- Abysmal Descent
In the black depths of my very soul
A vast emptiness lies so arcane and cold
Caressed by the icy touch of melancholy
Like the sweetest of poison it permeates me
No more love, no more life
I remain cold and dead deep inside
Through my ruptured veins I leave this cursed world of light
To embrace the infernal fire... and so I fall
- As The Twilight Gave Birth To The Night
As the twilight gave birth to the night
I walked into the forest
The twisted trees clawing at the skies
These are my true dominions
The mist glows red and ablaze the sky
And the funeral wind blows cold
This is where I shall sacrifice
Here I will end my mortal life
- Devoured by Naglfar
Skin, torn from the flesh of the petrified
Drenched by death and absorbed by its coagulating wood
When the final nails falls into its place and the devil stands by the helm
Then, the howling winds of damnation shall whine...
Everywhere sounds the moanings from countless burning souls
Screaming in hate and pain, prepared to row into the final flames
As if shredding the sky, the mast reaches high...impaling the clouds
- Emerging From Her Weepings
Crawling in grief
Across the distant fields
I am the desire of which engraved thee...
The formation was set
An enormous storm arouse
As the thirteenth night ablazed
With its web of obscurity
- Failing Wings
There will be no beauty
The secrets of the unborn
An angel's cries with its shattered wings
The holy blood is spilled
I fell from grace, I fell into the deepest abyss
The evocations wrath hit me like a fist
To burst out in scars of distant grief
- Force of Pandemonium
See, disaster is spreading from nation to nation
Now the great yellow tempest bears witness of annihilation... of death
Worthless replicas made to adore
Your scattered herd are a sign of times forlorn
As wolves we come with murder in mind to wipe our your kind
Blood shall smear the earth, and the children of heaven will mourn
- Harvest
Behold the crown of creation
Worthy of nothing but scorn
Failed abortions that never
should have been born
Liars
Two-faced, spiteful and vile
Your true self well hidden behind
A poisonous smile
- I Am Vengeance
Humanity what have you ever done for me?
Denounced and cursed since my birth for I am not like thee
A proud descendant of the ancient seed
Driven forth by the screams of my enemies
I am the plague that shall grace you with an early grave
Exterminate - bring you all into damnation
In an orgasmic rush of pain I mark my coming in crimson strays
- None Shall Be Spread
6. None Shall Be Spared
... It has begun...
For far too long we have accepted their ways
The time has come for us to retaliate
Prey upon the worthless
- Odium Generis Humani
Hear to my voice, I speak with serpent’s tongue
I’ve denounced the mindless flocks to take the final plunge
Into the secret pitchblack depths, where burning fury reigns
That special place within myself of hatred, rage and pain
I’ve unleashed the beast, and now I come for thee
I am the force, bringer of your demise
- Of Gorgons Spawned Through Witchcraft
Enter! Daughters of death, seducers from the limbonic kingdom
Angels of hell, their lips speak of perdition
Inhaling searing ashes of their temples burning bright
False prophets and purity, succumb to the daughters of night
Twisting feeble seraphs, they are screaming as they fall
In tearing pain their souls are reaped by their nocturnal call
They rejoice as they watch into the cauldrons of protracting pain,
- Pale Horse
Lychgates now wrung ope.
Dhroud the World in cerecloth.
All the filth of Man struck down.
Like the Flame snuffs out the Moth.
Repent you Fools for the Time has come to end all worthless Life.
Accept the grasp of Death so cold.
Succumb to Him and die.
Devoid of Light, all Life subsides as the Reaper wields his Scythe.
- Spoken Words of Venom
Mankind despised
Taste the anger of mine
Sheer worthlessness colours the aura of thine
The ground that you walk is the ground where you'll die
Black angels smile at your painful demise
Taste the venom of mine
The words I speak are the words of your demise
- Teras
Приятно осознавать, что, несмотря на общую тенденцию среди многих знаменитых и всеми любимых групп к экспериментам, доводящим порой до кардинальных изменений в стиле звучания, остаются группы, верные своему стилю. К таким относится и Naglfar с их новым альбомом "Teras".
На мой взгляд, группы, прежде всего, заслуживают почтения своим индивидуальным звучанием, атмосферой, и идеей, которая если уж полюбилась - то навряд ли надоест. В данном случае, Naglfar, верный своим традициям, выпускает неизменно качественный материал, который, пожалуй, по моему субъективному мнению, является продолжением предыдущей серии альбомов. И это действительно можно прочувствовать, прослушивая полную дискографию группы. Каждая песня дополняет предыдущую, и таким образом постепенно раскрывается идея, заложенная еще в 95м.
Однако любителям разнообразия именно этим альбом может не понравиться. Гармония, как и ритмы, остались практически неизменными. При прослушивании может сложиться впечатление, вроде: "Где-то я это уже слышал..." =) Посему, альбом скорее подходит для тех, кто "хочет еще".
Для тех же, кто незнаком с творчеством группы, общее звучание можно сравнить с альбомом Dimmu Borgir "Death Cult Armageddon" (2003) + Vesania "Distractive Killusions" (2007). Хоть в песнях зачастую слышны знакомые рифы, и минорные гаммы не устают сменять друг друга, в данном случае они подобраны максимально гармонично и доставят колоссальное удовольствие любителям такой мелодики
- The Brimstone Gate
I have seen the most beautiful light
Since my birth It's been possessing my mind
I've lashed myself, I have opened my veins
Cursed my blood in grief
As a shadow of death, the repaer from the tales of past
I've been lurking in the shades of Thy creation
Feared by most, hated by all, loved by none
- The Darkest Road
What is wrong, what is right?
I worship the night
Into the darkness I wander
Bathing my skin the full moon light
In this my final hour, in this my final rite
I hunger for the eternal silence
To drown in the perpetual sleep
- The Eclipse Of Infernal Storms
The gate rose before him
It stood there open wide
A bloodstained portal of might
His travel to the land unknown
I awakened from this dismal dream
The same as thousand times before
This sight is so impure
- The Murder Manifesto
Possessed by the blazing aurora
Reborn under the fullmoon light
Hate boils in my veins tonight
I have wrapped myself with anger
And pursued you, killing without pity... I do
I've armed myself with all the strength of hell
And no prayers will pass trough
- The Perpetual Horrors
All you see is a shell
There is nothing left inside
I'm dead to this world
I'm driven by a yearning to end all life
Tears of joy in my eyes
As you scream, as you die
[Chorus]
- Unleash Hell
I've seen the place where they meet, I know where it lies
Where ancient demons gather, where angels die...
The darkest pits of the abyss, where flames burns bright
Where satan reigns in terror, there's eternal night
I invoke the elder to lead me, into that place
Drain myself from blood, and drown in sulphur grace
I read the signs and blackened the earth with the magic of mine
- When Autumn Storms Come
Nightchildren bring my words
Howling them through the dark
The time is here for my return
With the shadows I walk
Twilight shrouds the earth
As always when I'm here
Night spreads her wings for me
They call me father