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Итак, дебютная работа группы Angel Witch. Это типичный незамысловатый английский хэви-метал начала 80-х, но все же в группе есть какая-то изюминка, что и выделяет ее из массы других коллективов, играющих в этом же жанре. Группа была незаслуженно забыта, хотя они внесли свой вклад в основание движения под названием NWOBHM. Дебютная работа ребят считается одним из самых значимых релизов в этом жанре, и неспроста. Альбом полон энергии и буквально пропитан духом 80-х. Никто из участников на то время толком играть не умел, но это не помешало им создать классический хэви-металлический альбом. На пластинке присутствуют как бодрые боевички вроде хитовой одноименной песни "Angel Witch" и красивые баллады в духе "Free Man", так и простые среднетемповые композиции типа "Confused". Проходных песен на альбоме нет. Все слушается на одном дыхании и оставляет только положительные эмоции. Единственное, что может испортить впечатление об этом альбоме, так это качество звука. Альбом проходил ремастеринг аж 4 раза, но, как видно, это не сильно помогло улучшить качество звука, вместо этого добавлялось все больше и больше бонус-композиций (к примеру, на переиздании 2010 года количество песен увеличилось с 10 до 30). Но это не сильно портит мнение об альбоме, так как материал просто замечателен. Следующие альбомы группы ничем не примечательны в связи с постоянной сменой состава, но данному релизу я поставлю заслуженную десятку. |
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The more love I feel for you, the more you fade away
Why can't you come and love me, do I have to stay this way
I'm going to go insane if nothing happens soon
I look out at the night to see your shadow by the moon
You're an angel witch, you're angel witch
You're an angel witch, you're angel witch
Walk through the forest I can feel that you're there
Why do you run away?
I'd never hurt you, I'd never hurt you
That's the last thing I'd do
You're an angel witch, you're an angel witch
You're an angel witch, you're an angel witch
2. Atlantis
There'll be no tomorrow if the final curtain falls,
As a volcano erupts everything crushes to the ground,
No one can hope, unsafeness panic blocks their roads and their paths,
Apocalypse is happening and nobody stands a chance
It's falling, it's falling
The final bell is tolling
The world is at its end
To wait for Atlantis to rise
Atlantis to rise, Atlantis to rise
An empire underwater to rise up from its ocean grave,
Through all this planet, witness kings who'll overpower any god
And we can't stop this power as it will invalid men's creations,
The perfect race, the perfect world to rise from the oceans depths
It's falling, it's falling
The final bell is tolling
The world is at its end
To wait for Atlantis to rise
Atlantis to rise, Atlantis to rise
There'll be no tomorrow
If the land slices from the sea
As an earthquake begins
Nothing and no one will survive
Everything will be destroyed
Nothing will be left to the fire
As evolution begin to gain
Earth will turn to fire
It's falling, it's falling
The final bell is tolling
The world is at its end
To wait for Atlantis to rise, Atlantis to rise
3. White Witch
[K. Heybourne]
In the middle of last night she went out to get her revenge
On the black witches they tried to kill her
They tried to sacrifice and burn her soul in flames
Some unknown force came and freed her
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
Death bears a sickly smile. Will the fools ever learn
They still smile when their own death is near
She has got more power than you will ever know
They tried to harm but it's too late
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
Standing by your shadow
You're eyes are full of tears
You cannot seem to unwind yourself
You have killed death and fear
Forever and ever we are free
Together forever for eternity
She died early this morning from the spells of the dead
Death had its own way and won
Now she can rest in peace and sleep inside her grave
She cannot be harmed anymore
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
4. Confused
I stand looking for a friend,
Someone I can rely on,
All the people laugh at me,
I hide in my room,
They don't understand me,
Think that I have gone insane,
These four walls are closing on me,
Can't they realize my pain
Confused, confused, confused
Can't you see that I'm confused
The wild state of affairs gets worse and worse day by day,
Everybody seems to be confused,
No one ever knows the way
But still life carries on,
And you live a day and you just wait,
You only get one chance, don't let it just slip away
Confused, confused, confused
Can't you see that I'm confused
5. Sorceress
[K. Heybourne]
As I walk alone I can feel you there
People said to me
That you've got long black hair
You are the sorceress
I've seen your castle
Oh take me there
And hold your wand up high
A star of spectrum
A rainbow sky
Dancing around your grave
I'm glad you're gone
Can your soul be saved
Go back to where you belong
You walk through the mountain side
Mysterious powers go passing by
A storm is coming near
A soft warm breeze blows through the trees
You're dead!
