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Testament
« The New Order »
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| 1 | Eerie Inhabitants
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| | 2 | The New Order
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| | 3 | Trial By Fire
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| | 4 | Into The Pit
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| | 5 | Hypnosis
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| | 6 | Disciples Of The Watch
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| | 7 | The Preacher
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| | 8 | Nobody's Fault
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| | 9 | A Day Of Reckoning
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| | 10 | Musical Death (A Dirge)
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| | Total playing time: 39:21 |
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Chuck Billy - vocals
Eric Peterson - guitars
Alex Skolnick - guitars
Greg Christian - bass
Louie Clemente - drums |
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All track by Ch.Billy,E.Peterson & A.Skolnick except 8. by
Whitford&Tyler(AEROSMITH)
Produced and mixed by Alex Perialas at Pyramid Sound Studios, Ithica, NY.
Videos were made for "Trial by Fire" and "Nobody's Fault". |
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| 1. Eerie Inhabitants
[Music: Peterson, Skolnick / Lyrics: Skolnick, Billy, Peterson]
A world of chaos
A world of fear
A world of anger and corruption
When all is lost
And millions starve
Is this humanity's destruction?
Life! A game that people play
Cryout! Will they see another day?
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Ох, если бы не было Металлики 1983-1986 годов и Мегадэтовского «Peace Sells…», то этот могучий альбомище совершенно справедливо можно было бы назвать главным метал-откровением 80-х.
На нем есть гораздо больше, чем все :) Тестаментский саунд 88-го года притягивает своей красочной тяжестью. Слушая сие произведение искусства, понимаешь, какой она должна быть, эта самая «тяжелая музыка». Спродюсирован материал блестяще, да и вообще удивительно, что над ним команда трудилась не так много времени.
Все вещи настоящие супер-боевики, за исключением «Гипноза». Песни сбалансированы до микрон, агрессивность, мелодика, резкие риффы и спокойные ритмы и, конечно, «стальной» вокал Билли.
Одна из обязательных вех в Металлическом Высшем Образовании. |
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Второй альбом американской треш металлической формации. Диск ещё сильнее закрепил позиции Тестамента на мировой металл сцене, но вот, к сожалению, ничего нового в этот жанр не привнёс. Кроме пары-тройки классических боевиков, работа, в целом, неинтересная и непримечательная. Качество записи, стоит отметить, заметно улучшилось, а мастерство музыкантов весьма выросло. По крайней мере, сыграть закрученную соло партию они могут. Вопрос в другом – будет ли от этой партии хоть какой-то прок, если в ней нет красивой Тестаментовской мелодики? Вокал, как ни странно, стал более интересным. Исчезли все визги и дикие крики, на место которых пришёл хоровый мощный выкрик и иногда даже зверский рык на низких тонах. Вот, например, в такой неплохой песне как «A Day Of Reckoning», замечу, что достаточно мелодичной – Чак Билли поёт своим фирменным наполовину чистым и мелодичным голосом. А вот в композиции «Nobody’s Fault» он как-то умудряется балансировать между хриплым хеви металлическим и жёстким трешевым пением. Отдельно стоит поговорить о классической вещице в треш металлическом стиле. А именно о «Disciples Of The Watch», которая стала вечным спутником всех концертов когда-либо проводившихся Тестаментом. Песня эта не слишком мелодична, хотя очень драйвова и забойна, а соло партия в её конце сможет послужить уроком для каждого гитареро. Вообще из всего материала в лучшую сторону выделяются только две песни. Собственно это две самые мелодичные темы на альбоме. Такие как заглавная «The New Order» отличающаяся неплохими вокальными мелодиями, и «The Preacher» с прекрасной соло партией - могут смело претендовать на места самых лучших песен в дискографии группы. Открывашка «Eerie Inhabitans» меня несколько разочаровала, поскольку кроме крика и лязганья ударных, в ней ничего найти не удалось. Совсем другое впечатление оставляет заключительный балладно-инструментальный номер «Musical Death (A Dirge)». Очень мелодичный и качественный инструментал. Исходя из культовости этого альбома в нём выделяют ещё две темы – такие как «Trial By Fire» и «Into The Pit», но, по-моему, это совершенно средние, не внушающие уважения и неразнообразные песни. В целом, диск оставляет неплохое впечатление, но вот если доходит до детального разбора по отдельным композициям, можно наткнутся на один не очень приятный факт – большинство музыкального материала на альбоме «The New Order» ужасно посредственно. Посредственно с мелодической точки зрения. Но если не обращать на этот факт внимания, то я бы посоветовал ознакомиться с данным диском всем поклонникам Тестамента и любителям треш металла старой школы. |
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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. The New Order
[Music & Lyrics: Skolnick, Peterson]
Takers of humanity, elders paranoid
The time is now
Give up this world you once destroyed
Society versus the underground
Their battles fought and lost
The time has come
To rule the world at any cost
For the past it's too late
Cause the world can't control fate
Shadows cast loud and clear
Tell the world the new order's here
Cities turn to battlefields
A deadly spell is cast
Corpses falling one by one
Until the last
The preacher speaks of prophecy
So many years before
No one escapes their punishment
The gods of war
For the past it's too late
Cause the world can't control fate
Shadows cast loud and clear
Tell the world the new order's here
Death is like an empty space
Fell no thoughts of fear
The future cries
As mother nature sheds a tear
The world becomes a prisoner
A victim of its crime
The human race is now a race
Against time
For the past it's too late
Cause the world can't control fate
Shadows cast loud and clear
Tell the world the new order's here
3. Trial By Fire
[Music: Peterson, Skolnick / Lyrics: Billy, Skolnick, Peterson]
Accuse you of a crime
Sentenced to endless time
The price you have to pay
Won't get away!
