 |
 Опять Vader, опять ЕР… Выпустив в 2000 г. “Litany”, поляки поняли, что достигли предела брутальности в своём творчестве. Развиваться, следуя заветам Пьера де Кубертена, т.е. “Быстрее, выше, сильнее!”, стало, в принципе, некуда. Vader доказали всем, что могут, используя достаточно скудный музыкальный инструментарий, выдавать сногсшибательные во всех смыслах работы. Поскольку почивать на лаврах всегда было не характере Петра сотоварищи, было решено обозначить вектор последующего развития данным мини-альбомом. Так “Reign Forever World” увидел свет.
Новые на тот момент песни (они идут в самом начале диска) демонстрировали отход от сокрушительной мощи “Litany”. Гитары стали немного пожиже, если можно так сказать, бас-бочки ещё тогда живого Доцента больше не утюжат черепную коробку и не распрямляют извилины слушателя. Вокал дяди Пети вывели несколько вперёд, что пошло ему только на пользу и добавило мощи и убедительности. Сама же музыка Vader, в целом, стала несколько более среднетемповой и размеренной, но озверелая “Privilege Of The Gods” отлично смотрелась бы на альбоме 2000 г. Затем поляки решили порадовать поклонников каверами. Про “Total Disaster” (Destruction) и “Rapid Fire” (Judas Priest) говорить особо нечего, а вот “Freezing Moon” авторства культовых норвежских смутьянов Mayhem получилась действительно монументальной – натуральная погребальная песнь. Кроме шуток, кавер на Mayhem – настоящая изюминка “Reign Forever World”. После каверов на диске присутствует парочка живых треков, записанных во время выступления группы на фестивале “Thrash’em All” в Ольштыне летом 2000 г. И завершают мини-альбом бонусы с японского издания “Litany”: минутная инструменталка “Red Dunes” и “Lord Of Desert” – просто очередная песня Vader.
Как говорится: “С миру по нитке – голому рубаха”. Таким вот нехитрым способом ушлые польские паны выпустили более-менее самодостаточный диск. Кто-то против? |
 |
Left hand vested in the symbol of Mars
Right hand vested in the symbol of Sun
Standing proud
We raise foreheads adorned with the symbol of Jupiter
The end of the Nazarene has come...
We evoke dominion
We bring this world to its knees
Dominating, masterful, self-assured
Invoking our wishes
Whirling in chaos
With yellow red and blue
We as chaos...
We evoke dominion
We as chaos assume control!
We as chaos, we rule our lives
We bring this world to its knees
2. Frozen Paths
[Music: Piotr Wiwczarek, Lyric: Lukasz Szurminski]
I am soaring
Among the endless mountains
Grim winter, crystal sight
Place forgotten by the gods
Unknown for me
Towers, bridges, structures
Mirage conjured in rock
Mirage conjured in ice.
Dark shadow blights
Paths rambling to the sky
Everything laid in frost
Winds of loneliness and despair
Is all I heard here?
Abyss haunted by Demons
Whirling picture of the old race
Bestial landscapes
Sound of imminent decay
Amorphous creatures
From time before time
The sun is glimmering
Caves dwelled during chaos time
Dangerous screams and whispers
The signs of the upcoming fate
The frozen ones...but alive
3. Privilege Of The Gods
[Music: Piotr Wiwczarek, Lyric: Lukasz Szurminski]
"Our world is sick, our world is dying. All brave, honourable and dedicated
to themselves men are the past now...but the flame of a wanderer,
a seeker, a creator is till burning in a few hearts.
This is our and hope of all mankind".
Enraged demons, chaos in my soul
Destruction, cauldron of thoughts
I embrace eternal cycle
In an endless struggle
I snap all the enemies
Ripping asunder their souls
Courage, gift of the ancestors
And privilege of gods
Powerful, creative, joyous and free !!!
Lucifer rising up to the sky
The bearer of light
Ea - Lord of the Deep
Who gives wisdom and might
Odin, the sage of the tree of life
One-eyed god
Symbols of sacred heritage
From our past
I am shedding skin like a snake
I am slithering through the Abyss
Mind charred by invincibility
Lycanthropic instinct
Berserker's soul
Expanding kingdom of self-realisation
I desolate the world of morality
Rise up the banner of hate
And leave the followers of Christ
Obdurate for moans
Of the crucified ones
Smash the face of God
4. Total Desaster
[Music & Lyric: Destruction]
I was born in a dark winter night
Thunder and lightning greeted me
Now it's time to begin to fight
Kingdom of heaven; I can't see...
