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Rating: Because of two songs, I didn't give this explosive album the highest rating. The first track starts right away, not at all as everyone expected. The initial impact shatters any mind that anticipated any ambient intro. Not them. They burst in as if it were nothing into the calm we had in our heads, and what strikes the most about this album is that they manage to maintain that impact throughout the entire CD.
Usually, over time, even the most brutal album becomes tiresome, sometimes turning into a hypnotic listen. One might even gently fall asleep. But not with Dillinger. Not this time. They wisely applied the lesson they learned long ago from Mike Patton. They add melodies (the new Greg Puciato), sometimes however in a futile and self-serving manner, which is why my rating for this work decreases. In fact, after the album's release, videos for these songs were released on MTV, which in my opinion do not belong to Dillinger's work. I wouldn't want the masses to get the wrong idea about them. Some compare Dillinger with certain Mastodon, but I refuse to think so. Compared to their contemporaries, Dillinger have set their sights on one goal: no more limits, no modular structures, destroy the canons of hardcore and show that even a band from our damned genre can stand beside and surpass any Dream Theater in terms of technique, and conceptually a random Mars Volta.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Panasonic Youth (02:27)
We wrote these plans
Took the order the architecture
And followed them to the end
Until the gears ground cold and relentless
There was no remorse
We had none
We kept on with no trace of a regret
There was no remorse
I never saw any blood
No soul for the body
Watch them turn her scab
Covered skin into stone
Like a coal in the sky
Searching for the dawn
For the last time
Bloated with white eyes wide
We've come to an understanding
You lose, I profit
High noon and there ain't no secrets
No more excuses
Now our number's up
Let them lead us by the throat now
Just smile while the rope pulls tighter
Guilty is an understatement
The hourglass is never right side up
And all the time we try to tear the script up
Forgetting all the sour for the sweet
The paragraph has never been so empty
The lifeless test tube
The mother dies with infant in arms
The lifeless test tube, look what she's done
Evolution gave us a clock
That's always winding down
Evolution gave us a clock
That's always winding down
02 Baby's First Coffin (04:02)
Dear God
Protect Us
Come on
Laugh this time
She stares. Forever and then some never again
Polished, Barbwire Smile. Tricks and trade
She done. So cut her again, gut her again
Dear God
Protect us
Come on
Laugh this...
Silence tells us we're damned. Silence tells us we're damned.
Jesus we've gone and done it again. Jimmy’s got a new gun in his hand
Jesus we've gone and done it again. Jimmy’s got a new gun in his hand
You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar.
How could you doubt? He would never find out
You’re being a liar. Let’s start the show. You’re being a liar. I’m ready to go.
You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar.
How could you doubt? He would never find out
You’re being a liar. Let’s start the show. You’re being a liar. I’m ready to go.
The emperor is dead. The emperor is dead. Goodbye. Don’t cry.
Die. So long. Revenge. Defend. You know we brought the crowd to us
Staking time into the gust of wind to the face.
Never returning, favors take the prison to the man.
I could promise the world if we could travel through time.
Don’t back out here. Now relax and remember the promise of the sign.
I wish you could see yourself now...you look at me like a child...
The way you glide across the room, it’s drama of seduction.
Let go of it, Repunsel. Let it down.
Aim for the signal then bring it down with a smile....now...
Become the conductor...
The way you slide across the room...how wonderful.
A connection and the last cut still bleeds as good as the first one does.
It’s just the opening seed of a new flame.
I look at you like a child but not at all like you looked at me...
Grace is already dead. Now is the time to go back. Face what you’ve done
You should never said “Yes�?.
Grace is already dead. Now is the time to go back. Face what you’ve done
Grace is already dead.
Grace is already dead. Face the master.
You should never have said “Yes�? when you really mean “No.�?
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By sa morte niedda
A true masterpiece of technique and originality, consisting of 11 tracks with a duration of 40 minutes.
A powerful, innovative album, difficult to grasp at first impact, but which becomes appreciated over time.
