[推薦] + [翻譯] Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris_72分鐘的心靈旅程

[MoonOfFrost (MoonOfFrost)]

(靠北我貼這篇一定有人認出來我是誰了)

其實這篇文幾個禮拜前打的，但這幾天才有ptt帳號=   =




Lykathea Aflame

毫無疑問

唯一一張專輯Elvenefris(2000)是我聽過最傑出的一張死亡金屬專輯

1999年成立於捷克的布拉格。

Progressive/Atmospheric Death/Grind

看一點數據

金屬百科中的評論總共14則，平均分數97(踏碼的)

我想小弟的文筆沒有資格評論這張專輯

就直接翻譯金百上的評論了




原文 :

A Spiritual Journey

Lykathea Aflame's Elvenefris is a spiritual journey into the world of
unknown. This CD disproves that evolution is a curse, this is a muscial
revelation and a spiritual spark that ignites with each and every coherent
note that is played through the 72 minutes of music that the band has
compacted through a thought that has forever cursed and abused the fact that
the existentalistic rituals and realities have borne fruit to. The music sums
up a totality of human ability, thought, desire, belief, dream and finally an
execution that again affirms faith into sum being greater than the parts. The
band has not devised a plan, they have no calms about expressing their
innermost infectious feelings through the most unique form of music known to
mankind. Elvenefris was released in the year 2000 and having listened to this
album since 2005, it's only today in 2009 that I can say I have managed to
comprehend a message so twisted and cryptic that one would have to undergo a
tremendous process of rigorous self analysis and introspection with regard to
their music, only to realize there's no absolute journey or destination that
has to be reached, there are just moments of elevated levels of assumption
and presumption that internally enable an individual to empower himself
through the journey, Elvenefris is a journey.

Elvenefris to me is not music based, neither based on the capabilites of the
members who display astounding proficiency in handling their instrument,
Elvenefris, whole is the resultant of lyrics, a lyrical theme so powerful
that it held together the most powerful of abilities to be captured through
the dimensions of time and production awesomeness. The lyrics of this album
in particular are by far the best that any band in the metal genre has ever
managed to produce, the lyrics bind together a feeling of calmness, a feeling
of expressing the inner most devils through the predicaments of life and at
the same time engage in a constant struggle to be not misuderstood, they
dwelve upon the very own human thought patterns and existentalism by the
virtue of questioning and leaving behind the quest for independent thinking.

From Flowering Entities

Any negative emotion as a response,
for stimulus from envirous arisen in us,
show us that we are still within power,
of superficial dimension and teach us.

The lyrics, as expressed do not let the listener mature through the musical
harmonies and melodies entwined with them, they stand independent
irrespective of the exceptional musical atmosphere that encroaches them
through the dimensions offered by the instruments, influencing eastern
elements add up to the mystical aura of questioning that the band wants to
and at the same time lightens the path of unknown for the jouney to be taken.
Elvenefris is a intellectually stimulating experience that should not be lost
just by the music that surrounds an internal philosophy, it has to be
devoured, mentally consumed to understand the striking inabilities of the man
in relieving himself off the anomalies for the path into the superficious and
extend an eternal inquisitiveness into the patterns of evolution, till then,
it is still a curse.

