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Rating: "Cannibal," released last April 3, marks the return of the original guitarist: Koichi Fukuda.
One of the new tracks, "No Submission" has been available since early winter 2006 in the Saw III soundtrack. The full track was also published on the band's MySpace page. "Cannibal" was already released as a digital single download on iTunes at the beginning of the year. "Destroyer" was already heard as a single on American radio in February, before the album's release. The videos have also been done for a while. A promotional EP of Cannibal has also been released. The EP contains the album versions of "Cannibal," "No Submission" and the radio edition of "Forty Ways."
On March 20, the publication of "Cannibal" was preceded by the exclusive release of the "Destroyer" EP.
From one album to the next, Static-X makes the title track the best of the lot: "Cannibal," the energy is the same, yet there's something different, with Shadow Zone and Star A War Static-X had "melodized" their "noise," "Cannibal" is a punch in the face to those who expected another melodic album. I would describe the album as very "harsh". I sense the skill and ease even in "No Submission," what I mean to say is that it feels like a return to 1999 with that 'Wisconsin Death Trip' that marked the band's debut, but we are in 2007, on one hand, it's positive because they have proven to be unpredictable, but this does not mean that the album is better than the previous ones, yes, it is very enjoyable, but it doesn't reach the level of 'Wisconsin Death Trip' and much less that of 'Shadow Zone'. But still, we also have sweet moments here, "Behemoth" and "Chemical Logic". Needless to say, they are masters of nu/industrial: "Destroyer," "Forty Ways," "Chroma-matic"; yet, I feel superficiality in the composition of this album, there's no longer the justified anger of 'Wisconsin Death Trip' or the passion of 'Shadow Zone'... We can't wait to become mature, but maybe things were better when we were unripe.
Fortunately, I said mature, not rotten, evident artistic maturation, "Cuts You Up," "Reptile" and a continuous futuristic vision: "Electric Pulse". "Goat" and "Team Hate" confirm for me that in this album, there are no gems at the level of "I'm With Stupid," "Permanence," "Black And White," "Control It," "The Only," "Invincible", or yet, "I'm The One" and "Star A War", not even the title track is at the level of any one of these gems.
Nevertheless, it remains a well-made album, worth four stars.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Cannibal (03:12)
thrash it bash it live to smash it
light the spark reach out and crash it
rip it stronger grind it longer
harder faster rabid master
sleeping beast rest in peace
far too primal
rip the flesh taste of death
by the crystal
killing game primitive inquistion
tear it up inside out
small incision
assimilate trust in hate
your obession
celebrate assasinate
your religion
us and them hollow field
sensing fear
cannibal can't believe you're the victim
cannibal
cannibal
chop it up peel the skin
slow dissection sick minds are blind to the reason
tune it up touch down
angel grinder
cannibal watch and prey on the victim
cannibal
cannibal
killing game
watch and prey on the victim
rabid beast
can;t believe you're a cannibal
thrash it bash it live to smash it
light the spark reach out and crash it
rip it stronger grind it longer
harder faster rabid master
02 No Submission (02:42)
Shut out
Cut out
Bloodless
Hopeless
Hating as I fade
Pulsate
Pushing
Head exploding
Razor sharp the tongue is
Put down
Run out
I could care less
Throw down as I hate
Feeding
Needing
Severed bleeding
Pull it our exposing
Take a beating
Needle speeding
Fall into a daze
Defacation
Detonation
Tear the tongue apart and
Terminate it
Suffocate it
Spitting in your face
Accelerate
Exterminate it
Take it all in hand
There's no submission
No submission
Blue turns to white
03 Behemoth (03:00)
Abandon me
A horror scene
A time storm
A pile up
Exterminate it
Calculate it
Ricochet
Smart bullet
Get louder
Get higher
Get true to form
Behemoth
Verify
Storm of the eye
To detonate the fusion
Get it?
