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Gods Tower
« Abandon All Hope »
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| 1 | Civilization
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| | 2 | Abandon All Hope
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| | 3 | Iron Man
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| | 4 | Final Countdown
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| | 5 | Power & Reason
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| | 6 | When Life Ends (Unreleased 7"EP Version)
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| | 7 | Reign Of Silence (Oversun Edit)
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| | 8 | Civilization (Last World War Mix) |
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Alexander Urakoff - guitars, keyboards
Lesley Knife - vocals
Wladislaw Saltsevich - drums
Valery Novoseltsev - bass
Sergey Sergeichikoff - keyboards |
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Produced by MetalAgen
All music by Alexander Urakoff & Gods Tower
All lyrics by Lesley Knife
Except "Iron Man" by Tony Iommi/Bill Ward/Terry "Geezer" Butler/Ozzy Osbourne (c) 1970 Warner Bros. Records
"Final Countdown" by Joey Tempest (c) 1986 CBS Inc./Epic Records
and "Power & Reason" by Andrey Bolshakov (c) ARIA
Tracks 1 & 2 recorded 17-18 October 2000 in Belarus TV studio, Minsk, Belarus. Engineered by Yuri Harachka
Tracks 3 & 4 recorded from November 1999 to January 2000in Prockl Sound studio, Minsk, Belarus. Engineered by Andrei Zubritch
Track 5 recorded in Ruster studio 10-11 April 2001 at Ruster studio, Chernigov, Ukraine. Engineered by Igor Prigorovski
Track 6 recorded and mixed in September of 1993 in TEF studio, Moscow, Russia
Track 7 remixed by Oversun, recorded and mixed at P&A DS Studio, March 2001. Courtesy of Nostradamus Records (E-mail:nostradamusrec@mtu-net.ru,Web:http://nostradamusrec.euro.ru).
Track 8 remixed by Fat Not Dead in October-November of 2000 in A-Bomb studio, Minsk, Belarus
Yuri Sivtsoff bass on 3,4,6 tracks
Dmitry Ovchinnikov keyboards on 3,4 tracks
Inna Lozovskaya keyboards on 6 track
Mixed & mastered in December of 2000 - May 2001 in A&T Trade studio, Saturday Mastering studio by Sergey Titov and Sergey Dementyev, Moscow, Russia. |
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| 1. Civilization
First day we make axes of stones
Weapon of wild ones, blood flesh and bones
Second day we got swords of steel
Growing so stronger learning to kill
Third day we became archers
Spitting with death, the cold blood butchers
Fourth day we've found out a powder
The mighty dust t |
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Civilization - kills itself…
Именно эти слова, открывающие первый трэк, лучшим образом отражают мои мысли по поводу того, что случилось с командой. Судите сами - вышедший перед самым распадом релиз от Gods Tower, это не альбом, это диагноз состоянию группы, которая за пять лет, прошедшие со времени выхода «The Eerie/The Turns», находясь на пике, смогла наскрести только четыре новые песни на диск, заполнив все оставшееся пространство каверами и ремиксами. Того, что принято ожидать от белорусских метров тяжелой музыки, на «Abandon all Hope» неприятно мало: дума не осталось (не заблуждайтесь, ремиксы старых композиций сделаны в ином ключе), прошлое увлечение фолком откликается только лихим ритмом музыки. Да шаманские мотивы периода «Оборотов» иногда проскальзывают в манере пения Лесли Кнайфа. Материал перебрался ближе к прямолинейному грубому хэви, зримо прибавив в весе благодаря дэтовой ритм-секции. Недодэт, сделанный на хорошем уровне, к концу диска утомляет своей монолитной мощью и перебором низких частот. Недаром же фотографии в буклете пугающе напоминают польский Vader?
Наверное, изменения были естественны, учитывая движение коллектива от своеобразного дума с первых выпущенных кассет по не менее своеобразный пэган на дебютном CD, сделавший уклон в классический метал 80-х. Но, к сожалению, как оригинальные композиции, так и кавера страдают одной болезнью: безликостью. После прослушивания «Power & Reason» я немедленно воскресил в памяти арийскую «Волю и Разум», но брутальный англоязычный вариант от белорусов не принес в песню ничего нового, лишь сделав хитовую изначально песню много монотонней. То же самое можно сказать про «Final Countdown», единственным действительно приятным моментом которой является узнаваемая синт-мелодия. И про… собственную «When Life Ends», переложенную в медленный дэтовый вариант с почти чистым гитарным звуком и ритуальным пением. Происхождением все песни с периода 1999-2001 гг., кроме древней «When Life Ends», сделанной еще в 1993. Отдельного слова заслужила «Beyond Praying» в качестве видео-бонуса, опустившаяся почти до похоронных скоростей (сам видеоряд не содержит полноценных клипов, а только две нарезки с безумствующими музыкантами). А под конец основной части – два поп-микса, не способные поднять уже никаких эмоций. Именно так: диск выполнен ровно на том уровне, который не вызывает у слушателя отторжения, а призван лишь удовлетворить любопытство отчетом, как же изменилась группа к 2002 году. Вот он и «конец всем надеждам»: Gods Tower перестали существовать еще до смерти своего лидера… |
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We shall rise again!
Civilization! Look at me!
Civilization! I am free!
Fifth day we've invented the tanks
Machine guns and mustard gas
Sixth day we've built aviation
To rule in the air, to sow extermination
We dropped the bomb, we washed all away
But next day there were stone axes again!
