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"All the uniforms are shit
All the ideals are shit
Love and this nation have forced us
In a chain of sperm and blood"
Пожалуй на этой цитате можно было бы хоть закончить эту рецензию: ничто не может описать лучше творчество этих итальянских нигилистов. Однако же, как подобает рецензии - стоит разобрать их по полочкам.
И что же тут может услышать слушатель? Приятные акустические мелодии, которые, правда, в целом ощутимо далеки от традиционных dark folk'овых и neofolk'овых пассажей - они весьма позитивны и щедро сдобрены скрипкой, виолончелью и даже может быть еще какими-то струнными (приглашенных музыкантов на этом альбоме около десяти), и в целом создают атмосферу то кабаре, то этакого упадочного Лас-Вегаса, а в частности его знаменитых казино. На вокале можно даже остановиться отдельно - знающие люди смогут провести ассоциации с небезизвестным Nick'ом Cave'ом, и на мой взгляд при пении в похожей манере Hellvis никак не уступает легенде.
Теперь пару слов о лирике. В большинстве своем тексты повествуют о любви к женщинам - без приторности поп-музыки, без извращенности грайндкора, и без продажности глэма. О любви, как о силе, правящей миром, как хозяева правят своими рабами, которая способна заставить сделать все что угодно против своей воли. Ну и второй по значимости темой является нигилизм, неприятие человека ко всему, периодически даже с ненавистью.
Теперь конкретно о материале - а материал состоит из одних хитов! Мрачные "I Walk the (Dead)line", "Jesus Died in Las Vegas"; достаточно жизнеутверждающие "Slave", "Love Through Vaseline", "The Shining Circle"... Да что уж там выделять, лично я вообще не нашел среди всего материала проходных композиций.
Я бы порекомендовал этот альбом всем - своей энергетикой и атмосферой он никого не оставит равнодушным, но на мой взгляд, с него наиболее целесообразно начинать знакомиться с жанром, так же, как начинал с ним знакомиться и я.
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You have to abuse me
'Cause I could have been so
And I was never able to
You have to abuse my sex
And tight your slipknot around my white neck
I'm a slave to the mother of all pigs and to the father of all my oppressions
To the will that erases my regrets and to my childhood and my hidden fears
I'm a slave to the light that gives a face to my weakness and to my fallen reign
I'm slave to the salt and the wind that will burn my wheat and my leprosy
02. A Bastard Angel
It's embarrassing to see you wave that flag when you try to give yourself a navigated tone
You fix your damp collar a wring of blood to your dick
You'd like it but it will not work
You try to make me feel guilty for never never having had
An identity, a defined and conformed middle class sexuality
All the uniforms are shit
All the ideals are shit
Love and this nation have forced us
In a chain of sperm and blood
A bastard angel will take me away from the fat tummy of God
He will be the precise sniper that will center my weak chest
A bastard angel will lick my wound while your hand will leave me
While your hand will leave me bleeding on the floor
Walk around my smashed skull; walk around my disabled strength
I don't want to die so I can see you your flesh crumble, your chest open
The right road's the lie of intellectual and criminals; love won't give life to
The children we've never had; love won't give life to this job that will bury us
Dissidents, passionate lovers, and combed proud soldiers
Don't ask me more questions because I have no memory because I never will
03. I Walk The (Dead)line
Through your body I’ll discover the drug
That will mortify my existence
Through the suffocation I implore
That blasphemy named liberty
I’m your kind, idiot, lover
And the cruel blind selfish tyrant
You dominate me with your luxury
You bow my revenge with your annoying love
I’m walking on the deadline
The one of our sacrifice!
The sacrifice of emptiness and greed
I’m walking on the deadline
The one of our sacrifice!
The sacrifice of thorns and sperm and vice
I owe you something my entire life
My wounded wet body, my useless charity
Among the illusions I’ll be the eternal one
Among the destroyers I’ll be the time
I owe you something for not been anything
For having been your sperm and money
Sign this deadline on my body
While I suck the nectar of the end
I’m walking on the deadline
The one of our sacrifice!