The music of Elvenefris is a perfectly simulated experience that only the
collision of ideologies and implementation of non-prejudiced withhold, the
album is full of illustrious waves of thought that is brough to life through
the help of vocal chords, strings and stretched skins. The guitarists of the
album web through the complexities of the lyrics effectively to construct a
thought pattern in itself that weaves a sea of imagination through the mind
struck and actively frozen world of musicians, the guitars often overshadow
their contemporaries to establish a unique sound through the enchanting
eastern instruments, that chip in to mesmerize one with the melodies that so
easily encapsulate the listener, the solo's are impeccable, surprisingly the
solo's do not take the center stange, Elvenefris has the most complicated
rythm section in whole of metal, the guitars just burp out through the unholy
hands that attach themselves through the devotion of beliefs and playing
efficiencies. The guitars on whole of this CD form a pattern of following
their ideas and ideologies expressed in that moment. The breakdowns are so
meaningful, they've always lead to the greater part of the realization
process that is to follow through simpler patterns that evolve to contrast
what just followed. The guitar playing is complex to say the least, why the
complexity is a question when the band does just fine by empoweing the lyrics
using simpler intrinsic patterns that add up to the message of the lyrics. As
I understand, the burden of having to realize the expression of lyrics so
abnormally powerful has to be coupled only with a way like this, every song
independently dependent on the basic human thought and an accomplishment that
itself, set's out to achieve a higher and more brutal introspective emotions
withheld. Every song emerges with a perfect stimulating analogy, a flawless
reflection through the guitars some times building the atmosphere and the
feel of the track that would only gobble up the mean and the insensitive. On
the whole, this album does not bring to the world a whole new guitar playing,
what this album does, that no other in the present days is bring out guitar
pieces that so easily sew themselves to the path of broken words and mind
wrenching truths. The most impressive parts on the album are the non
distorted outputs that so gently and sensibly pierce one through the grey
matter to inculcate the stimulation, and once the damange of it is done, the
incessant and the brutal skinning of it is done to review a whole new
experience of expertise that only Lykathea Aflame can offer for all time to
come.

The drumming on this album is a unique high that no other drummer has dared
to produce in all the time of metal music's existence, they build up just
like the guitars to undo the damage of the lyrics only to realize they've
entrusted oneself with the greater responsibility of understanding this
gentle journey. The drummer is unbelivably honest and fast with his mode of
expression, with every unique riffing pattern, the drums mould themselves to
a newer level of brutality that acknowledge everything that the band is
propagating through this CD, every single second of this album is a different
experience through a different instrument, that pin pointing it to a unique
source is extremely difficult, but yet, the drums stand out in their
department not only because of the ability of the drummer to be fast and be
heard in the jungle of sounds and notes, but because of the ability of the
drummer to coherently interfere with something so beautiful that the whole
purpose is set itself and aligned to a new level, a new dimension through it.
The band's opening track, Land Where Sympathy is Air, is perhaps one of the
most destructing pieces of music that one has to sit through to understand
the beauty in expression and experience. The drummer right from the second
where he quietly chip's in with his masterpieces exhibits an exuberating
sense of time. Every stretched skin and every piece of metal out in the kit
has not a second of unwantedness, every single second is a massacre that
engulfs the senses of the listener. It is meaningless to express how fast or
how effective the drummer is, it just adds up to the mediocre ways of
reviewing any normal artist, Lykathea Aflame is not a normal band, they are
exceptionally and intellectually stimulating where the independent and the
individual pieces of perfection are laid across to create and have created a
masterpiece.

The bass guitar has often been misrepresented and misinterpreted, lost in
layers of production wonders and confined to the background of behemoth
riffs, the bass guitar and bassists in general have been a folk of (mostly)
under-appreciated people who through time have reformed through the demands
of pulsating drums and acting like the proficient back bone of the band, the
bass on Elvenefris does everything that a bassist is expected to do, hide in
the shadows providing the necessary darkness to the patch of brightly lit
beauty of the togetherness of a band. The bass on this CD is a veritable
treat, extremely complex with riffs and independent in the areas where there
is a perfect necessity to carry out the burden, thought lost in the sudden
build up's and break downs of the music, the bassist acknowledges the
necessity of deception through the guitarists work and emerges from the
depths of perfection to hold still the complex existence of individuality
coupled with a perfect sense of time. The intro of To Become Shelter and
Salvation is the perfect example of this, the bass builds up innocently a
tempo that is followed on by the fastest and creative riffs, the best part
would be the continuation of the riffs breaking down to the simple bass parts
that support them only to proceed onto the next set of executions. The
bassist has chosen his medium of resentful expression on a journey in perhaps
the most brilliant way possible.

