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Rating: Hello everyone, this is the first review I've ever written in my life, so I hope you'll forgive me if I don't use appropriate terms or tend to be too verbose. In that case, feel free to choose to go back from the page and not read it, also because I believe that as soon as you read what I have to say about this album and the band that composed it, you'll criticize me like never before.
Anyway, the album I wanted to review is "Roorback," created by one of the greatest bands this music genre has had so far, Sepultura. I won't dwell on telling you the story of the legendary band, as you all know it as well as "the Lord's Prayer" and "the Hail Mary," except to say that this is the third project that features the gigantic Derrick Green as vocals, after the other members (including the beloved little brother) ousted the immortal Max Cavalera. If with this breakup Max did not give up and decided to continue his own path by creating the magnificent Soulfly, Sepultura decided to continue that stylistic evolution that with "Chaos A.D." and "Roots" had shown a loyal thrash metal audience the desire to blend metal chords with tribal music, which they succeeded wonderfully. However, with Max's departure, followed albums: "Against" - the true continuation of what they started with "Roots," and for me one of the most beautiful albums, and "Nation" - Terribly painful. All obviously criticized by those fans who, having their usual blinders on, did not accept the stylistic change and the vocalist who, in my opinion, is excellent.
But let's get to "Roorback," some say that Sepultura has now deflated and are completely lacking in inventiveness, nothing could be more wrong! The guys from Belo Horizonte have indeed given us a beautiful, capable, aggressive album in pure new Sepultura style; the opening song "Come Back Alive" is pure energy that blasts through the stereo, and makes us understand that despite all the criticism they have faced, they will not give up. It continues with the interesting "Godless" which has a slower sound than the previous one but is still of a good level, leading to the most beautiful song on the CD "Apes of God," where Kisser launches into a series of guitar riffs that are very nu-metal, and a Cavalera that behind the drums hammers out a feverish beat, "More of the Shame" is the band's misstep, featuring a very mundane and boring sound.
The other songs like: "Urge," "As it Is," "Mind War," "The Rift," and "Activist" show us how the interest in political protest is always in the minds of the four, they don't show any significant stylistic evolution but let us feel some good old metal made by true professionals, "Bottomed Out" is a song that seems more like a piece taken from a jazz sampler, where we have a Kisser particularly inspired in trying a sound that doesn't always have to be fast and smashing, with Derrick's warm and deep voice in the forefront. Finally, we arrive at the U2 cover "Bullet the Blue Sky," for every occasion I listened to the original before this one and let me tell you, Bono loses the comparison with Derrick.
In general, the album might not be as innovative or legendary as "Roots," but it is alternative, and above all, it's not something commercial like many metal bands seem to produce these days, and especially it's a move towards the nu-metal stylistic genre of the early Korn, not like that commercial stunt, the latest Korn album. Here, Sep have given their best showing themselves to be nonconformists to the system by proceeding their own way, so much so that with "Dante XXI" they will show maturity and originality that had not been seen for a long time, "stick with them or fuck off" this is what they want to convey, all the members here have given, as always, their best, except for the bassist, who in my opinion, appears in the records, but can't do a damn thing, never have I heard, or rather "not" heard a bass like Pinto's.
And finally, I would like to say one thing, enough with this damn stereotype Sepultura=Max, by now the current members have taken a path that has nothing to do with the old tribe but that doesn't mean as many think, they no longer have decent ideas. I'll bet anything that if instead of continuing to be called Sepultura, they had used another name, they wouldn't have received all these criticisms, everything evolves over time, the important thing is to accept it and analyze it without being tied to now-jurassic stereotypes.
