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 Для начала пара слов о самом релизе. Изначально это была VHS, выпущенная в 1991 году; потом запись была переиздана компанией Atlantic Records в 2005 году на DVD, счастливым обладателем которого я, собственно, и являюсь. Отличаются издания немногим, лишь дополнительным материалом, а именно - дискографией и историей группы. Материал, представленный на диске, является классикой Bay Area Thrash: шесть концертных записей, вперемежку с документальными кадрами из жизни музыкантов, а также интервью с ними, и четыре музыкальных клипа.
Все композиции принадлежат эпохе раннего Testament, времен конца восьмидесятых-начала девяностых (запись вышла немного позже альбома "Souls of Black"). Она несет невероятный заряд энергии; после просмотра всего этого возникает невероятно сильное желание вживую, своими глазами увидеть этих монстров из Калифорнии, а также переслушать все их альбомы и альбомы других исполнителей трэша того времени; диск заражает своим особенным, безбашенным настроением. Помимо прочего, интересно увидеть и то, как живет группа за сценой (а там, поверьте, есть на что посмотреть).
Про технику музыкантов говорить совершенно излишне, тут все и так понятно, - недаром Testament считаются непревзойденными мастерами живых выступлений, и этот релиз - очередное тому доказательство; это видно во всем: от качества исполнения композиций до поведения музыкантов на сцене.
Собственно, единственное, что оставляет желать лучшего - это звук. Даже для своего времени он тут ниже среднего; уровень шума местами настолько велик, что людям, не знающим песен группы, трудно будет разобрать, что они играют. Впрочем, надо вообще сказать, что запись в первую очередь будет интересна именно поклонникам коллектива. Тем не менее, обойти стороной этот аспект невозможно, слишком уж бросается в глаза (а точнее - в уши), и именно это мешает мне поставить работе максимально высокую оценку. А в остальном она того, поверьте, стоит. |
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No one help us,
The children pray
Nobody listens to their crying
This great depression
When will it end?
To live like this is worse than dying
Life! A game that people play
Cryout! Will they see another day?
Your destiny is over
Your fate has declined
Refuse to discover
What so many could find
Death's endless toil
As I long for rest
Life's now forsaken
Condemned to repress!
No sign of Heaven
No sign of Hell
Just the sign of pain and sorrow
This generation inhabits all
To form an order for tomorrow
Life! A game that people play
Cryout! Will we see another day?
2. Face In The Sky
Shadows glow from the full moonlight
Hear clouds cry, it's so insane
Souls hold on to the key of life
See how it's bleeding from the pain
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
It's live or die
Who am I?
Face in the sky
Walk with me, my friend to a darkened place
Welcome down to the abyss
Caught between two worlds with no advocate
The legion's army
Holds on to your fate
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
It's live or die
Who am I?
2.Face in the sky
Screams from the night
Seem to intensify
As the air shifts silent through
Ghouls crowded in the clouds
On a misty night
Guarding secrets
Man has brought to you
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
It's live or die
Who am I?
Face in the sky
3. Greenhouse Effect
[Testament / Skolnick]
Fools the ones who stray, the rain forest burns away
Know what to believe, this is the air we breathe
So the world we know is dying slow in South America
Flames are burning down, all the trees to the ground
Time is running low, we can't stay no more
Wealth these people see, fight for eternity
Lies they televise paid by their government
There on! It's lingers on
And they don't even care in they...
Seal the Planet's fate
Crimes they perpetrate
Wasting precious land
It's time to take a stand
Our only hope to breathe again
To stop the madness closing in
What will we do when all is lost?
Environmental holocaust... repeat
Foes, these people go, someone destroyed their home
Plagued with disease, left praying on their knees
Laws protect the land, social justice in demand
Smoke it fills the air into the atmosphere
Now it's time to see a cycle of a tragedy
On! It lingers on, and they don't even care if they
Seal the Planet's fate
Crimes they perpetrate
Wasting precious land
It's time to take a stand
Our only hope to breathe again
To stop the madness closing in
What will we do when all is lost?
Environmental holocaust... repeat
4. Souls Of Black
Can't you see
That in the world we live in
Political lies
Are just corporate decisions
They'll take away
All the hopes, not their promises
They'll put an end to this
Land of the livin
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
They got control
Of the heart of a nation
Their social bribes
Seem so graciously
As time goes by
'Cause time as you can see
Will slowly die for you and me
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
So put an end
To this idolization
Antagonizing so commonly
Open your eyes
'Cause the lie's there so plain to see
Life goes on
There's no guarantees
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
They're bleeding so black
5. Sins Of Omission
[Testament / Billy, Peterson, Skolnick]
The day's vanished in the night, soon the children pray
Pray themselves alone, the hate build from their pride
You can't take away, can't take what they own!
