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 Embers of Euphoria - достаточно молодая группа из Сан-Франциско, играющая прогрессив метал с небольшими вкраплениями трэша и пауэра. Дебютный альбом американцев - очень мелодичный, техничный, весьма лиричный, не то, чтобы сильно оргинальный, но весьма самобытный и просто отличный (этот стих посвящается мной вышеупомянутой группе в качестве поддержки). Конечно, есть и недостатки (без недостатков, как ни крути, не бывает ни у кого и никогда): это все-таки не совсем идеальный звук, и еще, как мне показалось, вокалист в некоторых песнях немного тянет одеяло на себя, мог бы и помолчать немного, дать насладиться мастерством музыкантов:) А мастерство, кстати, есть. Больше всего с этого альбома поразила "Reverie of the Final Sunset" - потряснейший акустический медляк. В-общем, в музыке, перефразируя Чехова, все должно быть прекрасно, и техника, и душа. И, я думаю, у этих четверых американских парней все это есть. |
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Turbulence of fear and affliction misery smiles inviting
Striving through the storm, damned if I were to fall
Dimming into the darkness, the burden haunts my every way
Harboring in the shadows to escape the turmoil of restrain
Torrential tide in mind, ominous reprise
The unrelenting battle within, misery smiles again
Striving through the storm, damned if I were to fall
Dimming into the darkness, the burden haunts my every way
Harboring in the shadows to escape the turmoil of restrain
Running and hiding from the doing of one's ending fate
Struggling and fighting to undo this burden from me
Riling, despising, helpless for none can defend me
Eluding, concluding, revelation of my eternal fate!
Dimming into the darkness, the burden haunts my every way
Harboring in the shadows to escape the turmoil of restrain
Dark Parade Lyrics/Music: J. Ramada
See the march of the dark parade
Flooding the streets with fear
Wasting the weak and destroying the innocent
Ravaging far and near
Run away from the massacre, run away from the fire
Run away from the evil, or be taken by the riders
Run away from the dark parade!
Hear them ride through the misty night
The terror freezes you at their site
See their eyes glow with no mercy
Striking down so severe
Run away from the massacre, run away from the fire
Run away from the wrath, or be thrown into the pire
Run away from the dark parade!
Run away from the dark parade!
Eyes of Anguish Lyrics/Music: J. Ramada
Eyes of anguish looks upon me
Hypnotizing, beckons me in
Piercing its cold stare through my eyes
Feel my spine turn to ice
A dark unearthly lifeless feeling
Takes my heart in melancholy bleeding
In the silent agony
The emptiness, the madness I see torments me!
Eyes of anguish, strips my dignity
Eyes of anguish, burning all i see
In the midst of innocence
Lost within my fallen walls
Reflections of what hides behind
An ill forgotten place in mind
Dividing my grasp of time
Suffering the seconds of endlessness
Screaming soul repressed in still
The hollowness, the abysmal lunacy drowning me!
Eyes of anguish, strips my dignity
Eyes of anguish, burning all I see
The unrelenting stare, taunting me with visions
Reflections of lament, the madness i abhor
Displaced by recollection, of memories left decaying
As eyes evoke my anguish, I've fallen down constrained!
Eyes of anguish, strips my dignity
Eyes of anguish, burning all I see
Eyes of anguish, the abysmal lunacy
Eyes of anguish, eyes of anguish burning me!
Reverie of the Final Sunset Lyrics/Music: J. Ramada
Stems of thorns lie along a weary path
Gates of gold shine peril and deceit
The chalice tilted divulges what's to pass
An hourglass promises the final grains to end
Take a last look at the sunset
Absolve all the suffering and pain
An eclipse will rise for tomorrow's dawn
And lull all existence fading into eternal sleep...
Isle of the Dead Lyrics/Music: J. Ramada
Cold is the sun burning black
Pale is the moon turning red
Surrounded by a sea of sorrow
The wind, it screams like the undead raveling your soul
Implanting desire
The shadows ahead
Beguiling and dire
The Isle of the Dead
Stare and age a thousand years
And crumble within a moment of time
Unwelcoming gates warning doom
Revealing the temple where she's consumed, by a curse
In there you'll find
Her poisonous eyes
The sentinel she watches
The Isle of the Dead
Serpent coils of despair
She gazes into the night's
Trembling air
A beauty of demise
In solitude unsanctified
A fragment of divine
The Isle of the Dead
Eternal Confinement Lyrics/Music: J. Ramada
Forsaken and bound every wake I find
Tattered soul, restless and denied
My reverence decays upon your glory
As my creations diminishes slowly before me
In eternal confinement I burn
Flames of woe surrounds me forever
In eternal confinement discerned
Devoured by the covet and malice in mind
In the depths of smoldering disgrace
Unseen the torment on my face
Shards of my own reflection cuts inside
Bleeding hatred, I defy to strike your pride
In eternal confinement I burn
Flames of woe surrounds me forever
In eternal confinement discerned
Devoured by the covet and malice
In eternal confinement I burn
All my desires recoil and taunt me
In eternal confinement discerned
My glory now it wanes against my will
Confined to undying flames, damned forever
Embers of my purity, smoldering disgrace
Deprived of all my worth, I envy and desire
I'm left to discern in burning fire!