Thanks for the attention, guys, and a piece of advice buy it, you won't be disappointed.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Come Back Alive (03:06)
Sent in the middle of a war you have to fight
Wondering how the fuck you ever landed over here
Never thought about all the bullshit that they feed
Now your thinking how to keep the bullets from your head
Every face alive you might have to take
The mind can only take so much before it breaks
You have to take control it's your fate
They taught you how to move, how to kill, how to die
Come back alive, don't end up dead
Come back alive, don't end up dead
Come back alive, don't end up dead
Come back alive, don't end up dead
Sent in the middle of a war you have to fight
Wondering how the fuck you ever landed over here
Never thought about all the bullshit that they feed
Now your thinking how to keep the bullets from your head
You have to take control it's your fate
They taught you how to move, how to kill, how to die
Come back alive, don't end up dead
Come back alive, don't end up dead
Come back alive, don't end up dead
Come back alive, don't end up dead
02 Godless (04:21)
There's a sickness that keeps reaching out
Reputation, reputation
Grabbing a hold of the world no control
Cowards they always leave filth in there tracks that won't wash, wash away
Mortality of the men
Fear is the motive in the things that do, that they do
Their world seems so godless
Their world seems so godless
All out to war
All out to war
The way to be stronger
By force we will conquer
The fraud the elections denying the freedom of choice from the people
Repeating the errors inventing excuses to profit from conflicts
Mortality of the men
Reputation, reputation
A world so godless
A world so godless
03 Apes of God (03:36)
You can't look in these eye's
Can't live out these lies
Walk the walk, talk the talk
It doesn't leave my head staining my cells grey
This all the thanks that I get from you
Feed the fear, nothing's clear
You hear me, you
You hear me, you
There's no rest for consequences of guilt
Facing my own doubts about what is actually real
I told myself that I would live again
Lost all cause fought them all to the end
All my aspirations fell to the bottom of hell
The womb of mother earth is bleeding losing a son
Can't deny, our decline
You hear me, you
You hear me, you
Feed the fear, nothing's clear
Walk the walk, talk the talk
06 Corrupted (02:32)
Your right, your will, to vote, to kill
Your world, is ill
Solutions to our crimes
Don't make me feel like shit
Insult my mind attack my life
Don't ever try to fuck with me
Corrupt my mind control what's mine
War news, war secrets, war lies, war motives
War reasons, war crimes
War heroes of our time
Corrupted, insulted
Corrupted, insulted
Don't make me feel like shit
Insult my mind attack my life
Don't ever try to fuck with me
Corrupt my mind control what's mine
Corrupted, insulted
Corrupted, insulted
Your right, your will, to vote, to kill
Your world, is ill
Solutions to our crimes
Don't make me feel like shit
Insult my mind attack my life
Don't ever try to fuck with me
Corrupt my mind control what's mine
09 Leech (02:24)
I hear you talking your shit
Wondering if it's ever going to end
Your bored all the time with the things that you do
I don't pity your life
I see your acting all weird
It all seems so clear
Your making no sense in a world so immense
Stop wasting my time
Always judging a face
What the fuck is wrong with you
Sucking out the life of anyone that you can reach
A mind so sick
Blood sucking leech
Life taking leech
Blood...
Blood sucking leech
Life wasting leech
Blood sucking leech
Life wasting leech
10 The Rift (02:56)
Men is not alone in this world and Mankind is not completely absurd Breaking men ground to build and to grow Advancing their lives for better or worse In a world growing fast we're losing touch Cultivating hate and forging rules Closing our eyes we search the sky Expectations are from religion What went wrong I don't believe you It's been around for thousands of years at least There's nothing new with another catastrophe A sense to move on is filling the air What went wrong I don't believe you What went wrong I don't believe you Men is not alone in this world and Mankind is not completely absurd Breaking men ground to build and to grow Kashmir - Colombia - Rio - New York Old wars revived to revenge a lost Taking what's left and burning it down Creating oposition What went wrong I don't believe you What went wrong I don't believe you
11 Bottomed Out (04:35)
I spent much time with anger and I know it all to well
To fall beneath your heavy grasp a plan to have control
You keep yourself locked within a cage an agonizing hell
I won't let you bring me down not this way again
Acting as a victim in a twisted little world
Dealing with your problems I just don't seem to relate
The pressure is more then I can handle I feel I'm going to break
I won't go through this shit again not this shit again
Walk away
Don't come again
Walk just walk away
Walk away
Don't come again
Walk just walk away
Walk away
Don't come again
Walk just walk away
Walk away
Don't come again
Walk just walk away
12 Activist (01:53)
Our pulse to resist
Moves our cultural resistance
I'm living this life
Inside a civil tribe demised
Improve my old mind
Breaking all rules absorbing what I may find
Our manner to protect
Destroys what's left for protection
Believing in symbols
The church will fool our souls
Prove you my role
Acting against undesired control
Don't fear your left
Don't trust your right
Activist
Our way of seeing progress
Making us walk towards repression
Disturbing our peace
In the name of self defense
Being felt by all
Our violent taste for the humans fall
Don't fear your left
Don't trust your right
Activist
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