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1 | Early Grave
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| 2 | Dethroned
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| 3 | Numbers Count For Nothing
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| 4 | Follow The Water
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| 5 | In Elegance
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| 6 | We're All Alone
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| 7 | Borrowed Time
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| 8 | Every Last Breath
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| 9 | One Of These Days
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| 10 | Dead March
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| 11 | Left With A Last Minute
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| 12 | Hollow Crown |
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| 1. Early Grave
I've been out for so long, days slipped by again
And I can't sleep since I stopped caring
I'll stay out until my lungs bleed
And I can't tell daylight from streetlights anymore
As he cast his shadow
I've seen this road a thousand times and I can't look back
I've seen this r |
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Последние годы Англия так и кишит пост-SikTh’овскими коллективами. Появляется просто зашкаливающее количество маткорных или джентовых групп. Но, как и в любом набирающем обороты жанре, есть среди них как достойные команды, так и мене стоящие.
Группа Architects из города Брайтона не стала исключением, играя дикую смесь из прогрессива, хардкора и маткора, но по праву причисляется к одним из сильнейших коллективов, играющих в этих стилях. Имея за плечами уже два альбома, "Архитекторы" созрели для нового диска, получившего название “Hollow Crown”. Итак, изменилось ли что-то в звучании британцев? Да, и отчасти, нет.
Третий студийный альбом открывает сумасшедшая композиции “Early Grave”, которая невероятным рваным риффом и душераздирающим скримом Сэма Картера просто не дает остаться к ней равнодушным. Последующие треки также выдержаны в этом ключе: хаотичные риффы, куча сбивок и бласт-битов, помноженные на надрывной вокал Картера и жирный звук в духе Meshuggah. К слову, все, как и на предыдущих дисках британцев, если бы не одно “но”, скрытое в том, что по сравнению с предшествующими альбомами, музыка британцев стала более прямолинейной, заметно увеличился объем партий чистого вокала, прибавив большей мелодичности и лиричности композициям, тем самым, сделав уклон в сторону пост-хардкора. Теперь каждый трек содержит чистоголосые распевы и меланхолические мелодии. Впрочем, под стать лирике – весьма депрессивной, которая повествует нам, в основном, о потери близких людей. Хотелось, конечно, более разнообразные в лирическом плане композиции, но кто знает, что Картеру ближе всего. Еще большей лиричности альбому способствует тягучая, считай, полу-балладная одноименная песня “Hollow Crown”, которая вызывает параллели с треком “This Confession Means Nothing” с дебютного диска. Стоит отвлечься и заметить, что Сэм имеет весьма любопытно сходство скрима с Оливером Сайксом, а также Аароном Гиллеспи во время чистоголосых распевов. Выделять какие-либо композиции сложно. В целом, они достаточно однообразны и держат один должный уровень. Коллектив не опускает планку качества и, думаю, ни для кого не стало неожиданностью, что группа пойдет именно этим путем развития, тем самым вызвав массу споров и негодований со стороны поклонников. Ситуация, от чего-то, напомнила мне выход годом раньше диска “Awaken the Dreamers ” американских деткоровцев All Shall Perish. Почему, объяснять не буду, так как многие знают и поймут, о чем идет речь.
Ненавидеть или любить диск - решать вам. Альбомом “Hollow Crown” ребята задали себе новый курс, которого придерживаются по сей день. Смена звучания не помешала коллективу выпустить один из лучших релизов года в своем стиле. Приятного прослушивания! |
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Англичане Architects стали для меня сюрпризом. Играют они довольно занятную, балансирующую на грани между хаотичным и математическим корами, музыку.
Слышно, что ребята очень стараются: весьма техничные гитары и плотный бас, которые выдают жирное такое звучание, которое переместилось прямиком с работ грандов маткора Meshuggah, а в частности, альбома "Nothing", да и драммер не отстает, сопровождая музыку недурственными бласт-битами.
Вообще, работа англичан сильно напоминает о "Nothing". Тут, как и там, ритмичная вакханалия под конец, как правило, сменяется цепляющими воздушными соло, за исключением того, что Architects добавили в общее звучание ещё и чистый голос, который очень органично туда вписывается.
