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Rating: This album is reviewed more for completeness than anything else, as it is a compilation, an attempt at a best of the four Dutch deathsters.
The selection of songs was made by Monte Conner, a big name at Roadrunner. And it shows, as in the tracklist there is only one song from that masterpiece known as 'Spheres', which is Mind reflections. This confirms the fact that the record label did not really like the '93 album. Moving on to the actual album, it's worth noting the presence of Hatred Within, the song that allowed Pestilence to secure a contract with Roadrunner; it's a song in the style of 'Malleus Maleficarum', reaching a length of almost 7 minutes (!) and was released on "Teutonic invasion part II" compilation.
The rest of the album consists of six beautiful and captivating live tracks, among which Chronic infection and Out of the body stand out. Listening to the songs from 'Consuming impulse' with the guitars in 'Testimony of the ancients' style is truly exciting, the tracks gain an even deeper dramatic quality. And the result is spectacular, believe me. The songs are also well played and on bass is Tony Choy's replacement, Jack Dodd, who will later be replaced by the fusion-style Jeroen Thesseling. To find the album, you have to dive into the used market, because 'Mind reflections' has been out of catalog for years. A rare piece, therefore, which I recommend especially to those who want to discover the band's more than good live potential.
For those who do not know Pestilence, however, I do not recommend this album, as it does not provide a complete overview of the group's production. Listen to the other albums, especially 'Spheres', before moving on to 'Mind reflections'; you'll see if you don't agree with me. This best of gets a 3, which is mainly due to the excellent live part; the score does not go higher (I was actually tempted by a 4) because of Monte Conner's poor choice of songs.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Out Of The Body (04:40)
In the darkness
They crawl on places
Where you can`t see or hear they come
Marching silently
When it`s dawn they will be gone
A swelling on my body
Makes me suffer, live in anxiety
No time to waste
Just open the abcess, will you please help me
The ignorance is dominating
Remedies you try
I can not live this life any longer
What is it and why?
While you`re asleep
They`ll enter your skin
The search for the new place they will dwell
They give their children
A place to be born
You won`t notice except for the smell
Mysteriousness, researches can`t explain
The sorrow of this eternal pain
It`s burning stronger day by day
Cure me, thre must be a way
Desperation, confused mind
Never heard of the disease of this kind
So tell me what can I do
To leave this HELL I`m going through
Human blood
The perfect place
Birth of descendants
Creatures living
In my veins the horror
Frightening, sickening
The pain that I am bearing
Begging, please get them
Out of my body
02 Subordinate To The Domination (04:18)
Anxiety provides the aspect of days
Dislodge and make them disappear
Domination in sadistic ways
All you hear and see is fear
Inferior to the superior
Restrictive ways to live
Enter the lists against the conqueror
Oppression is not destructive
Trapped in prevailing insanity
Vindictive minds in restraint
Fortification of pugnacity
Life in a domain
Subordinate to the domination
Life ruled by fear
Subordinate to the domination
Distinction, resist and persevere
Being swayed by agony
Obedience and compulsion
Subordination eternally
Revolt remains an illusion
Deprived latitude and domination
Turned up in implacability
Grievous visions and confusion
Belief in vanishing disparity
09 Twisted Truth (04:03)
["Views from a twisted mind"]
A god before god
Summon the demons to enter your body
Ceremonies to attain the blessing
A faith in secrecy
No respect for the weak
The victim of hypocrisy
The philosophy chosen to live by
Has brought you your mortality
A reason to die
No remission of sins commited
When you were fighting the lie
Actions begged to be killed
A sacrifice chosen
Laughter at the sight of blood
That has spilled
Respond to the inclination within
A desire fulfilled
Pride, for the slaughter is done
While being thrilled
Praise who guards your soul
And for whom you have killed
Fools are the followers of masters they deify
Conversion does not save you from death, die
Twisted truth
Twisted truth
A juvenile mind mislead
In the name of your lord you lived
Serving, your death
A life full of sin, good is evil
Believing the unholy words you read
Commandmends are there to break them
