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Rating: Once upon a time, there was a genre called metal.
Now this genre no longer exists, or at least it exists but doesn't present itself with the same splendor reached at the end of the '80s-beginning of the '90s. As many claim, metal has now lost its way, giving rise to its evolution (?): that crap that we all know by the name "nu-metal". Thanks to bands like Korn, Slipknot, and Limp Bizkit, it has imposed itself on all the others probably because of commercial moves like costumes, etc., or for its violence (here I would add another "?"), so much so that sometimes it is confused - and here I would strangle anyone who claims it with my own hands - precisely with metal.
Unfortunately, today's kids (fortunately I managed to get out of it) grow up listening to this pile of dung, just because they get excited listening to noise or because they are trying to look like real tough guys, and I have to say with a heavy heart more and more kids believe they are metalheads because they listen to "extreme" bands like linkin pork or similar stuff.
So, metalhead friends everywhere, are you tired of being bothered by creatures who annoy you by saying: "You know, I'm a metalhead too, in fact, I LOVE 'St. Anger' and I love Limp Bizkit, not to mention Linkin!", or maybe hearing two kids on the street saying: "Have you heard this from Slipknot? It's so violent! Never heard a more powerful metal record!"... Yes, are you fed up? Then contact me, I have the solution for you! You just need to tie them to a chair and force them to listen to a TRUE Death Metal album which in my opinion is "Retribution", the second effort of Malevolent Creation, a great band coming from the prestigious Floridian death current.
I want to make one thing clear: ignore the horrible cover and don't take as a reference other more famous bands of the genre like Cannibal Corpse who are really crap, not for the very complicated instrumental parts (even though I have to admit they are good at making noise), but more for the ideals, where we find vomited guts, cannibalism, and stuff like that, these are not Malevolent Creation: Malevolent Creation are genius, innovation, mastery, and violence united together to explode in a lethal mix, and it could only come out as a masterpiece like this.
Yes, because this album, even though it doesn't yet present the true style of the band that has to shake off various influences, appears to me as one of the best works of the genre, with its nine songs of unheard-of violence that abandon us to 34 precise minutes of dark malignity.
The CD opens with the immense Eve Of The Apocalypse, one of the most beautiful death songs I have ever heard, accompanied by its dark intro that really creates a tremendous impact and demonstrates the immense talent of that genius Phil Fasciana both as a songwriter and as a guitarist, but which can also alone already make it clear what this CD is made of, but it would really be a huge mistake to limit oneself to listening only to the opener, as we will soon be enveloped by the ingenious violence of 8 other songs.
How can we not mention the disarming speed of Systematic Execution and Slaughter Of Innocence, where the singer Brett Hoffman, whom I consider one of the few great death singers existing, capable of offering an immense performance to give a not-insignificant contribution to making "Retribution" special, thanks to his ability to slot in perfectly between various tempo changes and a voice nothing short of extraordinary for the genre, able to keep at bay anyone in this world who contests growling (in the face of those "singers" capable of letting out a little scream here and there).
Surely the CD doesn't end here, in fact, Alex Marquez's devastating drumming gives way to that masterpiece that answers to the name of Coronation Of Our Domain, which together with Mindlock and Iced surprise with the class with which they have been crafted, but also violence finds its space, thanks to songs like the heaviness of No Flesh Shall Be Spared and the immediate ferocity of Monster, whose beginning is very Morbid Angel.
After this overview, you should have an idea of what Malevolent Creation represent in the Death atmosphere, or at least surely you will have understood my opinions towards this great band that has certainly obtained less success than other death-crap bands (and there are quite a few) undeservedly... I hope you agree with me...
When Violence and genius go hand in hand...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Eve of the Apocalypse (04:21)
No more inferiority will ruin this, our lives.
To step outside the boundaries of just the will to survive.
Come inside, feel your life, slip from your grasp, to your religion =
you clasp.
A fear that is new, pours into you, tearing your soul, release the =
unknown.
Dethroning the old, crowning the young, rightful heir, the time has =
come.
Religion has died. All shall melt under one sign.
Relinquish your life. A new lease of power has been sent forth.
