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It hasn't even been two years since the amazing Sadus, after the solid debut of "Chemical Exposure," return to the limelight with the new "Swallowed In Black".
The band led by bass-hero Steve DiGiorgio offers us another piece of work that knows how to blend Thrash and Death like its predecessor, but with the difference that we are already faced with more thoughtful and sophisticated songs, demonstrating the stylistic evolution that Sadus were undergoing to reach that masterpiece which is the subsequent "A Vision Of Misery," with which they will begin to become more well-known.
But let's talk about this album, which like the previous one, after thirty seconds of dark atmosphere kicks off with the infernal "Black," a relentless song in all its riffs fired without any pause, and then moves on to "Man Infestation," which starts slow but only for a while, because our friends don't think twice about restarting the mayhem, though we find a very cool slowdown at the end to make room for other blows like "Last Abide," "The Wake," and "In Your Face" that lead us to "Good Rid’nz," which together with "False Incarnation," "Arise," and the final "Oracle Of Obmission" represents one of the real strengths of the album, though it's worth mentioning that "Images" and "Power Of Hate" also deserve recognition.
Notable is the work of the entire band, which manages to play violent songs with ease and good technique, especially the rhythm section led by drummer John Allen who hits like a madman, but most importantly the great Steve D., once again the absolute star thanks to his extraterrestrial bass performance. The guitars by Rob Moore and Darren Travis are also commendable, always devastating and ready to deliver fearsome solos. A final mention goes to Travis’s vocals, not a growl but still able to give a destructive impact to the instrumental part thanks to the aggression he exudes.
It is very difficult to find it now since Sadus' works are now out of print, but if you manage to get your hands on it, don't think twice about making it yours because this "Swallowed In Black" truly is a very cool album that certainly stands as one of the greatest precursors of Progressive Death Metal.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Black (05:24)
Unknown substance
A putrid cloud
Choking all within
Results of progress
A noxious waste
Floating in the air
Living free? Chemically
So now our world is fading
into slowly burning out
Prime Wealth? Toxic Health
Advancing towards extinction
is the way it's turning out
Foul Air? Do you care?
Is cleanness where you live
Going against your common believe
Too much slime, insufficient time?
In a suffocated future
will you find the time to breathe
Jammed in one place
Blind in haste
Progress can't wait
A life in waste
Tending towards - Technology
Reverse of: life's biology
Chemical comatose
Radiation overdose
Burning, melting flesh
Leaking slime of dissolving waste
Overflowing blackness of death
Creation is being torn down by abuse
Infringement of the substance and our use
Elements decomposing, dilution is too slow
Every contribution to the evolution
Its bad gets worse; deathly course
Swallowed in Black
Faced with reality?
Search your memory
Nothing dead ever comes back
The Black
02 Man Infestation (04:06)
Time... is wasting
Time... is passing
The world... is going straight down the tubes, oh well
What man will make of it... time will tell
Time
Watching all that's wasting in this world
In time there's no escaping what's to tell
The population is feeding, soon to fall
There's got to be a better way, time will tell
Quality receding
Contaminants increasing
Consequently death
The splendor and the radiance
The brightness and the brilliance
Sheer luster of life is gone
The foul stench of stag
Will devour the human race
Until every bit of life is gone
Poverty, extremity, impurity, insolvency
The crumble, decline, destruction, wears on
There's got to be a better way
Blacken the sky, nature has died
Wastefulness of mankind
Thoughts were impure, time must endure
We must stop before it's too late
Impurities will crush, till all life is lost
Destruction of the ozone layer
What has been said, what's left to say
There's got to be a better way
Putrefaction, uncleanness of man
The man infestation, infected world span
Filthy impurities, blue sky turn to gray
Crippled efficiency, the black eats away
Putrefaction, uncleanness of man
The man infestation, infected world span
The quagmire and vermin, as bad goes to worse
The drab wilt of mankind engulfing the earth
Watching all that's wasting in this world
In time there's no escaping what's to tell
The population is feeding, soon to fall
There's got to be a better way, time will tell
Quality receding
Contaminants increasing
Consequently death
06 Good Rid'nz (04:33)
Struck down in a flash of pain
Killed swiftly in its own domain
Struggling for what is left
Brutal shock, dismemberment
Ineffective attempts to flee
Body stuck to an instant grave
Makes no difference left to be
Can't you see the life in me is draining away?
