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А вот подоспел и сносный дэткоровый релиз 2009 года. Цельнометаллический с внешней стороны и хорошо подкованный изнутри, с не самыми проходными риффами и – что немаловажно – с запоминающимися мелодиями. Так ведь можно и хиты создавать, что парням из Molotov Solution неплохо удается. Их вариант дэткора минимизирует хаос, культивирует кач и параллельно с общей четкостью обладает музыкальным потенциалом. Немаловажно и то, что американцы умудряются звучать достаточно самобытно, быть может, не в последнюю очередь благодаря месту возникновения их команды. Не Лас-Вегас ли повлиял и на лирическую составляющую творчества MS? Политика – дело грязное, но посвятить ей безразличный ко всему дэткор – благородно! Группа близка к Whitechapel и по мощи удара (брейкдауна), и по периодически возникающей атмосферности; вокальная пестрота единообразна во всех проявлениях данного жанра – так и здесь. На одном из наиболее популярных фото группы музыканты предстают битлоподобными юнцами, радующимися жизни и исполняющими в лучшем случае безоблачный постхардкор. Но нет! Идеи контроля масс, продуманности всех механизмов мировых кризисов и в самом общем виде – подмены демократии тиранией требуют куда более тяжелых средств выражения, чем те, которыми располагает хардкор-панк. Вот и имеем отражение в музыке глобального едкого цинизма властей предержащих, равнодушия контролирующих и (при добродушных физиономиях) гневной обеспокоенности самих фанатов огненного коктейля. Поддерживать концентрацию негатива, окрашивать им не то что мелодию, но каждую серию брейкдаунов – то, с чем хорошо справляются Molotov Solution, что убеждает в их действительной встревоженности мировой ситуацией. При этом были бы сами вариации краеугольного камня жанра порой поизобретательнее, а стук ударника более сочным и душевным, вышла бы вообще замечательная работа, образец правильного, идейного дэткора. (Диск предоставлен компанией ФОНО) |
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О, кор всемогущий. С кем ты только не связывался. Решив однажды, что по аналогии с хардкором может быть металкор, люди не смогли удержаться и стали выдумывать все новые и новые -коры, да так, что все это быстро потеряло всякий смысл. Одно из изобретений нулевых - дэткор - является гибридом не хардкора и дэта, а уже металкора и дэта. Какие тонкости, кто бы мог подумать. На человеческом языке это что-то тяжелое, дикое, невнятное, и разрывающее мозг.
Так что дэткор мне казался жанром сомнительным. Кажется таким и сейчас. Название само по себе глуповатое, а музыка так просто вынос мозга. Что я ни пытался слушать, даже краем уха - Job for a Cowboy, Whitechapel, Despised Icon, Arsonists Get All the Girls - все было полным бредом. С понятием "музыка" в моем представлении эти группы не имеют ничего общего. Ну и попались мне Molotov Solution, значит. Единственная причина, по которой я обратил на них внимание - понравилось название (хе-хе). Раскусить сразу не удалось, но со временем стало понятно, что музон весьма сносный, а потом так и вообще понравилось. В отличие от вышеупомянутых звуковых террористов, "молотовы" не стараются выбить всю дурь из инструментов, и это реально слышно. Обязательные дэтовые принадлежности - характерный вокал, быстрые барабаны, тремоло - здесь в наличии, но ровно в том количестве, чтобы дать понять - да, дэт тут точно есть.
Это второй альбом "молотовых", вышедший через год после первого. За этот небольшой промежуток времени состав группы знатно перетряхнули. Из коллектива ушли все участники, кроме гитариста и басиста, и на их место пришли новые люди. В чем причина - не ясно, но это даже к лучшему. Все, что творил первый состав, не сильно отличалось от творчества других дэткорщиков - мелодий почти не было, а была одна долбежка. Новый состав подход к музыке изменил не сильно, но сделал его более умеренным и "металкоровым", что ли. Больше грува и спокойных проигрышей, меньше бластбитов и угара - вот рецепт вкусного дэткора.
