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Если у средне-эрудированного металлиста спросить, с какими группами у него ассоциируется Бразилия, то, скорее всего, ответ будет однозначный - «Сепультура!». Но времена меняются, и пока Sepultura пасет задних, на свет появляются ранее не известные широкому кругу команды, которые дают прикурить многим «отцам» трэша.
Казалось бы, в таком стиле как трэш-метал всё давно сыграно и сказано, и добавить уже нечего… Ан нет, ещё как есть! Под ничем не примечательным оформлением шестого альбома бразильских самородков Torture Squad “Hellbound” таится яростный ураган trash/death мелодий и риффов такой силы, что он не то чтобы даёт прикурить «отцам», а просто одним махом убирает их последние «шедевры» в отдел уценённых дисков.
Итак, после мрачного симфонического интро начинается богохульная пляска смерти – "Living for the Kill". И с каждой последующей песней альбом только набирает обороты. Ощущение такое, будто присутствуешь на концерте, когда группа-хэдлайнер выстреливает один хит за другим, при этом приберегая супер-боевики напоследок. Из десяти треков, на мой взгляд, самые бронебойные – "Living for the Kill", "In the Cyberwar", "Twilight of Mankind" (c красивым акустическим вступлением, переходящим в трэшевую атаку) и финальная "Hellbound", победным маршем завершающая альбом. В общем, бразильцы постарались на славу - выдали отличный альбом, полный свежих идей, и его смело можно ставить в один ряд с лучшими произведениями признанных корифеев стиля.
К вышесказанному, остаётся добавить – отличное качество записи, национальный колорит, и как отдельную фишку - в каждой песне есть заветное слово – chaos, выделенное в буклете красным и дающее слушателю намёк об идеологической концепции альбома. В общем, всё сделано отлично, кроме лицевого оформления, которое хоть и выполнено профессионально, но взгляд не притягивает. |
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Searching, seeking, killing
Living for the kill
Real life in the downtown
Another killing bomb explodes
Terrible pain written in the eyes
Bloody stories will be told
Suffering hour in open sky
Terror in disguise
Unincredible genocide I see
Bodies agonizing on the streets
Searching, seeking, killing
We are living for the kill
A vision of chaos ready to unfold
Anguish, suffering, loss
Intolerance rules the human race
The world supports this bloody cross
Living for the kill
3. The Beast Within
Look inside the mirror
And tell me what you see
A beast within screaming
Into your mind, it wants to get free
You're locked in your addictions
Bad thoughts leave you ill
Schizophrenia is ruling
And turning your life unreal
Hear...voices are calling you
Now...you're really under my spell
Uncontrollable wish to surrender
To this strange purple haze
Desire for loss of control
Hallucinations open the gates
You're deaf to my advice
A bad person is possessing you
Under that confusing mind
You hit the roof
Hear...voices are calling you
Now...you're really under my spell
Feel...chaos makes you insane
Try...to stop your confused inner self!
Self!
Feeling my heart exploding in critical palpitations
Like sand in the hourglass my life is draining
To the end
Under the effects of addiction, sanity is gone
Please...
For your security I'm warning you
Leave me alone!
Alone!
4. The Fall Of Man
A new empire will rise
Bringing affliction inside
Who knows the real plan
Of the fall of man
Dark sea of blood and sand
Unholy dead land
They're killing to revive
The power of demise
Chaos, confusion, fear
Doomsday is here
Addiction to make war
Covered the earth with gore
In a world of fools
Nuclear power rules
Domination Desecration Termination
Thousands of people are dying
"A mission I must comply"
Born to hate the beast
Proudly they raise their fist
Manifestation of pain
Revenge with might and main
Managing facts for good
Disfiguring the truth
Hear the tunes of war
Disgusting sores
Hidden conspiracy
By flames of liberty
When peace dies
This earth will know its cry
5. Chaos Corporation
Invisible power of manipulation
Controlling the masses with fake information
IN fact... alienation
Vipers in black with evil intentions
Bullshit's all that you hear
Leaving you living in fear
Clear up your mind
And the truth you'll find
Opinions from the mentally blind
No critical sense inside their minds
Do you know why?
They're ruling a suffering mankind
Tendentious words they tell
Illusion's as well
Hell... in your brain.
Their precious domain
Manipulators
Souls in disguise
Give me a reason
To be afraid of this chaos
Under the sign of evil's dominion
Ignorance is this kind of opinion
Duality and treason
Hidden target on this secret communion
Disorder unleashing now
Towers are falling down
Groundless declarations
A silent invasion
Dreadful news are driving you crazy
Your home became a terrible cage
Terror everywhere
Fear in the air
Death... pulling out the mask
And you may be the next
Manipulatos
Souls in disguise
Give me a reason
To be afraid...
Chaos, chaos, chaos corporation
Total chaos!
6. Man Behind The Mask
[Father David:]
"Father Joseph, what's going on?