We shall rise again!
Civilization! Look at me!
Civilization! I am free!
2. Abandon All Hope
Rise! The rage of our ancient pride
Raise! The flag of blood and holy light
Hate's the power we've been saving up
So let's fight them under red stripe on the
White flag fluttering so proud and free
We shall get our sincere liberty
Dreams of freedom are to get so real
There's no one who dares to stop us on this
Way of long-awaited sacrifice
Fire of justice burning in our eyes
We're the nation who can shake the skies
There's no one who dares to stop us on this
Way we march together in all arms
Now's the time for us to put out stars
We don't like and to light new ones up
So let's march on under red stripe on the white
Bells are calling us to gather up
Hail to true and ancient our Gods
Hail to all the people who act free
What will be will be but we shall raise the
Flag of true and real liberty
Raise! The flag of our History
There's no way to suffer lies around
That's no more we're going out of underground
Abandon all hope!
Abandon all hope!
Abandon all hope!
Abandon all hope!
Light of darkness we don't ever mind
All we see the years of lies behind
Now we are to break it finally
What will be will be but we shall rise to
Live forever mighty, proud and free
It's the only way for us to be
You can run but you can't ever hide
We shall kill you if you're our enemy
Abandon all hope!
Abandon all hope!
Abandon all hope!
Abandon all hope!
3. Iron Man
Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care?
He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
Where he traveled time
For the future of mankind
Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfold
Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved
Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge
Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again!
4. Final Countdown
We're leaving together, but still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back, to earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame, we're leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?
It's the final countdown...
We're heading for Venus and still we stand tall
Cause maybe they've seen us and welcome us all
With so many light years to go and things to be found
I'm sure that we'll all miss her so.
It's the final countdown...
5. Power & Reason
There is a monster deep underground
Nuclear warhead and steel
It's full of wires the iron hound
It's always in for the kill
There's no thinking just plan to ruin
Warplanners worship the death
The global murder is what he needs
The whole world is to be craze.
Everything that you love and adore
T'will destroy instantly
Living in dream of final world war
Entity of steel and hate
We don't need to ignore
Power & Reason
Nuclear warhead Reactive heart
Created only to thrill
Somebody's dreaming to press the start
To break the peacemaking seal
The mind is hidden nobody knows
The temple of holocaust
The final countdowns to final show
We know the reason is lost
Everything that you love and adore
T'will destroy instantly
Living in dream of final world war
Entity of steel and hate
We don't need to ignore
Power & Reason
There is a monster deep underground
Nuclear warhead and steel
It's full of wires the iron hound
It's always in for the kill
There's no thinking just plan to ruin
Warplanners worship the death
The global murder is what he needs
The whole world is to be craze.
Everything that you love and adore
T'will destroy instantly
Living in dream of final world war
Entity of steel and hate
We don't need to ignore
Power & Reason
6. When Life Ends (Unreleased 7"EP Version)
When life ends
Take me away into your land
Where I shall get life again
I'll be living after death
When life ends
Show me the way into your land
And I'll come to see the place
Of my sepulchral inhabitance
Now I wait
When my soul will separate
From the body to the Gates
Of your Empyrial Reign
When life ends
I submiss you with all my heart
My life ends and now I start
To confess you God of dark
Now I see the face of God of dead
And I hear his voice
Now he tells me of forthcomin' death
And my time has come
Soul prepares to leave my cell
Soon I'll see the world
Of Eternal Life
I will see the Gods
There I'll taste the wine of aeon
There I'll see the lakes
Of the liquid fire
My flesh will burn in flames
And my soul will separate
Now I see the face of God of dead
When my life will end
Welcome to my burial...
All my life I was pain
Now you'll take my soul away
Now I'm dying but I smile
Yes I know this time is mine
All my friends has come to see as I die
Now my fathers are Judges of my life
Now my soul's preparing to fly far away
And I shall never return to home again
Into the forest my flesh now will be taken
At the holy holocaust to soul's awakening
Now I shall burn in the cleansing fire
My life ends and I'll get higher
I'm inviting you welcome to my burial
Now the shapes of my ancestors are real
Now I'm making the last flight over
My life ends but my way is not over
When life ends
Welcome to my burial
Now I see in infra red
Man can't realize the land
Where I live now when I'm dead
7. Reign Of Silence (Oversun Edit)
Among the battlefield
The lifeless steel shines bright
Somebody's groaning near
He knows he doomed to die
Soon Semargl will bring them down
Into the land of the Chosen One
Where they will get their bless
Into the Reign of Silence
The last rays of the Sun
Are fading in their eyes
Among the Battlefield
The Lonely raven cries
So far away from friendly home
Out of the land of Thousand Bogs
And they preare to fade
Into the Reign of Silence
The cold touch of skies
To all those who die
The winds from beyond
Are bringing the Night
Almighty Peroun take us to your realm
Soon Silence will rule
In this Pagan Reign
The Wisemen in white
Said Blessed is who's died
Preparing the death
They are making the Rites
Semargl will meet
Them at Golden Gates
Now there is no hate
Just equal in death
The Radiant God is fading away
The Gloomy Semargl is coming to change
They silently talk to the Homeland
Good Bye. This time is to die
Their life now flows away
And souls now leave their hearts
And nevermore again
They'll be back to the land of Sun
The last rays of the Sun
The last drink of the air
And they prepare to die
To go to Silent Reign
8. Civilization (Last World War Mix)