И наилучшая иллюстрация такого подхода - семиминутная композиция "The Dawn of Ascendancy". Лучшую песню альбома припасли на самый конец. Вообще, слушать "The Harbinger" полностью за раз я и не пытался. Несмотря на заметную мелодичность (в рамках жанра), прослушивание более 3-4 песен подряд изрядно поджаривает мозг и вообще утомляет. Так что имеет смысл начать ознакомление именно с этого трека. На этой работе он однозначно лучший - длинный, не напрягающий, в чем-то красивый. Если убрать пару мясных кусков (которые отлично вписываются в композицию) и смягчить вокал - вообще баллада готова. Если говорить о вокале, то новый фронтмен Ник Артур немного сузил диапазон - его предшественник Кайл Дэвис не только скримил и рычал, но и хрюкал и временами просто орал, чем придавал группе некий хардкоровый привкус а-ля Biohazard.
Что касается остального материала - ставлю плюс напротив "Enslaved" (хороший кач местами), "Warlords" (просто хит), "Rule by Secrecy" (мощно, и концовка хороша), "Monolithic Apparatus" (приятный рифф, в середине атмосферный такой кусок есть), "Atrum Inritus" (припев довольно эпичный), "Corpus Imperium" (просто хорошая) и "Only the Dead" (брутальный середнячок).
Обьективно "The Harbinger" действительно заслуживает 7 баллов. Техничность, скорость, общее мастерство музыкантов, плюс качество записи - все на высоком уровне, хотя и без изысков. Но я ставлю девятку. Лично мне нравится, что в сравнении со схожими группами "молотовы" находятся по эту сторону Музыки, то есть, они не переходят грань, за которой песня перестает быть песней и превращается в унылое хрен-знает-что-на-высокой-скорости. Плюс, рубя столь тяжелую музыку, эти новички из Лас-Вегаса выглядят как абсолютно обычные люди, без особых "метальных" заморочек во внешем виде. Волки в овечьих шкурах - мне нравится такой подход.
Хороший альбом, и немного огорчает, что он мало кого впечатлил. На мой взгляд - лучшее, что есть в дэткоре. |
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Scientifically created panics further consolidate the monopoly of banks
And control the state of the nation like a mathematical calculation
Looking to the past, there is a pattern, repetition of occurring events in order to break our spirits
And exploit the population's false sense of security
Warlords of today control a weapon that will make our nations sovereignty obsolete
A series of contrived panics, recessions, and buyouts, further consolidating the power into the hands of overlords and tyrants, used to condition us to the point of accepting the solution offered by the same people that produced the problem.
Undermining the structure of our home through inflation and deflation; paving the way for totalitarian control.
Those who strive for power will achieve it if we let them, but our numbers are stronger than ever before.
We have it within us to stop the dissolution and end this fucking war.
The time for brute force has passed
They're waging war on the middle class
This is not a promise, this is a fucking threat
This is not a promise, this is a fucking threat
This is not a promise, this is a fucking threat
If you don't take action it will be your death
2. Rule By Secrecy
Heavy lies the crown of the treacherous king, the self appointed monarch of society
His subservient drones do his bidding, blindly manipulated under his decree
A thousand global elite meeting in secrecy, politicians and corporate kings of a false monarchy
Clandestine pacts and treaties, that's not democracy, just their plan for control, villainizing you and me
We are the enemy
To those who rule by secrecy
We are the enemy
To those who rule by secrecy
Today he controls the six billion members of the human community not with force, but through deceit and secrecy
We are the enemy
To the corrupt makers of policy and international bankers that seek to profit off of our slavery
We are the enemy
To those who rule by secrecy
It's time to overthrow the king
Death to the king!
A thousand global elite meeting in secrecy, politicians and corporate kings of a false monarchy
Clandestine pacts and treaties, that's not democracy, just their plan for control, villainizing you and me
He is the father of murderers and thieves, the power hungry, the clandestine
Heavy lies the crown of the treacherous king, the self appointed monarch of society
His subservient drones do his bidding, blindly manipulated under his decree
Heavy lies the crown of the treacherous king, the self appointed monarch of society
His subservient drones do his bidding, blindly manipulated under his decree
Their treachery knows no bounds, a monarchy of tainted crowns
Protected by the dark they conspire, secret societies that built an empire
This is more than just a question of whether or not their war is upon us
It is where we draw the line; make the sacrifice to save our lives.
To save our liberties?
We, we are the enemy!
Death to the king!
We, we are the enemy!
Death to the king!
This is more than just a question of whether or not their war is upon us
Draw the line; make the sacrifice to save our lives.
To save our liberties?
