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Rating: It is unfortunate to speak ill of Sepultura, a band that has always given so much to heavy metal: a band that debuted with the raw and overly brutal "Bestial Devastation", only to later produce great works like "Beneath The Remains", "Arise", and "Chaos A.D.", culminating in the majestic "Roots"... Then we know what happened; the quarrel between the Cavalera brothers, Max and Igor, followed by the departure of the current Soulfly leader.
Since then, Sepultura has not been able to regain the harmony that allowed them to produce masterpieces.
And after two uninspired albums like "Against" and "Nation", in 2003 the Brazilian group released yet another uninteresting CD, "Roorback": the biggest flaws are rather poor production and the most embarrassing vocalist I have ever heard in my life. There is no aggression, no ideas, and above all, there is a "muffled" sound. Derrick Green's voice is shameful: where did they find him? He has a "ferocity" that makes him seem like a poor man's Chuck Billy, a very weak screaming, and he doesn't manage to convey any emotion. Do I need to say more?
The few interesting ideas are in the tracks "Come Back Alive", "Apes Of The God", and "The Rift", and there are some decent hardcore accelerations... but damn, from masters like Igor Cavalera and Andreas Kisser I expect better!!!
I refuse to believe that Sepultura was just Max, even if the current members of the Brazilian band are trying to make us believe that...
To avoid. Better to buy ten thousand copies of "Roots" than one of "Roorback".
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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By Sir TurmenTu
Sepultura have given us a beautiful, capable, aggressive album in pure new Sepultura style.
Enough with this damn stereotype Sepultura=Max, the current members have taken a path that has nothing to do with the old tribe.
