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Rating:
The essence of the true Sepultura led by Max Cavalera.
That's how I can summarize this "Under A Pale Gray Sky," which, although it doesn't fail to excite, can't help but instill us with a doubt: why? Why release it in 2002, when Sepultura were no longer the same band that played in these recordings?
This really has the flavor of a commercial operation, or at least a driven one, and I'm left wondering because, in reality, I don’t know the story behind this release. I only know that it's the live recorded at the Brixton Academy in London in December 1996, where, after the performance, according to legend, backstage there was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, further straining the already tense relationships within the group. But, leaving that consideration aside, we're left to deal with the passions, and then I no longer care to know why, because for an old fan, this record can only give strong emotions that retrace the band's career in its most splendid decade. The decade that goes from the early 80s of "Bestial Devastation" to "Roots."
In this record, the songs are played with heart, and I presume without any kind of overdubbing/fake, in fact, it's endowed with a roughness at times unique, and often some mistakes due to the live execution can be heard without excessively engaging in a meticulous listening. But this is precisely its strength and its beauty, and as for the rest, there’s room for everything that made their success: impact, roughness, instrumental power, thrash/death and experimental/tribal songs, like only they could do. I greatly appreciated the execution of "fucking old" songs like "Necromancer" and "Troops Of Doom", decidedly much better compared to the original ones, after all, Sep weren’t technical monsters at the time, and their means were very limited. Instead, I was left a bit disappointed by the fact that some songs end halfway or are cut off to make a medley with others like "Desperate Cry", but for the quality and the emotion, I'm willing to accept even that.
An excellent snapshot of one of the groups that made history in metal, that no fan should miss. Who knows how it would have been to see them play in front of you, just a few meters away, this record instills nostalgia in me, and I always listen to it with pleasure in memory of the times that were.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Roots Bloody Roots (03:37)
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
I
Believe In Our Fate
We Don't Need To Fake
It's All We Wanna Be
Watch Me Freeeaaak !!
I Say
We're Growing Every Day
Getting Stronger In Every Way
I'll Take You To A Place
Where We Shall Find Our
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Rain
Bring Me The Strength
To Get Through Another Day
And All I Want To See
Set Us Free
Why
Can't You See
Can't You Feel
This Is Real
Ahhh
I Pray
We Don't Need To Change
Our Ways To Be Saved
That All We Wanna Be
Watch Us Freak
03 Spit (02:27)
Face them ,face them
leave your farce
same thing,same way
your karma will come
ask me no questions
I tell no lies
ask me again
I spit in your eyes
Live your life,leave me alone
face me,face me
feel the cut
open sore
always bleeding
04 Territory (04:59)
Unknown man
Speaks to the world
Sucking your trust
A trap in every word
War for territory
War for territory
Choice control
Behind Propaganda
Poor information
To manage your anger
War for territory
War for territory
Dictators' speech
Blasting off your life
Rule to kill the urge
Dumb assholes' speech
Years of fighting
Teaching my son
To believe in that man
Racist human being
Racist good will live
Shame and regret
Of the pride
You've once possessed
War for territory
War for territory
06 Breed Apart (04:01)
Creepy Crawl
on Concrete And Dust
Asphalt Jungle
Piles Of Crust
Non Sense Thoughts
Inside The Mind
What Really Means
What I Want ?
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Straight Old Thoughts
To Force You Down
Raping Rape
Breed Apart
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
07 Attitude (05:54)
One Week Of Struggling
On The Real World Is..
So You Can See !!!
Feel Your Soul And...
Shape Your Mind To Warfare
It's All For Real
Live Your Life
Not The Way They Taught You
Do What You Feel !
Survive The Jungle
Give Me Blood
Give Me Pain
These Scars Won't Heal
What Were You Thinking
What A Wonderful World !!!
You're Full Of Shit
Leave It Behind
They Don't Care If You Cry
All Is Left Is Pain
Can You Take It ?
Can You Take It ?
Can You Take It ?
Can You Take It ?
The Only Way
To Get Away
Kill Your Pride
Attitude
I Won't Take It
I Won't Take It
I Won't Take It
I Won't Take It
So In The End
I Want To See Some Respect
( I Said )
You Better Show Some Respect
( I Said )
Attitude And Respect
08 Cut-Throat (02:53)
Telling lies right into your face
Grab your soul and make a disgrace
Make you believe you're bigger than life
No one cares if you'll live or die
Waiting for the moment to strike
To take possession to take your heart
Turn your part into a farse
Without respect, without regret
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
You promess this and promis all
Deep inside nothin at all
In a war of filth and greed
We don't need none of this shit
All I say that will survive
We know what's true, we know what's right
We're going through this till the end
And I know you're not my friend
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Fuck!