3. Only The Dead
I don't care if you think I should live my life my life by your rules and standards
You have no real faith and I have no faith in you
I have no faith in your corruption
I have no faith in your corruption
Fuck what you say there is no one way to live your life, no one path to follow
You have no real faith and I have no faith in you
You will not close my, my open eyes, your god will not control me I won't believe your lies
Ignorance...hardens the heart and enslaves the mind
Ignorance...hardens the heart and enslaves the mind
Only the dead will see the end of this fucking war
Only the dead will see the end of this fucking war
I have no faith in your corruption
I have no faith in your corruption
You've attempted to eradicate, any challenge to your authority,
By the most violent means, for blind faith can only lead to slavery
Let your throats be ripped out your eyes sewn shut
I don't need your psalms of hope, I'll try my luck
Only the dead will see the end of this fucking war
Only the dead will see the end of this fucking war
I don't give a fuck about you or how you think I should live my life
4. Atrum Inritus
Don't wait for the corporate controlled media to inform or explain
Free yourself from conventional forms of propaganda and understanding
And I'll scream at the top of my lungs
"Open your eyes, open your mind"
To the possibility of a better life
We are the employees of hypocrisy, in this corporatocracy
America we are no longer a sovereign nation
For the first time in my life I can see the beginning of the end of freedom, the end of happiness
For the first time in my life I have the strength to stand and say I will never let that happen
5. Corpus Imperium
Behind the throne of an empire sits an evil lord.
Abusing power at a cost we cannot afford
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined to those
Who aren't behind the scenes.
Business, especially corporate business, is king.
Giant corporations governed by faceless elite to dark proprietors controlling everything.
A shadow government that's owned by corporate greed.
Not a democracy or a free market economy, but an oppressive fascist corporatocracy
The machine fueled by blood, globalization.
Monopolize and corporatize without authorization
Open the gates to flood, the revelation.
Recognize and mobilize their expectation
Take revenge!
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined to those
Who aren't behind the scenes.
Business, especially corporate business, is king.
Giant corporations governed by faceless elite.
From one seat of power and corruption to the next, illustrating and intertwining connection of the globalists.
Behind the throne of an empire sits an evil lord
Abusing power at a cost we can't afford
This system is failing
This system is failing you
6. Monolithic Apparatus
Severed should have been the serpent's head as thunder broke through the endless night
By the time the sun shone through, the forked fascist tongue no longer spoke
Under the disguise of peace and prosperity his seed has grown into the perfect monstrosity
Adapting, consuming, and destroying everything that gets in its way
Nurtured from good willed conservatism into the national socialists dream,
A monolithic apparatus, the ultimate killing machine.
Its branches reaching every degree
Under the disguise of peace and prosperity, you've been blind to his true identity
For the beast is no single entity, its existence alone is an atrocity
Corrupting the land of the free, it's backed by corporate greed
Headed by its monopolies on what we need, think, and see.
Corrupting the land of the free, contrived by the elite.
Headed by its monopolies on what we need, think, and see.
Under the disguise of peace and prosperity, the serpent has risen portraying sincerity, corrupting the minds of our posterity
Severed should have been the serpent's head as thunder broke through the endless night
By the time the sun shone through, the forked, fascist tongue no longer spoke, laying dormant until now
7. The Harbinger
Resurrected, forged in the shadows.
Forked tongue spewing venom and flames.
A message of hope coupled with a promise of change.
A subtle overhaul in appearance and disposition, a clever distraction forged to subdue the population.
They call him FÜHRER!!
I say DECEIVER!!
He calls himself UNITER!!
We say DIVIDER!!
He is here to deliver domination.
HARBINGER!
HARBINGER!
DECEIVER OF OUR HOPE!
Resurrected, forged in the shadows.
Forked tongue spewing venom and flames.
A message of hope coupled with a promise of change.
A subtle overhaul in appearance and disposition, a clever distraction forged to subdue the population.
So this is the order of the new world?
I see only a revival of the oldest and worst forms of what can only be tyranny.
In which there is no happiness, hope, or liberty for the rest of humanity.
We will reject your false message of security. We will destroy your vision of tyranny.
HARBINGER!
The Awakened Preacher.
HARBINGER!
The Worlds Deceiver.
DECEIVER OF OUR HOPE!
DECEIVER OF OUR HOPE!
I will rip out your lying tongue and shove it back down your fucking throat!
OH!
Freedom is ours!
