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Ну что можно сказать о втором полноформатном альбоме безбашенных, судя по названию, рыцарей Мальтийского Ордена? Шесть лет, минувшие с момента записи дебютного альбома, видимо, прошли даром. Был еще в 2000 году промо-диск, выпущенный с целью поиска лейбла. Видимо, на Мальте оооочень жарко, жарко так, что аж мозги плавятся, и двигаться влом. Кстати, вы много знаете тяжелых групп из Африки? Вероятно, причина та же. Скорости и брутальности на альбоме значительно прибавилось, теперь это уже совсем ортодоксальный брутал-дэт без всяких оговорок. Зато совсем никакой мелодики, никаких фишек, и совсем не цепляет. Смена вокалиста заметна невооруженным ухом, гроул стал очень громким, звонким таким, немного даже с эхом, как из водосточной трубы. Звучание опять похоже на СС, только в этот раз на “Tomb…”, то есть, гитары пожиже и тарахтящий, хорошо слышимый бас.
Альбом оставляет такое же ощущение, как неправильный борщ: знаете, если при его приготовлении положить заранее сваренное мясо в самом конце. То есть, ингредиенты вроде бы все в наличии, недурственного качества, но вот вкусно не будет. Так же и здесь. Почти не на чем даже заострить внимание. Запоминающихся соло нет. Ударные партии не “грешат” техничностью и разнообразием. Более-менее цепляющие темы: “Recounts of Disembodiment”, открывающаяся львиным рыком, в ней есть зачатки звучания следующего альбома; “Fed upon Odium” наиболее мощная и динамичная вещь с учетом наличия звучности и парочки соляков, но впечатление от нее сильно портят некие высокочастотные гитарные запилы в проигрыше, которые все слышали на одном из экспериментальных альбомов Napalm Death; “Unbound” – неплохая закрывашка, где басисту позволили три раза выйти один на один с слушателем, но он пробежал мимо, только погрозив кулаком. Вот, собственно, и все, проходной альбом, следующий значительно музыкальнее. |
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Reason of being sinking, spiraling down
A harassed mind fed on incessant lies
Stripped of own virtues, identity slowly dies
Cold inanimate beings filled with emptiness
A domain run by bearers of utter worthlessness
Unable to fight this inbred sense of defeat
Summoning ghostly shadows, dispersed in retreat
Hatred runs in arid veins, nerves start to boil
Subordination turns into hatred, raging turmoil
Beguiled hordes clash in a war born of greed
Chaos rules galore feeding on abominations seed
Bodies burn as they fall down abysmal depths
Absorbed by vortexes devouring the face of earth
Coveted gods lie vanquished in an array of impotence
Uncovering their meek and shallow form of existence
Reaching for this portal, seeking for survival
Amid scattered fragments of a shattered reprisal
Unable to fight this inbred sense of defeat
Summoning ghostly shadows, dispersed in retreat
Hatred runs in arid veins, nerves start to boil
Subordination turns into hatred, raging turmoil
Beguiled hordes clash in a war born of greed
Chaos rules galore feeding on abominations seed
Bodies burn as they fall down abysmal depths
Absorbed by vortexes devouring the face of earth
2. Horde Of The Stolen Sun
A solitary descent amid the twisting depths
Tracing the downward spiral trailed by the dead
On the merge of desperation, inhaling pain
Suffused in ruins and never to rise again
Devoid of hope - injected by binding fear
Wet my arid spirit, I bathe in lakes of tears
Wailing melodies dissatiate my craving heart
Venture to face doom and uncoil the lost art
Artistic will banishes confinements of human expression
Creativity pushed beyond the point of comprehension
Celestial music unbinds the spirit from earthly flesh
Initiating another cycle aside this realm of emptiness
Cosmic planes dominated by swarms of silence
Numb beings roam the seas of mental muteness
Frigid limbs set the path towards absolute rigor
Where howling winds are the sole agitators
Creativity pushed beyond the point of comprehension
Celestial music unbinds the spirit from earthly flesh
Initiating another cycle aside this realm of emptiness
Where the howling winds are the sole agitators
Cosmic planes dominated by swarms of silence
Numb beings roam the seas of mental muteness
Frigid limbs set the path towards absolute rigor
Dominions frozen in time, and eternally gone
Entities in wait for the day that never dawned
Skies oozing blood of the suffering ones
Drenching in red the horde of the stolen sun
Artistic will banishes confinements of human expression
Creativity pushed beyond the point of comprehension
Celestial music unbinds the spirit from earthly flesh
Initiating another cycle aside this realm of emptiness
Cosmic planes dominated by swarms of silence
Numb beings roam the seas of mental muteness
