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01 - Ex Cathedra
02 - Monolith Of Doubt
03 - My Pledge Of Allegiance I
04 - Emphasis
05 - Intrinsic
06 - Zenith
07 - Estranged
08 - Imperfect Tenses
09 - My Pledge Of Allegiance II
10 - The Key
11 - Forlorn Hope
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Chronique de l'album
L'album commence par une magnifique intro avec des violons et des chœurs.
Cette chanson nous donne envie de plonger dans le monde d'After Forever.
Decipher nous entraîne dans un superbe voyage musical. Les chansons sont variées, que
ce soit au niveau des mélodies (souvent dans une même chanson on passe du calme à la
tempête) qu'au niveau des voix (soprano, ténor, grunts et chœurs). Le contraste entre la
voix soprano de Floor et le chant agressif de Mark et Sander, les divers élément
orchestraux forment un tout superbe et se complète à merveille.
Des éléments orientaux apparaissent sur certaines chansons (comme sur le superbe
"My pledge of allegiance #1) et transportent l'auditeur vers l'orient.
Les airs sont entrainants et à chaque écoute on découvre de nouvelles choses.
Les élement orchestraux sont mis en avant, Decipher est moins heavy qu'un Remagine
par exemple.
L'album se conclut par le superbe et puissant " Forlorn hope " qui est
idéal pour headbanger.
Cet album fait partie de ceux qui durent. Il n'est pas lassant même après plusieurs écoutes.
Decipher est considéré par beaucoup de fans comme le meilleur opus du groupe.
Il est original, unique, et restera culte dans le métal symphonique. Indispensable !!!
Aurélie (Arwen)
Ex Cathedra
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
Ego iubeo et tu sequaris
Nemo mihi obloquatur impune
Ex cathedra
A deo ipso verba mea ad vos proveniunt
Non obsequentes exsecratio condemnabit
Subicite fato vestro et obtemperate
Monolith of Doubt
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
The ordeal has begun
To oblige the unknown, within me
As I drown
Cannot remember, cannot think
As I sink, deep...
Near the monolith of doubt creeps the fear
The fear to lose yourself
In the severe reflection
I don't know
A flashing moment that has frozen me
My whole existence passed by
Through the trusted eyes of a mirror
But it wasn't me I could see
This monolith of everything that I have been
Is vacillated and aghast
The inexorable time has taught me once again
That my features will change and macerate me
See, it's me, my monolith of doubt
My Pledge of Allegiance I (The Sealed Fate)
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
She kept her beauty concealed behind a curtain of suspense
and endures her fate, molded by an ancient culture
The honour wasn't allowed to be injured
She is going to live as her community expects her to
I find myself confined between furtive desires and feelings of guilt
the letter:
These are my last words, I'm gonna leave you
I can't stand your narrow mindedness any longer
Forgive me...
Emphasis
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
The game is over, time has taught life
Open your eyes and embrace our so called paradise
All the notions and thoughts,
devise a way to make it yours
The enigma of a reason
How can life be what you want it to be
Find the emphasis in your own reality
Deviate from the search with episodic glimpses
of a spectrum no one can see or feel, nor declare
Slowly become aware life knows its prophecies
Find the emphasis in your own reality
In all life you see
A sudden shifting of events
What's coincidence, what's faith
The ambiguity makes the sense of our destiny worth searching for
What can it induce
If our being was omniscient
There's so much you'll never know, but
Your life will be what you want it to be
Find the emphasis in your own reality
Intrinsic
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
At night, assimilate life
In the infinite realm
of our intrinsic side
Find, the missing parts of the mind
The hidden truth behind
Our dungeon of thoughts, this labyrinth
Search, it has a reason and a meaning
Remembered and repeated
A guide, not to be ignored
Feel, there's so much to feel
Amnesia must confiscate an elusive link
to consciousness
It's there, cause there's so much we don't know
Even our own true face
It's there, facing what we can't have
Our ideals ain't true, naked and expose
To the bareness of what's real
Boundless fantasy, becomes reality
As we breath water and run through the sand
Whispers and a scream, flying high, falling down
And a face with no features or name
Exposed to live, we can only divine
Tell me, what's your reality
Zenith
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
Is there something you feel
Is there something you furtively know
Under the spell of science,
Can we declare
Can we allow ourselves to experience
Can we be open-minded enough
Won't we fear what we cannot defy
Do we need to declare
Break the force of habit!
