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The Crown
« The Burning (Re-release) »
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| 1 | Of Good And Evil 03:29
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| | 2 | Soulicide Demon-Might 02:43
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| | 3 | Godless 04:00
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| | 4 | The Lord Of The Rings 03:15
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| | 5 | I Crawl 05:16
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| | 6 | Forever Heaven Gone 03:31
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| | 7 | Earthborn 03:47
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| | 8 | Neverending Dream 04:02
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| | 9 | Night Of The Swords 02:05
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| | 10 | Candles 06:36
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| | 11 | Forger The Light 06:33
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| | Total playing time: 45:09 |
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Johan Lindstrand - vocals
Marko Tervonen - guitars
Marcus Sunesson - guitars
Magnus Olsfelt - bass
Janne Saarenpaa - drums |
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Produced and mixed by The Crown and Berno Paulsson at Berno Studio April 1995
Cover painting and original logo Kristian Wahlin
Photo: Hasse Bergstedt/ Ziwa |
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| 1. Of Good And Evil
[Music & Lyrics by: M.Tervonen]
Not this dream again!
Would it never end?
It always ends with
me laughing at your misery
Can't you see that I
want to reach my hand
to bring you back to me
so we can change your destiny
You are falling down
I cry in vain
I see you |
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 Дебютный альбом шведской группы Crown Of Thorns, основанной в 90-м году и релиза двух демок 93 и 94 года, вышел в 95 на лейбле Black Sun Records и получил название “The Burning”. В последствии, из-за существующей в штатах группы с таким же названием, было принято решение переименовать команду в The Crown. И вот в 2004, на волне успеха “Deathrace King” и “Crowned In Terror”, и получении прав на выпуск этого материала, на лейбле Blackend выходят переиздания двух первых дисков уже под именем The Crown. Абсолютно рядовой для середины 90-х шведский death/black, с минимумом мелодичных песен и максимальным упором на забойность и примитивность. Диск отличает неважная запись и абсолютно незапоминающиеся композиции, причем продолжительность не играет никакой роли. Абсолютно все равно, что слушать – короткие блэк дэтовые запилы в “Soulside Demon-might” или “Earthborn”, что такие же, но растянутые на 6.33 две последние “Candles” и “Forget The Light”. Из общей массы выделяется лишь первый, более мелодичный трек “Of Good And Evil”, похожий на ранний Dark Tranquillity. Ну и потом, не всем же шведским death командам было дано записать сильные дебютники, должны же быть какие-то исключения из правил! “The Burning” можно рекомендовать только для больших любителей раннего шведского дэта в целом, раннего At The Gates и персонально фэнов The Crown, в частности. (Диск предоставлен компанией CD-Maximum) |
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Думается, что всем, кому надо, да и все, кто хотел, уже давно заценили «The Burning», и каждый выделил для себя все сильные и слабые стороны этой работы... Я же впервые приобрел этот альбом еще в 1996-ом году на аудиокассете, будучи сопливым восьмиклассником, когда шведы еще творили под именем Crown of Thorns. И хочу сказать, что и тогда, и сегодня этот метал-продукт остается одним из самых моих любимых в «тяжелой индустрии»! И с Blindman-ом, который говорил про примитивность и забойность «The Burning», я согласен лишь отчасти. Забойностью, но не прямолинейностью от всех остальных отличаются трэки под номерами «2», «3», «4», «6» и «11». Это конечно, немало, но, в конце концов, «The Burning» - это ведь не melodic death. Парни еще совсем молодые и по-музыкальному злые, поэтому и сам материал получился таким диким! Хотя с запоминающимися и разнообразными мелодиями здесь полный порядок! А абсолютными боевиками на этой работе считаю трэки «1», «5», «7» и «10»!
Что же касается качества звука - на прошедшей ремастеринг версии это самое качество достаточно сильное. К слову, на «Candles», когда играет высокое гитарное вступление, на своей системе я четко слышу звук касания музыкантом медиатором струн гитары. Кто-то может сказать, что это недоработка звукоинженера, раз слышен этот звук, но именно такие детали не в последнюю очередь и говорят о КАЧЕСТВЕ звука. А Blindman, скорее всего, говорил про неважный звук, имея в виду звук образца 1995 года. Но я об этом звуке ничего сказать не могу. Да этого и не надо делать, когда уже давно можно спокойно приобрести прошедшую ремастеринг версию этой, без сомнения, очень сильной и качественной работы. |
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and that fills me with pain
"I" laugh while I see you fall
Now "I" have completed my call
I'm standing here alone to face my "crimes"
In my dreams I leave these cold walls
so you can't see
while a piece of me slowley dies
With you I share my electric crown
so I never have to see you
when you're falling down
Your dead eyes are shining so bright
Can you feel the peace
"I" promised you in the light?
