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Kenziner
« The Prophecies »
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Stephen Fredrick – вокал
Jarno Keskinen - guitars, keyboards, bass
Mikko Harkin - keyboards
Brian Harris - drums |
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| 1. Live Forever
After the storm we rise again
Though we've been in the depths of a dark world
We see the light compelling us forward
And once again, begin a new ending
Sounds from heaven, voices of angels
Or the curse of damnation
To live forever, to live forever
Until the end of time
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Пару лет назад этот альбом стал для меня настоящим открытием. Да что скрывать, я и сейчас слушаю его, затаив дыхание. "The Prophecies" относится к тем альбомам, которыми можно наслаждаться в любое время и под любое настроение. В принципе, ничего нового музыкантами здесь изобретено не было: это все тот же старый добрый sympho power metal. Только вот от собратьев по цеху вроде Sonata Arctica или Stratovarius музыка Kenziner отличается кардинально. В чем же секрет? Может, в хрипловатом голосе вокалиста Стефана Фредрика? Или в том, что тексты не «ни о чем», а наполнены именно человеческими чувствами и переживаниями? Наверное, все эти факторы вкупе с виртуозной игрой музыкантов, которая заслуживает отдельного внимания, придают альбому эту яркую индивидуальность, которая производит невероятный эффект. Какие-либо отдельные композиции выделить невозможно: они звучат едино, мощно и мелодично. Выбивается из списка разве что "Trail Of Tears" - просто скучновата, не более. Единственная баллада на альбоме, "Like A Paradise" - вообще одна из лучших в своем жанре. Она производит впечатление вышедшей из-под пера Рудольфа Шенкера и Клауса Майне, то есть в лучших традициях Scorpions. Обидно, что пластинка крайне редкая и, наверняка, уже снята с производства. Но если она вам все-таки попадется на глаза - берите, не раздумывая. |
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Финская прогрессив пауэр металическая группа Kenziner была организована в 1997 году и выпустила за всё это время всего лишь два полноформатных альбома. Это был дебютный диск «Timescape» в 1998 году и рассматриваемое творение «The Prophecies». Сейчас банда находится в распущенном состоянии, а вот её бывшие члены ведут вполне активную деятельность в других, достаточно уважаемых, коллективах. Должен упомянуть сначала о вокалисте Кензинера, которым является экс-вокалист греческих пауэрщиков Firewind Стефан Фредрик, выпустивший с ними два хороших альбома. Для тех кто никогда не слышал его голоса, замечу что напоминает он смесь из Криса Больтендаля (Grave Digger) и Ральфа Каспарька (Running Wild). Собственно, то как Стефан пел в Firewind, имеет такое же высокое качество и здесь. Другие музыканты, тоже не самые последние личности на металической сцене, а это Ярно Кескинен (Let Me Dream, Virtuocity), и сессионные клавишник Микко Харкин (Sonata Arctica, Kotipelto), и ударник Брайан Харрис (Firewind, Zanister, Seven Seraphim). Исполняет группа неоклассический пауэр метал, с небольшим количеством прогрессивных элементов. Однако это всё касалось только стиля исполнения, то есть – таких же заоблачных ритмов, безбожных нагромождений неоклассических клавиш (именно неоклассических – не путайте с финскими высоко качественными клавишными пассажами наподобие Nightwish или Sonata Arctica), а вот мелодически музыкальный материал Кензинера практически идентичный материалу Firewind, чему есть обыкновенное логическое объяснение – и там и там за вокальные мелодии отвечал Стефан Фредрик! А посему мелодически диск такой же как и все работы Firewind - цепляющий, хитовый, мрачный, агрессивный и классный! И тут будет логичным заявить что альбом «The Prophecies» сможет элементарно заполучить внимание как поклонников строгого неоклассического пауэра, так и более простой и не замороченной его версии – хэви пауэр метала а-ля тот же Firewind. Супер! |
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The truth is false, the wrong is right
The world keeps going on and on
We stand in line, the line of fire
It never seems to end
To live forever, to live forever
The world keeps going on and on
To live forever
To live forever, to live forever
The world keeps going on and on
To live forever
Sounds from heaven, voices of angels
Or the curse of damnation
To live forever, to live forever
Until the end of time
The truth is false, the wrong is right
The world keeps going on and on
We stand in line, the line of fire
It never seems to end
To live forever, to live forever
The world keeps going on and on
To live forever
2. The Razor's Edge
The voices started one Sunday morn
As the priest was praising her god's first born
They told her what to do, the time and the place
The words from beyond urged forth with haste
She said, tell me once, tell me again
