Canciones para una vida - Gatekeeper - Twisted Towers

TWISTED  TOWERS

Vamos con los canadienses Gatekeeper, un grupo de los que dan la sensación de llevar por una parte mayor discografía de la que realmente llevan (tres EP's y dos LP's a fecha de esta reseña) y por otra, atendiendo a su tiempo de actividad (desde 2009) se antoja sin embargo corta para el tiempo, de lo que no hay duda es del potencial, y de su buen hacer. Basando su sonido en las bandas clásicas del heavy metal épico de la escuela americana de la cuerda de Manilla Road, su primer trabajo fue en formato EP en 2013 al que seguiría otro en 2015, para llegar su primer LP en 2018. En 2019 editan su tercer EP para culminar su discografía de momento en 2023 con su segundo larga duarción, "From western shores" del que quiero dejar hoy en el blog uno de sus temas, "Twisted Towers" del que dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYu_KeyOCCk 

 

Behold absolute power
Reigning from my twisted towers
As the Wind howls through bastions tall
I stand upon them over all you
Weaklings as you cower
Beneath my yoke of power
You shall toil
Day and night to raise
These towers higher
Glory to your

King above you tears and blood are your due
An evil writhes inside my mind
Constricting walls that crush and bind

Your wives, your bairns are sworn
To me, your lord highborn
I can hear the madness calling me

In my mind
The lust for power cries
It's screaming out to me right through the darkness
Madness crawls
Over castle walls
I stand upon the ramparts of
My twisted towers tall

I lay claim to all you know
And I shall reap what
You hath sewn

Cruelty has taken me
Within its grasp
No turning back

I'm wallowing within this keep
A spirit lost in darkness deep

Tendrils of baleful will
Escape my soul
To breach the sill

To taint the very stones
That loom above my throne

Blasted black
Now the towers crack
They're Shifting shape
They wind and snake

Into forms unknown
Mocking flesh and bone

The crenellations are weeping crimson tears
As walls tumble down

Paranoia is clawing within me
Tearing down every stone that surrounds me
They're crashing down

In my mind
The lust for power cries
It's screaming out to me right through the darkness
Madness crawls
Over castle walls
I crumble with the ruins as the
twisted towers fall

Standing tall
Freedom calls
Tyranny is vanquished as the
Twisted towers fall

Standing tall
Freedom calls
Revel in the glory as the
Twisted towers fall

I see you, I hear you, crying out
For freedom, for mercy, masses shout
Defying, Denying, Twisted towers fall 

By Nash