I'm standing here alone to face my "crimes"
In my dreams I leave these cold walls
so you can't see
while a piece of me slowley dies
I see you falling down once again
and "I'm" laughing
I'm standing here alone to face my "crimes"
In my dreams I leave these cold walls
so you can't see
while a piece of me slowley dies
While a piece of me slowley dies.
2. Soulicide Demon-Might
[Music & Lyrics by:M.Olsfelt]
No way back
I've gone to far
He is on his way
Give up my hope
No resist
His whispers are so close
Shut my eyes and forget the light inside
Dark desires and wishes of demon-might
Unite with my shadow, the reflections in the mirror
Swept away by waves of darkness
Roaring hate - Deep and black
Dancing steel on fat blue veins
Flow! my firetears, Flow! my crimson blood
I am open now
Enter me!
For I shall kill the Shepherd and scatter all his sheep
Your gods have none to pray to, when evil is unleashed
I am the heart of darkness, the end of everything
To me was given life to end all life
Demon-might - Walk the earth!
The priest
spatter my face with holy water
Hurts me, and mocks me with his words
Fear me!
Fear my name, my burning rage
So filled with sin
Reap my harvest in blood
Caressed by Death
Prayers of doom and burning souls
The burning
The scorching of your words
to ashes
your love must be burnt!
No more knocking on Death's door
I will open it myself
Cleansed by blood of Lamb
Sweeping through
As it opens wide
Shut my eyes and forget the light inside
Dark desires and wishes of demon-might
I thought the pain would stop!
For I have killed the Shepherd
and scattered all his sheep
Your gods have none to pray to,
for evil is unleashed
I'm the heart of darkness,
the end of everything
And I am hurting till the end of time -
Soulicide Demon-might
3. Godless
[Music & Lyrics by: M.Tervonen]
Join me
through a path of life
when a dream becomes reality
Your dark dreams / Your agony
are far beyond your sanity
The cold wind / dries my blood
The blood that I gave for an eternal life
Defeated by the memories
that haunted my sadistic mind
Follow me into my darkest desires
and follow me into my grave
Follow me to my holiest phantasm
that shows that I'm insane
I depict you / my idol
for a place in your kingdom
Your holy words I adorate
when you destroy what I create
Darkness will fall on you
at the day, the day you die
Now you leave this mortal life
to your stupid desired lie
Follow me into my darkest desires
and follow me into my grave
Follow me to my holiest phantasm
that shows that I'm insane
They showed me all the lusts that I so desired
if their god was the only god I admired
I am godless...
At the holy altar
my life fades away
Now I realize
I'm just one
without god
Without god...
4. The Lord Of The Rings
[Music by: M.Olsfelt]
Three rings for the eleven kings under the sky
Seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone
Nine for mortal men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on His dark throne
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie
One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all
And in the Darkness bind them
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie
[Repeat all]
[J. R. R. Tolkien]
5. I Crawl
[Music & Lyrics by: M.Tervonen]
To feel the emptiness
I see only punishment
you caused me darkdreams
You brought me evil dreams
My anger for your promises is just growing
I feel your rage...
Anger I feel is growing in my mind
Deception, insanity
Darkness has touched me
I feel your holy presence
My darkhalf loves you
I die - but I enjoy
I crawl into your arms
I crawl into your world
I crawl, I crawl
I crawl into your destiny
Feel me - my blood is freezing
Touch me - I rule your feelings
Love me - I'll give you fantasy
Hate me - I am inside your dreams
I crawl into your arms
I crawl into your world
I crawl, I crawl
I crawl into your destiny
Eternity
we will now conquest
Deceiver!
We have become
one
6. Forever Heaven Gone
[Music by: R.Цsterberg Lyrics by: J.Lindstrand]
Soon I am dark
I will enter the crypt of blasphemy
I will waste the human race
Behold my hate
Evil take me! / Cermony suicide
Satan connect / my inverted life with hell
Slowley I drown
inside the jaws of Death
Voices of the dead choir
powder my mind
Demons wipe
the memory of life before
Spiteful wish
Forever Heaven Gone
Time to exploit the urgent need
Take the children down to rot
Disintegrate their holy hearts
Infernal spell dismembering
Servants of Jesus crawl for mercy
No time left / I scream upon their fear
Burn for evil!
