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Rating: Let me start by saying that I didn't really follow Sepultura much before, and if I wanted to listen to a song, I preferred to hear: "Territory", "Roots Bloody Roots", "Ratamahatta" (if that's how you write it), and "Arise" (in other words, the most famous ones). So I wanted to deepen my exploration of this band, and I listened to this thrash metal masterpiece from the late '80s with some death metal influences.
This is the first album by this band that I've listened to in its entirety, and I was very satisfied. First of all, the album benefits from excellent production because, as far as I understand, the previous albums didn’t have the best. The rhythm section of this album is supported by the formidable drumming of Igor Cavalera, whose skillful drumming can be heard in every song (also, considering his young age, he was truly a phenomenon). And about the Cavalera/Kisser guitarist duo, what should I say? They are also formidable, with the riffs and solos they churn out, making the songs more aggressive than ever. As for bassist Paulo Jr., I wouldn't know what to say, because I have never played the bass and don't know how to play it, so I can't say it sucks, as everyone "claims".
Summing it all up, "Beneath the Remains" is a masterpiece thanks to gems like "Inner Self", the title track, "Mass Hypnosis", and "Stronger than Hate", which are personally the most beautiful songs of the album. It's a pity that I never wanted to follow them before, and I must say I made a big mistake.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Beneath the Remains (05:13)
In the middle of a war that was not
started by me
Deep depression of the nuclear remains
I've never thought if, I've never thought
about
This happening to me
Proliferations of ignorance
Orders that stand to destroy
Battlefields and slaughter
Now they mean my home and work
Who has won?
Who has died?
Beneath the remains
Cities in ruins
Bodies packed on minefields
Neurotic game of life and death
Now I can feel the end
Premonition about my final hour
A sad image of everything
Everything's so real
Who was won?
Who has died?
Everything happened so quickly
I felt I was about to leave hell
I'll fight for myself, for you, but so what?
To feel a deep hate
To feel scared
But beyond that, to whish being at an end
Clotted blood
Mass mutilation
Hope for the future is only utopia
Mortality, insanity, fatality
You'll never want to feel what I've felt
Mediocrity, brutality, and falsity
It's just a world against me
Cities in ruins
Bodies packed on minefields
Neurotic game of life and death
Now I can feel the end
Premonition about my final hour
A sad image of everything
Everything's so real
Who has won?
Who has died?
Beneath the remains
02 Inner Self (05:09)
Walking these dirty streets
With hate in my mind
Feeling the scorn of the world
I won't follow your rules
Blame and lies, contradictions arise
Blame and lies, contradictions arise
Nonconformity in my inner self
Only I guide my inner self
I won't change may way
It has to be this way
I live my life for my self
Forget your filthy ways
Blame and lies, contradictions arise
Blame and lies, contradictions arise
Nobody will change my way
Life betrays, but I keep going
There's no light, but there's hope
Crushing oppression, I win
Betraying and playing dirty, you think
you'll win
But someday you'll fall, and I'll be
waiting
Laughs of an insane man, you'll hear
Personality is my weapon against your
envy
Walking these dirty streets
With hate in my mind
Feeling the scorn of the world
I won't follow your rules
Nonconformity in my inner self
Only I guide my inner self
03 Stronger Than Hate (05:51)
I Shall Redeem Myself From
The Clutches That Grasp At My Inner Self
No Tomorrow Will Ease My Oppression
My Streak Of Hate Leads My Way
Look At Me
My Feelings Turn
Stronger Than Hate
I Can't Decide On Which Way To Turn
My Choices Are Few And Far Between
Look At Me
My Feelings Turn
Stronger Than Hate
I Can't Decide On Which Way To Turn
My Choices Are Few And Far Between
A Lifetime Of Remorse
There's No Place That I've Ever Been
I Stand Above Their Remains
My Vengeance I Have Regained
I Don't Know What Lies On The Floor
I Won't Be Locked Up Anymore
Standing Here I've Lost All Faith
I Have No Social Equality
To Live Again Would Be A Lie
My Life Is Not Worth The Pain
04 Mass Hypnosis (04:25)
Looking inside, your future uncertain
The fear grows as a sickness uncured
