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Немцы Voice никогда не пользовались большой популярностью ни у себя на родине, ни в мире, что, в принципе, не удивительно: группа играет в достаточно непопулярном в широких кругах стиле. Музыкально материал на альбоме "Trapped In Anguish" можно сравнить с работой соотечественников Voice - Angel Dust - "Bleed".
Voice предлагают слушателю добротный хэви, сдобренный изрядным количеством клавишных пассажей и некоторой долей прогрессивности. На альбоме вы найдете как среднетемповые драйвовые песни (так называемые "stompers") ("No Way Out", "Disappeared Heroes" и "Behind Your Reflection" - лучшая композиция на альбоме, на мой взгляд, ), так и более быстрые композиции ("Twilight Dreams", "Gunslinger" - посвящённая книге Стивена Кинга о Тёмной Башне, "In The Night"). Альбом завершает одиннадцатиминутный эпик "The Journey" - несомненно, самая интересная и сложная по структуре вещь альбома. Несколько выбиваются из общего настроения диска балладные вещи "The Silent Way" и "Colder Than Ice" - в первую очередь из-за того, что идут подряд одна за другой.
Отдельно хочется выделить вокалиста - он обладает очень сильным и интересным голосом (для сравнения, немного похож на Хиеталу из Tarot, только способен брать более высокие ноты). Тем не менее, медленные композицию ему не очень хорошо удаются.
Вердикт: очень неплохой альбом, который понравится поклонникам данного жанра. Подходит для неоднократного прослушивания. Однако, не очень удачные медленные композиции несколько понижают оценку "Trapped In Anguish". |
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Suppress all your doubts
Believe in your power
Between madness and reality
Search your true identity
Can you see the black clouds rising
Thunder rolls over hills
Chasing shadows, assault on your mind
On the devil's train across your life
You feel a choke in your throat
And sweat burns in your eyes
In the search of the way out
Don't migrate with the birds of prey
No way out
Fight against your addictions
Suppress all your doubts
Believe in your power
Between madness and reality
Search your true identity
No way out...
2. Twilight Dreams
Await in the twilight look up to the sky
Spread black velvet wings infend to fly
Feel the slightly warm midsummer night
Now I am free, I no longer fight
I'm fkying, I'm flying right across the sky
When I am tired on a cloud I can lie
Rise to the stars, over the sea
I feel immortal, I feel immortal
And nothing can kill me
A million stars around observe my way
Screams in that quietness evoke the judgement day
Out of breath awaits me the end
Now I'm free and ready for a better land
I'm fkying, I'm flying right across the sky
When I am tired on a cloud I can lie
Rise to the stars, over the sea
I feel immortal, I feel immortal
I'm fkying, I'm flying right across the sky
When I am tired on a cloud I can lie
Rise to the stars, over the sea
I feel immortal, I feel immortal
And nothing can kill me
3. Behind Your Reflections
Your last day gives away it's light
On the long way to the darkness
And the night comes down on us
With a hopeless scream
Awakes once more your feelings
About then to sink into a dream
Believe in your power
And don't you look back
Follow this shining way
Never surrender
And raise your head
Till the last day, the very last day
Think of your best times
Look up to the sky
Follow the rising sun
And never say die
The pictures of your life
Are passing through your mind
All sorrows become void and small
Now many hours have you senselessly wasted
And now ask yourself the question
"What that all?"
Don't throw away your life
You are not alone
Suicide never was your way
Don't give up
And raise your head
Till the last day, the very last day
Think of your best times...
4. The Silent Way
One sunny morning I read my paper
Distressed when I saw the starling line
"Old man found dead in his apartment"
Vague shadows fled out of my mind
Remember the time when I was the child
And the little red house near the wood
The day were excifing, lively and wild
With the old man in the neighbourhood
Please come back
For a last chance
Don't let me alone
With my sorrows
Let us be friends
Forever
Again and again
Today and tomorrow
Again and again
The silent way
When my parents hit me, you dried my tears
Like a father you stayed be my side
Solver of my problems, opposer of my tears
You understood me and told from your fight
Time came one day that I had to leave you
Didn't look back, got out of your life
Forgot my childhood and forgot you, too
Now shame cuts my heart like a knife
Please come back...
Silence!!!
