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Mob Rules
« Savage Land »
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| 1 | Prologue
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| | 2 | Insurgeria
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| | 3 | Rain Song
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| | 4 | Hold Back The Light
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| | 5 | Secret Signs
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| | 6 | Savage Land Part I (Strangers In Time)
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| | 7 | Savage Land Part II (Pianista)
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| | 8 | Savage Land Part III (No Reason Why)
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| | 9 | Coast to Coast
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| | 10 | Blaze Of First Warning
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| | 11 | Pray For Sunlight
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| | 12 | Down In Nowhere Land
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| | 13 | End Of All Days |
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Klaus Dirks - vocals
Oliver Fuhlhage - guitars
Matthias Mineur - guitars
Thorsten Plorin - bass
Arved Mannott - drums |
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All songs written and arranged by MOB RULES
Produced and engineered by MOB RULES & Redhead Team
Recorded at Redhead Studios, Wilhelmshaven, August - Oktober 1998 Mixed and mastered by Sascha Paeth at Gate-Studio, Wolfsburg, January 1999
Orchestral arrangements conducted by Ralf Aulrich, edited by Miro
Photos by Karsten Koch, Hannover & Reinhard Harms
Cover concept by MOB RULES
Cover artwork and logo design by Eric Philippe, Belgium
Sleeve design by DLP Hamburg |
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| 2. Insurgeria
After mankind threw itself into filth and ashes
And all life on earth went down
Mighty storms and rain and thunderbolt that crashes
Washed away all sins around
Just the good survived
Saved their naked life from darkness
No one bad survived
Swept away - Insurgeria
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 Дебютный альбом немецкой группы, обложка для которого была нарисована под явным впечатлением клипа Dr. Dre “California Love”, прототипом которого, в свою очередь, стал фильм, принесший известность одному из главных австралийских актеров современности Мэлу Гибсону. Не стало оригинальным и название команды, однажды использованное самими Black Sabbath, как не стала оригинальной и музыка немцев – неплохой мелодик-металл с небольшими добавками в виде ускорений ("Rain Song" или "Down In Nowhere Land") и неизменными реверансами в сторону классического звука Iron Maiden. Казалось бы, в этом нет ничего примечательного, но это, пожалуй, не так. За стандартами и клишированностью приемов и не самым выразительным звуком скрывается самая что ни на есть образцовая команда для немецкой сцены на рубеже веков – ладненькая, аккуратненькая и, скажем прямо, не очень оригинальная. Главной отличительной чертой Mob Rules, её фишкой и проклятьем одновременно, является вокалист Klaus Dirks, чей, прямо скажем, высокий голос либо нравится с первого раза раз и навсегда (и тогда все альбомы группы воспринимаются как минимум нормально), или безмерно раздражает (и тогда судьба Mob Rules плачевна). Примечателен диск и тем, что клавишные партии для него были записаны Miro, а саундом занимался еще не очень известный на тот момент Саша Пэт (звезда которого уже почти взошла, но её свет достиг не всякого), вместе подаривших альбому замечательный эпик “End Of All Days” (Диск предоставлен компанией CD-Maximum). |
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Немецкая команда Mob Rules была образована в 1994 году бывшими участниками Van Blanc, гитаристом Маттиасом Минеуром и басистом Торстеном Плорином, а дополнил группу вокалист Клаус Диркс и барабанщик Арвед Маннотт. Несколько позже к новоиспечённой банде присоединился второй гитарист Оливер Фулхаге. Однако дальше концертов, где музыканты разогревали C.I.T.A, Crossroads и Pink Cream 69, дело не шло. Ребята уже тогда стали играть мелодичный пауэр металл и вот только в 1996 году они всё-таки записали демку, которая хорошо раскупалась и привлекла к себе внимание компании Limb Music Productions, с кем и был вскоре подписан контракт. Хотя полноформатный альбом вышел намного позже в 1999 году, так что многие могут подумать, будто группа молодая, но на самом деле не всё так просто. И вот стартовая работа наконец-то была выпущена и носила достаточно стандартную обложку и стандартное название «Savage Land», и была с некой фантастический концепцией. За мастеринг и микширование отвечал уже известный человек в металлических кругах Саша Паэт (Heavens Gate, Gamma Ray, Angra, Rhapsody), а клавиши предоставляла тоже не менее известная