The sacrifice of emptiness and greed
I’m walking on the deadline
The one of our sacrifice!
The sacrifice of thorns and sperm and vice …
04. The Shining Circle
God will let me torn to pieces
By his faithful dogs
He will raise my will to the ground
My bones are mud where you will curve
The severe sign of your command
I betrayed my ungrateful nation
I betrayed my only friend
I stepped on that white light on your forehead
I nourished opium with my courage
We are bound by the same drug
We are crucified on the same deformed sacred ambition
In this circle I will close my name
In this circle I will force this love
In this circle I will clean your infection from faith
My death won't be more glorious than your
No one ever will my defeated swallowed
The bitter seed and dark profile of your perfection
What's the name of my saviour?
My knees will trumble while
I enter the kingdom of heaven
While I scatter my head with shit and justice
While you will substitute my first fear with the dogma
The road to devotion is the lobotomy of faith
In this circle I will close my name
In this circle I will force this love
In this circle I will clean your infection from faith
05. My Kingdom For A Horse
Give me the sharpest blade
So I can gratify my heart and my flesh
I forced you to love me
I forced you to believe me
A certain lover
you hide a silver knot among my rags
And an endless road for this exanimate man
I don't want servants
no strong legionaries
Take my first born
My most precious jewels
My wisest advice
I could give you my head and my strongest weapons
But may I grant the ever worst will of mine
Just for this filthy Instant
I want it now
My kingdom for a horse my love
My kingdom for your last breath
This the last will of a man
Who lost freedom and power
My kingdom for a horse my love
My kingdom for your last breath
This is the last will of a blind man
Who fought the most cruel god
I should know the streets I'm walking On
or the ones I never walked
I would want to obey your orders for once
I'll the be the wicked one
When you'll ask for pity
I'll be the most ridiculous clown
When you will ask me for justice
Ask me how I can let my kingdom sink For a moment
for a moment in your smell
There's a man who tells his story
And I should tell you mine
I should feel ashamed for not having ever done It
I should lay down and flatten out the vague borders
And the doubts of my useless life
I'm too old for being doubtful
06. Jesus Died In Las Vegas
Do you think you'd love him
All the same?
Even if he'd lose everything faith
Too you gave your blood
and the rest of
That ridiculous crown of all
Your rags for just one dollar.
You will ask men to follow you
And serve you to leave their lands
And their fathers who will love you
But cheaters and whores
Maybe they will follow you at the same
But they will wait for a reward
Richer than your word.
Jesus died in Las Vegas
And here the lights have
the taste of his blood pain and regret.
Jesus died in Las Vegas
And he died with the arrogance
Of who feels loved and betrayed
In a dim motel you betrayed your friends
And married a bitch for few dollars
A cigar one day wedding three nails
Are enough to be part of history
if one accepts it an one believes in
it someone will follow him
And abandon flags and kings
With sandals or a cadillac,
You will have his place
But they will forget you
And you don't know
How easy is to substitute a god.
Jesus died in Las Vegas
And here the lights have
the taste of his blood pain and regret.
Jesus died in Las Vegas
And he died with the arrogance
Of who feels loved and betrayed
Nothing is more contagious than sin.
