Thursday
War All The Time

THE REVIEW

The terrorist group known as Al Qaeda is considered, according to the official version of the U.S. government (disputed by many, including some associations of victims' relatives), the sole instigator and organizer of the hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York, directed a third at the Pentagon, and took control of a fourth, which then crashed in Pennsylvania, near Shanksville. These were the first large-scale attacks successfully carried out against the continental United States since 1814 (during the Anglo-American War of 1812). With a death toll of nearly 3,000 people (2,986), the attacks surpassed the number of victims caused by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (in December 1941), which resulted in about 2,400 deaths. The primary targets of the September 11 attacks were high-value symbolic targets, and—according to official versions—no conventional military means were used to achieve them, involving the hijacking of four airliners. The 24,000 gallons (about 91,000 liters) of fuel in the planes' tanks turned them into incendiary missiles. Two of these were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and the third into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, in Arlington, Virginia.

After all this, some American guys decided to make a CD containing all their disdain towards these pseudo-religious acts but also against an American government composed of individuals of great intellectual lowliness. Thursday thus released War All The Time with 16 tracks, including the eponymous song where one reads a great maturity of lyrics alongside rock forged in a perfect balance between sound and voice. In every track, they make great use of bass with electric guitars that explode at the climax of the song, expressing so much anger and a desire for peace. However, the lengthy journey of the CD is sometimes interrupted by fully insufficient tracks (fortunately few) where boredom prevails and the chords are a bit too simple to justify them.

The introduction opens the CD wonderfully with the first two tracks "For The Workforce Drowning" and "Between Rupture E Rapture" which catapult the listener into an underground environment where thoughts and phrases are "thrown down" in two songs that, although known only to a few, are an example of modern rock sometimes too criticized, which still gives emotions to the "old school" audience. The track list continues with "Division Street", a song with a very deep and poetic message that speaks for itself. After a couple of tracks that I didn’t fancy much, we reach the iconic song of this group "War All The Time", a well-composed response to all the chatter surrounding the events of September 11, in short, the subliminal message is easily understood... "you cannot kill innocent people under the false pretense of religion".

The government also made mistakes, and we understand this between the lines of the song "This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb." In short, a rock album with a strong character of political movement of hard and bewildering rock, definitely worth listening to, absolutely original and impeccable from an interpretative point of view, having seen them live as well.

ded to: those like me... and those who love music of all kinds... this is for you...