личность Миро Роденберг. Однако качество записи получилось весьма скромным – очень чистое, но совсем не плотное и вообще не драйвовое. Вокал заслуживает отдельного упоминания – он просто жесточайше высок и режет слух, очевидно вокалист ориентируется на Михаэля Киске (ex-Helloween) и Тобиаса Саммета (Edguy), но явно чувствуется, что опыта и оригинальности ему не хватает. Музыкальный материал представленный на «Savage Land» тоже, к сожалению, не радует шедеврами – очень простенький мелодик металл, только с натяжкой являющийся пауэром, зато имеющий несколько связей с хард роком и даже иногда с прогрессивом, хотя с какими то конкретными коллективами параллелей провести нельзя, что является плюсом Mob Rules. Заслуживают внимания только редкие и немногочисленные композиции, такие как средне темповые мелодичные номера «Hold Back The Light» и «Secret Sign», а также более быстрый и энергичный боевик «Blaze Of First Warning», но опять же таки от музыки так и веет стандартом, а сама мелодичность очень скромна в своих эмоциях. В общем, никаких хороших чувств дебютный диск «Savage Land» не вызывает и даже заставляет задуматься о группе как о весьма посредственном явлении, несмотря на то что у неё довольно-таки внушительные немецкие корни. |
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They expected the fight to go on
They had to pass a lot of life's examinations
Before they reached the land of the free
Just the best survived
Saved their naked life from darkness
No one weak survived
To forget Insurgeria
All the people, men and women, forty children
Stood together side by side
They came to learn the rules of hope and independence
And taught each child how to survive
Did not all survive
Saved just most of life from darkness
The last born survived
And forgot Insurgeria
3. Rain Song
Strange desire burning in my head
Taste of future, keep it secret till you're dead
Endless sorrow, tell the tales of time
Think of the future don't regret the unknown sign
That's over when the cold wind blows
Right there where the almighty power grows
When the war is over now
Then they all stand up
And rain comes down
Holy smoke and water falls
And signs of future life
Same old story - same old fate
Script of mankind is the script of war and hate
After darkness when the sun returns
Think of the future, don't regret and try to learn
That's over when the cold wind blows
Right there where the almighty power grows
When the war is over now
Then they all stand up
And rain comes down
Holy smoke and water falls
And signs of future life
4. Hold Back The Light
What you now feel... the pain of life
What you don't feel is pride
What we should do is turn the tide
Your choice is left or right
We turn the time and hold the key
Life means the feel in me
Above a rainy cloudy sky
We try to fly
All that man cares about is life
All that he wants
All that man takes is in god's rhyme of truth and time
Before the storm holds back the light
And silence loses ground
When lightning burns the open sky
We need shelter from the yellow rain
We know the truth of rage and life
We care for lonely souls
Remember when the time is right
For us to step aside
We turned the time and held the key
Life meant the feel in me
Above a rainy cloudy sky
We tried to fly
Day after day we tempt our fate and try to take
Life after life man tells the truth of glory games
5. Secret Signs
Welcome to see my ability
I promised to follow the light
Remember the way to infinity
Hear my voice and cry
And make your choice
We're reaching the promised land
And make your choice
The trip under shining stars
Secret signs
On borderlines
Signs of danger left behind
Where ever the journey will take us all
Be sure that our nature will reign
Beware of the danger beside the path
Hear my guiding voice
And make your choice
Arrive in the unknown land
And make your choice
The home under shining stars
Secret signs
On borderlines
Signs of danger left behind
Have no fear - abyss was near
Light was here - the signs from darkness
6. Savage Land - Part I (Strangers In Time)
World on the edge - down on the line
The state of nature is dire
It all came down in 2069
They fight the fight - to survive
We are the humans
We are the humans
Sun goes down and gives way to night
Of dust, of hunger and crime
Snakers here, the good and peaceful there
Oil has ruined all life
We are the humans
We are the humans
What I have seen
I could not believe
We'll live like strangers in time
The dreamer's dream
The fight to survive
The sight of strange future life
7. Savage Land - Part II (Pianista)
8. Savage Land - Part III (No Reason Why)
I see ruins burning everywhere
Creeping soldiers but they don't care
Oh the war drags on
Bombs and fighters and armoured tanks
Desert soldiers with bloody hands
Oh the fighting drags on
Can you see the injustice of war
Can you see the bad side of law
Oh lord can you show me the truth
After the fire - who really has won?