How I can serve, to pay for my sins
With the razor's edge, with the razor's edge
With the razor's edge, with the razor's edge
The voices grew strong, louder every day
She could not believe, what they did say
To kill her own two sons, and take her own life
It was the holy words, for the holy night
"GIVE THEM THE RAZOR'S EDGE"
She did as she was told then cried herself to sleep
And when she awoke she saw her own deed
The voices promised, god said it so
Her turn was due, this she did know
She said, tell me once, tell me again
How I can serve, to pay for my sins
With the razor's edge, with the razor's edge
With the razor's edge, with the razor's edge
With the razor's edge
With the razor's edge
With the razor's edge
The voices promised
With the razor's edge
God said it so
3. Carry On Tomorrow
Within my dreams I hide
One place where I decide
In my mystical state of mind
I see clear through the darkest night
I have visions of other times
Am I embracing the afterlife
Carry on - tomorrow will save me
Carry on - tomorrow awaits me
Now, it's clear, as I, escape what holds me here
I'm wandering, freefalling out beyond reality
Within my dreams I hide
One safe place to reside
What's the purpose of here and now
Really which way is up or down
My confusion it feeds my doubt
Is there silence with so much sound
Carry on - tomorrow will save me
Carry on - tomorrow awaits me
Within my dreams I hide
One place where I decide
In my mystical state of mind
I belong to another side
Crying out for another time
Who can say we really die
Carry on - tomorrow will save me
Carry on - tomorrow awaits me
Carry on - tomorrow awaits me
4. Race With Time
I look in the mirror to see a face I do not know
I see inside the man, to his fears and beliefs
Once more to start again, I'd live another way
Take me from the sorrow and take me from grief
I sense the resolution - Race with time
To my own execution - Race with time
It's the final solution - Race with time
To end my revolution
Yesterday seems like a long lost friend
No need to worry so far from the end
Life wakes me up so painfully, all I see is misery
If I could do it over again, I'd live my life differently
Yesterday seems like my only friend
Tomorrow brings me closer to the end
Race with time, race with time
It's the final solution - Race with time
To end my revolution - Race with time
I sense the resolution - Race with time
To my own execution - Race with time
It's the final solution - Race with time
To end my revolution
Yesterday screams, to come back for more
The future awaits, with the answers in store
Hold me and tell me that all will be again
If not in this life, then on the other side
The road goes forward, where does it end
If it's not me, who will decide
Race with time
We're all racing - Race with time
I sense the resolution - Race with time
To end my revolution - Race with time
5. Trail Of Tears
The spirits warned us, many years ago
Of a plague of white, but was not the snow
To lie and cheat and kill for our sacred land
We had no escape, from the great white man
Suffer the innocent, for so many years
We left our blood and souls
Along the trail (of tears)
We tried to resist the best way we knew how
We really had no chance, we all see that now
More and more they came, driven by their greed
We were all exiled, it was their final deed
The trail of tears, driven far from our home
The trail of tears, From where we all belong
On the trail of tears
The trail of tears, driven far from our home
The trail of tears, From where we all belong
Suffer the innocent, for so many years
We left our blood and souls
Along the trail (of tears)
The centuries have passed, since they did appear
On and on they go, we still all live in fear
The trail of tears, driven far from our home
The trail of tears, From where we all belong
The spirits warned us so many years ago
The trail of tears, silence is the warrior's song
The trail of tears, driven far from our home
6. Eternity
Once again, we return
>From whence we came, the hell fires burn
Through all these years, the torments the same
Through ageless lore, we've been here before
Time after time, we have foreseen
Vain attempts to mould our destiny
Lost in a dream, never awaken
Life is confused, we are forsaken
Captured souls, eternity
Beware behold, eternity
Over and over, we stay the course
Seeking the answers to evermore
We've come full circle again and again
The questions remain, it all looks the same
Time after time, we're back to the future
The prophets they sigh, no better the loser
Can't you read, the signs in the daunting sky
The dark runs from light
Now's the time to arise
Captured souls, eternity
Beware behold, eternity
Edge of time, eternity
Bridge of life, eternity
Over and over we stay the course
Seeking the answers to evermore
We've come full circle again and again
Through ageless lore, we've been here before