5. Colder Than Ice
She came to me, enchanted me, she called me "my dear"
Come fly with me, I heard her say, have no fear
I fell for her and was so proud to take her by the hand
It was a dream and I fooled around like Alice in Wonderland
I was so blind, can't understand how I gave myself to her
Just went on dreaming, and forgot where my red shoes were
She left me for another man, just like the one before
Face like an angel, she kills hearts in high score
Baby, your heart is colder than ice
I've given you love and that's my price
Remember the hours in the heat of the night
When your body was soft and your eyes shining bright
Was possessed by a demon, arrested in a hole
I lost my heart, but I still got, still got my soul
As the world's still turning, I can let it rest, I can let it rest!
Sometimes it's real hard, but I think I've tried my best
Baby, your heart is colder than ice
I was in love and I've paid my price
Remember the hours in the heat of the night
When your body was soft and your eyes shining bright – so bright
Baby, your heart is colder than ice
I was in love and I've paid my price
Remember the hours in the heat of the night
When your body was soft and your eyes shining bright
Baby, your heart is colder than ice
I was in love and I've paid my price
Remember the hours in the heat of the night
When your body was soft and your eyes shining bright – so bright
6. The Gunslinger
["Dry desert winds blow sand into a shabby bar
Drunken guys with cracking souls hang around
In the corners and are out of hope
Mankind is in despair, because the mighty
Shadows of the dark tower lie over them,
Like a black blanket"]
The door is banging on the wall
Shadows of a men enters this hall
Silence governs the room
Now is the beginning of doom
The man's face is dirty and far
But the eyes sparkle clear like a star
It's Dragon, the gunslinger
The guy with the nimble finger
He is searching the dark tower
Has never seen there a blooming flower
His mission is to rescue the land
And Dragon is ready for the last stand
Until the bad powers are put aside
Hope returns and morning light
You must kill to get back the sun
In a battle with a loaded gun
Here comes the gunslinger
With the nimble finger
To fight against the dark tower
Until death with all his power
Here comes the gunslinger...
7. Disappeared Heroes
In every place, in every time
Their traces can be found
They rules the world, they changed their times
With hearts so wild and proud
They took the tale into their hands
Stood upright like a wall
No man compelled them on their knees
No hard cry if they fall
Their deeds are immortal every time
In every story-book you find
They were the heroes
The creatures of steel
Better stay and die
Than to plead and kneel
In every place, in every time
Their traces can be found
They rules the world, they changed their times
With hearts so wild and proud
Always was their fighting for
The right side of the law
So they got scars throughout the years
Like soldiers in a war
Where are the heroes
The creatures of steel
Were they lost so far
Were never seen again
They were lost throughout the time
Only their traces you can find
8. In The Night
Horses trampling in my room
Knights are roaring, they got swords of steel
One of them is falling down
The sword deep in his chest that I can feel
Battlefields and big guns, ev'rywhere I go
I try to run away from but I am too slow
Much too slow
Spiders coming from the wall
Crawling in my bed, I go insane
One of them the biggest of all
Injects me her poison into my vein
I realize my mind is wrecked, the pulse is beating low
I try to run away from but I am too slow, much too slow
In the night in my dreams
I see odd things in the jungle of my mind
When I close my eyes
Mysterious shadows in the still of the night
Illusion of truth
Can see the fight between the giants from heaven and hell
Lay my body down to sleep
My fancy's awake while I'm dreaming
A plane is rising to the sky
Engines are running with deafening roar
It takes me to the universe
To places eyes have never seen before
Thousands of light years far away from you
Aliens around me nothing I can do
In the night in my dreams...
9. The Journey
Thousands of years ago
Under the same sun, in this world
As the gods have spoken to us
Created by human hands
By legeng chased
They keep their mystery
The ancient wonders of eternity
In the name
Of our creator
In the name
Of good sense
In the name
Of your children
Don't let die the bequest!
When we won't be anymore
There will stand a silent witness
For a species that had erected
A monument to themselves
You know nothing is forever
And the pictures fade, fade away
But whatever the reason
Keep the everlasting tale
Let me be your guide
Into the past, to secret signs
Don't be afraid to open your mind
In the name
Of our creator
In the name
Of good sense
In the name
Of your children
Don't let die the bequest!
Of a journey to these pictures
Let me be your guide
A journey into the past
To secret signs