Destiny calls
Don't fall
Impending death
Struggling to be
Now freed
Life passed on
A million times struck down
Body becomes fused to the ground
Mangled body
Flattened corpse
Stench of rot
Hammered carnage
Crusting thing
Maggots breed
Degenerate
Mortified
Disintegrate
Eroding bone
Melts to stone
Collapse to dust
Good riddance
Struck down in a flash of pain
Killed swiftly in its own domain
Struggling for what is left
Brutal shock, dismemberment
Ineffective attempts to flee
Body stuck to an instant grave
Makes no difference left to be
Can't you see the life in me is draining away?
Good riddance
07 False Incarnation (04:36)
Contemplating death, untimely near
It's not your death developing your fear
Deteriorating state, hope is lost
Your greed for life is beyond the cost
Hoping for advancement, an invention, a cure
Because of your disease your intentions are unpure
Corrupted by moral values
Spoiled by common wealth
In your race for fortune
You forgot to regard your health
Self pity; shame to blame.
Existence transferred to an alternate frame
Cellular osmosis, frozen to paralysis
Suspending the result of the ultimate nemesis
Essence drained, exchanged for synthetics
Drastic measures to alter genetics
No reincarnation
Eternal hibernation
False incarnation
Opaque destination
Catatonic pleasure, anti-fluids numb the pain
Robbing yourself of death, what did you expect to gain?
Frozen fate, all thoughts cease
Resisting the afterlife for nothing at all
Truth distorted, path into darkness
Cannot see what caused your fall
Lying dormant, your seed of faith
Has grown into a nasty vine
Final chapter in the book of life
Forever darkness stops the time
Delaying natural death, for a fear of what's beyond
Afraid to take that final step, to the place where you belong
What you believed before
Do you anymore?
Or do you want to see
Immortality?
Looking out from the inside
To a place you cannot
Frozen in dark solitude
Yearning to be free
No one has awakened you
A false destiny
No reincarnation
Eternal hibernation
False incarnation
Opaque destination
False incarnation
09 Powers of Hate (03:39)
Powers of hate
Are directing your thoughts
And lead me to believe
In what you are not
Anger drives you
To inflict others' pain
Now feel the rage
Consuming your brain
Committing revenge now regulates
Your unguided ways to manipulate
Logic dies with bitter frustration
Anxiety feeds your slow damnation
How can this be right?
Your way of looking through me
Seeing beyond your lies
It's just your way to use me
All anger that you feel
Its driving force surrounding you
Forget your words of hate
The power that's confounding you
Reason to not forgive
Breaking down your tolerance
Can't you tell it's wrong
Not believing in the consequence
Into the recesses of your mind
Mysterious shadows unidentified
Shrouded by fears of the darkest kind
And there your being lies classified
This reign of hatred and despise
This weapon of spite caused you to lie
What is kept secret behind your eyes
Is now my fear of the truth denied
10 Arise (06:18)
Feasting on rancidness
Not seeing through the self-accusing lies
Are hordes of wormly cowards
Who hesitate and fail to bring their dreams to life
Oppression
Quickening
Aspirations
Left unseen
Lost in occupations
Becoming socially secured
Life's manipulation
Age endures
Accepting circumstances
Resentment uncontained
Quality of existence
Capitalistic gains
Can't you see
Your destiny?
Living free
Doing what you feel and think is real
Or do you just fail to see?
BLIND
Can't see through your own mind
Cast yourself to live this lie
Blackening out natural dignity
Forcing in abnormal functioning
Losing desire your will to leave
This life you built so easily
It's time...
to live
Rise
Ascend from below to blaze a trail through life
Follow your lead and succeed your destiny
Arise
Alive
Strive to live and live to please your mind
11 Oracle of Obmission (03:48)
Mindless fools listen
To a brainwashing, false doctrine
Live to obey
As they tune into the oracle each day
Embedded in the brain of the potentially insane
Susceptible to be deceived easily
The prophet for the blind is possession if the mind
A manipulation of the public's domination
I'm the influence of suggestion
Your life is my obsession
I'm the voice of the media
The power of propaganda
I've given to you my system
Of which you'll become a victim
A system of conformity
Forfeit of your liberty
So careless, you are, of your destiny
So confused, of what, has come to be
Your life, your worth, you've given up to me
Believing, my words, I've become your deity
A hollow shell of what you used to be
Your life-form drained of mentality
Thoughts are ruled by complexity
As you're numbed, and sink into dormancy
Categorized in societies dominion
As a glitch of that non-exception
Deceived by the generalized opinion
A meaningless specter
a lifeless zombie
your ice is thin
Trust in false gods, only to be deceived again
Your fate is as shallow as the grave you rot in
Mindless fools listen
Live to obey
A life of submission, to the oracle of obmission
A life of submission, to the oracle of obmission
A life of submission, to the oracle of obmission
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