Time after time, we have foreseen
Vain attempts to mould our destiny
Lost in a dream, never awaken
Life is confused, we are forsaken
Captured souls, eternity
Beware behold, eternity
Edge of time, eternity
Bridge of life, eternity
7. Dimensions
[Instrumental]
8. Like A Paradise
Even now I wonder why and where you have gone
The years pass oh so slowly, now where do you belong
We had the world, in the palm of our hands
We had it all, our own promised land
I stare far out, the window and up the road
I wait for word, that can't be again I know
When you left me and now that we are apart
Now that you're gone you took with you my heart
Like a paradise - When you came into my life
Like a paradise - When you said forevermore
Like a paradise - The time stood still it seemed
Like a paradise - As you loved me once before
I sit and count, all the times that we made love
I know it will never be, like that once again
You touched a place, that no one else can
You made me feel, no one understands
When you left me you took with you my heart
Like a paradise - When you came into my life
Like a paradise - When time stood still it seemed
Take me tonight to the place where you wait
Like paradise, that once was our fate
I visit time, when we were always one
My lonely soul, cries out for you
I wish it could, be you forever close
For life seems a waste, where love never bleeds
When you left me and now we're apart
Now that you're gone you took with you my heart
Like a paradise - When you came into my life
Like a paradise - When you said forevermore
Like a paradise - The time stood still it seemed
Like a paradise - As you loved me once before
We had the world, in the palm of our hands
We had it all, our own promised land
Like a paradise - When you came into my life
Like a paradise - When you said forevermore
Like a paradise - The time stood still it seemed
Like a paradise - As you loved me once before
9. Through The Fire
We march through the mud, to the field we're sure we'll die
As we look around, it's all we realize
To kill in war, the queen says it's so
No reason given, our rank does not know
The long bows, swords of valor
Well even now, we see the foe's long lines
We're outnumbered, by at least five times
The drums beat faster, as we run to the fight
Glory for all, who falls before the night
THROUGH THE FIRE! The battle rages on
THROUGH THE FIRE! For the queen far at home
THROUGH THE FIRE! The battle surges on
THROUGH THE FIRE! My comrades fall unknown
As the sun, sets slowly in the west
The field is red, we did our duty best
No one can leave, until all are killed
No one survived, from all the blood that spilled
The long bows, swords of valor
As we march through the mud, to the field we all will die
We all look above, and pray towards the sky
To die in war, the queen tells us so
For what reason, till death we did not know
THROUGH THE FIRE! The battle rages on
THROUGH THE FIRE! For the queen far at home
THROUGH THE FIRE! The battle surges on
THROUGH THE FIRE! My comrades fall unknown
The battle rages
Through the fire
The battle rages
Through the fire
10. The Prophecies
The time has gone
And dreams are lost in the past
As we make for the end
We find our lost destiny
Voices came from other dimensions, visions are quite clear
Day by day it gets a little stronger, as prophecies come true
For ever and ever, we seek relief from our pain
The final solution, finding the way
How much longer must we wait our time is wasting away
Take me to a different time
Where there is no pain
To another dimension
Where all visions came
Where all visions came
Where all visions came
We have labored, through the darkness
To behold a shimmer of hope
How much longer must we bear this
Burden of our sinking souls
Save our souls, break our chains
Lead us to freedom, confirm the belief
Take us back in time, to eternity
Will we, ever see, visions to behold
Will we, ever hear, we believe in the prophecies
Save me from this loneliness
Free the tortured souls
Save us from this insanity
Take us from this hell
When all seemed to be lost
Nothing could save us, no future no past
Darkness, despair was our life
No one would believe
Then, the visions came
All believed in the prophecies
In the prophecies
In the prophecies
We have labored through the darkness
To behold a shimmer of hope
How much longer must we wait
Our time is wasting away
Wait until this emptiness ends
After all the years
The prophecies all came true
It was the promised words we heard
We could not believe till now
How much longer must we wait
Our time is wasting away
Forever and ever, we seek relief from the pain
The final solutions, finding the way
We survived, the hell fires of darkness
And now eternity calls
Time is short, will we return
Only prophecies will tell
The time has gone
And dreams were lost in the past
As we come to the end
We found our lost destiny
We found our lost destiny