Frigid limbs set the path towards absolute rigor
Where howling winds are the sole agitators
Creativity pushed beyond the point of comprehension
Celestial music unbinds the spirit from earthly flesh
Initiating another cycle aside this realm of emptiness
Where the howling winds are the sole agitators
3. Recounts Of Disembodiment
Lies spat forth this ocean of hypocrisy
Impending beings lurk in absolute ambiguity
Roaming in illusory waters of depicted rapture
Blinded through the ages of conceptual slumber
In wait for the final hour in an ascendant crave
Immure the ridden wrath within verses of hate
Rid this embodied sore from its bound existence
Disburden the essence from its somatic sufferance
Unleash the utter rage within insane inscriptions
Vivid writings portraying the aftermath of obliteration
Lies spat forth this ocean of hypocrisy
Impending beings lurk in absolute ambiguity
Roaming in illusory waters of depicted rapture
Blinded through the ages of conceptual slumber
In wait for the final hour in an ascendant crave
Immure the ridden wrath within verses of hate
Descriptions of blinding light and unearthly experiences
Recounts of disembodiment and transmigratory transilience
Erased identies unfolding in repugnant deliria
Metaphysical journeys narrated in utmost hysteria
Descriptions of blinding light and unearthly experiences
Recounts of disembodiment and transmigratory transilience
Erased identies unfolding in repugnant deliria
Metaphysical journeys narrated in utmost hysteria
Fragility cast in words of imposed submission
Feeble nature spreading since the hour of inception
Bludgeoned through unhallowed reigns of lunacy
Bloodlines disrupted within torrents of malignancy
4. Consecrated Absurdities
Perpetually lurking through undefiled regions
Like a stream of sludge - a spreading contagion
Inundating all the boundaries of a dying earth
Bringing complete doom wherever it sets
Swinish fornication - procreating humanity
An ungoverned lust that transcends all rationality
Feeble creatures compelled by ignorance
Blunt against the true reason of existence
Defenseless amid outbursts of adversities
Randomly decimated by unforeseen iniquities
Inflicted atrocities are returned in a strain
To wash the filth off this shallow domain
Devastated and scattered by winds of retribution
Defying null beings enthralled in misconception
Adulated by litanies and lamentations of repent
Endlessly awaiting the day of atonement
Consecrated absurdities - icons of deception
Instilling infirmity amid an utter lack of perception
Gifted with eyes that discern the fabrics of time
Eyes that can never pertain the mentally blind
In a final hurl - together they shall be wiped away
Man and god - an alliance that is bound to fail
A fallen prey - the predator will gradually gorge
Resistance is - futile against natures scourge
Inflicted atrocities are returned in a strain
To wash the filth off this shallow domain
In a final hurl together they shall be wiped away
Man and god an alliance that is bound to fail
A fallen prey the predator will gradually gorge
Resistance is - futile against natures scourge
5. Compelling Derangement
Impassively waiting as life painfully takes its toll
A narrow path of existence I behold with remorse
Compelled in derangement preordained living hell
Ceaseless tribulation in defeat I shall dwell
Self-possessed in absolute consternation
Pensive slights divulge scenes of aberration
Dismembered dreams from a bludgeoned past
Taunting last fragments of inherent lust
Burden of life I can no longer sustain
Can't overcome this unbearable mental strain
Emerging from this deviant form of slumber
Unable to fit the mould that pushed me under
Impregnated sense of guilt pursues me
Disturbed I fall in the bizarre grips of destiny
Bestiality originating within an ill fed mind
Banish the feeble beliefs encrusted in time
A single murmur unleashed my ominous desires
Watching their faces infatuated in blazing fire
Melodic lines of agonising bodies echo restlessly
Saturating my necrotic crave for pure insanity
Drenched with ideologies I long to find
The lost path pursued by the mentally blind
The merge of a new art - dawn of creation
Projects my inner self into the astral dimension
Self-possessed in absolute consternation
Pensive sights divulge scenes of aberration
Dismembered dreams from a bludgeoned past
Taunting last fragments of inherent lust
Burden of life I can no longer sustain
Can't overcome this unbearable mental strain
Emerging from this deviant form of slumber
Unable to fit the mould that pushed me under
Drenched with ideologies I long to find
The lost path pursued by the mentally blind
The merge of a new art - dawn of creation
Projects my inner self into the astral dimension
6. Inherited Plague
