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Rating: I return to writing on DeBaser after a break that surely pleased many anti-metalheads, and of course, I'm back to talking about solid-state heavy metal. Today's dish is intense because the stereo kicks off with "Inflikted" by Cavalera Conspiracy, ready to scream all its fury in your filthy little rooms until your brain explodes! Indeed, the album is a little gem of thrash-death, angry as a hyena and fast like someone running away from a dog trying to bite their behind...
As everyone knows, the Cavalera brothers are the makers of the Sepultura machine, the great Brazilian band that made the most neurotic thrashers pulse and mosh in the late '80s. Albums like "Schizophrenia" and "Beneath the Remains" are must-haves in any collection of the genre, but unfortunately, in the mid-'90s, a quarrel between the two brothers led Max (the singer) out of the group. Now, ten years later, Igor and Max have reconciled. They met in the studio and gave life to a new creation. The guitars scream devastatingly at tight rhythms, the drums are hit with disgraceful violence, almost with a deadly urge to smash them; the screaming vocals and overwhelming rhythms make the album immediately enticing, though obviously recommended only for those with a taste fit for such bombardments!
If you live in an apartment building, tell those upstairs to piss off and turn up the volume!
If you live alone, but your mom comes to bother you, give her ten euros and send her shopping: she might suffer a hard blow.
If you have a nuisance that you can't stand and want to get rid of, invite them to your room and press play: their entire species will be extinguished by the roars of Cavalera.
If you loved Sepultura, thrash in general, and extreme metal as a whole, prepare for a seismic shock you won't easily forget. Go!
The title track starts, with a fast-paced and powerful rhythm. A vibrant snare drum opens "Sanctuary", equally disarming! "Splendid" is "Terrorize", rhythmic and cadenced in its fierce, violent progression. Good tracks are "Black Ark" and "Ultra Violent", while the arrival of "Hex" presages something colossal. Everything flows at an uncontrollable speed, the fury gallops and almost seems to destroy all the things that hurt us, that disgust us. The slowed-down ending gives darkness to the piece, then comes the turn of "The Doom of All Fires". It overwhelms and devastates you, grabs and transports you with a chorus that's both catchy and wicked, wicked as the worst metalhead couldn’t even dream! "Bloodbrawl" seemed like an "honest" piece to me, bridging one boldly excellent song and another: I'm talking about the violent outburst of "Nevertrust", an escalation of violence and psychedelic solos. Even the last two tracks, "Hearts of Darkness" and "Must Kill" have a massive sound and an engaging rhythm.
In short, the album is highly recommended. Now, the usual pain in the neck will come along to say that, to me, every metal album is a masterpiece, but we don’t care, we laugh together and might even offer them a drink... but in the meantime, you metalheads, go listen to this stuff!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Inflikted (04:32)
Born from dust
In the gutters of this earth
Maggots and leppers
Is this hell or is this heaven?
The cursed, the damned
Spreading hate across the land
No more pretending
Destroy your seeds of envy
Unleash the wicked
This hate is self-inflikted
Deliver this torment
Upon your final judgement
Follow the storm
In the land of no return
It’s you, the scum
We’ll kill until it’s done
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Falling and burning
Execution now is coming
Corruption is the sign
And destruction of your lies
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Inflikted
Show no mercy
Muthafuckin’ wicked
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt…
Inflikted…inflikted
02 Sanctuary (03:23)
Loaded with dynamite
I don't give a fuck 'cause
Everybody die tonight
Call me negative
Call me what you want
You are nothing
Never was... never will
My hostility
My sanctuary
My reality
My sanctuary.... underground
Coming with the storm
You wish you were never born
Fucked up reality
I'll take your soul and plant my seed
My hostility
My sanctuary
My reality
My sanctuary.... underground
No excuses, no regrets
Everybody die tonight
Everybody die tonight
No divisions, no turning back
Everybody die tonight
Everybody die tonight
Sanctuary, sanctuary
Everybody die tonight
Everybody die tonight...
05 Ultra-Violent (03:47)
control...
ultra-violent come and take control
your soul…
ultra-violent come and crush your soul
the storm…
ultra-violent coming with the storm
your world…
ultra-violent come destroy your world
feel the agony, crawling on your knees
feel the agony and the bloodshed
‘til there’s nothing left to bleed
‘til there’s nothing left to bleed
‘til there’s nothing left to….
control…
ultra-violent come and take control
your soul...
ultra-violent come and crush your soul
the storm…
ultra-violent coming with the storm
your world…
ultra-violent come destroy your world
feel the agony, crawling on your knees
feel the agony and the bloodshed
‘til there’s nothing left to bleed
‘til there’s nothing left to bleed
‘til there’s nothing left to….
bolshy, viddy, dies irae
malchicks, bezoomi, dies irae
devotchkas, droogs, dies irae
bolnoi, besoomi, dies irae
bolnoi, bolshy, dies irae
droogs, devotchkas, dies irae
bezoomi, malchicks, dies irae
viddy, bolshy, dies irae
control…
ultra-violent come and take control
your soul...
ultra-violent come and crush your soul
08 Bloodbrawl (05:41)
Fed up and fucked up
Born from war and tension
Fed up and fucked up
Cut-throat generation
Fed up and fucked up
Throw down the fallen nations
Fed up and fucked up
Burn down retaliation
Fed up and fucked up
See you fall from grace
Fed up and fucked up
Scars on your two faces
Bloodbrawl - now you're falling down
Bloodcloth - it's your downfall
Bloodcloth - now you're falling down
Bloodbrawl...
Bloodbrawl, bloodcloth, bloodcloth, bloodbrawl
Born from war and tension
Fed up and fucked up
Feeding on frustration
Fed up and fucked up
Unleash devastation
Fed up and fucked up
Spell out your redemption
Fed up and fucked up
Bloodbrawl - now you're falling down
Bloodcloth - it's your downfall
Bloodcloth - now you're falling down
Bloodbrawl...
Bloodbrawl, bloodcloth, bloodcloth, bloodbrawl
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By stargazer
The two have simply pretended the last 17 years never happened, playing thrash/death in pure Sepultura style.
Inflikted is a work far above average. A transitional work, in short, a first stone laid on what is hoped to be a long path for the Cavalera Conspiracy.
By ThirdWorldChaos
If you are looking for experimentation and assorted novelties, eject the disc immediately!
Inflikted is yet another masterpiece by Max Cavalera and the chance to hear him playing again with the legendary brother Igor.