На альбоме представлено одиннадцать быстрых, техничных композиций и, чтобы после их прослушивания слушатель не почувствовал себя совсем уставшим и загруженным, англичане предусмотрительно в конце альбома поместили разгружающую "Hollow Crown", которая, собственно, больше всех и понравилась. |
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Просто диву даёшься, сколько же всего намешали в своём новом альбоме металкорщики Architects. Хотя такие ли уж они металкорщики? Определение достаточно условное, ибо как я упомянул выше, понамешано тут много всего. Помимо металкора есть значительное количество маткора, дэткор не забыли, пост-хардкор, даже чуточку эмокора можно расслышать. Группа существует всего лишь с 2004 года и выпускает уже третий студийник. Отличная продуктивность надо признать. Отличный жирный саунд - это как обязательный атрибут таких групп. Но дело не только в звуке. Сам материал весьма разнообразен и интересен. Работают ребята достаточно технично. При всём притом на альбоме всего лишь две песни, продолжительность которых более четырёх минут. Все остальные короче. Вот что значит «краткость - сестра таланта». Всё что надо было, то и сказано. И прекрасно укладывается в подобный формат. Правда, жаль, конечно, что альбом коротковат. Насладиться такой вкуснятиной хотелось бы побольше. Лично для меня один из лучших альбомов года и настоятельно рекомендую его всем любителям тяжёлой музыки. Металлист вы или хардкорщик - пройти мимо этого релиза вы не должны. Удовольствие от прослушивания гарантировано. |
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This is so unfamiliar; death is no man's friend
Yet I'll stay here until I hear him roar
Death is screaming my name but I refuse to listen to him
I can't sit here forever
Watch me rise again
Watch me rise back up
Forever would be just be so easy to fall into
But still I'll stay out until my lungs bleed
Forever is the easy option but I won't take it
The choices I've made will lead me to an early fucking grave
2. Dethroned
Another cold dark night, left alone
Your arrogance will lead to the death of you
I'll be the one to pull your head back down
Remove your hollow Crown
So far from the truth you hide away
I'll be the one to pull your head back down
Remove your hollow crown
I'll die happy knowing that I will never be anything like you
What gives you the right to silence me?
All my life I've wanted just to fell like this
You came, you conquered you gave it away
And how does it feel staring down on your idol's grave
The one you once looked up to has fallen into dust
The one you once looked up to has fallen away
What's left for you in this fickle world?
Remove your crown
3. Numbers Count For Nothing
Every other question you'll never find the answer to
They can hear us but we will never see them
Do you feel safe?
Do you even understand me?
Do you even understand me?
We make no difference when numbers count for nothing
We make no difference if choices have been made
When your path has already been walked
When your hourglass is fooling you
What can you rely on?
Time is our only friend, now
If my life was to end today, It wouldn't change the world in any way
This sudden realisation is tearing me apart
This life is so perfect
What can be said of the end?
What will happen when our time comes
Who will stand the final test of time?
This life is so perfect
What can be said of the end
Will we be resurrected?
Who will stand the final test?
4. Follow The Water
Can I blame it on you?
I just can't win
Two years spent wondering through the loneliest of minds
Can't seem to find a good excuse this time, for me and for this to fall apart
Shall I blame it on myself, or this routine that I've been stuck in?
I've lost count of how many times I've tried to get out of this routine
But it's holding so tight
I just can't handle another day of this
I just can't win
Get me out alive
Oh God, I mean it
These are violent days for you and me
I just can't handle another day of this routine
Two years spent wondering through the loneliest of minds
I've found my excuse this time
Your words are wearing me down
A constant frown upon my back
Follow the water
Drain the lake and bring it back to me
5. In Elegance
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
these nights I felt so restless
tonight I feel useless
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
these nights I feel so restless
tonight I'm useless
blaming myself
for every woman
I should have thought this through
before I hold you down with me
motionless I lay
when your words could save me from
this situation
I've been laying here for what seems
like days
and it was my mistake from the start
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
motionless I lay
when the words that saved me
staring back into
dead sunk eyes?
I need the right words to come...
I need the the right words
but I just can't find it
I just can't find it
I'll spend years
making you believe
I was just a bad dream
just a bad dream
and it was my mistake from the start
I've been laying here for what seems
like days
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
I'm determined
to find a way, out
to disconnect myself
from you, again
how can I
have shattered
my one chance
ooow, to you
how can I
feel like I'm
shattered my
ooohooo
to me
I'll spend years
making you believe
that I was only a bad dream
I'm determined
to find a way, out
to disconnect myself
from you, again
how can I
have shattered
my one chance
ooow, to you
how can I
feel like I'm
shattered my
once chance tonight
6. We're All Alone
I am your hero
Still I sleep alone at night
In years you'll thank me
For getting everything right
I am the sun
Still I sit alone in a red sky
Keeping my eyes on you
Were all alone
In time you'll find that
Were all on our own (all on our own)
Were all on our own, chasing nothing
My dreams have fallen, I'm wearing thin
I need something to fill this void I'm constantly in
And I can't do this
I am your hero
I just don't care tonight
In years you'll forget me
I got everything right
I am the sun
I didn't rise today
I left you in darkness
And I just don't care anymore about you
You can sit and suffer alone without me
I am your hero
Save your "thank you"'s
In times to come ill rise above this
But for now I can't ill just sit here
My dreams have fallen once again
My dreams have fallen once again
I need something to fill this void I'm in
7. Borrowed Time
I'm looking back on a time when I could say I actually thought I cared about you
But after everything I've been put though
I realise that I've been living with false hope
It's drowning out my senses
It's drowning out my thoughts
This has got oh so confusing
And I've only got myself to blame
I can't believe...oh what was I thinking
I've only got my self to blame
You mean nothing to me
And you never fucking did
I can't stand to listen to your excuses anymore
I can only pray that you feel so alone
A guilty conscience hangs over your head
I can't believe...oh what was I thinking
I've only got myself to blame
But maybe I'm the only one to blame in all of this
I've got nothing to depend on anymore
8. Every Last Breath
After all is said and done
I'm left with reflections of your eyes haunting my mind
So dead inside, what good came out of this?