Elvenefris is a progression of musical melodies from extreme to soul soothing
intricacies, the album opens in perhaps the most unique and brutal Land Where
Sympathy is Air and makes way for melody to seep through right from Flowering
Entities, the fourth track of the album, and there on progresses to mix an
even contest of technicality and brutality with melody. On The Way Home is
perhaps my favourite track of the album, this track brings about exactly the
truest elements of melody right from the first second of the song and
continues it with a perturbed mix of technically executed perfection. The
progress of the album is so smooth one often fails to recognize it, the
elements of melody seep slow through time that the disc quietly runs about,
eventually ending with Walking In The Garden of Ma'at, which is an absolute
masterpiece on keys, considering the turmoil and the confusion that the band
puts through the listener, Walking In The Garden of Ma'at is a supposed
relief but it's interesting the way the band creates a unique experience
adding the chirping of birds and eventually lifts off the listener off his
feet through the sheer power of mental visualization that this piece of music
creates. Beginning with the first track to the last track, the way the band
creates an atmosphere, includes elements of middle eastern prominence, mixes
technicality, brutality and melody and finally, the lyrical theme of the
output is such an awesome process to comprehend and will surely be missed on
the first few listens. This is a CD that should be thoroughly enjoyed as a
piece of art and a fortress of exemplified structure, Elvenefris is arguably
the best ever album in metal music. In the world of crippling mediocrity and
label deadlines, Elvenefris stands tall admist the ruins of illogical and
random outbursts of expression and superior quality death metal. For once,
the world has borne witness to a phenomenon that shall stand the test of time
forever.





翻譯 :(原文有些地方翻成中文會很奇怪，所以我會改變一點語意)

心靈旅程

　　Lykathea Aflame 的 Elvenefris 這張專輯，是通往未知深處的心靈旅程。這張CD證
明了演化不過是個詛咒。這是個音樂史上的啟示，透過了這長達72分鐘、被灌注了永恆詛
咒的每一個音符，Lykathea Aflame 燃燒了精神上的火花，並且痛斥了那些現實主義的果
實。這張專輯將人類的能力、思想、慾望、信任、夢想以及最後的審判總和了起來。這個
樂團在對自己內心最深情感的宣洩上，並沒有任何的保留，並且透過人類史上最獨一無二
的音樂，顯露無遺。這張2000年發行的專輯，我直到2009年才敢說自己完全理解了這個樂
團所要表達的意念：最後的、最嚴峻的自我審判，我意識到了並沒有絕對的目標等著我們
去完成，只有那些片刻的行動昇華和推測才能真正使自己通過這個旅程。Elvenefris就是
旅程。

　　對我來說，Lykathea Aflame已經跳脫了音樂的形式，音樂已不是重點，那些樂器令
人驚駭的複雜性以及高技術也不是我所要去追尋的目標。Lykathea Aflame的歌詞是精華
所在，他們的歌詞主題是如此廣闊深奧，他們徹底展現了時間平面上的最高能力。這張專
輯中的歌詞絕對遠遠勝過其他所有的金屬樂團，他們的歌詞借由那些生命中的困境，結合
了平靜的感受、表達內心最深的邪惡的感受，同時匯聚了內心連續不斷的掙扎。他們藉由
自省以及追尋獨立思考的方式，思索了人類最深的存在。

　　
　　自＂Flowering Entitles＂一曲中擷取歌詞：

負面的情緒應驗了那些在我們心中出現及盤繞的

告訴了我們仍在二元層次的力量之中

並且教導我們


　　這歌詞，隱喻了叫聽眾別去追尋他們在樂曲上的技術性，他們在音樂氣氛之中，被樂
器的技術性腐蝕。他們的音樂中加入了東方的奇特色彩元素，讓整體有種探索前方未知途
徑，並且照亮前程的感受。他們告訴了我們，不該只是被音樂所牽制，那些終究會被吞噬
，唯有了解人類對於探索崎嶇道路的無能，並且永恆的探索才能進步，這是天罰。