My home is the bloody Hell
The place where Satan rules
The world is now like a big shell
The fire of hell will destruct you fools
I can never trust the virgin preacher
I don't believe in Jesus Christ
It's all right cuz' Satan is my teacher
Hidden them when we arise
I command and you get down on your knees
We sacrifice infancy on Satan's order
Come taste blood, our living grease
Headless bodies found, one is your daughter...
5. Rapid Fire
[Music & Lyric: Judas Priest]
Pounding the world
Like a battering ram
Forging the furnace
For the final grand slam
Chopping away at the source
Soon the course will be done
Leaving a trail of destruction
That's second to none
Hammering anvils
Screaming muscle and might
Shattering blows
Crashing brow beating fight
Fast devastating and
Desolating the curse
Blasting the cannons of
Truth through each man
Of this earth
Wielding the axe
Comes the one culmination
That's always seemed
Certain to bring down
The curtain on greed
Sifting the good from the bad
It's the age for the rage for the
Dogs which must fall to the just
And be free
Now grate for the vandals
Who trampled and sampled
Till this place's conditioned
Brought forth demolition to war
The slipping and sliding
Corrosive subsiding
That withered and vained
Till the world seemed all drained
Fills the bay
6. Freezing Moon
[Music & Lyric: Mayhem]
Everything here is so old
Everything here is so dark
I remember it as from a dream
The corner at this time
Diabolical shapes floats by
Out from the dark
I remember it was here I died
By following freezing moon
It's night again
Night, You beautiful
I'll please my hunger of living humans
Night of hunger
Follow it's call
Follow the freezing moon
Darkness is growing
The eternity opens the cemetery lights up again
As in ancient times fallen souls
Die behind my steps
By following the freezing moon
7. Creatures Of Light And Darkness (Live)
[Music: Piotr Wiwczarek, Lyric: Pawel Frelik]
A man chosen to trace down a god
In the world between two houses
The cycle unwinds so slowly
The middle worlds laid to waste
The things that cries in the night
Defeated by the prince who was a thousand
All gods could not withhold the nameless
The terror that lurks outside
Creatures of light and darkness
Are born in great numbers
Creatures of light and darkness
May die and rise again
For the want of control
They can set all worlds afire
The hammer that smashes suns
Its work cannot be undone
Horus hermes trismagistos
The calls of the universal panthenon
Realities fold and submerge
When gods combat against their own blood
On my lips the name of the god
Whose face no one remembers
Eternal feud of those of the unlight
Set the destroyer, the lord of chaos stomps down
Creatures of light and darkness
Are born in great numbers
Creatures of light and darkness
May die and rise again
They're creatures of light and darkness
They're creatures of light and darkness
They're creatures of light and darkness
They'll die but shall rise again
8. Carnal (Live)
[Music: Piotr Wiwczarek, Lyric: Pawel Wasilewski]
I tasted the fever of Your existence
Seems like cold grain to my mouth
I stand aside, I stay away
Transmuting my quicksilver blood
KIA - that I may see
ZOS - that I may touch
Insipid are the describing words
The self needs no vulgar praise
This worship has no supplications
My rite is to live and do
Things naked, pure, of honest lust
The throbbing vortex feeds on it all
Sleep is the best of possible prayers
The winged eyes are blessed to see
Downtrodden deception of every torment
Transpierced hymens my lust adores
Many images yet one raw flesh
Animal steps I love to tread
An ideal point where Time is Space
Memory giant sores this journey must heal
Lady of Mourning and her monsters
Lay down the scythes for here I come
Joyful and priapic my baby soul
A new-born one, ten million years old
9. Red Dunes
[Musik: Piotr Wiwczarek]
[taken from "Litany" album - Japan version]
[Instrumental]
10. Lord Of Desert
[Music: Piotr Wiwczarek, Lyric: Pawel Frelik]
[taken from "Litany" album - Japan version]
"Set is perhaps the most mysterious god of the ancient Egyptian pantheon:
a lord of contradictions and conflicts,
a god at once saving the world and rejected as a traitor,
an incarnation of "Other" which, unlike all remaining Egyptian deities,
was not even given a recognisable animal face".
The red dunes are my home
Far away from the black Earth
I have to wait for the barbarians
To come and worship me again
Nightly I save you all from the serpent
Which stalks the world with no end
But you still kill me and castrate
Turning me into my victim
I am trampled by those whom I save
Despised down and up the river
The double slayer, the isolator
Set, the lord of desert, is me
Riding the storms of sand so alien I am
You can't even give me the head
There would be no life and rebirth
Without my fratricide and fight with the bird
Yet, you break my statues
And spear them for a sign
Of ungodly displacement
And banishment to the edge of the night
I am trampled by those whom I save
Despised down and up the river
The double slayer, the isolator
Set, the lord of desert, is me