Why can't you see,
fear will impede you to break through your trivial life
and find the missing aim to evolve
Is this the frontier, our zenith
Can we be receptive to our ignorance
Will or won't we be able to reveal
Dulled senses and the need for proven theories
Has masked our natural insight in life,
and mysteries
Life is discussed and measurable
Every aberration is observed with agony and suspicion
Until it is declared again
Estranged
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
Diving in the lake of thousand faces
Every sign seems a delusion and fills me with doubt
I should't look for certainty among these disorderly impressions,
but still I do...
Being Estranged, slowly I loose the grip on the reality
Time shall shatter what we have built up
Being Estranged, from the reliable
Don't even recognize the warmth you always fulfilled me with
Break through my crystallized sphere and hold me
Enter my deepest inner self
Imprison the pain
Besieging in vain
It feels like I'm in the middle of a movie, gazing at the script
It shows me new insights
Delighted by the bygone sufferings but already waiting for the next ones
I bend forward and look between the ripples of the lake, it's the leading character...<
Break through my crystallized sphere and hold me, wherever you are
Deceitful memories mingled with reality
I hold myself to the timeless spell, fascinated by never knowing if it really happened
Imperfect Tenses
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
Why can't they see
They're to blame, I can't forgive
It left a permanent mark behind,
My weakness, my strength
I'm waiting for the perfect sign
To reveal what lies inside
There's no lie in trying,
Why do you fear me
Why can't you see
There's neither blame nor forgiveness
Be strong by being susceptible,
And don't quail, your frankness is your strength
And shows their weakness
I'm / Your waiting for the perfect sign
To reveal what lies inside
There's no lie in trying
Why do you fear me
Why should I fear you
An open heart is just as confronting as honesty!
Why can't I forgive
You must stop to condemn the past
Why can't this fear be my guide
It will be your strength if you dare
There's no blame in my life
Nor forgiveness for the pain
I will show them!
Let them know who you are!
This is my/your perfect revelation
My Pledge of Allegiance II (The Tempted Fate)
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
My decision is fixed
The suitcases are packed
I'm laying the letter on the table
Tonight, I will be safe and the fears will be over
I shall outline my own way again!
I'm walking to the door
Open it and look behind for the last time...
But he's at the doorstep - this can't be real
He's surprised because he notices my bags
Immediately he grabs my wrists and pushes me inside
I realise I'm lost...
O no, what have you done?
What have you done?
Where is your self respect?
You've defiled our honour and your throth
You crossed the line
You won't get out this time
You won't get out
There's no other solution
Then requite you for this insult
But he's at the doorstep - this can't be real
He's surprised because he notices my bags,
Immediately he grabs my wrists and pushes me inside
While he's reading the letter I realise I'm lost...
Faded beauty, her body trembles...
The scars of this dream will always be remembered
The Key
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
The eyes, looking so cold
Condemn failure and seek
for perfection what will never be attained
They're judging the denying face which stares back,
a bewildered revelation
Show me objectivity
And let these eyes judge again
You cannot touch what you can't ever obtai
I'm inexhaustible as well as empty,
in my bitter search
My words are yours,
my voice speaks for your thoughts
I am your mirror without remorse,
your reflection without doubts
I fall and fall,
I must learn from the bruises,
the scars will be my guide
There's no excuse in ignorance
No time for weakness or regret
Face your mirror without doubt,
your reflection without remorse
If knowledge was wisdom,
and wisdom the key to inner rest,
teach me...
Forlorn Hope
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: After Forever
An old man is proud,
but behind his modest smile lies the grief
Only one picture of his brave son remains
It seems that the vicious circle can never be broken through
The hopeful ones gathered their strength to achieve the apparent impossible
but all plans seem to be in vain
As a soldier of Allah he's an example
for the others on his bloody way to immortality
It seems that the vicious circle can never be broken through
Because old wounds are reopened every time
This Intifada as a device to thwart the peace negotiations
He can rely on a reward in the hereafter
Eternal paradise awaits him
Pugnacity
With our blood
Show no mercy
With our soul
Die for heaven
An eye for an eye
Burn to let them...
Suffer for all their actions
We will not move an inch
They won't play in our hands
We will not tolerate those who defy
We will not hesitate
To start an attack if,
you undermine the agreement
Let them suffer
Stop to let them suffer!
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