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Xandria
« Kill the Sun »
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1 | Kill the Sun
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| 2 | Mermaids
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| 3 | Ginger
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| 4 | She's Nirvana
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| 5 | Forever Yours
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| 6 | Casablanca
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| 7 | So You Disappear
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| 8 | Wisdom
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| 9 | Isis/Osiris
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| 10 | Calyx Virago |
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Marco Heubaum - vocals, guitar, keys
Lisa Schaphaus-Middelhauve - vocals
Philip Restermeier - guitars
Roland Krueger - Bass
Gerit - drums |
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| 01. Kill The Sun
I am down at the water
My bare feet are numb
And for aeons now nothing seems real
Now it's hard to hold sight
Through your soft eiderdown
But I still got my hands on the wheel
You have set my mind
Between worlds spinning round
I'm a stranger in my universe
But I' s |
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Первые несколько песен производят впечатление, что эти немецкие музыканты «хотели, как Nightwish, а получилось, как Edenbridge.” К середине альбома возникает новая ассоциация – новомодные Evanescence, а под конец начинается полу-альтернатива, полу-готик-метал на стыке Guano Apes и Lacuna Coil. Связующее звено между этими частями – голос вокалистки Лизы, достаточно приятный, хотя и не очень сильный, и общая атмосфера хрупкости и беззащитности светлых чувств в холодном и пугающе огромном мире. Атмосфера эта воссоздана очень реалистично, но диск в целом оставляет впечатление добротной, но неяркой работы. «Evanescence-образная» часть альбома содержит несколько вполне хитовых вещей (“Forever Yours”, “Casablanca”, “So You Disappear”), но все остальное воспринимается, как фон, и, похоже, на большее не претендует. Неплохо для дебюта, но европейская готик-метал-сцена уже настолько перенасыщена меланхоличными группами с романтическим женским вокалом, что солнца (в смысле, Nightwish, The Gathering или Evanescence) Лизе и ее приятелям не то, что убить, но даже и затмить вряд ли удастся. (Диск предоставлен компанией Art Music Group)
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Перед выпуском дебютного полноформатного альбома у Xandria в 2000-м году вышло демо, а в 2001-м - EP с тем же самым названием "Kill the Sun", получившие лестные отзывы критиков. Однако, альбом не подтвердил ожиданий, что на gothic-сцене появится ещё одна сильная группа под стать Tristasnia или Theatre of Tragedy. Коллектив создал что-то больше похожее на Nightwish, только без мужского вокала с большой частью клавишных партий. От начала и до конца альбома слышны слёзные лирические песни, в чем проявилась схожесть с Amartia и Krypteria. Таким образом, взяв от всех понемногу, Xandria никого не удивила. А узкий профиль музыкантов вообще огорчил, настолько банально всё звучало, и чуть слышимые добавления modern и progressive вообще выпали из общего списка. Качество звука также оставляет желать лучшего. Вокал солистки оказался слишком тонок для стиля, выбранного группой, отчего звукооператоры заглушили тяжёлые гитарные риффы.
Так что, альбом не поражает, а слушается, пока не надоедает на 4-5 треке, вот и всё. |
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And I know that it will
Be forever shining on earth
You can rain down on me
But you can't darken the sun
You can cast a spell on the moon
But you can't kill the sun
02. Mermaids
Sigh - for they make you feel alive
Try - it's just one step aside
Fly - over seas of drunken wine
Lie - cause you'll never draw a line
Cry - for they leave you cold and dead
Ride - til the last of suns is set
Don't dive too deep - too deep into the sea
Come and be a child of the blue
We make the azure dream come true
I drift and fall - sapphire spear inside
they come for me and softly close my eyes
Fight - for this is your last chance
Come and be a child of the blue
Leave the past, we make it new
You will always be our child
03. Ginger
Something infests me when i'm alone
It's lunacy
I want to vomit, spit out my life
So queer it seems
Retract your reverence and slander me
I'm the traitor of mine
A close-up picture of my lost chastity
There's nothing left of me anymore
In gloom I wander, it batters me
Though I subsist of it
The smell of incense arouses me
Abeyance maddens me
A ginger sunset is my caress
As I expire
As music's fading I fade within
There's nothing left of me anymore
And no rain can wash away those bloody tears
As sweet sounds of destruction reach my ears
Red lips like roses call my name
But laughter is all the woman of now hears
04. She's Nirvana
Do you dare to taste her soul
Do you like to trick control
Did you think this world was real
Realize this was the deal
She's ether fire - burns away all the dire
You will feel her touch for a while
Do you see her through the waves
Do you think it's her who saves
With a blink of radiant eye
Would you really dare to try?
She's like a fawn - just appears and then gone
What remains will be just this one song
She's eternity behind her disguise
You have almost seen a world in her eyes
But you?ve known that it would never be born
She's flown away like a leaf in a stor
05. Forever Yours
It feels like
Keeping and holding a star in the sky
Born to be born again with you
The days of thunder cry their goodbye
And for the first time I know what to do
I just keep on being one with you
Forever yours, forever yours
I'm here to stay
Cause in your arms, in your arms
I feel so save
Forever yours, forever yours
I'm here to stay
Cause in your arms, in your arms
I feel so save
Loving and fighting the mirror I need
Dearest I'm down on the ground
Waiting to see whereto the storm leads
It's my blood that bleeds from your wounds
Dearest you're all that I need
And when I kiss you
Your lips are the onla food I need
Your fingertips open
Spaces that make me complete
Dearest you're all that I need
Forever…
Loving - fighting
Holding - losing
Giving - taking
Wanting forever you
06. Casablanca
At the temple of black gods I failed again
For you - a chilvarous end for a man
Clandestine enthralling haze
A docile sacrifice for your grace
Resurrect from the ban they put on you
Fall again - you will - what they foreknew
Only gods illuminate
And just a slave to be is my fate
And you will hear me
Siren´s calls of temptation
Teasing you
No limit will be
No taboo of imagination
I´ll fill your void
I will always savour you
As I will always be your fool
07. So You Disappear
I breathe the scent of your hair
Your emerald eyes are closed
There´s still some music in the air
Feels like time no more flows
We sit, you´re in my arms
Watching the first daylight gleam
You say : "I like your warmth"
A voice just in a dream
In chaos waters I do swim
And you´re the stone one´s thrown into
A frail creature now gets dim
As the gold turns into blue
Made me think you were so damn near
Like a bright shining star
But reaching out you disappeared
For real you are so very far
I was dreaming of the wind
I was dreaming like a child
A prince and princess fairy tale
And so you disappear
I was dreaming of the fire
Of the time when it was wild
I was dreaming far too sweet
And so you disappear
08. Wisdom
We scintilate like cedar stones
In plasma veil as ancient ones
In cold war years you were my fears
But just to gain the power to reign
Satan´s blood in our veins
The pigfaced mud will be slain
But no-one dies when blackseas dry
And no-one kill - forever this will
Our wisdom be
09. Isis/Osiris
"I am birth - I am death
I´m an elusive symbol
For eternal come and go
For come and go
I have come – I have gone
I have shown you moira
And her restless re-creation
Your own re-creation"
"Never, no never the day will go down on me
Within knowing him by my side
Sothis, o Sothis, don´t pass me again
Before I know how to heal
Who is shattered by the forces of the night"
10. Calyx Virago
Fading lights I sink into
This other world where only you
Can heal my wounds and make me see
Only here I am free
You are the night with all its charm
Glowing darkness keeps me warm
Take my life - just one caress
Let me be forever yours