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 Прогресс - великая вещь. Особенно, прогресс музыкальный. Калифорнийцы Decrepith Birth могут потвердить это как никто другой, - нарезая на первом альбоме слегка вторичный, пусть и крутой техникал-брутал-дэт, группа сумела прийти к чему-то большему, чем просто ядерная ритм-секция и тяжелые риффы.
Первый альбом, можно сказать, был сочным куском свиной вырезки, прожаренной на гриле и щедро сдобренный специями. Однако ко второму альбому группа сильно обновила состав (ее покинули барабанщик Тим Янг и басист Дерек Бойер, ушедший в Suffocation), и от изначального лайн-апа остались лишь вокалист Билл Робинсон и Мэтт Сотело на гитаре. "Что будет, если к хорошо прожаренному мясу добавить не острые специи, а лимонов и какой-нибудь экзотичный соус?" - примерно таким образом можно описать смену музыкальных ориентиров группы. Если на первом альбоме радость нашим ушам доставлял про-саффокейшновский брутальный дэт с плотнейшим звуком, то на втором мы имеем в своем распоряжении вполне себе уже техно-дэт, да еще с налетом некой прогрессивности. Ритм-секция осталась такой же монолитной, риффинг стал менее плотным, оставшись при этом все же довольно агрессивным, но теперь все это дело разбавляется красивейшими соляками в лучших традициях Necrophagist. Такое ощущение, что Сотело старается оправдаться за их отсутствие на прошлом альбоме, вставляя их в любой удобный момент. При этом, удивительно, что они таки не надоедают, а лишь усиливают впечатление от прослушиваемого материала. Можно даже сказать, что на них сделана основная ставка и сделана она верно. Хорошим дополнением к инструментальной части является вокал товарища Робинсона, который то использует вполне обычный гроул, то переходит на прямо-таки громовой рёв.
В целом, выделить какие-то отдельные песни сложно, все выдержано в едином ключе. В некоторых моментах звуковой ряд начинает совершать перекос в сторону брутального прошлого (например, в "Essence of Creation"), возвращаясь затем обратно в бурное море соло и экспрессии. |
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I project the emerging unity of
Energy
To absorb their experiences
And claim them mine
I hold the key
To my kingdom
And fulfill my greed, I rule as one
Visions intertwine
The immortal energies combine
Condemned eternally, to be forever
Reborn...
Transcending this immortal dimension
Into the darker realms of light.
Drifting forward
Endless knowledge
Thought and life.
And only I am the doorway to
Re-existence
2. Reflection Of Emotions
I was...
I am...
and will, forever be...
Reflections of time that once was
And time that will carry all on...
Parallels dimensions cross within me.
I reflect...
The eye opens wide my visions of
Omnipotence and understanding
Falling into and out of existence.
As light surrounds my soul
I see the pain of innocence and the guilt of sin
Billions of aeons joined together through me
To recreate matter
And bring forth solitude to my elite
Follow myl ight
And we will
All is as one.
To learn from the past
And give to the future
A perfect concept
Will bring your energies to me
Pain and pleasure redefined
Anger and forgiveness no longer disported
All questions answered
All symbols of life removed
To better serve my purpose
And so I am.
Reflection of Emotion will
Manifest into the existence of my infinity...
Life after life.
3. Diminishing Between Worlds
Ascending I look down upon
The lucid dream I
Leave behind
The division of thought
That evolved two suns
Echoing throughout all worlds
Fragments of life.
Separation of being from flesh
I transcend back to thought
The origin of all
Subconsciousness...
Ancient memories
Re-emerge
To be lost again
To discover that I am Self
To see behind the shadows of illusion
From within the earths
I touch the heavens
Reflecting opposite thought
They speak to me
Words of vast illusions
The inner and outer worlds
All mirroring creation
Containing all in existence
Infinite worlds of relative energies
Intricate balance of oppositions
Repeating patterns of complex detail
And self variation
Infinitely
And I am the essence
Engulfed in the light
Universe through unity
All memories diminished
4. Dimensions Intertwine
Incanting oaths of desecration… to condemn
Summoning of the ancient powers… unto me
Invoking of the light creation… to deceive
Emptiness that once contained… nonexistence
I will thee
Essence of form
Imagination
Evolves malevolence
Of my visions
Of my destiny
Creations of the uncreation
My mind projects
neuro-electric impulses
Synchronized
Creation of time
Eternal life
Becomes mortal
Elements compress
Manifest within my dream
Parallel lines of unnatural power
Simbient balance of unstable forces
The phenomenon of god is created
Opposing powers come together… contradictions
Fusion of awareness begins
Evolution through deception
Spoken oaths of desecration
Mastering the ancient powers
I am the light of creation… to deceive
Stimulation of life’s
Perpetual growth
Behold worlds anew
all turning upon a single axis
Countless worlds fold together
Paralleled within scale
Dimensions within dimensions
Time equals sizes and distances squared
Continual center of all worlds
Where I am the bride to the physical planes
Forever bound through – the alchemies of will
Imprisoned in the hallucination of
Existence… a concept of my imagination
6. A Gathering Of Imaginations
Existence before this world life
Coherent forms of reason holds
Energies of life… awareness
Drawn by seduction
Drawn beyond intrique,
Into the blind sphere
The orb of deceit
Absorbed into the concept eternal
Energies harnessed and transferred
perpetually
Imaginations deceived in rapture
Infinite experiences
Infinite reflection of emotion
Inspiring my creations
Conscious though imprisoned
Within self…vanities,
Insecurities
The creation of mind
Manifest the living light
Mutation to entity...flesh
Flesh binds the image…for suffering
The creation of my living dream
Beings born to pain
To die in pain… time and again
All are lost forever in the
illusion…unknowing
Fade into forever...
