| RELEASE DATE: | 2005-06-00 |
| DURATION: | - |
| # OF TRACKS: | 13 |
| ALBUM TYPE: | 정규, studio |
| GENRE/STYLE: | 팝
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블랙 메탈
헤비 메탈 |
| ALSO KNOWN AS: | - |
| INDEX: | 59 |
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INTRODUCTION
<b>끊임없이 스스로를 변화시키고 있는 스웨덴 멜로딕 데스 메탈의 제왕</ b> 이들은 1989년 밴드를 결성하였으니까 올해로 14년째가 된다. 그동안 5장의 정규 앨범을 발표하였고 2장의 미니앨범을 발표하였다. 이들이 데뷔시부터 (In Flames의 Anders Friden과 Mikael Stanne를 교환한 것 이외에는 ) 다른 밴드에 비해 비교적 멤버의 교체가 적은 탄탄한 결속력과 카리스마적인 음악 스타일로 멜로딕 데스 메탈 매니아들에게 지속적인 지지를 받아왔다는 것은 매니아들 자신이 더 잘 알고 있을 것이다.
세 번째 앨범인 [The Mind`s I]까지 착실하게 음악적 그리고 정신적인 성장을 거쳐 자신있게 발표한 [Projector]는 예상의 정도를 넘어선 변신작이었다. 이 앨범은 결국 실험적인 성격이 강한 앨범이 되었지만, 이 앨범에서 보여주었던 실험적인 요소는 밴드가 완숙기에로의 진입을 확고히 하는 기반이 되었다. 뒤를 이어 발표된 [Heaven]까지 밴드가 연출해내었던 모든 사운드가 융합되어 있다. 그래서 이 앨범 [Damage Done]은 화려하다. 그렇다고 현란하고 요란스럽게 치장한 음악이 아니다. [Projector]에서 보여준 실험적인 요소, [Heaven]에서 느껴졌던 완숙함이 밴드 초창기부터 이어져온 어그레시브한 사운드에 완벽하게 융합되어 있기에 화려하다. 이제까지 다져왔던 멜로디컬함과 멜랑콜리한 분위기를 강조하기 위한 역설적인 심플함과 다이나믹함이 이 앨범을 설명하는 키워드가 되지 않을까 한다.
복잡한 리프를 연출해나가며 멜랑콜리한 `Dark Tranquillity 사운드`의 중심이 되고 있는 Niklas Sundin과 Martin Henriksson의 트윈 기타 라인은 예나 지금이나 변함없이 듣는 이들을 만족시킬 것이다. 또한 클린 보컬에서도 매력을 최대한 발휘하였던 Mikael Stanne의 거친 포효는 더 이상 분노만을 터뜨리지 않는다. 적절한 감정이입을 통해 보다 깊이있게 곡의 분위기를 좌우하고 있다. [Heaven]부터 참여하여 예리한 사운드에 무게를 실어주고 있는 Michael Nicklasson의 베이스와 Anders Jivarp의 드럼, 두 장의 앨범을 통해 `Dark Tranquillity 사운드`의 새로운 요소로 확고한 자리를 잡은 Martin Brandstrom의 키보드가 만들어내는 세련된 멜로디 어레인지까지 6인의 프로가 탄탄한 실력을 서슴없이 자랑하는 것이 이 앨범이다.
안정적인 리듬 라인 위에 거칠게 호흡해대는 Mikael Stanne의 보컬이나 아련한 멜로디 라인이 첫 곡으로 손색이 없는 "Final Resistance", 여기에 이어 신비스러운 인트로 뒤에 Dark Tranquillity 특유의 멜로디 라인을 등장시키는 곡으로 키보디스트 Martin Brandstrom의 세련된 연주가 본격적으로 등장하는 "Hours Passed In Exile", 그리스의 멀티미디어 아티스트 Achilleas Gatsopoulos를 기용, 프로모션 비디오로도 제작된 곡으로 격렬한 템포 위의 아련한 키보드의 멜로디 라인이 일품인 "Monochromatic Stains", Journey의 "Separate Ways"를 연상시키는 키보드 인트로를 가진 곡으로 슬로-업 템포로의 전환이 리드미컬하게 이루어지며 애절한 멜로디 라인을 펼치는 "Single Part of Two", 경쾌한 하이 템포의 곡으로 In Flames식의 유려한 멜로디 라인을 선보이는 "The Treason Wall", 오케스트레이션을 도입하여 웅장하고 극적인 분위기를 이끌어내는 "The Enemy", 몽롱한 분위기의 키보드와는 달리 뚜렷한 멜로디 라인과 파워풀한 리듬 섹션이 등장하는 곡 "Ex Nihilo" 등 멜로딕 데스 메탈의 스피디하고 어그레시브한 연주에서 은은하며 정적인 연주까지 극단적인 치우침을 지양하고 폭넓은 분위기의 표현을 추구하고 있는 것은 10년 이상 언더 그라운드 씬에서 쌓은 경험과 실험적이며 유연한 이들의 음악관을 다시 한 번 증명하고 있다.
