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Wicked Innocence
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1 | Thoughts 04:37
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| 2 | A Level Higher 06:23
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| 3 | Totality 05:11
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| 4 | Lines 06:44
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| 5 | The Greys 04:22
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| 6 | Omnipotence 06:08
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| 7 | Return to the Gates of Rebirth 06:52
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| 8 | Epitaph 05:53
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| | Total playing time 46:10 |
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Lorin Cook - vocals
Tom Cloward - bass
Travis Jiron - drums
Jason Martz - guitars
Lavuar Daynes - guitars
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| 1. Thoughts
Thoughts of our future world
Thoughts about our race
Thoughts based on ignorance
That expose our inner hate
To express the feelings that I feel deep inside
Emotions I've kept deep inside
I trust only a certain few
And the ones I trust trust me too
That is why I can open up and |
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Хотелось найти какого-нибудь подзабытого смертельного метала с аурой авторского стиля и попался на глаза этот коллектив. И, знаете, Wicked Innocence – настоящее ископаемое и одно из ранних после Demilich свидетельств функциональности безликого гуттурала как фона для занимательных находок. Первый трэк бодростью и вектором вводит в заблуждение, на самом-то деле американцы играют дэт зачастую без привычного драйва и угара, но растерзанный сомнениями и далеко не столь поступательный, как мы к тому привыкли.
Гитарный жир довольно стоек (производные от него вязкие олдскульные брейкдауны), хотя временами на первом плане неврастеничность и косноязычный авангардный лоск. Интеллигентность команды влечет за собой и рассеянность, потерянность риффового конструктива. Помимо нетривиальности гитарного наполнения, Wicked Innocence отличает и скрупулезная работа ритм-секции. Живые ритмические рисунки барабанщика, чрезвычайно легко переключающегося с непродолжительного бластбита к дробям иного свойства, вообще неистово задействующего всю установку, в связке с внушительно акцентирующим сильные места и способным на дерзкие свершения басом, завершают сюрреальную картину «Всемогущества». На стиль команды безусловно повлияли колорадцы Skeleton Of God, они также напоминают мне Polluted Inheritance, только с глазами, еще больше повернутыми вовнутрь. Ассорти из вокалов – отстраненного чистого вокала, сочного гроула и доминирующего беспристрастного утробного повествования поднимает изобразительные возможности команды на совершенно новый уровень, хотя на театральщину естественно нет и намека. Намек есть на здоровый азарт в преподнесении материала, поскольку проходных эпизодов, без искры, на альбоме нет.
За архитектурой музыки Wicked Innocence действительно интересно наблюдать, любая чужеродная деталь появляется как бы невзначай. В монолитном дэте то возникают джазовые вставки ("The Greys"), то туда инкрустируется перкуссия ("Return to the Gates of Rebirth"), то музыка уподобляется бою часов ("Epitaph"), есть и неброские басовые соло. Соло гитарные, как и у Polluted Inheritance, примечательны гордой недосказанностью и скупой мелодичностью.
Тексты отданы на откуп онтологическим спекуляциям, довольно развернуты, что, конечно, очень важно в ситуации, когда понятны 5-10 слов, произносимых без адового понижения тона. Отсюда некий ореол подвального симпозиума.
«Omnipotence» – довольно оригинальная технарская работа в абстрактном ключе. Если желаете неторопливого в скоростях, но нетерпеливого в идеях, спотыкающегося, гипертрофированно внимательного к собственной структуре и умеющего быть немногословным олдового дэта, этот альбом для вас. Да и вообще... ищите и обрящете… |
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Words echo through my mind like pounding sounds
All the time my mind is never at peace, for I am at war with myself
In my dreams there is no utopia, there is no feeling of positive energy
In my dreams - I witness only what's in my surroundings
A silent voice unheard in this void of parallel dimensions
A continuous wave of questions and answers flow through my mind
I can only speculate - these thoughts I share
Reflections of my past life
I've lost a friend to suicide
He took his life - no one even knows
Knows the reason
Religion says he'll be denied to serve our god
In vain, he died
Will his soul rest in peace?
His spirit chained, and drifts among the plains because when he died he was a part of me
Devoid of his restless body, will his soul now rest in peace?
