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 Любопытно, перебирая совершенно случайные имена, знакомиться иногда с коллективами, которым не хватило самой малости, чтобы стать знаковыми для своего времени. Jumping Jesus, несмотря на не самое многообещающее для дэт-металла немецкое происхождение, относится именно к таким. Ценитель экстремальной музыки не может не изумиться множеству заимствований и влияний, совмещенных на альбоме немцев. При желании на «The Art of Crucifying» можно найти не только отголоски творчества Carcass и Deicide (что необычным, в общем-то, не кажется), но и классики более мелодичных направлений. Хэви-металлические мелодии у Jumping Jesus соседствуют с бластбитом, а истошный визг, хорошо знакомый поклонникам Хэлфорда или Диркшнайдера – с утробным рыком. Еще семиминутный трек «Cloning the Future» звучит словно микс из Carcass’вского «Necroticism» с Iron Maiden, а уже «Rotten Flesh» - почти образец брутального дэт-металла! Вполне возможно, что музыканты просто копировали в меру своих способностей то, что в грайндкоре и металле знали до них, однако ни одного альбома, напоминающего итоговый результат Jumping Jesus, я до сих пор не слышал. Справедливо можно поставить в упрек работе сумбурность, которая в данном случае, увы, такой музыке не к лицу. Да и чрезмерное злоупотребление бластбитом кажется не осмысленным шагом, а скорее данью моде. Однако не стоит забывать, что материал был издан в то время, когда понятия «умная» и «экстремальная» применительно к такой музыке, как правило, означали совершенно разные вещи, а будущие мэтры техничного металла лишь делали первые шаги. Возможно, с позиции сегодняшнего дня материал Jumping Jesus не покажется передовым, однако необычности ему по-прежнему не занимать. Буду субъективен: такая трактовка немецкого death metal мне гораздо ближе и симпатичней, нежели творчество Morgoth или Incubator. |
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I guess his name is death
Are we Energy
Never getting lost
Or is death the end - unknown
Will we truley die
When the reaper will
Take us by the hand - unknown
What wee call existence
No one can explain
Maybe there are levels
Higher than our own
In our final second
Then it will be shown
Death: "you were born
Bound to die
So fulfill your fate
No much time
And you stand
At the final gate
Good or bad
Wise or not
You can always choose
When it's done
I decide
If you win or loose"
Fate: "Out of the unknown
Earthbound you were send
Into the unknown
You will pass again
Who
Where
What
Why
2. Braincramps
Lights are dim today
And I'm sitting, waiting
Padded cells are small
Where memories are fading
No one cares for me
I got my injections
And I feel the pain
But can't show reactions
I'm locked in
For reasons I can't see
Just calmed down
By shock therapy
And they said
That I don't fit in
But one day
I'm sure I'll win
"You are dangerous!"
They said and they grabbed me
Locked me in this cage
Betrayed and backstabbed me
'Cos I live my life
Make my own decisions
Got my points of view
My law and religion
I'm locked in
For reasons I can't see
Just calmed down
By shock therapy
And they said
That I don't fit in
But one day
I'm sure I'll win
Lights are dim today
And I'm sitting, waiting
Padded cells are small
Where memories are fading
No one cares for me
I got my injections
And I feel the pain
But can't show reactions
3. The King Of Worms
Carry me away
Right out of this nightmare
Am I really dreaming
Or maybe on drugs
No don't tell me
Don't tell me it's real... aaaaaarrrrgggghhh!
Disillusioned minds
Revelation bruns
Face this land's decline
Face the king of worms
Conflict is the law
Pressure point of souls
Negative parades
In the social mold
Suffer!
Die!
Dead and dumb and blind
Nothing left to learn
Rotting in our slime
Hail the king of worms
Here is where we dwell
Crawling in disgust
Wrenches in our hell
Suffocate lust
High above the towers
Ugly, fat and mad
Braindead he devours
All the things we had
Curse that damned election
When he took the throne
And our twilight future
Scares us to the bone
Do we lie destroyed
History's wheel will turn
While we race towards ruin
Fuck you, king of worms!
Do you wanna take the place
Of the chancellor
Of the federal republic of Germany?
Eets
Day by day
Dangerous
Merciless
Out for prey
In our street
4. Cloning The Future
I, I can move, I can chew
Yet I can not see
I can think, IQ 300
And I live in thee
I'm the clone inside your womb
Mommy, how d'ya feel
I will eat my way to light
And you are my meal
You expect my day of birth
Still don't know you'll die
Yet I need you to feed me
With your flesh and mind
We are perfect, we are one
And we're born to reign
Chemical intelligence
Programmed to maintain
We are future, you are past
Your arge is much too weak
We will live in symmetry
I don't know love or hate
I'm emotionless
I don't need law or religion
Don't need sleep or rest
Cold immortal, man-machine
And I'm growing fast
Still your heart keeps pounding, mom
I'll tear it out at last
I'm your child, a parasite
I eat you alive
You are useless like your kind
When I come to life
(The cloning machine speaks)
"Operation genesis processing unstoppable
We'll sppm enter phase four
300 new, indestructable units on the line
Circuits normal, flash green
Order to robot - police
300 female individuals needed for implantation
Emergency level seven
Resistent bodies have to be terminated"
Now I'm born, finally
Mommy you are dead
You fulfilled your duty
Kept me warm and fed
Now I have to leave you
Take my place in line
To renew this planet
Rest in peace, good bye
Embodied technology
This is all I am
Nature's final nemesis
And you all are damned
We will build a new decade
Of no wars, no crime
We're all equal, lookalikes
REproduced each time
You are only blisters
On this planet's face
Human race, your time has come
To let us take your place
So now you're lost in time...
