(Melodic Death Metal) Blind Stare - 2005 - Symphony Of Delusions - 2005, APE (image + .cue), lossless

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Интересное название у этих фиников – "Слепой пристальный взгляд". Это, наверное, из той же серии, что и "широко закрытые глаза"... Но для нас, собсна, в данном случае, это непринципиально, ибо особо вглядываться тут некуда – надо вслушиваться. А вслушиваться есть во что. Шестеро очень серьёзных молодых людей стартовали на лэйбле с другого конца Европы очень даже неплохим дебютником. Поначалу хотелось обозвать Blind Stare очередным клоном In Flames, etc., но при ближайшем рассмотрении выяснилось, что не всё так просто. Иначе финики не были бы финиками, которых не так-то часто можно обвинить в сплошном плагиате, притом, что музыканты из северной страны не чураются собирать в своей музыке лучшие достижения коллег по сцене. Вот и эти – ничего нового не изобрели, но смешали много-много всего – классический мелодик-дэтовый напор на стыке In Flanmes/Dark Tranquillity/Children Of Bodom, несколько неявный и придушенный скриминг, хоровые викинговые запевы, утробный гроул и чистый вокал – слегка готик-лав-метальный, хэви-металлические гитарные запилы чередующиеся с неосимфоническими клавишными поливами да и пару-тройку сэмплов не обломались суомцы запихать. Полагаю, довольно справедливо будет сравнить Blind Stare с соотечественниками из Divercia – не столько в плане похожести музыки, сколько в плане удобоваримого смешения нескольких стилистик. Разве что, у Слепых чистого экстрима явно побольше... И получилось интересная и разнообразная пластинка, неплохо записанная и спродюсированная, причём без участия близнецов из Финнвокса и Киппо из Astia. Уже оригинально, не так ли? :)))

1. Central Theory
Slowly fading image is projected on the surface of the earth
Resemble of the past falling under the foundations of a new era
What is the achievement of men so great that really makes the difference?
At the scale of the universe we are nothing but bare dust
Nothing more than dust!
Hate is the force that controls human nature
Only the fats that can't be denied are lost
Can't you see that nothing really matters?
Can't you see what you are doing?
The difference between real and what we see
Hope is worth nothing in this pitiful system!
Setting the traps ahead of us wherever we could fall
So every conclusion is built on empty basis!
World is a reflection of contradictions and is just an illusion
The ordinariness of waking up and going to work like programmed inside
Once you look at it all from objective angle you see how it all works
Master the art of channeling your thinking through the unusualchannels
And become the one with understanding, realize it and program them yourself
Hate is the force that controls human nature
Only the fats that can't be denied are lost
Can't you see that nothing really matters?
Can't you see what you are doing?
The difference between real and what we see
Hope is worth nothing in this pitiful system!
Setting the traps ahead of us wherever we could fall
So every conclusion is built on empty basis!
World is a reflection of contradictions and is just an illusion
Slowly fading image is projected on the surface of the earth
Resemble of the past falling under the foundations of a new era
What is the achievement of men so great that really makes the difference?
At the scale of the universe we are nothing but bare dust
2. My Black Letter
Taken my time and gotten only what I'm given
Upon the wall my shadow dim
With my eyes cold as ice in the past I gaze
And sense the rage within
Reflection back burns like hell
I didn't win, so hear my yell
Last in line in the game of life
Betrayed and hollow, it's me who to follow
In sight a despair strong thinking it's all wrong
I shouldn't have let go, no way! – I know
Her eyes I see as I close my mind
Opening my soul for her to bind
The riddler comes to me to ask:
"Do you have to hide behind your mask?"
I am not the same I used to be
And now I feel painfully free
Have to forget all the rain
Just to recall the infernal pain
People change, I know they do
Yet I can't change my point of view
No answer to all questions asked
So pack your bags and finish the task...
(...and die)
Many deeds with no meaning at all
Even so I stand tall
And without a fear I shed no tear
And face what is to come
No more back against the wall
No more roaming the empty hall inside my head
Where all is dead, where shines no light ahead
Out in the distance, for back lies
The essence of life and highest dreams
Behind the point of knowledge
Where the sense of truth so pure and fine
Is cast into the endless time
Taken my time and gotten only what I'm given
Upon the wall my shadow dim
With my eyes cold as ice in the past I gaze
And sense the rage within
Reflection back burns like hell
I didn't win, so hear my yell
Last in line in the game of life
Betrayed and hollow, it's me who to follow
Yet no pitch black letters shall be written
For the future reveals its curtain
I've heard the eager call from down below
But I'll stand tall not letting go!