Wrecking
Dragging
Nagging
Sagging
Blocking
Cocking
Smocking
Choking
Get louder
Get higher
Get true to form
Behemoth
Intensity
It's hard to see
Diffusing the tune up
04 Chemical Logic (03:51)
Discover disaster
Dismantled destroyer
Disorted drum fire
Aborted short wire
Ch-Chainsaw k-killer
It's over the shoulder
Your sorrow tomorrow
Behavior your savior
Illogical choir
We die young desire
You slither you wither
The terror your error
Pig hammer the static
The bats in the attack
Chemical l-logic
Chemical l-logic
Freak out
Head on
I play the part
Tomorrow
You're gone
I live on the limit
Freak on the sonic
Beat on the chronic
Melt down some of this
Chemical tonic
Convulsion iridium
Tactical repulsion
Revision
Break it down
Crush down the pedal
Rush on the metal
Extract some of that
Deafening noise blast
Crank on the heavy
Main switch dirt witch
Chemical logic
Chemical l-logic
05 Destroyer (02:47)
Take it down with a steam hammer
Pack it hard
Lead shot in your mood shooter
Choose your poison
Have a drink with your painkiller
Take us down
Wreck a party like it don't matter
Smash it up
Dead guitar
Broken beat maker
If I could I'd trade it all for an automator
Here it comes
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
Cosmo sucker
Bad breath crier
Bad timing robocrap
You're a great liar
Overdrive
Deep dirt on your shit highway
Black-eyed
Fuzzy filter
Hollow head wobble
Take a trip
Get a grip before you get in trouble
And you wonder why you're called the
destroyer-stroyer
Stereo
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
(It's coming back again)
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
(It's coming back again)
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
(It's coming back again)
Oh, you do it again
You do it again
Destroyer
Take it down with a steam hammer
Pack it hard
Lead shot in your mood shooter
Choose your poison
Have a drink with your painkiller
Take us down
06 Forty Ways (03:00)
Drink all day Fuck all day Crush all day Grind away Starting wars Seething whores Closing doors Power chords Open wide Scratch your eye Bite the sky Fallen lie Noise all day Find a way Kill the daze Forty ways to hold you down Low all day High all day Disarray Pay to play Everyday Static ways Crystal days
07 Chroma-Matic (02:44)
Winding it up
Like a wound metal fuzz box
Tuning it up
Make your neck bend round
Plugging it in
To the primary noise box
Making it raw
Make your brain shut down
Origin know
To the few chroma-matic
It shakes your eyes
And it shocks you wide
Tuning it down
To the end note
Feedback
Fuzzback
Head scratch
Phase loop
Heart attack
Chroma-matic
Origin know
To the few chroma-matic
It shakes your eyes
And it shocks you wide
Tuning it down
To the end note
Feedback
Full stack
Head crack
Slam that Cadillac
Chroma-matic
08 Cuts You Up (03:26)
I make no apologies
For the past
I had to live
Through it all to get
Where I am
Fuck it all
If you don't like what I am
Then don't you
Look at me
Who ever made
You a god
Who ever gave
You the right
To criticize
Take another slice
Cut out shut out run out
Tear digital noise out
It cuts you up
Cuts you up
Heavy hate will feed it
Sharp sized razor bleed it
It cuts you up
Cuts you up
It cuts you up
I take no bullshit
In the past
I took it all
Never again
Shut it up
Put it out
If you can't handle this shit
Then don't you
Stick around
What I became is stronger
What I have made
You cannot criticize
New found eyes
10 Electric Pulse (02:40)
It's time to melt you down
It's time to strap you in
Your mind's about to be diminished
I scream to get me off
Air blast to pull you in
You feel the atrophy
Electric
Electric pulse
Nightmares to shut you down
Static to keep you in
Darkness what you don't see
Atomic
Shockwaves to set you off
It's time to throw the switch
It's time that you recieve
Electric
Electric pulse
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