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Dark at Dawn
« Of Decay and Desire »
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| 1 | The Sleepwalker 03:42
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| | 2 | End of Ice - Warriorqueen 03:53
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| | 3 | Luna 03:40
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| | 4 | Maid of Stone 02:59
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| | 5 | Forever 04:03
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| | 6 | The 5th Horseman 04:20
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| | 7 | ...And the Sea Wept 03:26
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| | 8 | Soulitude 03:11
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| | 9 | Fair Well 04:16
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| | 10 | Weltenbrand 04:42
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| | 11 | One-Night Fall 03:15
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| | 12 | The Rose of Tears 03:46
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| | Total playing time: 45:20 |
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Thorsten Kohlrausch - vocals
Torsten Sauerbrey - guitars, keyboards, drums
Michael Lowin - bass |
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| 1. The Sleepwalker
On and on
Creeping through my mind
A siren's song, a guiding light
Rainy nights
Fading in the wind
Imprisoned there, in dreams within
There is a way
There is an aim
There is a light
An angel's voice still guides me
Through a winter's night
See her soul is far too |
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«Of Decay And Desire» – это третий альбом немецких пауэрщиков Dark At Dawn. Это не слишком популярная группа, однако исполняющая весьма интересный вид пауэра, который я бы охарактеризовал как дарк пауэр метал. Музыка крайне оригинальная и ни на кого не похожая. Качество записи выверено до каждой детали, ведь за него отвечали Энди Классен и всем известный Мика Юсилла из Finnvox Studio. Внимание сразу приковывает приятный тёмно-синий буклет готического типа. Тексты песен обладают некой концепцией - в них рассказывается о странной любви главного героя к мёртвой богине, которая приводит героя в ад, и в конце концов оказывается что его возлюбленная самый настоящий дьявол. В целом, лирика очень депрессивная и мрачная. Вокалист поёт очень хриплым и низким голосом, и сразу же можно подумать о похожести его на Криса Больтендаля (Grave Digger), но буду вынужден разочаровать - Торстен «Бадди» Толрауш намного брутальнее Больтендаля, и его вокал под час напоминает самый настоящий гроулинг. Это очень ограничительная черта рассматриваемой группы, поскольку такой своеобразный тип вокала не всем может приглянутся, но вот как раз поклонникам могило-копателей «Of Decay And Desire» весьма рекомендуется. Сам же музыкальный материал представляет собой пауэр, направленный прежде всего на драйвовые гитарные риффы, часто вызывающие ассоциации с Brainstorm. На диске равномерно располагаются как быстрые забойные вещи, так и средне темповые мощные номера. В особенности я бы выделил необычайно угарные боевики «The Sleepwalker», «End Of Ice» и «Maid Of Stone». Также заслуживает внимания великолепная баллада «Luna», с потрясающей соло партией. Элементы дум метала хорошо себя проявили в композициях «Forever» и «Soulitude». В классной теме «One-Night Fall» можно найти даже треш метал. И хотя альбом не совсем идеальный и в нём есть несколько проходных номеров, однако я бы посоветовал обязательно ознакомится с ним всем любителям жёсткого и мрачного пауэра… |
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У-у-у-ххх!!! Обдало ледяным холодом. Да, музыка этих немцев действительно соответствует определению “Dark Metal”. И правда, никаких соплей-слюней, никакого дебильного восторга и оптимизма, и главное, никаких рожков и дудочек. Плотный монолитный стафф, недюжинная, кстати, мелодика и просто умопомрачительный вокал Торстена Кольрауша, представляющий собой симбиоз Криса Болтендаля и покойного Хеннера из Squealer. А самое-самое заключается в том, что этот-то вокал и, сейчас пойдут банальности, подходит данной ледяной музыке. Символична и обложка на которой изображена разорванная или разбитая женская фотография, а может и портрет. Что-то выделять из музыкального ряда не имеет смысла, данный продукт необходимо слушать целиком, правда лично мне он начал немного надоедать. Если более-менее быстрые композиции ещё классные, то тягучие медляки немного, что называется, грузят неокрепшую детскую психику. А так очень даже ничего, для общего развития послушать можно. |
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To take a grip, just feel her slip
And fade away
Nightly shades
Taking my embrace
A ghostly touch, still warm to me
The lesson's dark
But I now know why
Asleep I smile, awake I die
2. End Of Ice - Warriorqueen
In Fire
She's waiting
To turn the ice away
A liar
Is saving
Up on the mountains of pain
Warrior of light be silent
Rule the earth is meant to be
I am here to reign in violence
For my eyes are of ice
Fighter
Bringing the light to the sky
Warrior
Crashing through the gates of icy times
For she'll return to the bright
For a sign
Coming from a kingdom once defied
This scenery
Is aching
Her limbs in silent frost
On fire
Her eyes melt
Showing the world that was lost
Warrior of light be silent
Rule the earth is meant to be
I am here to reign in violence
I might fade, but never die
3. Luna
His silver sun is shining bright at night
To enlighten his way from dusk 'til dawn
The Goddes of all stars
Dressed in her cold black dress
Her rays of light - alike a rose's thorn
Melting her eyes with fire and heat
Ere daylight's disguise her beauty conceals
Goddes of the dark, please shine on me
Let my eyes touch and let them see
What the night can reveal
Still I adore you a lot, from above
Mistress of darkness divine
Whispers "carpe noctem" with a heavenly shine
To see her in a way she is not
...is to love
4. Maid Of Stone
Fade away, my love
Under painful clay
Deep in the desert
Where no mortal's ever set foot
There she is lain
With a rose in her mouth and her hand
Into the voidness
Her sandy hair without colour, for good?
