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 Так уж получилось, но концертник «Saints Will Conquer» оказался единственным live-альбомом в творчестве американской хэви-метал-группы Armored Saint, а также последней записью лидер-гитариста Дэйва Притчарда, который в скором времени скончался от лейкемии. На этом «лайве» показана вся мощь Armored Saint вне студийных стен. Вживую коллектив играет предельно слаженно и технично, что получается далеко не у всех коллективов, а хрипловатый вокал Джона Буша звучит все так же энергично и мощно, как и на студийных альбомах, при этом даже немного выигрывая у них в эмоциональности. Покойный Дэйв Притчард раскрыл на этом концертнике все грани своего таланта: убойнейшие риффы и соляки (причем с некоторыми любопытными импровизациями) сражают наповал своей энергетикой! Голос певца наряду с одной из лучших, без преувеличения, ритм-секций хэви-метала в лице ударника Гонзо Сандовала и знаменитого басиста Джоуи Веры, великолепно дополняют тяжелые риффы Притчарда, выдавая просто мегатонны энергии! Возможно, список песен можно и нужно было заметно расширить: сам концертник досадно непродолжителен, но каждая композиция звучит просто идеально и гораздо лучше студийных оригиналов! Весь сет-лист составлен исключительно из скоростных и тяжелых боевиков, поэтому после прослушивания на большой громкости остается ощущение, будто по тебе проехался танк. В общем, для всех, кто хочет ознакомиться с творчеством Armored Saint, «Saint Will Conquer» рекомендуется прежде всего. Это эталон того, как нужно играть хэви-метал вживую. Кстати, в качестве бонуса здесь присутствует прежде никогда не издававшийся, весьма неплохой студийный трэк «No Reason to Live», структурой и мелодикой напоминающий о NWOBHM. В общем, прекрасное подтверждение статуса Armored Saint как одного из лучших представителей американского heavy metal. Еще бы чуть дольше продолжительность, и оценка могла бы быть еще выше. |
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Everything has gone haywire
A sneak attack is going down
Bringer of bad news
Has come to spoil your pleasant mood
No one hears you
Then you disappear
Warn with a threat
Bow, down here
Cause the saint's Raising Fear
I said, bow, down here
Cause the saint's Raising Fear
Rebuilt your face you've got to wonder
Why all your fears are still around
Rubbed the wrong way
Ranked one way
Here to control your life
No one hears you
Then you disappear
Warn with a threat
Bow down here
Cause the saint's Raising Fear
I said bow down here
Cause the saint's Raising Fear
Raising Fear, Raising Fear
Raising Fear, Raising Fear
2. Nervous Man
The clouds roll in one by one
And the shapes seem to spell out caution
Many worries in my mind
Without too many options
I take a trip to soothe the pain
And get away from the problem
I'm near, sign reads clear
It's plain inside your cranium
Look at the speed you ran
You're just a nervous man
Too much for your own hand
Delirious Nomad
I find no end to this
Paranoid, well, perhaps a bit
But I am a spy
Loneliest guy
With no one to lean on
Look at the speed you ran
You're just a nervous man
Too much for your own hand
Delirious Nomad
Look at the seed you plant
Now you're a newborn man
Pounding with your right hand
Delirious Nomad
Delirious Nomad
3. Chemical Euphoria
Mirror, mirror
Is on the shelf
Found another way
To ruin and waste my health
Took to the flame
Put the blade away
Just cut my lifeline
Quickly in half today
Chemical euphoria
I'm about to crack
Mass hysteria
Won't get off my back
Chemical euphoria
I'm about to crack
Mass hysteria
Speeds my heart attack
When it rains it pours
And man I'd say
Looks like it's time
To build an arc today
Absorb me to a pleasant void
Somewhere temptation
Can't link it's hand to destroy
Chemical euphoria
I'm about to crack
Mass hysteria
Won't get off my back
Chemical euphoria
I'm about to crack
Mass hysteria
Speeds my heart attack
The heart attack
Addicted and there's no release
Addicted won't you help me please
Oh how the road bends
Off the deep end
Mirror, mirror
Is on the shelf
Can't find satisfaction
Til I help myself
Took to the flame
Put the blade away
Here come the lookout
What a price to pay
Chemical euphoria
I'm about to crack
Mass hysteria
Won't get off my back
Chemical euphoria
I'm about to crack
Mass hysteria
Speedin' up the heart attack
Chemical euphoria
