DIMENSION ZERO는 인플레임스의 두 기타리스트였던 예스퍼 스트롬블라드와 글렌 융스트롬의 프로젝트로서 1996년 중반에 탄생했다.
이들은 인플레임스와 같이 격렬하면서도 더욱 브루탈하고 속도감 있는 음악을 만들고자 했다. 우선, 이 프로젝트의 이름은 AGENT ORANGE였으나 동명의 밴드가 활동중인 관계로 DIMENSION ZERO라는 이름으로 개명하였다.
당시 라인업은 HANS NILSSON (드럼, 전 LUCIFERION , CRYSTAL AGE, 현 DIABOLIQUE), JOCKE GOTHBERG (보컬, 전 MARDUK), FREDRIK JOHANSSON (기타), GLENN LJUNGSTROM (기타, 전 IN FLAMES) 그리고 JESPER STROMBLAD (기타 및 베이스, 현 IN FLAMES)이었으며 이 라인업으로 97년 EP "PENETRATIONS OF THE LOST WORLD"를 공개했다. .... ....
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Do you, don't you want me to love you I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Helter skelter helter skelter Helter skelter.
Will you, won't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out helter skelter helter skelter Helter skelter
Look out, cause here she comes.
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide And I stop and I turn and I go for a ride And I get to the bottom and I see you again
Well do you, don't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out helter skelter helter skelter Helter skelter Look out helter skelter She's coming down fast Yes she is Yes she is.
There is nowhere left to go, tomorrow never gets here to this abandoned ground, where I can sleep within
Now the air is dark, now the coldness breathes now you see the sign, now you see it reign
when this fire starts to weaken out your soul the tender bows of innocence is the first to burn the cold and empty winds will rise and all the goodness is in fear
WALK WITH ME TO PAIN & SUFFOCATION WALK THROUGH ME WITH ANGER & FRUSTRATION WALK AROUND ME WITH THE FEAR & ACHE CAN YOU FEEL IT? ARE YOU READY TO BREAK?
When the seed is sown, you're about to see
that the evil that you fed, is nothing else but me you will beg to be, a soulless evil being do you know my name? do you feel the shame?
there is nowhere left to hide and the only way is to ride upon the crucial tide, you're stuck with me until you die
There is no where left to go, tomorrow never gets here to this abandoned ground, where I can sleep within
Awake, the whole world hates me Awake, the whole world denies me Morning captures me totally unaware I'm off the edge today, am I not I'm off the world today, am I not Night grabs me totally aware
No one has brought me here I have not been gone so long No one will take me there, I haven't got no choice Who's digging the ground in the depths Who's digging my holes to be
Morning, alright is it not Night for the living, am I here In between where can it be now What do you get from this light All time, no where, anywhere, no Who are you really, where do you hide
BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE ETERNALLY THEY ARE WAITING TO TAKE US TAKE US INTO THE GARDEN OF DEPTHS BEHOLD, I AM DEAD FOREVER
why?
BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE ETERNALLY THEY ARE WAITING TO TAKE US TAKE US INTO THE GARDEN OF DEPTHS BEHOLD, I AM DEAD FOREVER
Forever sombre is the heart of every evening swallowed In ruins are the pieces that you laid in hallowed harmony These veins are filled with ice which sleeps within the hollow Your darkness is not waiting, it has already arrived
Coming down slow Feel the inevitable against your skin Let it in
Like a wound which is not healing it is eating your mind The air is thick around your safe & dying presence You do not want to see the days that lies ahead of you Are you afraid to feel the blackness that your future is?
THIS IS YOUR DARKEST HOUR YOUR SOUL IT WILL DEVOUR REACH OUT & TOUCH YOUR BEING YOUR LIFE SHALL NOT RETURN
Their eyes are opened slowly they are starting to breathe the sky is growling in wrath thunder and lightning is released aware of eachothers powers a feeling of battle appears facing heaven in anger a carnage is soon to await Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Total fucking chaos the ancient meets today erased is the hope sudden death to come
Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Visions from the past
marching into war unleashed upon the earth killing all that breathes
Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Their eyes are opened slowly they are starting to breathe the sky is growling in wrath thunder and lightning is released aware of eachothers powers a feeling of battle appears facing heaven in anger a carnage is soon to await
Their eyes are opened slowly they are starting to breathe the sky is growling in wrath thunder and lightning is released aware of eachothers powers a feeling of battle appears facing heaven in anger a carnage is soon to await Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Total fucking chaos the ancient meets today erased is the hope sudden death to come
Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Visions from the past
marching into war unleashed upon the earth killing all that breathes
Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Their eyes are opened slowly they are starting to breathe the sky is growling in wrath thunder and lightning is released aware of eachothers powers a feeling of battle appears facing heaven in anger a carnage is soon to await
I wont turn around I'm killing my sleep Like a bird courageous I burn my wings
Days turn into eternal night Life is catching up from behind
Weakened surroundings No walls to embrace Distant mumbling Not able to speak Carving in concrete Raging in silence Floating in fever I'm killing my sleep
Days turn into eternal night Life is catching up from behind
KILLING KILLING KILLING KILLING MY SLEEP FALLING FALLING FALLING FALLING TOO DEEP
Days turn into eternal night Life is catching up from behind
Seems like forever, since I opened my eyes Feels like an eternity, to close them shut I've lost my shelter, cant dream no more I wont back down now I'm killing my sleep
The music is playing and I don't mind I seem to speak but no one can hear me
In sadness and all the madness Now I lay me down to sleep
I open my eyes and look upon the darkness The gathering is here and so am I
THE FINAL DESTINATION MY EYES ARE BURNING THE FINAL DESTINATION
Hear me now and I shall speak unto thee What you've sown is now bleeding in me
Here you are now in my calm solitude What is your number? Can you claim that you are here?
The hours are passing like the wind in the air Breathing softly through this heartless despair
In sadness and all the madness Now I lay me down to sleep Smell the silence, feel the grief falling through Now I lay me down to sleep Hear me now because they are coming for you Now I lay me down to sleep
조그만 로봇 '1호'가 있었다. 유능한 뮤지션이자 저명한 엔지니어·프로듀서이기도 한 피터 탁트그렌(Hypocrisy, Abyss)이 근래 주력하는 페인(Pain)의 곡, <Just Hate Me>는 컴퓨터 그래픽과 스톱애니메이션으로 만든 뮤직 비디오가 인상적이었는데, 최초로 감정을 가진 로봇으로 만들어진 '1호'와 그 창조자인 과학자의 이야기로, 50년이 흐른 후 거대한 로봇 제작에 과학자가 몰두하면서 그의 곁에 "늘 함께 있으면서도 잊혀지는" 가여운 로봇 '1호'의 모습에, 민망하게도, 얼마나 슬퍼했는지 모른다. 이 뮤직비디오를 새삼 떠올리는 것은, 동향인 스웨덴의 디멘션 제로(Dimension Zero)가 잔인하게 휘몰아치는 격랑을 담아낸 [This Is Hell]을 보는 관점, 즉 이들이 형...
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