I've been praying, Lord,
Since she's left me
So all alone in the darkness
Guardian made of stone,
Won't you answer
My prayers for her coming home
My dear, please speak to me
Beloved, answer me
Give me a sign to rely on
I know you still hear me
Even you cannot see me
On my knees, don't deny me
Lifeless womb
Her grave, a pyramidal tomb
Crying and praying
That her leaving the light was no end
Then it awoke
After hours and days
And then spoke the rose made of stone
"Who loves shall be never alone."
I've been praying, Lord,
Since she's left me
So all alone in the darkness
Guardian made of stone
Gave me answers to
My prayers for her coming home
My dear, she spoke to me
Beloved, answered me
Gave me a sign to rely on
I know you still hear me
Singing sad melodies
For this rose-water's accompany
5. Forever
The world is turning
The sky is burning
It's weeping down
Frozen leaves lie bare
The sun is watching
Eternal morning
Is hiding there
Beyond the crimson flames
...until the crimson flame of
Eternity is watching me
It shines forever endlessly
Just like your light within my heart
Forever
There are some things that never pass
These are the things that ever last
Just like your light within my heart
Forever
The water's drowning
The waves are sounding
They scream to me
The rush of fading hope
I stand here gazing
It's still amazing
How one could reign
A kingdom's long lost halls
...until the crimson flame of
Still right here waiting for a passed by voice
6. The 5th Horseman
Here take this guiding hand
I lead you through this land and far below
Your journey here might end
Just trust a good old friend, the way he shows
Although it's getting cold
Don't doubt the way you go, I'm here for you
You better close your coat
You're risking a bad throat, don't want you to
Four bad seasons
Way I know
Guiding treason
Way I show
The riders over there
Already brought them where they do belong
So gather with these guys
You fit to very nice - another one
Meet them greet them
Brothers five
Growing stronger
Still alive
7. ...And The Sea Wept
Dry river-beds end in no man's land
Empty oceans full of waste
We lead ourselves into all man's end
All that remains is a bitter aftertaste
The sea has shed all she had to cry
A shoreless wail which came here to die
Just like an eagle in the sky
I want to spread my wings and fly away
Crying silence is falling over me
Lonely king of the air in deserted skies
How I wish that the end like this wouldn't be
Clipped wings before they learned to fly
Each drop of life spilled into the flood
Acid tears in sweet rain like red raining blood
We're trying to water from deep within
The desert sands of time with our weeping
One with the rain
Feeling the pain
Of the earth I am lain
In sane dreams I drown
Mankind sowed bitter seed
Expects to harvest fruits so sweet
For a thirsty mouth to feed
Insane kingdom's crown
8. Soulitude
Mellifluous lily white
The gift that's yours my breath of life
Just like the night needs the daylight to survive
You are the strength of my mind
And gladden my heart
With an aura so mighty
All summer's beauty is gone
And leaves are falling of the trees
My thoughts are just 'bout this grievous memories
Wand'ring in light-hearted times
When you captured my soul
With an aura so mighty
Fears creeping - If your foe is as mighty as time is
This soulitude - Pain I can't deny
Eyes weeping - When you still can remember the first kiss
Hours passing by - Night blackens the sky
A dull black fills my mind
As deep red trickles melting snow
But if my kisses couldn't hold you, oh I know
My tears can not at all
My suff'ring and crying goes on
But it can not at all
9. Fair Well
On the edge of dawn
Light ends the dark of day
Mourning star at dusk
Brightens with our decay
Forward, just one step
Millions of miles away
Floating back in time
Titans without delay
Wellspring of youth
Drinking your sweet water
Falling like stones - so bitter our tears
Of the one and only truth
Well, you're my fountain
For some you're deep as graves
For others high as mountains
Neverending youth
Aching like Narcissus
Echo sings her song
Whispering words like "Come with us"
Never to return
Hope, in all tears she's bathed
Bleeding hearts of pain
Nigh tend to be portrait
10. Weltenbrand
Drowning in fire where it never rains
Burning desire has all the waters drained
Waves of the flood leave the world in flames
Soil's boiling blood and flashes strike his son's wain
Flesh and thunder and blood and lightning
Sol et Nox in heavens hot they feast
Flesh and thunder and blood and lightning
By the eyes of the Gods the night is seized
Taming the horses, impossible to steer
Flaming -the passion- rides into his bane
For all who can see soon it will peer
Doomsday will be, showing the sun's wane
My world is on fire, the heat is my domain
Like suns, even brighter if I don't draw the rein
In fervour I shall sear to swallow all the pain
Souls unite in tears, forever there to reign
11. One-Night Fall
By sharing what's divine
You don't become an angel
The devil's got many faces
All looking into mine
A man among the beasts
A sheep among the wolves
How could there be light
When darkness never sleeps?
As long as there is man
There must be a devil
In female-looking form
To lead them in temptation
From the first sin done by Eve
To the last and nameless night
How could there be hope
When darkness never sleeps?
One man stands, another falls
And leaves by morning light
Another nameless night
Who resists when frailty calls?
Thy name is woman
...and the one-night curtain falls
12. The Rose Of Tears
Futures' light
Shines upon us
In a rainy night
Only one
Little answer
Hides behind your velvet eyes
Lack of love
Doesn't hinder
Men from doing what they please
But just one
Little answer
Tells a victory from defeat
Smile for me, my rose of tears
You're fading on my mind
Be the one to guide me home
Or leave me far behind
Shine on through like fadings stars
But slowly is the light
Before we see their flame has died
A thousand years go by
In my eyes
Is the colour
Of the lake, we were so near
Let me tell
You my secret
The water in it were my tears