5. Chaingang
Here we are
Stalk the streets
Day by day
Dangerous
Merciless
Out for prey
In our street
We are law
So obey
Take your bucks
Take your wife
No espace
Chaingang
Chaingang
Chaingang
Chaingang
Hello,
Victims
Give us all you've got
We rape
We kill
We don't give a fuck
So watch out
Where you go
What you say
We're the damned
We're the lost
We're decay
We don't care
'Bout your screams
You'll submit
Beg and bow
Or we'll beat
You to shit
Chaingang
Chaingang
Chaingang
Chaingang
Shake with fear
When we're near
You can't hide
Bow or die
Hello,
Victims
Give us all you've got
We rape
We kill
We don't give a fuck
Chaingang
Chaingang
Chaingang
Chaingang
Gangland's law - obey!
6. Burned Offerings
A face the ultra-violence
Humanity's reducted
Feel the global suffering
Religion still misused
A lookalike of god
Mankind still shall be
But tell me why we're punished
By wars and poverty
What kind of god is this
Sending lies and pain
Looking down inactive
While lives go down the drain
Where is the balance?
The balance is lost!
Where are the real aims?
They're not worth the cost!
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
The clerical hypocrites
In every nation
Are selling religion
For mass consumation
They're cloning fanatics
By morals they teach
And don't even doubt
The stuff that they preach
Don't trust the preacher!
Can't be that somehow
God has been replaced
By idols of our inborn greed
That slowly kill our race
Religion just excuses
Our inability
To fill our lives with sense
And responsibility
Where is my brother?
He died in some war!
So god can you tell me
What living is for!
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
Burnt offerings
7. Important Gain
One of us bellows signature
Delivering to the edge
The tribute must be paid
We're damned now, it's too late
Cracked ways of hell's degrees
Shall we return
Back to start it
As long as it is visible
Faith is lost, facetted puzzle
Faint fact, false name
Coldness arises, blood freezes
Where we are, pretence of the flair
Senile thoughts, listen the dirge
Disclosed intention
Hazy words cover reality
Misapplication of strength
Faith is lost, facetted puzzle
Faint fact, false name
Coldness arises, blood freezes
Where we are, pretence of the flair
Opinions split, the responsible ones revel
We must conquer the top
To prevent our downfall
Is this the sence of this game?
Compromise are found, victims are loches out
Real pact
Not the slightest chance
To undermine the important gain selfconsciousness
Denying the way to yourself
8. Rotten Flesh
Sitting between painted lines
And you hum spells from long ago
Summoning demons from beyond
To ensure life will never end
Candles shine blackened light
Kill the woman you possess
Rise your blade, blood flows through your hands
You're a pa rt of this evil plans
Caught in the satanic maze
You sold your soul for decay
So now the treaty's fulfilled
Your rotten flesh living still
Fooled since you began
You'll live forever now
Thousand years dmaned to walk this earth
While your flesh will decay
Pray for death, calls remain unheard
And you'll serve satan forever
You brought two souls for one
You've played with a force so strong - go to hell!
Caught in the satanic maze
You sold your soul for decay
So now the treaty's fulfilled
Your rotten flesh living still
Caught in the satanic maze
You sold your soul for decay
So now the treaty's fulfilled
Your rotten flesh living still
Are useless like your kind when I come to life
9. Thru In4cers I`s
Astralized demons
Tore me out of womb
Slowly I awaken
In my cursed tomb
Wayward son belial
Satisfy my needs
Smooth the way for me
So I will succeed
Smash the curse
Upon the human prey
Shred the flesh
Lost souls will decay
Seas of blood
Drown my weakened enemies
Swept away
Into black obscurity
Take command
Ancient insect from below
Spread your plague
Where the blackened rivers flow - heed my plea
Ruler of the desert storms
Answer me
Twist the bodies yet unborn
Signalize
The elder forces will reveal
And make sure
The fiery gates remain unsealed
The leader
I've become
And I will reign
Till there are nonne
Final day
It'll be my turn
And with pleasure
I will burn
Victims of my hatred
Face the boiling sky
Thunderbolts of triumph
Hail my kingdom's rise
Army of the abyss
Given human shape
Undermine the holy
Destroy time and space
By mortals they teach
And don't even doubt
10. Lost Yourself
Frantic influence
Comes out of darkness
Do you remember
Who you are?
Lost the eternal night
That lead your way through life
Believing in prohability
That all other meanings lead you nearer to your aim
Real profanity wins another game
The trial
Which is twisting your mind
Has fulfilled its sence
It is a model a hap
A misusafe of all harrasment
A tool of levity
Distrain your soul
If you cannot control yourself
Dive into the mud
You realize it's the wrong trail
If you don't want to be
The leader of heresy
Perform your duty
Your soul is free now
Search confirmations
You've hot them somehow
Apprehensions
About weird fancy
Will rotate you
Slowly for sure
Inventing alternatives
To hide your helplessness
Instead of hiding
Behind your mask
Recede of being selfconscious
Denying the way to yourself
Trust in immortality
Eyes glance at the sky
No difference between you an me
You will burn and die
Disharmonic sentences
Lunatic's intrigues
A castle full of submissions
A tower of bad lies
Inborn greed
That slowly will kill your race
Religion just excuses
Our inability
To fill
11. The Preacher