Millions of victims, generations are gone
Have died in fights - at night
Way in way out - burn liberty down
Way in way out - burn liberty down
Way in way out - don't take liberty down
When the countries fight over oil
When politicians earn money through war
All fights end before the year has passed
But when nobody sees the dollar notes rain
They talk and wait and let the fighting remain
Again, again, again and again
Way in way out - burn liberty down
Way in way out - burn liberty down
Way in way out - don't take liberty down
Victims of the bloodshed
Fire in the sky
Holy war... the answer
I see no reason why
Pictures of the wounded
Screaming in my head
No more - no war - see no reason why
9. Coast To Coast
Remember when the days were gone
The moon went down the heat was on
And all the gods came down to savage land
They taught their children... have no fear
They spread their wings and disappeared
Now you can see them rule in space
Those were the days when faith was right in time
Those were the years when people stood so close to god
And when the gods created men
They took grey earth from desert land
And used the dust from dried out salt lakes
They hoped to realize their aim
Of men and wife and beasts to tame
But found a beast in everything they made
Those were the days when faith was right in time
Those were the years when people stood so close to god
Coast to coast
Where water flows into neptune's sacred ground
Coast to coast
Remember that the ocean's fate will count
And when the lord's attempt took twice
The gipsy's skin was in their mind
A beauty queen - a free born child of life
He sent the queen to nomad's land
For her to live on holy sand
And realized that all was fine
Those were the days when faith was right in time
Those were the years when people stood so close to god
Coast to coast
Where water flows into neptune's sacred ground
Coast to coast
Remember that the ocean's fate will count
10. Blaze Of First Warning
Wipe your tears away
Keep your eyes on nature
Here and now - today
Heaven's path will take you
Don't trust in spoken words
Discover your own sense
They try to put you down
And things become undone
Blaze of first warning
Trust just yourself
Blaze of first warning
You once had some friends who did you wrong
Don't take a ride to hell
And trust the signs of fire
They show the way one day
But sell your god for hire
Don't trust in spoken words
Don't believe their promises
They try to put you down
When things come into sight
Blaze of first warning
Trust just yourself
Blaze of first warning
You once had some friends who sold their lives
11. Pray For Sunlight
End of darkness, follow rivers down beside through war and pain
Refreshing water, where the people clean their souls from poisoned rain
Can see the light through darkness
Can hear the wind, the voice, the human race and all
Got a sign from outer space
From afar, out of silence
Pray for sunlight
Rainy clouds above
Pray for sunlight
That heaven gives enough
Found green meadows, took some flowers growing in the sacred sand
Smelled the freedom, breathed the air from eastern liberated land
Survived the land of sorrow
And saw the door that opened up the way to go
Were there signs from outer space?
On their journey out of silence
The path that mankind took away from nowhere
Was cold and long and hard to reach the sky
The people took their faith and followed sunlight
And found their home of independent life
They built their house on green land
They earned their harvest year by year
And taught each little child
You should rather fight than leave your own homeground
12. Down In Nowhere Land
Searching for a foreign land
Way down where the golden days survived
Solution for a world of pain
Where freedom and glory days shine bright
Lean back and trust your own mind
Lean back and close your eyes
Reach out for the souls of mankind
Lean back and search for life
Remember what the wise man told you
Follow the light of the guiding star
Imagine that your faith will rise
And freedom will conquer border lines
Lean back and trust your own mind
Lean back and close your eyes
Reach out for the souls of mankind
Lean back and search for life
In Nowhere Land
Praying from a golden chair
Stand up for the march to Nowhere Land
Remember what the wise man told you
And follow the light of the guiding star
Lean back and trust your own mind
Lean back and close your eyes
Reach out for the souls of mankind
Lean back and search for life
13. End Of All Days
Welcome to green fields of glory
Where people don't suffer from pain.
Slaves under blood and tormented by cruel tyranny
The march into permanent freedom
Successful but hard for mankind
The future is bright and the tunnels first light means solution
Until the end of all days
Trust in the human race
No one but us can reculture the rust
The end of old dreams is the start of new hope and new life
Heaven and hell in one plane
The future beyond astral skies
No one can tell them to leave their new homeground again
Welcome to green fields of glory
Remember the lies of the past
Slaves under blood and tormented in insurgeria
Until the end of all days
Trust in the whole human race
No one but us can reculture the rust
The end of old dreams is the start of new hope and new trust
Did you ever think what the future of your life holds in store
Do you have a heart for the people side by side under oppression
Until the end of all days
Believe in the whole human race
No one but us can reculture the rust
The end of old dreams is the start of new hope and new trust