To give in - no fucking way
To give in - no way
So don't tell us it can't be done
Putting down what you don't know
Money isn't our god
Integrity will free our soul
Enslavement pathetic
Ignorant corporations
Cut-throat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
09 Troops of Doom (02:46)
Total Eclipse Hides The Earth
The Night Of Doom Has Come
Antichrist Soldiers Are Proclaimed
To Send Souls To The Hell
Catastrophe And Destruction
Mankind Is Slaughtered Without Mercy
Suphul Clouds Are In The Air
Legions Winds Corrose The Universe
The Messiah, Redeemers Of Mankind
Chained In The Valley Of Hades
Crowds Blinded By Evil
Only Death Is Real
Total Destruction
Walls Of Churches
Stained By Blood
Altars Burning In The Flames
The Doom Cries Out For Insanity
The Nuclear War Announces The End Of The World
The Mankind Is Buried And Forgotten
Prophets Foresee The Doom
They Foresee The Triumph Of Your Death
11 Born Stubborn (04:15)
Born Stubborn
Stubborn from the start
Obey no one no matter what ?!
Our life it's our right
Why don't you go away
We live without orders
We live without rules
Tearing down the wall
That try to hold us in
Born in pain
Born stubborn
I got my tribe it's my own right
And I don't have to tell you why
It's been like that from the start
And you can't break it apart
Sepultura in our hearts
Can't take it away
These Roots will always remain
Born in pain
Born stubborn
Stubborn from the start
Obey no one no matter what ?!
Our life it's our right
Why don't you go away
We live without orders
We live without rules
Tearing down the wall
That try to hold us in
Born in pain
Born stubborn
I got my tribe it's my own right
And I don't have to tell you why
It's been like that from the start
And you can't break it apart
Sepultura in our hearts
Can't take it away
These Roots will always remain
Born in pain
Born stubborn
Born in pain
Born in pain
Suffering life
Make us rise
12 Desperate Cry (02:21)
Sacrifice Is Pleasure
When Life Ends In Pain
Conceive The Last Mistake
Which Belongs To All
Creation Of Insane Rule
All We Hear:
Desperate Cry
Death The Coldest Wind
Seeps Into Your Pores
A Nation Born Of Hate
Forgotten Distant Time
Creation Of Insane Rule
All We Hear:
Desperate Cry
Endless Empty Maze
Despair, Distress And Silence
A Poison Vacuum, Infinity
Life, Lies, Deceit
Mute Souls End In Silence
Oceans Tainted With Blood
Empty Promises Of Hope
Buried Deep, Infected Ground
Creation Of Insane Rule
All We Hear:
Desperate Cry
Cry!
13 Necromancer (03:15)
The misfits high
In this night
Can feel the presence of death
Way to the
Mortuary
So the dead's will invoke
Corpses and skulls
In my countour
See a corpse blood
With the face
In cruciform
Now begins for the wrath
Catch the skulls
Of a children
Frozen and dismal
Coming with me
Creature
Kill in name of Hell
The black mess
Is started
Lifes will terminate
With the wrath
Of the demons
Started the genocide
Wrath
In my corpus is born
Death
Lost legions from Hell
Slaughter
You'll see in sacrifice
Skulls
Are christians with blood
Necromancer
Deads invoker
Necromancer
Deads invoker
Wrath, odious, desire
In my corpus is born
The fates last, terror's spread
For a necros creature of
The crypts
14 Dusted (03:59)
Dusted
You make me mute
Hidding the truth
Revealing a farse
Created by your mind
What do you expect
Exposing your lies
Printed in your eyes
There's no alibi
To cooperate and not be allowed
They're killing my name / sewing my mouth
Prospect in life
Lost in the line
To cooperate
And just be alive
You gonna fall hiding the truth
You gonna crawl finding the truth
To blame myself it's my disgrace
To blame the world by my mistakes
Dusted [3x]
Turn around and turning around
And turning around and sinside out
Turn around and turning around
And turning around and inside out
Do not disturb !
Leave me alone
The fear within inside and beyond
The fear within inside and beyond
You make me mute
Hidding the truth
Revealing a farse
Created by your mind
What do you expect
Exposing your lies
Printed in your eyes
There's no alibi
You gonna fall hiding the truth
You gonna crawl finding the truth
To blame myself it's my disgrace
To blame the world by my mistakes
Dusted [6x]
15 Endangered Species (08:27)
Endangered Species
Life !!
The struggle to survive
Crawling, ragin
Feed the hate inside
Are we going to see another day ?
Are we going to make it all the way ?
Are we going to see the light of day ?
Are we going to make it till the end ?
Rise !!
Bad moon rise
Another war, another crime
End in sight
Bleak !!
Why & what the fuck ?!?
Shut your mouth, shut your mind, this the way
You're just another prey
Is that what we've became ??
RISE ! [8x]
Are we going to see another day ?
Are we going to make it all the way ?
Are we going to see the light of day ?
Are we going to make it till the end ?
Endangered Species [3 x]
Is that what we've became ??
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