I was the one that tore you down
I'm down yet oh so guilty
Every last breath I have is yours to keep
This constant cloud is watching over me
I wish I had the time to make you see this through
We've been here too many times
I've felt like this too many times
Oh god, I am this I'm dead inside, looking out for you
And your final words I was the one that tore you down
9. One Of These Days
I admire your perseverance!
Everytime my back is turned your falling closer into my world,
I've told you so many times you need to back down, need to back down.
I told you you need to walk away.
All the countless efforts I have made.
One day I'll get you back, I swear I'll get you back.
Will this ever end or will time stand still forever?
Will this ever end or will time stand still forever?
Everytime my back is turned you're falling closer to my world.
How can you sleep when you know what you're doing to me?
Everytime my back is turned you're falling closer to my world.
How can you sleep when you know what you're doing to me?
I told you you need to walk away
Fuck all the efforts that I have made.
I've got you right where I want you.
After all the years I've known you when did you decide to fuck this up?
After all the years I've known you when did you decide to try and fuck this up?
I still admire your perseverance!
How did you think you'd get away with this?!
And it's time to teach you a lesson that you're never gonna fucking forget!
You are never gonna forget, not any time soon!
You're never gonna forget me!
Brargh!
10. Dead March
I've watched you from a distance but never spoken a word
I have seen every flaw your try to hide from the world
I sit silent in shadows watching the paths you have made
If only you knew my intentions
I've watched you make the same mistakes over and over
This is not healthy
I need to some how stop this
But your beauty intrigues me
It seems to be pulling me in
All I want is a moment or something I can hold close for eternity
I've watched you make the same mistakes over and over
I only you knew my name and all of my motives
Yet I sit in the same place every night and wait for you to come back home
A few moments would help me find myself
But this problem has taken its tragic grip
Just a few moments will help me find myself again
If only you knew my name and all of my motives
I need to somehow stop this
All I need is a moment or something I can hold close for eternity
Something I can hold close to me
11. Left With A Last Minute
It feels like someone is following my every footstep around every corner,
And there are times when I know I've felt someone else with me.
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I'm never giving up till I find you.
I'll never rest until I find you.
I refuse to rest and I refuse to sleep until I have you in my sights.
It's gone too far.
A few steps behind.
Where are you now?
What is the meaning, why are you doing this to me?
What is the meaning, why are you doing this to me?
How can you do this?
I'll never sleep until I find you.
I swear I've felt your presence once before,
Or has my paranoia gone far too far?
I can't close my eyes without thinking that I'm losing control!
I can't close my eyes without thinking that I'm losing control!
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I'm never giving up till I find you.
I'll never rest until I find you.
I'll never rest and I'll never sleep till I get my hands around your neck.
It's gone too far. A few steps behind. I'm coming for you now.
All I seem to hear in my head is your voice on repeat,
I close my eyes and I still fucking see you.
All I seem to hear in my head is your voice on repeat,
I close my eyes and I still fucking see you there!
12. Hollow Crown
There, there must be
An easier way
To release these feelings
So, so far from home
I need your voice
To hold my head together
So, so far from home
I need your voice
To lift my lonely state of mind
You, you can but wait
for me to return
For me to show you how I felt
These wounds have bled
And pages fly by
I need to feel you right by my side
So, so far from home
I need your voice
To hold my head together
So, So far from home
I need your voice
To lift my lonely state of mind
Oh there must be
An easier way
Oh there must be
An easier way
Oh there must be
An easier way
To release these feelings
As the sea breeze hits my lungs
It takes me back to where I belong
To where I belong
As the sea breeze hits my lungs
It takes me back to where I belong
To where I belong
As the sea breeze hits my lungs
It takes me back to where I belong
To where I belong