The silence agonizes, the words sound
strong
Look inside the eyes, leave this world
Hate through the arteries
Mass hypnosis
Uncertain of being back
They make you feel so good
Everything's darkened
Obey like a fool
Hate through the arteries
Mass hypnosis
Soldiers going nowhere
Believers kneeling over their sins
Inhuman instinct of cowardly leaders
Make the world go their own way
Tens of thousands hypnotized
Trying to find a reason why
Look inside your empty eyes
Obey 'till the end
Looking inside, your future uncertain
The fear grows as a sickness uncured
The silence agonizes, the words sound strong
Look inside the eyes, leave this world
Hate through the arteries
Mass hypnosis
Soldiers going nowhere
Soldiers blinded by their faith
05 Sarcastic Existence (04:45)
Humidity could be felt on the walls
Touched with the palm and used to scare
They used to sweat, they used to stink
Everything swamped and hot
But in the corner, laying on a bed
A cold piece, made to stay alive
Trapped within its body
It could not think anymore
Thoughts of times of sanity
The world was isolated
Where the sun would salute him
And the night was violent
Fear and guilt
Invade the corners of the room
Pain was felt constantly
They keep on destroying
It could be seen through the window
The eye of disgust and scorn
When you hear the laugh of a madman
That's about to die
To suffer alone in disgrace
His hate is his own
Always hating being alive
Sarcastic existence
07 Lobotomy (04:58)
I've seen you fighting through the time
I've followed your steps full of pain
Unnamed hero that's challenged the human ego
Victim of cowardice
Of strong manipulation
A system that was made to lie and to deceive
Screams of agony
Satisfy the proud
But these screams still echo inside the conscience
Contradiction, aggression, desolation, illusion
Nonconformity takes my mind
Too much injustice to forget so fast
My disgust is greater than my compassion
Feel the pain upon my final hour
Self-blame can't hurt me
Eye for an eye
You receive your just reward
Now I'll live my life with indifference
I've tortured without remorse
I've slaughtered without fear
Brain killing brain
Brain killing brain
Brain killing brain
08 Hungry (04:29)
Rotting skinny corpses left alone
They're like an endless disease
Invisible, painful, eternal
Creatures fucked by a greedy past
Since you are born
You want to make money and power
A simple fuel to the corrupt
Way of mankind
Hungry for living, to live like a slave
Without knowing your master
You have no value, you're just another one
Death will quench your hunger
Hunger for confidence
To shake the hand of your best friend
And later to be betrayed
The law rules the mind of ignorance
Hungry for pleasure
You act like a robot
The tears in your eyes
As red as blood
Your pleasure is pain
Your pleasure is torture
Hunger is your pleasure
Hungry for the future
09 Primitive Future (03:09)
I follow the steps I see In front of me
They are deep and well-defined
the show an undefined but straight path
What has gone through me will never return
future won't let me look back
I just walk, I don't evolve, I just walk
Animals return by my side
They try communicate, each one in its own way
But I can't understand
I feel alone on this irrational planet
To create or just observe
I keep waiting on this desert made of ideas
Primitve future
My head is heavy but empty
Everything around me is void, without movement
without perspectives
The night invades the sky
That darkness the dry ground
Making my shadow join the big stain thats forming
My steps on skulls of generations that have not formed
I hear painfull cries of wars that are to come
To create everything again, from the beginning
To teach new minds
To awake a sleeping giant buried
On the ashes of disgrace
Its scronful the way I live
I look well, I think I'm well
Thats all...
I follow the steps I see in front of me
They are deep and well-defined
They show an undefined but straight path
What has gone through me will never return
primitive future
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By diamond_darrell
"Beneath The Remains is a very tight album, a great mix of death and thrash, and full of those tremendous onslaughts that characterized the first cycle of Sepultura."
"Max Cavalera builds around himself his reputation as a metal sacred monster, excellent both at the microphone and the guitar; and what about his brother Igor? What I liked most in the full length is undoubtedly him."
