[SLON]

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Artist: Ария (Aria)
Release: Demo, 1988
Genre: Heavy Metal
Country: USSR (Moscow)
Bitrate: 320 kbps
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Very rare demo before recording "Playing with fire". The texts here are total different than in the finale, and resemble generic glam ballads with the appropriate content.
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1. Lonely (?) (future "Rock the World")
2. Somebody (?) (future "Give us some heat")
3. One man (?) (future "The fight goes on")

[HeavyMetalManiax]

It almost sounds like they speak English at some points, but it's so muffled that I can't make any of it out.

[WotaN]

They possibly have a different singer on this one.

[SLON]

I'm too lazy to sort it all out, but for example the chorus in the first track sounds something like this:

too get right

you're my sinner, lonely die
screamin in my soul, goodbye
you're my sinner, lost control
that's is my soul, belove

got are my sinner, lonely die
screamin in my soul, goodbye
you're my sinner, lost control
that's is my soul, belove

So it doesn't senseless, at least not worse than as many German non-first line bands sang in English back then.
On the other hand, I'm 100% sure that this demo was not commercially distributed at that time. As well as the fact that they certainly were not going to use it in the final. Quite an interesting piece of history, at the same time.

[HeavyMetalManiax]

In the song that became "Rock this World" it sounds at one point as if he is singing "Rising Force, you came along ???" but then the rest is indecipherable to my ears.

Bassist Vitaly Dubinin posted it on his personal channel actually, and according to the description this is him singing. So it must essentially be a scratch track from around the time they initially recorded the song, so while it is a different singer than Kipelov, it is likely because they were rehearsing without him available rather than they were trying to replace him.