Twofold existence forced upon this shell
Futile journey put to rest as precompelled
Malicious edge incised in fervent flesh
Beg to recoil amid those now laid to rest
Melancholic verses rotate within still minds
Surreal visionary inscribed in hollow eyes
Paths entwine across this distorted plane
Roads pursued upon this lunatic domain
Inherited stigmas abort distinct convictions
Eyes sewn shut the very day of conception
Pursuing a voice which yields transcendence
Entangled in a mass of echoes exhorting abhorrence
Prophecies repudiate the terror of ages to come
Fear pervades the hearts of the mentally numb
A racial plague infected the epitome of existence
Ramifying its roots in minds seeking credence
Ages darkened by forced illiteracy
Ears deafened by the sole dirge of conspiracy
Humans indicted of witchery set aflame
Prophecies repudiate the terror of ages to come
Fear pervades the hearts of the mentally numb
A racial plague infected the epitome of existence
Ramifying its roots in minds seeking credence
Ages darkened by forced illiteracy
Ears deafened by the sole dirge of conspiracy
Humans indicted of witchery set aflame
Scenes of torched bodies meeting the depths of pain
Flesh ripped to the satisfaction of the inflictors
Annointed in fire spirits freed from this earthly horror
Ethereal essence parts from its putrid remains
Heaving to the dimension where no time pertains
7. Fed Upon Odium
Derision obfuscates the vision to be
Entities fed upon blinding mockery
Defunct echoes misconceived by the fresh cast
Renaissance shall banish the effigy of our past
Pulsating will sets the new legion free
Fresh ideologies injected in this mental spree
Intertwined voices haunt this malformed existence
Scriptures set ablaze to abolish the vile reminiscence
Necrose and crippled by the hand of time
Epochs fall in ageless slumber beneath grime
Evict the contents of dismal minds
Set a new pace to salvage regressing lives
Disgust inscribed on faces tensed with revenge
Odium gushes in the eye of the discontent
Dethroned lords turned to immutable slaves
Finalised coven satiates the risen crave
Pestilence spreads its wings upon a race drowned in disdain
Rotting souls scavenge amid putrefying remains
Morrow awaits the reconstruction of the new breed
The cycles revived as progenitors transmute off their seed
Necrose and crippled by the hand of time
Epochs fall in ageless slumber beneath grime
Evict the contents of dismal minds
Set a new pace to salvage regressing lives
8. Disdain
Voices dwell in chambers of ages surpassed
Resentments echo within vaults suffused in the past
Thirst for insurrection remained unquenched
Alleviate this demented presence of its timeless sufferage
Perdition tightens its grip suffocating every scope
Anguish perforates its roots consuming each drop of hope
Undulating perceptions wallow within this ill-bred mind
Light cleansed away from eyes conferring black to the blind
Unassuaged existence burdened with forced derangement
Insurmountable horror disturbs this earthly confinement
Twisted meditations fruit of prolonged abstinence
Senses tortured through ages of utter penance
Twisted meditations fruit of prolonged abstinence
Senses tortured through ages of utter penance
Vain reasons unsaturate this dehumanizing intent
Significance of pleasure inversed in dismal repent
Void instigated through inebriated preachings
Perpetuated maelstorm forges this hollow sense of being
Absurdity flows incessantly from demented mouths
Regressed lore furiously spat in intimidating shouts
Pain burnt deep within this morosed sanity
Hindered into oblivion from a manipulated destiny
Voices dwell in chambers of ages surpassed
Resentments echo within vaults suffused in the past
Thirst for insurrection remained unquenched
Alleviate this demented presence of its timeless sufferage
9. Spreading Contagion
10. Unbound
Contours broaden devoid of constriction
Confinements lost, freeing my affliction
Drifting beyond mortality, surpassing the divine
To revamp the off-lit art - forever shine
Terrain upon which the senseless is wisdom
Feeling my mind weaken
Unable to absorb nor give meaning
I drown in heaven
To remerge caressed by infernal spleandor
Angelic bestiality
Intertwines with demonic clemence
Forming waves
Diverged from my prescribed path I roam
Setting unrevealed parameters to my own mind
Forcing it to spread engulfing the reasons
Hidden beneath my very own creation
Blinded in a world of nonsense
Initiating journeys
Ascending into thoughts without adhering
Unboun deliberations of the human mind
Absurd rhythms and tempos give rise to
Orchestral inversions
Entangling me deeper in warmth
Below which I chill
Making me long for the solitude
Once fulfilled
Pouring the bittermost droplets
of forlorn essence