Slay my dark flesh
The more I die the more I curse
Suffer of joy
Infect what's left distaseful rests
Infants they rise / I grant the raise of hell
Legion of the black wrath / grows in hunger lust
Rancid limbs / eaten by the witches of night
Genocide / I belive the gore will give feast
Time to exploit the urgent need
Take the children down to rot
Disintegrate their holy hearts
Nocturnal beasts they all become
7. Earthborn
[Music and Lyrics by: M.Tervonen]
Through the landscape of the forbidden
my astral body flies
I see the real sun falling apart
due to my fall from the skies
Misscreation, devestation
rules the land where I am God
As I am the wind and you are the sand
you'll do anything that I command
Midian- Soon we walk the earth without fear
Follow me out when the sun has died
and enjoy the gifts that were to us denied
Through the landscape of the forbidden
my astral body flies
The sun has died no need to hide
from the deadly light that weakened our might
Now we walk the earth that once belonged to us
with pride
Midian- Soon we walk the earth without fear
Follow me out when the sun has died
and enjoy the gifts that were to us denied
No-one can stop us from inherit the earth
It is ours, it used to be and will belong to us again
You had no right to take it
We will rule the world with our new master-race
Midian- Soon we walk the earth without fear
Midian- Now we walk the earth without fear
Follow me out when the sun has died
and enjoy the gifts that were to us denied
8. Neverending Dream
[Music and Lyrics by: M.Tervonen]
My destiny
have been schosen by an
Absurd religion
They call themselves
a sect of light
With their own reality
they think they are above
humanity
With fear they turn their back on us
With re-creation
they try to fill our heads with lies
Claiming that the son of god will rise
With their dream of glory skies
I say their dream will forever die
No Guf is empty
No more souls
The first-born child
will die alone
The seven signs
you will see
only if you truly believe
First the Sea will show you Death
and then the Blood-red moon
will show that your journey is coming soon
With re-creation
they try to fill our heads with lies
Claiming that the son of god will rise
With their dream of glory skies
I say their dream will forever die
It's just a lie!
Let them know
that their glory sky
will forever die
Their dream will forever die!
9. Night Of The Swords
[Music & Lyrics by: M.Olsfelt]
Tonight we take revenge
Storming trough it all
Tonight we hunt you down
and let it all out!
Tonight no-one shall survive
With swords we come for your life
We'll never forgive - We'll never forget
Your dead eyes, sick shining no regret
You
Deny your past
Deny your guilt
Deny the halls of holocaust
Deny your past
Deny your guilt
Deny all things that you have done
Just try to deny your own fucking death!
Tonight nothing shall survive
of your weak and twisted lie
Tonight we will murder and burn
your made-up master race-shit
Tonight no-one shall be saved
With swords - We await
We'll never forgive - We'll never forget
Your dead eyes, sick shining filled with hate
Tonight we take revenge
Storming trough it all
Tonight we hunt you down
and let it all out!
10. Candles
[Music & Lyrics by: M.Olsfelt]
Silently watching the candles glow
Staring into the brightest flame
It burns like we used to do
Casting long, dark shadows
twisted shapes dancing on the walls
As the wind blows cold my candle dies
Now everything disappears
Reaching out my hands but no-one is
ever there
Screaming empty silence
For a moment I thought we all were dead
But now the candle burns again
So many years wishing I was yours
All the tears have bleed my heart dry
beating out emptiness, cut and open wide
I feel nothing and of nothing do I dream
Lost in hopelessness
I never thought I would forget
Closing myself to remember
Searching deep inside (a sparkle)
And the candle burns again
Burns again, Burns again, Burns again, Burns again
Watching all these numb people with stiff faces
carrying their dead children and never-lit candles
All these old men of Power
ensnared in a net of their own "wisdom"
Dry dust
Spread from their
Dead lips
The undying flame trapped
in lifeless shells
But all candles shall burn again!
Burns again, Burns again, Burns again, Burns again
The signs of resurredtion
Burns again, Burns again, Burns again, Burns again
Burns again, Burns again, Burns again, Burns again
BORN AGAIN!
11. Forget The Light
Forget the light
everything has to die
All life is pain
and all life must end
There is no turning back
You cannot stop me now
Death by my own hands
I'm not afraid anymore
My life- my sweetest sacrifice
tyrned loose- by the flaming cold knife
My eyes- my black hole inside
Unleashed- in a shining suicide
No light, No hope, No fear
No meaning, No answer
No life, No love, No tears
No feelings- No fire
No god, No soul, No heaven
No father- No holy son
No light no need for fear
No future- No regret
I spit upon my life- your holy gift to me
I spit upon your throne- your heaven dead to be
Suicidal glory!
Blapshemy- I deny his life in me
Desecration- destroying god's creation
Cutting up this body of mine
Created in the image of god
Burn His face by burning mine
I'm the destruction of all holy lies
I shred your precious angels
Rip the feathers of wings of white
I drink their heavenly blood
and suffer all their pain!
I am here draped in blood
all angels dead and white
All alone I can't stop the flood
Lost- dressed in night
Of darkness if my spine
let the colours wither
Let it all die!
I am through!
Darker than Death
this suicide is filled with hate
Colder than life
I can feel the knife deep inside
There is no turning back
You cannot stop me now
Death by my own hands
I'm not afraid anymore
Everything is so cold
Emptiness!
Embrace me as I fall
No light, No hope, No fear
No meaning, No answer
No life, No love, No tears
No feelings- No fire
No god, No soul, No heaven
No father- No holy son
No light no need for fear
No future- No regret
No regret
No return!