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Стремление отойти от неких признанных канонов в том или ином жанре приводит, порой, к довольно парадоксальным результатам. Иногда, в поисках новых путей и собственного саунда та или иная группа добивается того, что… полностью теряет свое лицо, становясь похожей сразу на все и сразу. Нечто подобное произошло с молодой финской командой GHOST BRIGADE, которая на своем дебютном альбоме проявила недюжинное мастерство и стремление к творчеству, обернувшиеся в результате чем-то таким, настолько… финским, что музыка “GUIDED BY FIRE” воспринимается как естественный результат эволюции национальной сцены, но не как акт творения вот именно этих конкретных музыкантов. Здесь слышатся отголоски альбомов NOUMENA и INSOMNIUM, IMPERANON и SWALLOW THE SUN, SENTENCED и KYPCK (при всей их непохожести друг на друга) и, конечно, последних двух работ AMORPHIS. Причем, в случае с последними речь уже идет не о каких-то смутных «образах», а о вполне реальном и конкретном сходстве, начиная от вокала Манне Иконена, который чуть ли не копирует манеру Томи Йоутсена, и заканчивая построением композиций. Здесь музыканты GHOST BRIGADE смешивают традиционную финнскую мелодичную сентиментальность с жесткими риффами современного мелодик-дэт, добавляя немного прогрессивных линий и сладжевую гитарную технику. Все это основано на довольно неспешном темпе, который исправно взрывается короткими брутальными отрезками, где вместе с ускорением ритма и утяжелением риффов голос вокалиста из мягкого баритона превращается в характерный для модерн-метал и метал-кор крик. При этом музыка GHOST BRIGADE выглядит для подобного стиля уж слишком предсказуемо и прямолинейно, что при отсутствии каких-либо ярких хитов делает ее откровенно скучной. Впрочем, здесь я не совсем прав: финальная “Deliberately” неожиданно оказывается настоящей жемчужиной на фоне довольно серого полотна альбома. Откуда-то появилась отличная мелодия, подчеркнутая аккуратными вкраплениями клавишных и четкая ритмическая структура, голос певца перестал напоминать о г-не Йоутсене, став при этом достаточно эмоциональным, ну а сама песня стала хорошим напоминанием о том, что далеко не всегда сложность и «продвинутость» композиций являются синонимом «оргинальности» и «самобытности». С первым у музыкантов GHOST BRIGADE все в порядке, а вот со вторым – большие проблемы, которые не завуалировать даже отличным продюсированием и идеальным качеством финского звука.
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No chance to live
In this place gone is your heart
Have you done your best
Spent time to wait for nothing
Now you fail what's left behind
Now the skies hanging lower
The bubble of growing vice
You ask yourself what the hell is this
We were meant to be something
Like the better day
In this place gone is your heart
Have you done your best
Spent time to wait for nothing
Now you fail what's left behind
Follow the path to the end
Find your true self with yourself
To believe what you see
2. Hold On Thin Line
Feel it rush in your brain
Like lightning breaks the sky
Stand alone and die raising arms
Wishing you could stop
Wishing you could stop
Wishing you could stop
Wishing
I bet you ain't never ended
Your day way like this
I bet you ain't never ended
Your day way like this
Cabin fever - raising voice
Cabin fever - raising voice
Cast down my name with your only way
Cast down my name with your only way
Look at my way, look now your way
Stay focused, stay awake
Getting it all with a
Get it in order
Get it in order
I, I wanna blow you away
We keep it still, we keep it steady
Calming us down, making us slaves
Cabin fever - raging voice
Cabin fever - raising voice
Second time we were hanging lower
Counting seconds but it won't work
Look at my way, look now your way
Stay focused, stay awake
Getting it all with a
Get it in order
Get it in order
I, I wanna blow you away
Getting tired, I wanna know
Better days await
Better days await...