Live by your own rules instead
Proclaim the salvation you met
10 The Process Of Suffocation (02:41)
Music:Mameli, Uterwijk
Lyrics:v. Drunen
Smoke`s penatrating the atmosphere
It comes forth from heavy industry
The layers of air sorrounding us,
are venomed by large factory chimneys
Environment pollution
Damage unmesurable
Nitrogen concentrations
Drive away the oxygen
Choking in the gas we self produced
The death of mother earth I introduce
Chemical rain drips from the sky
The more we breathe, the sooner we die
Climates change, oceans vaporize
Woods becomes deserts;no vegetation
Species of animals exterminated
The earth makes its last rotation
The process of suffocation
Coming genocide
Biocircle`s disturbed
Humanity`s suicide
Why give a child its birth
When we are poisoning our earth
The heritage of this generation
is a planet threatened with destruction
11 Parricide (03:48)
A life in desolation, remained in naivety Criminal aberrancy, they rest among their ancestry As an adolescent his life was filled with agony Rancour put a tragic end to the affinity His childhood and puberty were consisting of maltreatment and abhorrent humiliations His accumulating fury leading to an unimaginable horrible escalation Disposed of his relatives one by one Convulsive twitch, morbid homicide Increase of the dreadful phobia Parental slaughter, infanticide Parricide Hatred actuated by the next of kin The culprits of his painful education The moment of judgement and punishment is there Murderous massacre, obtruncation Parricide Sickened thoughts in his mind without repent When he carries his mind to their fatal end A reminiscence of death, disreputable history Motive of retaliation, a revolting event
12 Mind Reflections (03:21)
Unconscious, conscious
Your mind is trapped, your body is free
A senseless life in silence
Your eyes are closed, yet you see
Within your personal world you see
a realization of what could be my soul
or is it just my fantasy?
A timeless world unreal
Reach out for all you can not feel
Things you have seen
at places that you have never been
Invision what turns out to be
a part of life's history
Flashbacks of things to come
Past and future are on
Mind Reflections
Mind Reflections
Roam into the nowhere of pleasure
Behold through your inner eyes
Experiences of human nature
appear on the screen of imagination
Seen by the restless mind
The source of subconscious visions
13 Dehydrated (03:09)
[Music: Mameli] [Lyrics: Foddis] Lost in the desert for reasons unknown An extensive barren plain before you A gruesome affliction; the heat of the sun Don't really know in what direction to go Make your way in the loose sand No protecting shade in this hostile land It's not the hunger but it's the thirst The awful suffering which vexes you worst Hallucinations; thirst drives you insane The shrinking of your skin, bursting lips your body-fluid is floating away The claws of death got you in their grip 'Water' is your last word As your internal organs decay Dehydrated, emaciated Your life slowly fades away Vultures circling in the sky peeling the flesh from a corpse Blankened bones are all that`s left Dehydration as the death the cause Another cadaver in the loose sand Not the last victim of this hostile land Without any water you won`t last Die in the desert, death comes fast
14 Land Of Tears (04:48)
["Fear of all evil that controls mankind"]
Dark sides of life
Unspoken by those in search of the light
Darkness they will find
Rejecting all evil, taken possession of mankind
Fighting what can't be fought
Minds penetrated, souls will be taken
Days turn into night
Bodies are falling, hear death calling
Throughout the centuries
Attempts for protection, prayers, religion
Signs make you aware
Of it's mass domination, a divine dispensation
Land of tears
Indulge in the tempation
Your mind will show you the way
Ghosts of the damned will guard you
In this journey into decay
Land of tears
Land of tears
16 The Secrecies Of Horror (04:56)
["An unknown dimension revealed to man"]
Within the realms unseen
The missing have returned
Deformed beyond recognition
Remains of bodies burned
When all is lost
Swallowed by depths of darkness
The gates to the kingdom of horrors
You've passed, now dwell in madness
Flames of eternity
Burn in immortality
Skin melts so horribly
Revealed surreality
Breathing blackened air
Within the walls of gore
Behold the view of disgust
The secrecies of horror
Eyes of fear, torture is near
Tearful cries, you hear
Discovering beyond death
Secrets you will find
The horror you'll meet
Will capture your mind
Secrecies of horror
Secrecies of horror
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