6. Gorgon
[K. Heybourne]
Can you hear the voice
Of a thousand years ago
The laughter of the gorgon
A female that brings doom
Don't look her in the eyes
Or you'll turn to stone
Don't let her deceive you
If you sense her don't look 'round
Or you'll find that she will lead you
And you'll be buried in the ground
You may gaze at her reflection
In still waters of the lake
But don't look at her directly
Or death will be your fate
Beware of her at all times
Her serpents of hypnosis
More evil than the devil
Can kill you with her eyes
You have to get rid of her
The only way I know
Creep up behind with an axe
And decapitate with one blow
I can see you're all confused
And you feel you're being used
And now your heart is broken
So I watched as he set out
And without a doubt
He did as I advised him
You could hear the breaking of her bones
As the axe went through her neck
Didn't realise at the time
That he killed the one that he loved
7. Sweet Danger
On the fifth storey block you can't seem to keep away from the edge,
When you're getting pushed off you're thinking this is gonna be the end,
You keep on falling, keep on falling till you awake
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Trying to get away from, something drives you out wherever you go,
The harder you try the more your legs don't want to know,
Please wake up, please wake up, you'll have an attack
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Sweet danger, sweet danger
When you're there nightly and you ought to know the end of the scene,
You got to get up somehow, till you realise it's only a dream,
Please wake up, please wake up, it's only a dream
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Sweet danger, sweet danger
8. Free Man
I've been locked away for all these years
Now I can see the light of day
Things have changed a lot since I was last out here
I guess that's the way things, way things go
Now I'm a freeman again
I don't give a damn what happens in there
Now I'm through, what a life
Because now I'm a freeman
As I look around I couldn't remember my old home
Now there's a tower block in its way
I remember all my friends and my wife
They don't want to know me anymore
They wouldn't listen, they didn't understand
They accused me of crime I didn't commit
It was some other guy, but it wasn't me
They wouldn't give in, they wouldn't believe me
But now I'm a freeman again
I couldn't give a damn what happens in there
Now I'm through, what a life
Because now I'm a freeman
9. Angel Of Death
[K. Heybourne]
Angel of death
A faceless evil spirit that haunts
Searching for the soul that he must take
Steed of white he rides through the realms of unknown
He is just a messenger from hell
Scanning the oceans searching for victims to taunt
Looking for those who dare rise him from the grave
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Riding along he cannot find those that he seeks
Yet he knows he is on the right trail
Breaking the circle, not knowing of the danger she's in
He takes her with him through stygian to hell
To hell
Scanning the oceans searching for victims to taunt
Looking for those who dare rise him from the grave
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Suddenly I awake, looking 'round to see where I am
Realise it's been just a crazy dream
I open the door to find that he is waiting there
The angel of death has come to take my soul
My soul
Scanning the oceans searching for victims to taunt
Looking for those who dare rise him from the grave
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
10. Devil's Tower
[Instrumental]
11. Loser
Why can't you understand
We're not out to get you
You say we're cheating,oh but
No one believes you
You fake it to believe yourself
You tell the tale of how I cheat
So well
Loser
Why can't you just accept the facts?
Loser
You only make yourself seem bad
I try to calm you down,
Trying to protect you
But who can help the man
Who will not see the evil?
You try to blame everyone else
You will not see you brought it all
On yourself
Loser
Why can't you just accept the facts?
Loser
You only make yourself seem bad
You try to blame everyone else
You tell the tale of how I cheat
So well
Loser
Why can't you just accept the facts?
Loser
You only make yourself seem bad
12. Suffer
Suffer suffer suffer suffer
You cannot see the reason for your feeling
We've heard it all before
You have to love to overcome the hurting
Fate will take its course
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin' suffer
What do you want to learn those who've hurt you
Can't you see it isn't fair
You know the world everyone's too smoothly
You're just another in despair
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin'
Suffer you have to make a stand
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin'
Suffer you have to make a stand
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin'
Suffer you have to make a stand