Sworn in by the stand
Your rights are gone
The system's banned
They think you are a liar
A trial by fire
Hey!
This is what the people say,
A new way
A trial by fire!
Locked in an empty cell
Your life becomes a living hell
The river of fire flows
Time only knows!
Trapped by flames of fury
Ordered unto by the jury
Death is their desire
Thrown in the fire!
Hey!
This is what the people say,
A new way
A trial by fire!
Quiver by the fiery light
Cringing as your soul ignites
The book of law's been thrown away
Starting today!
The system before the war
Is gone for now and evermore
There is no sentence higher
A trial by fire!
Hey!
This is what the people say,
A new way
A trial by fire!
4. Into The Pit
[Music: Skolnick, Peterson / Lyrics: Billy, Skolnick, Peterson]
Deep in the pit and lying alone
Where death has reared itself a throne
We're all the good, the bad
The worst and the best
And where they land is their eternal rest
Foul plays of passion
At twilight's dim
In joy of woe, of good and sin
Winds of storm and fates overcast
Darkly my presence
Is now your past
Join the insanity
Or die as you fall
Into the pit!
The mass production
And the killing of all
Into the pit!
The future screams for help
Are fading away
Into the pit!
The world tomorrow
Will it die for today?
Into the pit!
So in the sad, silent watches of night
The lonely pathway envisions my sight
Echoes of laughter
And boundless cries
So here I wander under infinite skies
Join the insanity
Or die as you fall
Into the pit!
The mass production
And the killing of all
Into the pit!
The future screams for help
Are fading away
Into the pit!
The world tomorrow
Will it die for today?
Into the pit!
5. Hypnosis
[Music: Skolnick, Peterson]
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. The Preacher
[Music: Skolnick, Peterson / Lyrics: Billy, Skolnick]
In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
Of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.
In 1906
Like the future predicts
The city will crumble to the bay
Then what's in store
When the worlds go to war?
Peace will have come another day
Then came the one
In the year of '41
Warfare would light up the sky
He beckoned the call
Of the future for all
Blinded by what's in his eyes
In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
Of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.
Listen to these words I preach
Catastrophic lessons they shall teach
Listen to these words I preach
Catastrophic lessons they shall teach
8. Nobody's Fault
[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
9. A Day Of Reckoning
[Music: Peterson, Skolnick / Lyrics: Billy]
First there came a mass
Brilliant lights of flash
All across the president's skies
As he sits and laughs
He preaches non-conformity
I don't think they see
They live for him and what he believes
A wrath of misery
Left to die alone
In their living past
As he takes their lives away
To never get it back
No more need for society
All the lives he took
The fault of law and majority
Rules in an open book
Leave me alone
Don't take it away
A place where I know
They're destined to take away
Now the lives they lead
Are left to broken dreams
Just when they thought
They had it all
Life's not what it seems
He preaches non-conformity
I don't think they see
They live for him and what he believes
A life of misery
Leave me alone
Don't take it away
A place where I know
They're destined to take away
Don't take away
Society
There'll come a day
You're gonna pay
Day by day a day of reckoning
You're all gonna pay
You can't get away
10. Musical Death (A Dirge)
[Music: Peterson, Skolnick]
[Dedicated to the Memory of Letty Csengeri]