The eyes watching from the sky, guides them through the haze
Calling far away, the rain is black as black, black as night
Oh let them pray!
False sense of pride, satisfies
There's no reason for suicide
Use your mind, and hope to find
Find the meaning of existence...
The cry's answers wonder why, why it's time to die
Time to die alone, cause I'm wasting too much time
Wandering down the line reason why I go my own!
False sense of pride, satisfies
There's no reason for suicide
Use your mind, and hope to find
Find the meaning of existence...
6. Disciples Of The Watch
[Music: Skolnick, Peterson / Lyrics: Billy]
[Inspired by the movie "Children Of The Corn"]
Cast to the fire
Banned by the light
Worship and listen to me
Condemned in his mind
In his evil place
Your fate is all that you'll see
I am the one
To show you the path
Salvation is in the fields
Listen up children and follow me
Or I'll let you pay the price
Of Malachi!
Disciples of the watch
Obey!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
Holding the mass
The demon is cast
To resurrect your soul
Calling to him
Is like an evil sin
A prophet is what they're told
Taking the land under command
Killing friend or foe
Feel the might of his evil wrath
Desecrate your soul!
Disciples of the watch
Obey!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
Cast to the fire
Banned by the light
Worship and listen to me
Condemned in his mind
In his evil place
Your fate is all that you'll see
For I am the one
To show you the path
Salvation is in the fields
Listen up children and follow me
Or I'll let you pay the price
Of Malachi!
Disciples of the watch
Obey!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
7. Nobody's Fault (Aerosmith cover)
[S. Tyler, B. Whitford]
[Aerosmith Cover]
Lord I must be dreamin'
What else could this be
Everybody's screamin'
Runnin' for the sea
Holy lands are sinkin'
Birds take to the sky
The prophets are all stinkin' drunk
I know the reason why
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill at ease
Everything is on fire
Shit piled up to the knees
Out of rhyme or reason
Everyone's to blame
Children of the season
Don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known
And now he's blown it
Upside-down and hell's the only sound
We did an awful job
And now they say it's nobody's fault
Old St. Andres
Seven years ago
Shove it up their richters
Redlines come and go
Noblemen of courage
Listen with their ears
Spoke but how discouragin'
No one really hears
One of these days you'll be sorry
Too many houses on the stilt
Three million years or just a story
Four on the floor up to the hilt
Out of rhyme or reason
Everyone's to blame
Children of the season
Don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known
And now he's blown it
Upside-down and hell's the only sound
We did an awful job
And now they say it's nobody's fault
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill at ease
Everything is on fire
Shit piled up in debris
California showtime
Five o'clock's the news
Everybody's concubine
Was prone to take a snooze
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known
And now he's blown it
Upside-down and hell's the only sound
We did an awful job
And now they say it's nobody's fault
8. Practice What You Preach
[Testament / Billy, Peterson, Skolnick]
You think your life's so grad
You don't believe a word you say
Your feet aren't on the ground
You let your life just slip away
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul
The promises you make, your mind so blank
And then you lose control, then you lose control!
I never was the one, the one to say the things you say
Never seem to wonder what you say
You think you've got your life completely in control
You've got a lot to learn, the bridge you burn
Is gonna take its toll!!! Pay the appropriate toll!!!
So practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
You think your life's so grad
You don't believe a word you say
Your feet aren't on the ground
You let your life just slip away
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul
The promises you make, your mind so blank
And then you lose control, then you lose control!
Pay the burnt bridge toll, then you lose control
Pay the burnt bridge toll, so practice what you preach
So practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!
9. Souls Of Black
Can't you see
That in the world we live in
Political lies
Are just corporate decisions
They'll take away
All the hopes, not their promises
They'll put an end to this
Land of the livin
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
They got control
Of the heart of a nation
Their social bribes
Seem so graciously
As time goes by
'Cause time as you can see
Will slowly die for you and me
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
So put an end
To this idolization
Antagonizing so commonly
Open your eyes
'Cause the lie's there so plain to see
Life goes on
There's no guarantees
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
They're bleeding so black
10. The Legacy
We're gonna take you back
Through the pages of the past
Just another lonely boy
I could laugh and play
And live in any other way
Then the devil took my soul
The fortune and the fame
I knew I was not the same
And I know I'd never return
Looking at the sky
I knew I would never die
And forever shining through
Wish the sky would say
That blue would turn to grey
And I know I'd be there
Life was like a fantasy
Taken by reality
Does anyone remember me
You once knew me
Flashes of the day
I knew I was here to stay
But no one stays the same
Turn the pages back in time
Through the chapters in my mind
Life's too short to leave behind
It's too late now
Life was like a fantasy
Taken by reality
Does anyone remember me
You once knew me
Flashes of the day
I knew I was here to stay
But no one
Knows my name