Chemical euphoria
Chemical euphoria
4. Book Of Blood
Voted in I'm just the spokesman here
A robot I'm not I feel the same fears
Pressure on my back and I must respond
Say the word and I'll be gone
I'm gone
I say attack while the world is trembling
Then get criticized cause we felt the sting
An indecisive mind cannot be a judge
Stand by your fighting words
Your words
Everybody is a Book of Blood
Subverting society with a magic touch
Well I refuse to engage
Don't condemn the judgement of another
Cause it differs from your own
You may both be wrong
Pressure on my back and I must respond
Say the word and I'll be gone
Gone, I'm gone
No end
No friend
No end
Defend
God send
5. Can U Deliver
Alright
Can u deliver
I'm overlooking you
Laying out the question
Think that you'll pull through
Do you know what love means
A push and then a shove
Don't put the thought around me
I'm coming from above yea
Me I'm just a young soul lookin
For a good time tonight
You want it to last forever
I don't have that in sight no
Seems to be the same old story
You get 'em once and they fall at your knees
I wish that I would've known better
Before I played the dirty deed
Not romance to me
It's just the fever
Here's your chance to please
Can u deliver Can u deliver, can u deliver, can u deliver
It's a shame to take your dreams
And chain them to reality
I don't listen anymore
Action is what I need
Not romance to me
It's just the fever
Here's your chance to please
Can u deliver
Can u deliver, can u deliver, can u deliver
Can u deliver, can u deliver, can u deliver
Can u deliver
Deliver to me
6. Long Before I Die
You got yours
Baby I got mine
We just can't seem to make ends meet
Don't you realize when jumpin' in the water
You're gonna get wet past knee deep
Give in
Give and take
Taken by mistake
Sooner or later deceit's gonna hit
Lay your cards on the table and draw
From now on
I call the shots
Long before I die
Long before I die
Give in
Give and take
Taken by mistake
From now on
I call the shots
Long before I die
Long before I die
7. Mad House
I got an urge to tell a story
Mad house set to unload
I try my best to keep a distance
From going down loony road
But I get crushed with the temptation
For the place that makes you move-to the groove
Right down loony road
This certain pad will make your heart beat
Rum, sex, drop hit the floor
Next day you feel your head spin
Back up again, do it some more
Then I get crushed with that temptation
For the place that makes you move
And when it feels good there
You better raise your beer to the mess
The only place for you to be-mad house
Back in touch with insanity-mad house
It don't matter what you do-mad house
Just as long that it's good for you-mad house
Right down loony road
I got an urge to tell a story
Mad house set to unload
I try my best to keep a distance
From going down loony road
I just get crushed with that temptation
For the place that makes you move
And when it feels good there
Raise your beer to the mess
The only place for you to be-mad house
Back in touch with insanity-mad house
It don't matter what you do-mad house
Just as long that it's good for you-mad house
Mad house, mad house
Mad house, mad house
8. No Reason To Live (studio)
The old man sits there and startes
As my heart grows fondly aware
The vagrant is me at an elde; age
Shed some of my life for me
There's so much I just can't wait to see
It's not joy my son to live in a cage
What news do you bring?
Oh my Future of fortune and eternity
Rejoice for life is ahead, or is death what you sing?
You must detour your route
Your coming is not full of loot
Loveless, you barely stay alive
Diseased, threatened all the time
Declared sick in the mind
Mortalitys best you shall not survive
Halt, don't you speak
Oh your message is negative and so depressing
An old man who has lost his sense and continues
to go on to pretend
I am you
Oh you may not believe but you must know I'm you
I came with these words to tell about the hell I went through
Oh there's no reason to live
Well they'll take everything you have to give
But if you go on your way all I do is pray
And long from now you'll remember this day
No reason to live
Take everything you have to give
But if you go on your way all I can do is pray
And long from now you'll remember this day when I said
I've got no reason, no reason to live
No, no, no, no, no