Dark Tranquillity를 알고 있는 이들에게는 이들이 가지고 있는 에너지에, 그리고 아직 이들을 접해보지 않은 이들에게는 멜로딕 데스 메탈이 가진 파워와 멜로디컬함에 강한 매력을 느낄 수 있는 앨범이다.
마지막으로 공식 홈페이지(www.darktranquillity.com/main.html)에서 자신들의 음악관에 대해서 적어놓은 것을 소개하고자 한다.
"우리들 음악의 키워드는 강렬함과 멜로디이다. 우리들은 야망과 비야망을, 야만과 아름다움을, 지성과 본능이라는 상반된 것들을 조화시킨다."
자료제공; 포니캐년 코리아 ....  .... 
TRACKS
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Disaffected, left to internal struggle
Let ring with the cries of disaccord
They told of outposts
firm as trees
Whispers laid no basis for
the plunge to the chasm depths
Seen none, nor felt the safety,
perimeter alarm
Alarm
I see the bearings of disaster
What can you tell me of the inside?
Is it as bright as all can see?
To make a chemical stand
a final front to the days ahead
In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement
Smothered by the numeral that haunts each waking day
What can you tell me of the inside?
Is it as bright as all can see?
Request for countermeasures
to state claim of this my cavern
None to take and none be given
as the window breaks to black
A process left to solitude
is the action left undone
Answers left to echo
in the silent halls of none
What can you tell me of the inside?
Is it as bright as all can see?
Cast down the hopes and aspirations
Shut the windows tight, everybody said "No! No! No!"
Reset your fears and good intentions
Barred up for life, everybody said "No! No! No!"
What can you tell me of the inside?
Is it as bright as all can see?
This is the final resistance
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What if some things are destined to failure?
What if some things are never meant to be?
What if someone never sees?
What if someone never opens?
What if somehow we are different?
Though I never claimed to be right.
Give to me, the benefit of doubt!
I brought you fires.
All that you put out.
I brought you fires!
For I cannot be without.
I came with sadness!
But this my shattered heart can't bear!
What of the times in exhile?
What of the hours passed?
What if touches seem too trivial?
You can never tell me I'm wrong.
A song I've heard so long!
I brought you fires!
All that you put out.
I brought you fires!
For I cannot be without.
I came with sadness!
But this my shattered heart can't bear!
So what if healing takes forever?
So what if time is meant for others?
So what is left is but a shatter.
And what is broken can't be whole.
What is broken, can't be whole again!
I brought you fires!
All that you put out.
I brought you fires!
For I cannot be without.
I came with sadness!
But this my shattered heart can't bear!