8. Enslaved
Enslaved by your fear, by your unquestioned faith because for you it is easy to obey
If unquestioned faith is slavery; then we are all slaves to the monetary system, and the dollar is our shackles
In God We Trust
Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed.
Economic slavery requires people to feed and
House themselves constant inflation, devaluing the dollar while destroying our lives, the erosion of sustenance.
Guaranteed by the weakness of mankind, we're all robbed blind by a system that doesn't care.
Enslaved by your fear, by your fear, by your unquestioned faith because for you it is easy to obey.
Welcome to your grave
You lived your life like a slave, you dug your own grave
Welcome to your grave
Welcome to your grave
If unquestioned faith is slavery; then we are all slaves to the monetary system, and the dollar is our shackles
In God We Trust
"It is as international as murder, as greed for power, as injustice, as madness
In our time these horrors are translated into political and cultural actuality..."
Impairment of virtue and morality; the corruption of luxury among the moral majority
Get on your knees and beg! Through fear there is no salvation
Get on your knees and beg! Through fear there is no salvation
Get on your knees and fucking beg!
9. Awakening
Our hope is fleeting, vanishing without a trace
The constant progressing of their ultimate goal; human enslavement and global control
Breaking down the barriers that define who we are, generalizing us as inferior
Fire is burning in the minds of the vigilant
The collective awakening of those willing to fight against an empire so malevolent
We will not be, slaves to our fate
Only to be labeled unpatriotic, an enemy of the state
This is only the land of the free, as long as it's the land of the brave
We are all born into slavery, but I refuse to die that way
I refuse to die!
Die!
I refuse to die!
Die!
I refuse!
The fires are spreading, they're fueled by our hate
I, I refuse to die
I, I refuse to die
Wild fires now scorch the land, leaving behind only ashes in our wake
Maybe now they'll understand, freedom lays in the choices that we make
I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to watch you fucking burn
I don't want to set the world on fire; I just want to watch you fucking burn
Fucking burn!
A pulse is beating inside the hearts of the brave
A common misunderstanding of the task at hand, reclaiming our rights as Americans
Breaking down the barriers that disguise who they are demonizing the "superior"
Breaking down the barriers that disguise who they are demonizing the "superior"
10. Living Proof
We are being cornered, the danger will never fade, an unholy alliance of power to dominate and enslave the human race.
They're sponsored by the mandrake mechanism, which creates power out of thin air.
That's what you get when corporations would rather profit from our pain than help improve their nations.
Instead they use our suffering as means to get what they need, maintaining constant dependency so that their plans can proceed.
We are being watched, monitored every day, from what we buy to what we eat and think and fucking say.
So now they want us to carry a tracking card or "get chipped", well fuck that shit I say we show them that we're sick of this.
What's the price of a better life, free of corruption and dishonesty?
We the people deserve a fucking explanation for the life we're forced to endure!
We the people will not stand for this exploitation anymore!
WE THE PEOPLE!
DESERVE A FUCKING EXPLANATION!
WE THE PEOPLE!
WILL NOT BE EXPLOITED ANYMORE!
We are being bought, in the worst possible way, to strive for a corporate pushed lifestyle, one of which is portrayed in almost every form of entertainment so that we become what they want and think what they permit.
That's what you get when corporations would rather profit from our pain than help improve their nations.
Instead they use our suffering as a means to get what they need, maintaining constant dependency so that their plans can proceed.
Kill! [x4]
Our freedom and our only hope for tomorrow.
Kill! [x4]
All of us or watch your dreams fall dead because...
We Are Living Proof That Humanity Has a Right To Choose! [x2]
11. The Dawn Of Ascendency
Depopulation: The sanitation of humanity.
The condensation of a subservient race
The decline of the individual, the rebirth of tyrannical rule
You have already chosen a life of servitude.
You have no idea what they have in store for you
Invasion of your mind, disguised as entertainment, commercials, propaganda, and forms of advertisement
Wake up!
Wake up!
Mental conditioning, born into a manufactured grid of production
A new way of life if you can call it that
Would you rather have freedom or security?
Make your choice: Tyranny or Liberty?
Wake up! [x5]
Wake the fuck up!
My eyes have been opened to
The corruption and the truth
No longer will I be
Blinded by democracy
My eyes have been opened to
The corruption and the truth
No longer will I be
Blinded by democracy.