No pitch black letters...
I'll stand tall...
Not letting go...
Will let go!
3. Ender
Flashbacks from the war
Calm silence before the fight
Snowy road covered in blood
Suicide by my side
You are my ender
Cause for my agony
You are my ender
I can not take it anymore!
Never ending everlasting torture of your soul
Just one look through my eyes should be enough for you
Old man looking out from the window
Tired face watching the sunset
Still holding the quill in his hands
He knows the story must be finished
Hearing echoes from the eternity
Still fighting only the enemy differs
Once a soldier so great now afraid of death
One great enemy of men
Forgotten and buried deep those words will be
Time takes it's own, guaranty's freedom
The last fight is to take place at the frontiers of human mind!
Never ending everlasting torture of your soul
Just one look through my eyes should be enough for you
Old man looking out from the window
Tired face watching the sunset
Still holding the quill in his hands
He knows the story must be finished
Weak fire burning on
And the last chapter is soon ready
But the quill drops from his hands
And the story remains unwritten forever
You are my ender
Cause for my agony
You are my ender
I can not take it anymore!
4. An Insane's Diary Pt. II
Finally I can see it all so clear
The lies and contorted reality
It took so long to realize it
But now I am free from their chains
I know I'm all alone
But I don't care
What is the difference
Between a genius and an insane?
I am a reborn genius
One that has waken
The correction in the world's balance
Because I see it all now
I've lost these many years
The lost one who's shed too many tears
Must recall revelation in the dark
For past and future, for all under my mark
I've been drowned, I've been crowned
I've been dead and yet so blind
I have reached the end of my path
The knowledge, the wisdom behind my wrath!
I thought it was all right then
But now I'll put an end to it
They knew that one day I'll find out
There's no way to make it undone
I know I'm all alone
But I don't care
What is the difference
Between a genius and an insane?
I am a reborn genius
One that has waken
The correction in the world's balance
Because I see it all now
5. The Silent Song
Everytime I wake up you're beside me
Every moment I feel you in my arms
But as soon as I open my eyes
You are gone like a frail dust in the wind
Again!
I walk in the bottomless flood and drown
Drown in the sea of emptiness
Just a word and the last sign of life
Turns into ashes within my hands
This is the silent song of the dead!
Hear the violins play now... And fall!
Everytime I wake up I see you there
Every moment I look out of the window
Your smile I see, behind the mask
But soon the image disappears and
I'm alone again
I'm alone again!
I walk in the bottomless flood and drown
Drown in the sea of emptiness
Just a word and the last sign of life
Turns into ashes within my hands
When the winds are gathered in one place
When the darkness spreads and no one stands
I am the fragment of an illusion in the silent room
And I am the lost page of the book that the old man
Never could complete
I walk in the bottomless flood and drown
Drown in the sea of emptiness
Just a word and the last sign of life
Turns into ashes within my hands
6. All For The Unspoken
The autumn leaves falling again
Through the eyes of a bird is this scenery seen
How the beauty turns into darkness
And how everything is lost, once again!
Years have passed since someone grew the flowers
Bare hate and madness are left, everything stays still
The place was designed for this
Once it was dwelling for a success
But now is a grave for a story such a sad to tell
She waited for him at the doorway so anxious
She loved him so deeply that she couldn't see
Finally he came and looked right into her eyes
And fired his gun straight into her heart
So crash the dreams of a young one
This life was gone to never return
She started into his eyes at the moment of her death
And that's the sight to haunt him forever
Deepness and darkness are lost in this coldness of hatred
Dream of the loved one has turned into a dream to last for eternity
Cold blooded murder and waste of a life was the only way
The time stood still and the silence covered the fire
Into the sleep of the darkness eternal her eyes are now closed
And she sleeps in a silence so cold!
That is the way for a someone
Who doesn't know the game he is in
Straight through the eyes of a bird is this seen
And soon falls the snow covering the memories!
The justice is just how it is seen
And the concept is good for nothing but to fade away
Into the sleep of the darkness eternal her eyes are now closed
And she sleeps in a silence so cold!
That is the way for a someone
Who doesn't know the game he is in
Straight through the eyes of a bird is this seen
And soon falls the snow covering the memories!