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There is this face in the still water
I can't remember ever wearing
Like fingerprints on your heart
Reading out the last lines of code
To the untrained eye a secret
I bled away the last of you
Sought trust in shapes of combined results
that trickles from a less than solid case
Fought off attacks of resurfaced lust
Burn the gracing grounds
What will give in first
the body or the lash
Monochromatic stains
Who will cave in first
the leader or the fake
Monochromatic stains
This pile of ashes of a soul
informant pokes abound
These sickly little fingers
Get away from me
Tread not the path of least restraint
each piece of evidence a lie, a lie
The body, the face all items in place
I don't remember a thing
A sacrifice made to the loss of mind
Folly a man's demise
Track now the stains that allow my fall
sickening, the sight of it all
Never shall I claim my innocence
I just was not there
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"Come with me" he said and erased it from his mind
"Be with me now" but for love we are frightened stiff
We'd rather leave and head for the skies
Than say all the right words too soon
"And I never thought you would
But always knew you could"
"We take off from here" and in that
Instant nothing remained of what was
Whereas the soul provides, freedom
Narrowed down for the taking
"I never wanted you to lie
Never needed fragments of your day"
A broken promise made
To always come around
Never to stay
And as tired as cliches come
Did not expect nor frown upon
Lighter hearts have taken bait
sweetened words now with bitter taste
A distance kept that never fails to close us in
And forget the days that still linger on
Inside the single part of two
We'd rather leave no trace and not look back
Than face the anxiety here and now
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Let me tell you about the loss of all
The failing of all that we hold dear
Wrapped up nicely in ourselves
Chaos resolves
that which order defiles
Worthless lifes
are ordered... are ordered blind
I don't believe
I don't believe
Taste and you will see
that all belongs to me
I don't believe
I don't believe
I raise my hand against it all
For those who don't recognize the call
Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls
Going before it break down
I don't believe
I don't believe
Taste and you will see
that all belongs to me
I don't believe
I won't believe
Let me nail you to the treason wall
Stab the night and the day from your sight
and set the thought to flame
Feeble devout
Nothing resides
Break it to pieces
that obstinate mind
I raise my fist to hold the line
Against those who set themselves on high
Going to break it down
I don't believe
I don't believe
Taste and you will see
that all belongs to me
I don't believe
I won't believe
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Mental Blindfolds on
Early on the fascination intense
How to discern just where right belongs
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to see
There is no need for you to start revolutions
I don't want you to talk to the minions
Just show me a brand new face
an open mind against a dying race
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to hear
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to feel
Cannot fail in this the era of losers,
burnt the shell of those that once held the torches
Cannot give you the senses anew
nor will you know innocence again
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to know
In time all your questions will be answered
Not what you hoped for, not what you dreamed
All preconceptions crumble
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to learn
Won't hold up to the standards you keep
never came from the formative years
Just show me a brand new mind
Keep in what you left behind
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to be
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Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed
those final words to fracture the very structure
can't stand this glacial pace
the damage done
It seems these days are getting shorter
derails my train of thought
What said in hand was done
chased unforgiveness down these corridors
locked down the basis for the willing form
a trail far from strayed
the damage done
Set aside from eyes of others
Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace
Brought out for all to see
the damage done
face contradicting needs
We bring our cages home
for none to see
in vain to lessen
responsibility
the damage done
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Carry our streams
Lift up our less-than-elated lives
Transmit ourselves, we breathe out
Where no one [whispers]
Take in all the dark light
Turn the nighttime into day
Take in all the dark light
Turn the nighttime into day
Cathode Ray Sunshine,
Speak out and we receive
Cathode Ray Sunshine,
Show me and let us in
Alienate
Block out all, amid the breaking of the light
See it again and again
Single sight
Sensory perception,
Turn the nighttime into day
Sensory perception,
Turn the nighttime into day
Cathode Ray Sunshine,
Speak out and we receive
Cathode Ray Sunshine,
Show me and let us in
Cathode Ray Sunshine,
Speak out and we receive
Cathode Ray Sunshine,
Show me and let us in
To our great distrust
Escapism: a means of getting through alive
Take it in and spit it out again
That measly filth
Focal degradation
Bring the chaos into light
Cathode Ray Sunshine
Burns
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To remain objective, to a closer call
Secretly rejected, and to mediocrity fall
caught on the downslopes of life
The patted shoulder remembers
The elbowed side resists
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
Encouraging on the negative scale
Bent out of shape is the measuring norm
In words and in writing
No one knows my enemy... like I do
A social repellant, (not) merely an adversary
Lost to the falling words, Kept the last of all
understood glances to work against
The patted shoulder remembers
The elbowed side resists
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
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Could not have forseen
what the lies of the bearer would bring
Trailing the marks of his errors
trace the original sin
Fallen I cling to deception
This talk of madness is in me
Come now as the drapery falls
From homes that take the foul in hand
Mind cloven Sweet spoken
with words that led us off the track
Truth altered Blindsighted
Thrive on the illusion
and the image of a life to be
Unmount the shielding facade
Cast to death the disciples
fevered rage to burn them
Fallen
Endure the spit of others
Locked inside the pretence cage
Where the cause will be certain
Fallen I'll see you inside
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2005-06-00 |
Dope Entertainment (0727701810324) |
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2005-07-00 |
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