики ("Ecowar", "Whatever It May Take"), также как и среднетемповые песни ("The Martyr's Blood", "Implore the Darken Sky").
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fate has set me down - below you all hold us captive - behind a wall of
silence. We live our life in a prison of ignorance. One of the forgotten -
an unwanted son a life made just for you - not me and my equals. I know, my
feelings are not worth the pain. Will you affected pitty ever turn to
respect. How can I long for warmth and love at all? Do you think my heart is
dead? I should be dead, slain or poisoned - and everything could be so easy
for you.
3. The Worlds In Me
Deep inside my heart, where their reign will get no power. Where their
violence can not hurt me. I will breed the thoughts and ideals, that bring
them down, down to their knees. Their poisoned souls are wicked minds, these
eyes have seen the death of freedom, but no fist ever rose. This righteous
rage consumed by ignorance. Freedom - My heart is strong. One truth - I will
not fall. Passion - I'm not alone. Denial - Your lies will burn. My heart is
strong, I swear I will not fall. I'm not alone, I know we'll rise to bear
the worlds in us. They can't erase the world in me - too deep inside, too
strong in me. I'll bring it to life, more than just dreams. The vision that
keeps me upright their only truth will rot in peace, crack down their
ideals. I'll watch them burn, I'll see them fall.
4. The Martyr's Blood
Last words of confidence still penetrate the cannonthunder, so many daring
dreams will fall, the vision of a better world dies in the bombingrain. No
time to say farewell, the world shall hear about their fight. Betrayed by
spineless servants, conspiracies - so many heroes shot from behind. No
thoughts of giving in, no stampede - no more negotiating. This desesperate
fight will set a sing - they died with the gun in their hands. Time will
avenge one day. The sky is colored red by the martyr's blood, the same sky
under which. The victors marching in again, bringing back the slavery, the
oldest order, under rule again - it's been too early, but they shall rise
again. If it all came down to me, would I shed my blood for what I lived
for? Would I clench my fist until the last breath?
5. It Burns Within
Conformity, the agony of freedom. An epidemic eats our worlds. I know your
eyes will be to weak to see the way to walk. Not able to live the single
moment. Your skin is far to cold to feel a kiss. Feeling numb to all this
suffering. Where is the place we use to hide? Will it be enough to tell you
about the freedom you could have. About the stars, the green, the happiness,
about the soulless slaves you're following. Will this be wnough to overcome
the mechanism, that keeps you away from our hands they will never suffocate
this fire. They will never extinguish my flame. I won't let you fall from my
hands. I'll fight until the end, I promise. It burns within!
6. Implore The Darken Sky
Abandonment, you've taken all I've given here's no haven anymore, prepare
myself for falling. I'm drowning, there is no hand to reach for me. So
starving, no noble mind will feed me, will anoint my aching wounds. Now I'm
on my knees, petitioning your false deity, crying and begging, no anwser
will be given. Broken down before a false divinity. Then I saw the lies, I
know the truth at last. I won't implore this darken sky, never awaiting a
cure, won't listen to your melodies, this lie will not be lived. It's all in
me, all I'll ever need, I'll rise again, no more Abandonment stronger than
ever before, stronger than you'll ever be.
7. The Few Upright
To see the world with sober eyes, if everybodies mind is paralyzed by
thumping lies. Looking in the face of their fake savior, this assassin of
humanity, without respect, without fear. Wee see the awful thoughts behind
his golden words, we hear the coming doom, there will be no paradise you'll
never rule the few upright, the few, who think and act. It's far beneath
this nation's dignity who walk the tyrant's way. Refuse to close our eyes,
refuse to follow them, never sacrifice our animus. We are no army they could
fight against; we are the poisoned youth, that still remembers liberty, that
still his thinking free. You didn't trample all the flowers before they
spread their seeds.
8. Whatever It May Take
One by one they fall - and I just close my eyes. It won't be over soon - do
you regret this time? I thought so many things were certain. So many friends
turned to the ones I hate. You fade away forever - the hands of time. I
wanna see the things just how they are feel them, like a child would do.
Will this kid in me will survive this process? Narrowed minds - I'll burst
your mental chains even, if I'll live like them - my heart is free. I won't
become a tool, a puppet. I'll bite the hand that wants to feed me. My will
to live against your world of zombies. Blindfold the eye, that watches all
of us and even, if I live like them my heart is free. I'll never walk your
way - whatever it may take. You never break my will - whatever it may take.
9. Ecowar
More and more, this certainty will rise. It's far too late, until you'll
understand. More than ever, I feel there is no way. To make you see, what's
so drownright. They betrayed the generations after them, framed their
childrens, left a fateful wisdom you still consume, consume this matricide.
You still believe, believe these fatal lies. Their machines, they kill for
us. But if we refuse, if we remonstrate at last. They will go down! They
shall stand still. Forever! How can you be so indifferent to this creeping
ecocide? I'll fight against this way of thinking, to make you see, it dies!
This is my war, an Ecowar! My mother earth will not be assassinated by these
parasites. This is my war, an Ecowar!
10. Naked Among Wolves
One life, one hope - this is our life in hell punished for telling the
truth, for unwanted ideals. Innocence means nothing here - we stand and fall
together, the only way to ever leave this barren hill. The smile of a child
set free our minds, a symbol of life in this domain of death they want to
erase it, if these bastards ever come to know, they'll kill us all. They
search everywhere - everyday, they infiltrate us, they torture they slew my
best friends, as he would never betray as he saved the boys life, he set a
world free. A symbol of moral victory, we're invincible! We raised from the
dead, winged by this struggle, we judged our tormentors, they fled like
cowardly bastards. The boys grew in freeom, we saved the whole world.
11. The Fire
The grass is green today, here where my brothers lay. Buried in this goddanm
ground, where I lost my life forever too. How can it be? - the sun, it
shines today over fieds and hills - where we lived in the mud, where we
heard the thunder we met the beast of mandkind - as we arched into the fire.
No light, no wind, no calm - It was no place on earth at all. One by one my
comrades died, sacrificed in the battle of brothers. Thrown into the fire -
to make a few meters of land. We left our homes with a smile, as we arched
to the music - as we said farewell to our beloved, we felt like heroes so
high awaited glory and honor - became cheap canonfodder instead the few, who
returned are broken forever rain washed away our blood - our cries gone with
the wind but forever in my head, My soul has burned in the fire, I had the
hell on earth. Will you remember?
12. Case De Caboclo
[Point Of No Return cover]
Endliess nights of persecution. Reopening wounds - never healed. Always
willing to suppress our attempts to be free. Violence is always a tool in so
called democraty. Agents of the state allowed to spread terror, seeking to
eliminate sparks of political resistance. Endless nights of violation.
Breeding fear - anguished cries. A blood oath to never surrender. Committed
to the struggle. Until all fences are burned. You'll try the taste of pain
we endure every day. To quit without resisting would be to live in vain.
Attentive eyes guard the tents in the twilight. Women and men ready to
counterattack. Full moon shines... The enemy crawls in the dead of night. No
way back... The masked cops take their final step. You're trapped.
Surrounded by the mass. Laws are ignored. Justice from bleeding hands.
13. Implore The Darken Sky (Classic Version)