The justice is just how it is seen
And the concept is good for nothing but to fade away
7. Shotgun Symphony
It all begins from this point and it's the point for all this to end
Every story has got an ending, but his is the one
That keeps going without it
I've been haunted by the impossible
And blinded by my own eyes
This is the end of me!
I pull the trigger to escape
I have followed the path and walked through the door
I have hated you so much, but now I know
It would be pointless forevermore
Countless nights spent on just pacing under the streetlights
This is the part of the play where the hero is sentenced to death
This is called my reality and it is just my dream
The hate so pure is the life of me and it is what I am
Every step towards you takes me towards to my end
The truth is now revealed and I am standing at the edge
I've been haunted by the impossible
And blinded by my own eyes
This is the end of me!
I pull the trigger to escape
Waking up every morning is like entering a dream
Sadness is just the gate to my own realm
Walking forward is no longer an option
I am no longer part of this world
This is called my reality and it is just my dream
The hate so pure is the life of me and it is what I am
Every step towards you takes me towards to my end
The truth is now revealed and I am standing at the edge
No difference has been found!
No difference that I made!
8. Words Of Truth
Realize the very truth that compromises all we know, all we care
And though the shadows are everywhere
I have come to greater understanding of all the aspects of life
You see, my friend, the universe is sentient, aware, alive
It's all so simple that way
To live again just another day
But we possess something that can't be found
The one and only truth in which they all will be drowned!
The revolution of our kind is the center of the progression
Infiltrate the core system and poison its heart
Claim the kingdom of a thousand stars just for yourself
Use all the means to make the world yours again!
The revolution of our kind is the center of the progression
Infiltrate the core system and poison its heart
We see into the forthcoming day
Our minds are open wide (Eyes open wide)
And they can't force us, regardless of pain
To be like them... again!
All these hours were there waiting for you
But the time was running years ahead of you
There's no sign for salvation in the end
There is no gate to let you in
This is the beginning of a new day
So claim the time and lead the way
Heavenly light that now shines ahead
Is the proof of the new beginning and the end
9. Thornhearts
There nothing for you here
Follow your people and leave these lands
The hope has forsaken this place
The ship is waiting for you
Please take my word
Our time here is at its end
I have no light or darkness left in my eyes anymore
To see the future, I'm at the edge of falling
Your glory once so great is now gone forever
And your death is near
Once I was the king of all men
Now my spirit has weakened and will soon fade away
My sire, your name will always be at the hearts of your people
Leave now, there's still time for you!
Forget your consort, it's time to go!
Silence has surrounded me everything that can be seen
And only the forthcoming shadows
Darkness have been fallen upon these lands
And the cold wind blows away
The last leaves from the trees
I have no light or darkness left in my eyes anymore
To see the future, I'm at the edge of falling
Your glory once so great is now gone forever
And your death is near
Once I was the king of all men
Now my spirit has weakened and will soon fade away
My sire, your name will always be at the hearts of your people
You are the only one left anymore
All the others are gone
Abandoned cities and sinister landscape
Is your kingdom now
Silence has surrounded me everything that can be seen
And only the forthcoming shadows
Darkness have been fallen upon these lands
And the cold wind blows away
The last leaves from the trees
10. Statues And The Worldends
From time to time I feel the same again
The sorrow and the hate for this world
Thousands of sleepless nights in the endless rain
Many days just thinking all these lies
And all this hatred in me
Many days just thinking all these lies
And I am nothing but a lie
The only thing that can kill me
Is the exception in this program "life"
Far beyond the light I am
I'm running as fast as I can
But the world slowly fades away
And so do I!
The reason is the blade of mine
The answer is the fear of time
The only thing that can kill me
Is the exception in this program "life"
Is this what we have been searching for?
Is this all what we have been waiting for?
This is only a joke, nothing else this can not be
All the people and the time and the ordinary life is what we see
How can they be so stupid they can not see?
What the fuck have I done so evil that I'm born here, free?
So I'm born here at the feet of this monster statue
The fear of truth is so hard that they refuse from it
And my personal worldend...
It doesn't mean just death
And my last words for the mankind
Are vanished with the world itself

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* Anders Öström – гитара
* Jaakko Lehtinen – гитара
* Kalle Lahti – бас
* Timo Palokankare – ударные
* Eino Tuominen – вокал
* Zacharias E. Aarnio – клавишные
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