　　
　　Lykathea Aflame的音樂完美的呈現出了中立的思想衝突碰撞，充滿了幻影似波瀾的
思想藉由聲帶、震動的弦以及鼓皮發出。吉他在這張專輯中，完美的構築了在幻想之海以
及思想崎異中複雜的網，吉他常常透過那些具有東方文化色彩的音符，淹沒了聽者，輕易
的就迷惑了感官。無懈可擊的吉他Solo卻不是在曲中佔了中心的位置，這點倒是挺令人驚
訝。Lykathea Aflame擁有在金屬樂中最複雜的韻律，吉他手將他們自己附著在信念中，
完完全全清楚表達的這張專輯所要傳達的意念。那些Breakdown聽起來實在很深沉，他們
總是以最簡單的方式讓聽者領悟，複雜度則是了解最簡單的本質最好的辦法。了解這張專
輯所要傳達的意念只能藉由這些音符。每首歌都是構築在最基礎的人類思想和自我實現上
，帶出了更高級而更殘暴的自我反省的情緒。每一首歌都有他的畫面，透過了吉他無瑕疵
的表達構築出。整體上，這張專輯並沒有帶給音樂界全新的吉他表現手法，他們珍貴的地
方是在於他們的表達，吉他如此輕易的就重組了破碎的文字以及扭曲的現實。這張專輯中
最令人印象深刻之處在於Clean Guitar，如此輕柔、順暢的刺穿那些教誨。全然的綿密輕
柔、殘暴無情兩者的對比，是Lykathea Aflame帶給我們前所未有的感受。


　　這張專輯中的鼓，是金屬樂界中非常少有人能夠達到的境界，如同吉他一樣，鼓重建
了那些歌詞所造成心靈上的破壞，他們讓擁有高理解能力的聽眾了解了這溫柔的旅程。鼓
手以不可置信的速度以及技術性表現，以他自己獨特的表達方式、以每個獨立的樂句。這
張專輯上的鼓塑造了更新境界的殘暴，更輔助表達的這張專輯所要呈現的事物。這張專輯
中的每一秒，皆是由不同樂器所組成的不同體驗。鼓手厲害的地方不在於它可怕的技術性
，而是能與如此美麗的主題結合，並將整張作品提升到一個更高的層次。

    貝斯在這張專輯裡經常是扭曲且被誤解的，迷失在一層一層思想中，而且被層層級他
音層所掩蓋住，貝斯在此所扮演的角色是像整張專輯的脈搏和脊椎一般。貝斯手在
Elvenedris中表現的中規中矩，暗藏在陰影之中，爲光明提供了必要的黑暗，跟極端複雜
的樂句並行，這也是必須的。儘管迷失在這張專輯的複雜性中，仍是這完美的奠基，爲這
複雜度無可挑剔地增添了一絲穩定性。序曲To Become Shelter and Salvation就是一個
完美的例子。貝斯塑造了簡單的音符，卻能與快速且非常有獨創性的吉他樂句一起運行，
最為人稱道的地方在於貝斯不只能平穩的表現，更把意境推行到了下一個自裁的境界。貝
斯在這旅程中選擇了他自己平常的表現方式，這恐怕是最優秀的作法了。





   Elvenefris是音樂的過程，從極端的音符到最簡易、能撫慰人心的旋律。這張專輯恐
怕是音樂史上最獨特且殘暴的傑出作品。序曲 To Become Shelter and Salvation甚至做
出了第四首Flowering Entities的伏筆，而且將暴力以及技術與優美的旋律結合。On
The Way Home也許是整張專輯中我最喜愛的曲目，這首歌從開始的第一秒就帶來了完全真
實的旋律，並且以混亂的完美技術性延續著。整張專輯實在是進行的非常平順，72分鐘幾
乎無聲無息的一下就過去了，最後以Walking In The Garden of Ma'at這首歌做為結束，
無庸置疑是一首鍵盤的佳作，考慮到了之前專輯帶給聽者的混亂以及殘暴，Walking In
The Garden of Ma'at極能撫慰人心，非常有趣的這樂團最後以蟲鳴鳥叫聲作為結尾，帶
給聽者全新的感受，彷彿使人漂浮在空中，進入如紗幕般的心靈幻想畫面。從第一首到最
後一首歌，他們創造了某種氣氛，混合了中東色彩、殘暴、技術旋律。歌詞是優秀的理解
過程，但也很容易在只聽幾次的情況下被忽略。這是一張毫無疑問能被當作藝術看待的CD
，Elvenefris也許能被認為是金屬樂中最為傑出的一張CD，在一個充滿垃圾音樂的世界裡
，Elvenefris仍然站穩了自己的腳步，聳立在邏輯以及情感爆發後的殘破廢墟之中，是擁
有極度優秀品質的死亡金屬，這個世界見證了一次音樂上的奇蹟，並且能夠永遠通過所有
考驗。

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