7. Through Alchemy Bound Eternal
Unbalance within the eternal existence
Across the planes of sightless vision
Evolves imagination
A dense hole containing the most solid of
matter
Endless emptiness without a horizon
Reveals the vastness
Of the planes of time
And through my dreams
Combining the elements
Sealed by blood
Bound through eternity
Endless energies of the living
Summoned to be
I am the source of the magic’s
I am never ending
Condemned to the everlasting
The spirit of this world is mine
Bestow my powers of the light
Harnessing of the energies brought fourth unto
time
Imagination
Dimension
Condemned to my will
Lucid reality
Consciousness rendered unconscious
Into the physical form
Forever born into the dream
To suffer
For me
Submicroscopic evolution of substance
At the core the beginning is
I am the universe
I am the sacred key
I am the forced which binds thee eternal
I will forever be
Everlasting
8. ...And Time Begins
The eye is opening
Jupiter hangs - suspended like a tear
Shed upon the face of the times before us
Visions manifest right before my very eyes
I see thoughts
My inspirations empower one another
Bridging matter and spirit
The art of temperance - to bring about change
Before the sacred keys - are gone from us forever
I see beyond the black and silver sphere
About to complete it's cycle
Pieces-thousands upon thousands come together
I reflect upon the images, the symbols and their meaning
Retrograde - times to come - twilight - the passing of time, begins
Slowly forming ...structure
Finding warmth within it's darkness
I stare upon the moon - which has dilated in full
It's cycle again complete,
The message is shinning through transparent clouds
It's eprivesence highlights a halo of blood,
A warm wind blows
I prophesize - a will not mine
A curse from which mankind will never rise
I've come to understand -
The visions that are placed upon me
A perception of thought beyond the infinite
The vision I see torments me.
A testament of the age, man will witness creation change
Continuation - the first measurement of time
Begin the cycle new
Exposed- the light of other dimensions
Time is renewed.
Successful division of a single atom
...and so I see mans' prophecies were all lies,
Arrogantly he had lied to himself,
The ancient powers reclaim the earth
Ascending, I look down upon what use to be my body
...and I see Jupiter... As it bleeds from my eye
9. Await The Unending
Begin the end of time
Mankind destroyed the earth
My lungs taste the airs of time
Half-lives of the dying world
Return to barren rock
Oceans and seas vaporized
Radiation, uncreation, revelations
The rapture of souls
The kingdoms of man are erased
All life condemned
Under a burning sky
The fabric of dimensions-dissolve/absorb
Ages of dormancy
Earth reclaims dominion
Linear circle of time recreates life
Mankind evolves into new human races
...of war
Recreation of law
God faces its own mortality
The self inflicted disease
Completing the prophecy of death
From the souls condemned with its mind
Images of god
With wills reflecting it's
Selfish and self-righteous
Perpetual torment of perverted thoughts
Endured for more than a millennium
Fearing its death seeking human form
The return of the white Christ
Coinciding with the rebirth of awareness
Enter the eternal era
Of re-awakened comprehension
Begin the age of eternity
Futures are created constant
Memories distort
God relinquishes its reign vengeance
Re-integrate to light
Disembodied souls
The essences of the past earth's life
Released from within its mind
Duration of torment
Witness the mysteries
Beholder of the key
Destroy the arch of time
Evoking the secrets
To the ancient knowledge
Of reincarnation
Though frequencies shudder
In the wake of the histories
Of the futures
Of genesis
10. Essence Of Creation
Awakened from the dream
Face to face with my livid memories
Breaching the fabric of the creation
I see the age less form before me
A reflection of myself
I see my eyes and in them...
Worlds
Universe / multi-verse
The orb of light
Where the three points collide
Worlds upon worlds multiply
(within/outside) themselves
The point from which dimensions flow
Unity achieved through alchemy
Countless images of myself
Staring back (into/from in) my soul
Mind and soul merge
Evolve my conscious
Unity unparalleled through time
Through out all of the worlds I remain the
chosen
I am the concept of god...creation
The light of deception is the nexus of time
The nexus of my creation
Eternal illusion
The gateway to the paradox...infinity
Evolved through imagination
I emerge
I emerge in my true form
Consciousness without self
Invoking life within
The portal of my dreams
I see the cycle
(I see/I am) the spectrum
(I see/I am) the circle unending
I am the light
The nexus
I am the thought beyond (infinity/eternity)