Sepultura
Roorback

THE REVIEW

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.