3. Horns
Who's there to lie to for a little more
Got so evil, how could this happen
Living shell of a human, I can't trust you
Pain is much more than I could ever be
Made your mind
Inner source saw a place to exceed god
Why need god
What's safe to see we let the eyes
I can see no god
What you create, what you make
So you are a human with no one
Show me the ways how you make everything shine
I'll make you walk through fire and desire
Let hell be loose, everything that I ever wanted
Made your mind
Inner source saw a place to exceed god
Why need god
What's safe to see we let the eyes
I can see no god (What you create, what you make)
Turn away
Lack of trust
Helpless deep within to someone
Stop crying
Say something what is real
This time your god won't help you
4. Minus Side
Taking life for itself
You call yourself a man
Declare it as a sin
Who are you to judge
Can't stand alone behind your own words
We made you as a coward
We blame you, you loser
We name you as a coward
So you deserve to fly away
We have seen so many fail
Trying to change people for better
Evolved to minus side
And the number is growing
Maybe the end of war
It could clear us all
Maybe the end of all
And another day would be dark
So many gave their lives for serving god
Stopped so late or stayed in the dark
I believe in this simple world
I believe in you
To choose your side the day you born
Unlike the unborn
That's your only salvation
Think you're feeling better
The full circle has done
Maybe the end of war
It shall deem us all
Maybe the end of all
And another day would be gone
So many gave their lives for serving god
Stopped so late or stayed in the dark
I believe in this simple world
I believe in the spoken word
I believe in this simple world
I believe in you
5. Away And Here
How sick you ever wanna be
Able to see the light
Suffer boy leash won't break
How hard you try
Helplessly tilt the time for me
Can you help this only for me
Walls around you grow taller
Hard to keep em [?]
Heaven beside you bargain [?] with [?]
Buy yourself your own kingdom
Helplessly tilt the time for me
Can you help this only for me
First to find [?]
It's hard to be [?]
Lightning [?] for [?]
Lack of regret wakes me [?]
6. Along The Barriers
Show no mercy to anyone
Thought that all nonsense is past
It's all coming back
Stronger than ever
Blood in your veins belongs to me
Ain't going to reckon you to be my voice
Not the one to speak for me
Some day flames will reach up there
Pains and accuses from times
Feels some serious [?]
Times of agony and pain (it's okay)
Pains and accuses from times
Feels some serious [?]
Times of chaos and pain
We're gonna drag you down with us
Help you open your own eyes
And help you see
This is for your heart
The note you left behind
Wasn't only owned for me
It was owned for everyone
This growing disease called need
Pains and accuses from times
Feels some serious [?]
Times of agony and pain (it's okay)
Pains and accuses from times
Feels some serious [?]
Times of chaos and pain
7. Based On You
Crawling ditches
Searching for early days
Look at this world
It says clearly not for you
[?]
It's not for pretty eyes
You gonna take it
It's pointing straight at you
How alone you must be
That you can't really feel
Hopes of freedom you can't get out of head, you
In this day lay standing in a crowd
Screaming, screaming
Reading wishes about lies, diseases
It's making me feel sick and poor
'Cause you gotta go, you gotta move
You gotta have lot of goals
Don't you ever lose this [?]
How alone you must be
That you can't really feel
Hopes of freedom you can't get out of head, you
In this day lay standing in a crowd
Screaming, screaming
The wishes won't go any further
[?]
How alone you must be
That you can't really feel
Hopes of freedom you can't get out of head, you
In this day lay standing in a crowd
Screaming, screaming
8. Disgusted By The Light
They're gonna grill the truth out of you
Compression for everyone
It's not a miracle how you break
Seeing the signs of declining
No one is going to help you out
It's like the breeding horses
You told me how you've been, been waiting
Always praising final hours
Like the time was never right
Able to sense the rising light
Yet still feels I'm sinking
Never beared no resemblance
Against any living soul
You told me how you've been, been waiting
Surrounding cold makes me smile
I saw the animal in you, raise skies
Surrounding cold makes me smile
I saw the animal in you raise skies, the time is now
The light is with me, the rest of me is gone
Need no help to save myself
This is my hell, go find your own one
This is my hell, go find your own one
You will fail, you will see
You will see the difference
9. Autoemotive
You're living in a lie
I learned it from you
All the shit took a twisted turn
I'm tired of running
Living in a pile of crap
And following you
Learn how to judge and control
Learn how to keep the smile forgotten
Kept myself awake, revenge
I got it in the end
And what I got, I got nothing, revenge
It all turned against me
It all turned against me
Keeping up the straight look
Just waiting the pulse
Push myself away from you
Take you on everything
'Cause you threw me over the line
I myself couldn't prolong shit
I'm just waiting and wanting
Kept myself awake, revenge
I got it in the end
And what I got, I got nothing, revenge
It all turned against me
10. Deliberately
Got a point of the lost
Realise the damage done
But I won't back down this time
Losing everything that I've ever had
Yet another day lays done
This promise fail in my name
Yet another day you're gone
Lie to yourself one more time
My crooked heart will be slaved
But still I won't back down
Scream your lungs out
For easen the pain inside
Yet another day lays done
This promise fail in my name
Yet another day you're gone
Lie to yourself one more time
Will this never be over
Don't be afraid if your heart is colder
Will this never be over
Don't be afraid if your heart miss
My bleeding heart gone for good
I feel so tired I'm heading home