The weak can only cry. Lost amongst the dust of a crumbling world.
Last breath fails, time to move on, evolution calls.
Worlds collide, the weak step aside.
Our callings heard, no mercy will come.
The path is cleared, paid for with your blood.
This time has been anticipated, since the dawn of man.
Hatred silently brewing, awaiting it=B9s final stand.
Our rule, our....RULE!
The advantage is ours, gathering the powers of the past.
Tensed forth to aggress, deal a strike with precision crass.
Worlds collide, the weak step aside.
Our callings heard, no mercy will come.
The path is cleared, paid for with your blood.
Now that the time has dawned upon us, allocate your inner soul.
Seize now, this opportunity.
Retribute your malevolence handed down.
02 Systematic Execution (03:28)
Rounded up, herded in, innocence served.
Tortured, various phases, in witness of family you die.
Hot steel prods into your eyes.
Executioner nods, optics spew.
Tanks roll foreword claiming lives.
Focus of death, nothing new.
Innocent families left to die.
Soldiers murder, God defied.
Iron fist falls heavy with lust.
Systematic execution.
Playing God with his thoughts.
No retribution.
Forever the souls will haunt.
Systematic execution.
Military machines, steel warped with hate.
Death from above, precision bombing translates final acts.
Engines whine, tear through the night.
Weary low morale, caught up in the sights.
Soldiers march, take your land.
Resistance end in slaughter.
Dying screams clutter the sands.
Echoing sounds, chaotic laughter.
The sun is killed, behind a blackened sky.
The son is killed, a father watches him die.
Systematic execution.
Playing God with his thoughts.
No retribution.
Forever the souls will haunt.
Wings of death carry your carcass into the realms of terror.
Crushed beneath the wheels of war.
Doctrine of greed violently implored.
04 Coronation of Our Domain (05:06)
Coronation of this our domain.
Only the strong and dominant shall remain.
Ancestral power granted, this our night.
Inheritance never relinquished, endure the plight.
Fools fall backwards.
Passion for victory, never in sight.
The feeble falling victim to the aggressive.
To the aggressive this night.
To lose a life or take a life.
Your just cause rewarded.
Hindered on the battlefield by nothing or no one.
Death exploited.
Taste the blood, smell the victory in the air.
Yellowed eyes take in the dead stare.
The rule shall govern under one allegiance.
Our realm, our dominion.
The authority that has been bestowed.
Will flourish when it's ripe.
All empires that stand around us.
Will decay and fade from sight.
Coronation of this our domain.
Coronation of this dominion.
This coronation.
Intrepid preservation!
Self realization.
Feel the supremacy all around you.
Granted powers to survive.
Your soul forever immortal.
Regain strength of all past lives.
The throne allocated upon us.
The key to sovereign rule.
No more are we looked upon as common.
The reign of power is true.
Coronation.
Never to give in, bred from the start to always win.
Waiting for this day to come, always within our grasp.
Faltering and the weak lay gathered at our feet.
Decimating fools, genocide is our link.
Fools fall backwards.
Passion for victory, never in sight.
The feeble falling victim to the aggressive.
To the aggressive this night.
Crowning of this sovereign can wait no longer.
Inner hostilities force the surfacing.
Violent traditions altered beyond fate.
Your crumbling society denied, ESCAPE!
07 Monster (02:40)
Seize the pipe, offer your life, inhale this obsession.
Filling the lungs of minorities youth, coincidental connection?
The sickness spreading, into their lives, free-base infecting.
Who will pay for their lives?
The gullible one grabs his gun, sticks it to your head.
For a piece of smoking disease,\squeeze the trigger until tour dead.
Mind is thrown in disarray, for a vice, unconscious slay.
Governmentally induced, no one except yourself to blame.
No one to blame, suicide this game.
Shell of a man left to wither and die.
Deteriorating waste, ignoring his mind's cry.
Addiction continues, more population to abuse.
MONSTER!
Expanding into your lungs, banish your right of thought.
Tasting your foul sorrow, sickening trend of this plot.
Is this what your soul commands? How much rock can you smoke?
Easy prey for government plans, take this genocidal toke.
Monster!, Monster!, Monster!
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