07. Cruisin'
Be cruel with me and show me the strenght
And the perfection of authority
Don't let my heart become a victim
A victim and the executioner have the same perfect
role
One inside the other
One on top of the other
The beast engraves his seal into my flesh
The angel stabs my chest with his golden arrows
I'm crawling on these streets until
You abuse my exhausted body
'til you make a sacrifice upon these violeted doors
Your ivory seed enlivens our final carnal fight
And the conquest of this throne made of flesh and
fascination
I'm slowly cruising until
your worst last desire bends my back
Wait for the storm to submit my proud filthy love
I'm slowly cruising until
your worst last desire bends my back
Wait because the best memories die fast
Without any word be clear
without your breathing skimming my neck
I know your dagger and I will follow it
No kiss of fire for who betrayed my adonis
and I will throw myself To your feet
You're playin' dices my virginity
will this be the way of expiation
And the reward of my only god
I'm crawling on these streets until
You abuse my exhausted body
'til you make a sacrifice upon these violeted doors
Your ivory seed enlivens our final carnal fight
And the conquest of this throne made of flesh and
fascination
I'm slowly cruising until
your worst last desire bends my back
Wait for the storm to submit my proud filthy love
I'm slowly cruising until
your worst last desire bends my back
Wait because the best memories die fast
08. Love Through Vaseline
Pretend to love my
Imperfection at least for a minute
Infect my dreams with your taste
You know how to enter in me
You know how to softly torture
You know how to torture my innocence
There's a falling bridge
Between my heart and your
Upside down world
Let your saliva drip
Which I hold you tight
If only I had the capacity
To reject my love
The crazy, the soldier,
The weak and the heroes love
But not us my love
Your saliva runs slowly
Runs down on my body
I'll need a cruel master
Who will save my vicious soul
But a master I will hate
Or that maybe will save me
But I'll hate him save me...
Come on, come on...
Inside me because this way
You will save me
For a moment forget you love me
Push yourself
Push inside me
because this way
You will save me
For a moment forget you love me
Push yourself
I'm so disgusted by the victories
I never conquered
I feel sorry for the defeats
I am roughly headin' to
Love me all the same
When i'll sing to you
'bout 'vaseline and lead
Look at me all the same when
I'll be jester of violence and pity
09. Ragged Bed
You should let me rot
In this smelly ragged bed
It's not my will that I want back
I will count my father thousand steps
I will count my mother thousand lies
The marches of people fighting
The tragedies of emperors without crowns
I will never ask myself again
What's the meaning of believing in myself
Is there a reason to remain besides
My stray ideals of purification
Let me rot in this bed of crimes and sweat
Save from my empty nights of alcohol
And everytime your hands
Grasp my neck I feel saved like
Like the christ
Is this your courage?
Is this the courage?
How true is the luck of dyin'
Without changin'?
I know how useless is to ask you to spare me now
I know how useless is to believe in the bold
Fascination of my sexuality
But what nails inside?
Is the ecstasy of your lifeless body
The decadent shine of your lust
I ignore the sense of perfection
The end is between our lips
While we deny love Its coronation
I want to embrace you
And forget the condamnetion that god inflicted us
Have I ever been free
And everytime your hands
Grasp my neck I feel saved like
Like the christ
Is this your courage?
Is this the courage?
How true is the luck of dyin'
Without changin'?
10. No Kisses On The Mouth
There are no streets for my heart
Nor voices can make my naked body shiver
But I need (a need) a slave
Who will stab me and a faithful dog
That will devour my body
Love me while I confided you my intentions
'Cos you know I will fail
Love my childish purity
'Cos you know I'd lick every sin your flesh
The limit of love is that
Of needin' always an accomplice
I've lil' in my pocket just some sand and some stupid truth
But enough to redeem your lack of style
And your vague sense of duty
My certainty falls while your saliva tastes like my sex
My tongue furrows your seals
While the night whispers our end
The limit of love is that
Of Needin' always an accomplice
11. Redemption Or Myself
I wrote in my ehxausted body
the comedy of redemption and lies
I role that I played so well...
That of the loser and fake
No mothers talked to me Kindly
No priest gave me consolation
What can your love offer to me?
What can my virtue give to me?
But no one paid me back
No one gave me my life back
How can continue my comedy
Without seein'me bleed on it
Adore the viles that adore us
Implore the gods that implore us
There isn't a hell without
Its own equilibrium
And a opera that doesn't kill his actor
But no one paid me back
No one gave me my life back
You deprived me of my conscience
And the word that will be action
And of the infinite sleep that will
Drag me through these seas
But I will run along these banks
That you traced for me
But no one paid me back
No one gave my life back