What's the matter with you?
[Father Joseph:]
"I can't stand living in this chaos anymore!"
[Father David:]
"What do you mean?"
[Father Joseph:]
"I need to confess..."
[Father David:]
"Father Joseph, just tell me what happened to you and then God will wash you sins away...
Don't worry brother. The holy church will keep this matter as a secret... I promise you..."
Legions of demons tormenting my head
Screaming and shouting in a living nightmare
Restless pain and depression
Hear me crying disturbed in
Questions
Obsessions
Preaching false confessions
I can fell the consequences of my actions
Choices come to grieve
Feeding a false belief
I'm stagnant, stiff
Violation of sacred convictions
In the name of profane blasphemy
Satisfy my secret desire
I feel my body burns in
Fire
And higher
I'm a live wire
Shadows ruling me in my black desire
Monster is my name
Deep inside insane
My life was a terrible mistake
Lost... and poor.
In the dark... so cruel
Living in disgrace... I feel
All my life... stands still
Man behind the mask
Secrets about my libertine past
Revealing behind that innocent mask
Rites of pure depravity
Of a righteous soul being dissolved in
Lechery
Carnality
Double personality
Like Jackyl and Hyde, I'm a tragic fatality
Faith left behind
What's happening to my mind?
Sick desires make me blind
Lost... and poor.
In the dark... so cruel
Living in disgrace... I feel
All my life... stands still
Lost poor dark cruel
Lost...
Sickly desires make me blind
Poor...
What's happening to my mind?
Dark...
Faith thrown onto the fucking ground
Cruel
Where is the sacred truth?
"Kneel down before the Holy Christ and He will forgive all your sins..."
7. Cyberwar
The third war is breaking out
Some spectators standing about
Forces in motion, virtual war
Digital armies marching on before
Boundaries worldwide must be made
Against a terrorist crusade
Cybernetic power is invincible
This kind of war is invisible
Crackers, hackers
Code of deciphers
In the cyber core
Disrupting...
Destroying...
...in the cyberwar
like a military organization
Notable for its high information
They command, control and reach their goal
I'm feeling that some heads are gonna roll
Malicious software prepared to attack
Computers, sensors, data tracks
Cybernetic power is invincible
This kind of war is invincible
Imagine an army of crackers coming to the fore
Bringing chaos to the order marching in a war
Technology
In obscurity
Is cracking systems
Of security
Infecting
Invading
Our privacy
A new battle is happening on the virtual floor
Denial of service in the web
Don't try anymore!
A new world
A sad reality
What's the future
Of this mentality?
To kill?
To fell?
Orga and Mecha more and more unreal
8. Twilight For All Mankind
Faces in turmoil
Going though hard times
Global warming
Is changing everybody's lives
This climate chaos
Is the Beginning of the end
It's a bitter lesson
we all have to understand
Feel the deadly heat waves
And the force of hurricanes
Droughts and mega floods
Make the earth a piece of mud
Fire is burning high
Crops are getting dry
Isn't that enough?
A point of no return
Twilight for all mankind
Ambitious leaders
In an endless decay
Fuck the planet
Filling people with dismay
Here we come again
To a sad farewell
We're too tired
To stand another painful hell
Mass migration and civil war
No resources anymore
Hungry countries in decline
Making people cross the line
Famine and diseases
Put us on our knees
The future of mankind
Rests inside our minds
Twilight for all mankind
Fire is burning again
Water is causing pain
Air is hard to breath
Insane
Droughts split the land
Fast floods expand
Leading to the end
The end
This climate chaos
Is the Beginning of the end
It's a bitter lesson
we all have to understand
Feel the deadly heat waves
And the force of hurricanes
Droughts and mega floods
Make the earth a piece of mud
Fire is burning high
Crops are getting dry
Isn't that enough?
A point of no return
Twilight for all mankind
9. The Four Winds
[Instrumental]
10. Hellbound
No sign of life throughout earth and sky
Red horizon bleeding in the sands of time
Lost control, mass destruction in my hands
Shades enlighten my spirit once again
Face to face, deep inside
Corruption by my side
I'm living for the kill (this is my will)
Chaos ruling all your life
Among the truths, among the lies
I see in your eyes
A painful appeal
Dominated by sword... "you obey!"
Forged in fire, my empire is called decay
While you die, I send one thousand to my hell
They're marching and preaching my unholy spell
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
This military lust
Your destiny is to die (right between the eyes)
Hear my name in the wind
In this rotten hell that I can bring
My name rules supreme
I'm the lord of the flies
Hellbound
When darkness is coming down
Creatures rise from underground
Their evil has no bounds
Going hellbound
Obey...
War! War!
One more time
Another genocide
Revenge is burning me inside
Peace! Peace!
Is only a dream
Don't try to save your skin
A new era begins
I can hear you scream
Hellbound