WINDS OF WAR
Una vez más se puede recurrir a lo mismo que tantas veces he dicho en este blog, otra banda cojonuda, desconocida (injustamente) a nivel general, de una de las más prolíficas escenas metálicas de la época como era la estadounidense, heavy metal a medio camino entre un power o proto power y un heavy metal clásico, vamos, de la época hacen que descubrir a Helstar si aún no lo habías hecho sea una cuestión necesaria y de justicia, y si ya lo habías hecho esta puede ser una ocasión para desemplovar material clásico del bueno. Helstar se forman en 1981, en Texas, y han seguido sacando material hasta nuestros días, eso sí, con periodos de cinco o seis años sin material nuevo editado, lo que ha hecho que a pesar de tener una ya dilatadísima carrera musical a sus espaldas, el número de LP's no sea tan alto como cabría esperar, y así, un total de 9 discos de estudio componen su discografía. Siempre encabezados por el guitarrista Larry Barragan y por el cantante James Rivera, ambos los únicos supervivientes musicales en esta aventura llamada Helstar, han formado parte también a lo largo de sus carreras en otros grupos o proyectos paralelos, algunos de cierto renombre tales como "Malice" o "Shadow Keep" por ejemplo. Hoy me quiero referir a su tercer LP, "A distant Thunder", de 1988, un disco que muestra parte de su mejor momento musical en mi opinión, junto con su cuarta obra "Nosferatu" de 1989, de la que terminaré dejando algún tema en el blog antes o después. Como digo, un disco este "A distant thunder" de gran nivel, en general como el resto de sus obras pues estamos ante un grupo tan desconocido como poseedor de una calidad y buen hacer de primer orden. Concretamente, y para ilustrar lo que digo con música hoy quiero dejar el tema "Winds of war", del que dejo un enlace a youtube.
On a cold night, in the winter winds
I lift my head, and stare to the stars
To find a path that will lead me out
To a place that will heal the scar
Of once a battle that raged long ago
Through the atmosphere surface, we all would go
Destroyer cruisers and our fighter ships
We're on a mission of mercy declared by the script
On our way to meet the Axis Powers
Surprise attack! We all went down
Destroyer cruisers, and our fighter ships
Were wrecked to the ground
There were dead all around, so I pledge I would die
"An eye for an eye" so was it burned in my head
"Vengeance is mine" you'll all be dead!
I built on the trenches beyond anger and sweat
My fighter repaired no need to dispair
With its cruiser engines, and all its armor wear
Off to destroy and kill my enemies
For betrayed we were in the scriptures of peace
Beyond the star of the rising sun
L.B. solo
A.C. solo
So ends the memory of once was to be
No longer do I live to see
Another time, some other place
No need to face this disgrace
As I believe to be the only one
I should do in myself as they had planned
So I write this log to anyone who finds
Will know that just has been done!
I lift my head, and stare to the stars
To find a path that will lead me out
To a place that will heal the scar
Of once a battle that raged long ago
Through the atmosphere surface, we all would go
Destroyer cruisers and our fighter ships
We're on a mission of mercy declared by the script
On our way to meet the Axis Powers
Surprise attack! We all went down
Destroyer cruisers, and our fighter ships
Were wrecked to the ground
There were dead all around, so I pledge I would die
"An eye for an eye" so was it burned in my head
"Vengeance is mine" you'll all be dead!
I built on the trenches beyond anger and sweat
My fighter repaired no need to dispair
With its cruiser engines, and all its armor wear
Off to destroy and kill my enemies
For betrayed we were in the scriptures of peace
Beyond the star of the rising sun
L.B. solo
A.C. solo
So ends the memory of once was to be
No longer do I live to see
Another time, some other place
No need to face this disgrace
As I believe to be the only one
I should do in myself as they had planned
So I write this log to anyone who finds
Will know that just has been done!
By Nash