Witness to the filth of society's downfall into a chemical insanity
Forced to see the brutal reality
Hiding away - the answers they will find
Circling questions in a room of lies
These thoughts - they all involve humanity
A glimpse of our true reality
Our life span lived in hypocrisy
2. A Level Higher
Complex questions of all life forms and their communication with other living species
They learn and understand
Just like the smallest life form surrounded by water
In a vast ocean, alone its world is isolated by nothingness
But still this breed generates and progresses and multiplies - and survives
Living is based on instinct and choice of direction
Our lives are but generating our breed
This is nothing more than a cycle of life
A level higher - the human race is just another form of animal
Whose life is consumed by the power and greed of this lustful society
Proved to be ignorant and a threat to its environment
But can't understand the simple message of awakening
But can't understand the simple message of awakening
We would all cry in horror if we could see al the things we have done
To truly see our pathetic lives would crush our egos and let the pain of the truth burn our eyes
I see as we die away - lasting scars left behind me
I see a race whose time has come to face the consequences of denying the truth
We knew all too well so we could continue our pitiful quest for material things
And our egos would be shattered if we could see what our lives have become
When the time comes we'll see
Can't understand the simple message of awakening
The only species that has become a threat to its environment
Can't understand the simple message of awakening
3. Totality
The voice inside your body that interacts your thoughts to speech
Deciding all decisions you're trapped in another form
An image, a dimension of internal dialogue that is part of all communication
The voice inside your body that interacts your thoughts to speech
Contemplating all decisions you're trapped in another form
An image, a dimension of internal dialogue that is part of all communication
Through will and reason you can alter your perception
Into my mind's illusion - fully aware of your transparent being
This void of silence and meditation through your will
Can open a glimpse to the world unseen
Fully aware of your transparent being
A dream in a realm much like our own, you remember
There is pleasure and there is pain
But from this experience we learn all about our fantasies
But still this is not reality
A short sojourn in a world of dreams - focused thoughts things unseen
Seconds of an energy
Inside our minds we can all see beyond the gates and these walls of sleep
Our subconscious minds await these happenings
Controlling and focusing - at one with our body
The energy of your spiritual aura is lighting
Surrounded by silence - at one with your thoughts
Learning and reasoning you are fully self-taught
Seconds of an energy
Inside our minds we can all see beyond the gates and these walls of sleep
Our subconscious minds await these happenings
4. Lines
All that I see
All of which is hard to believe
A chemical dependency
A life of losing everything
Addiction to this suffering to these sinful elements of nothing
That prove only to destroy
These words are but reality, these visions are but sickening
To witness friends live out a twisted fantasy
Lies between lies
Words of demise
Beneath your breath I can only smell lines
Cover up your personality with your false identity
You are nothing more than a waste to humanity
Chop it up - divide the erosion you snort into your mind
Scrape away the years of life, only to get ahead - but left behind
Reach out and partake of this suffering
Join in with those who understand you, don't deny that you've lost everything
Just lie and listen to those who betray you
Because they won't be there with another line to save you
These words are but reality, these visions are but sickening
To witness friends live out a twisted fantasy
Lies between lies
Words of demise
Beneath your breath I can only smell lines
Cover up your personality with your false identity
You are nothing more than a waste to humanity
Chop it up - divide the erosion you snort into your mind
Only to get ahead - but left behind
Join in with those who understand you, don't deny that you've lost everything
Just lie and listen to those who betray you
Because they won't be there with another line to save you
5. The Greys
Visitors or distant relations
Leaving their mark in cropfields and pictures - they know who we are
They've studied our formation - they are the missing part
Signs of distant life forms a pattern embedded in altering the genetic
If there are true aliens - signs of distant life forms - circles of communication
Surpasses human intellect
Genetic alteration - cropfields in symmetrical form
A magnetic essence - a pattern of communication
Divided world - parallel dimensions
The greys are responsible for the cattle mutilation
Baffled by the surgery - brains removed from the anatomy
The cattle mutilation is reiterated upon the helpless human specimens
Taken from its surroundings into a world too large to conceive
Trapped - alone and isolated just like the "lower species" slaughtered for industry
Abducted and implanted with their seed
Chosen by the greys to strengthen and further the breed
6. Omnipotence
If there was only one mind and soul in this world working as a system
Then the world would be simplistic
If there was only one mind and soul in this world working as a system
Then the world would be simplistic
Thoughts continuously flow into the subconscious mind
Womb of intelligence entertwined - bodies connect to form its shell
A pulsating sphere - a species of life
Feeding on energy, on knowledge and negativity
This presence of lost souls feeds upon humanity
Continuously absorbing energy to further understand our patterns of thought
This separation from the spirit is the constraint of our limited intelligence
United as one instead of degrading or defacing its realm
It builds and progresses and never seems to fail while we in our own world
And our own minds we see - these thoughts and ideas to further greed
Consuming what's natural and devouring what's free
Our offspring is twisted and brought up to believe
To achieve and possess much material things
This is the world that we have created - self destruction - self mutilation
Why are we blind to see ourselves die?
Deliver me from this careless way of life
Causing mass extinction
While these "creators" create machines to cover the earth
Sucking dry beneath the roots
To burn into the atmosphere, to deplete the biosphere
A vision of what will be - or what we will see when there is no energy
7. Return to the Gates of Rebirth
With life brings death - solitude cringes emotions
With time feelings fade dim - but still memories never forgotten
A beckoned fall into an eternal void - envisioned illusion of what waits
Beyond death - true reality lies unexplained
So within my being I've created emotion for those who have undergone the pain of dying
Dismissed into the spiritual world unknown existence awaits your soul
Awaiting in limbo - released into the void
Once withered and decomposing - now you must undergo the test again
Unconscious state of mind, forgotten world left behind for now
A realm of suspicion is awaiting another birth
Swept again into the cycle of life - return to the gates of rebirth
All the concepts you were paralyzed to believe are diminished, a new reality now conceived
Dimensions unfold - enter your new life
To be restored of flesh and life's blood - only to die again
The eyes of a soul unveiled from remembrance - entering a new experience
What will come?
Return to the gates of rebirth
Reincarnation, metamorphosis - the seed is resurrected
8. Epitaph
A sphere of malevolent inhabitants ruled by man
A realm where nothing is sacred, morality is raped
And everywhere you look deception lies
In the eyes of humanity life is for us to succeed
To progress and learn the ways of society
Grow and multiply and teach our offspring the cycles of life in this twisted world as we see it
Learning from generations and generations passed on and on
We've somehow forgotten what's right and what is wrong
And now our teachings constitute only damage to our world
This is so pitiful - defacing and infecting our womb
Our lives are short and blurred in our surroundings of concrete
Constructing more buildings and homes for us all
"United we stand" and united we will fall
Destroy more forests - wipe away our land and hire more men for our future world plans
To confine our earth to "modernization"
The generations are blind to this anthropological infestation
The erosion beneath the newly paved surface will constitute the downfall of our existence
For now - the race continues on