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Sono sempre stato dell'opinione che nessuno si è mai inventato nulla, cioè, alcuni gruppi musicali riescono a rimanere più originali, alcuni sanno sfruttare in migliore maniera delle particolari caratteristiche ed altri sanno solo copiare in maniera saggia, ma l'invenzione di una novità assoluta non è mai e poi mai avvenuta nella storia della musica, ok, diciamo che scienza e musica non sono mai state tanto vicine quanto con questo principio di Lavoiseir: "Nulla si crea nulla si distrugge ma tutto si trasforma".
Gli Agnostic Front vengono definiti i primi (cosa assolutamente falsa) punkettoni che riuscirono a riunire nei loro concerti schiere di punk e matallari incalliti, alcuni dicono che con "Cause for alarm" venne alla luce il thrashcore, date le tematiche skin e la malvagità e la musica più dura, aggiungerei io anche per il messaggio nazista captato dal pubblico. Secondo me questo album è duro e potente ma venire a parlare di "nuova invenzione" apparsa dal nulla è una parola troppo grande. L'Hardcore già nell'86, data di uscita dell'album, stava avendo un piccolo calo, mentre il metal era diventato una "moda" molto più gradita, gli Agnostic Front come del resto altre memorabili band, dovettero adeguarsi, rimanendo con la loro origine skin e immettendo nella loro musica la grande forza del metal. La cosa certa che dopo l'uscita di questo disco, una gran bella fetta del pubblico degli Agnostic Front incantati dal precedente "Victim in Pain" si allontanarono, ma un'altra gran bella massa di gente seguaci di thrasher maledetti si unirono ai loro vecchi fan.
L'opener "The Eliminator" è la guida dell'album, tutti sappiamo come la prima canzone di un disco può influenzare in maniera decisiva l'intero lavoro, già, difatti con questa song troviamo la ritmica e la pesantezza tipica di un thrash alla Metallica, con tanto di trilli pentatonici e riff serrati, solo con una particolare voce del grande Roger Miret rimasta inconfondibile per anni. Vengono eseguiti assoli più precisi e potenti, cori decisi che rinforzano l'enfasi delle traccie, canzoni strutturate con riff più vari e meno istintivi, cambi di tempo e brani più lunghi e differenti tra di loro rispetto ai vecchi lavori.
Come prima ho già spiegato, l'impressione dell'album viene dalle prime traccie, mentre se si ascoltano attentamente brani successivi ci si accorge che stilisticamente gli Agnostic Front non sono poi così differenti dal passato. Direi io che l'accostamento con il metal non è tanto di natura compositiva o stilistica, ma viene da una maggiore maturità dei musicisti, che dopo quattro anni dalla loro comparsa nel mercato hanno decisiso di migliorare tecnicamente e la qualità della registrazione, variando il loro stile in modo da non rimanere la classica formazione Hardcore che dopo una manciata di anni si vede obbligata a sciogliersi a causa della loro piattezza esecutiva. Cosa che questa band ha avuto sempre nel sangue, possiamo infatti notare che nei giorni attuali, sono confusi tranquillamente tra nomi di band Nu Metal.
Sul lato tematico questo è uno dei loro album più discussi, sono difatti stati accusati di nazismo, ma non solo, attaccano fortemente la società riportando gravi danni anche sul lato penale. Diventano così un piccolo fenomeno da baraccone sociale, ma tengo a precisare che questa per loro fu solo ottima pubblicità, visto che la loro notorietà è decisamente aumentata dopo questo album. Tutto ciò comunque sia non è strano, per band di musica estrema queste occasioni sono grasso che cola, gli Agnostic Front giustamente hanno saputo giocare bene le loro carte sfruttando tutta questa buona pubblicità gratuita al meglio.
Non ho altro da aggiungere, l'album è veloce e scorre, ha dieci canzoni e dura ventiquattro minuti precisi, credo che questa ultima riga spieghi molto più di quanto ho scritto prima.
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01 The Eliminator (03:13)
Killing's my business and business is fine
Money's my interest, life isn't kind
You know you can run but there's nowhere to hide
Payback's a bitch boy
Now you're gonna die
Hand me the contract, I've got no remorse
The more cash I get, the bloodier the worst
You claimed their way out, life is up in flames
How 'bout doin' it my way
Beheaded or slain
[Chorus:]
Hanging or lethal injection
Gas chamber - take a last breath
Firing squad, electrocute, we'll execute!
More than one face of death
Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out
A soldier of fortune, I'll wipe 'em all out
Having no home, I have no shame
I'll take a life, another victim in pain
Try turning the tables or make it a frame
You can't snuff me out
Because you're my game
You know you're my target
Your time stands still
But no job's too tough
I love to kill
03 Time Will Come (01:27)
Time will come when we will pay
There'll be no choice for you to take
World War III won't be a fake
You just can't look the other way
[Chorus:]
Time will come and time will go
You'll learn to live and learn to fight
You'll fight for freedom and fight to die
But you'll never know the reason why
Killing people for their greedness
But unaware of the evilness
Once you're dead there'll be no sorrow
Another one will come to follow
04 Growing Concern (04:12)
Toppling, smashing -
The statues go crashing
And all of your ancient ideals
Your morals we question
Put them to testing
Rules broken you thought were of steel
Scrupleless children
We number in millions
Won't stand for any more of your crummy deals
[Chorus:]
Growing concern
Priests are just rapists
Who worship the dollar
Get hardons from girls at the altar
When in confession
Laugh at your depression
We pay for their
Sins when they falter
[Chorus]
Teachers who profess
We'll make them confess
They've taught us not wisdom, but lies
Burning their textbooks and archaic outlooks
In society's funeral pyre
Senators gain weight as the poor deflate
Starve - as they vote themselves raises
Finger on button, a nuclear glutton
Governing rats caught in mazes
Parents who have raised us
Have not taught but crazed us
Priests who confessed us
Have not cured but depressed us
We'll turn and ignore as we head for the door
Can't take no more
05 Your Mistake (01:28)
We're here to be and the ones to succeed
No need for you to tell us how to be
Can't seem to find your reasons why
You tell us lies and think you're wise
Why can't you think before you sink
Why can't you see, then come to me
Tell us lies and ask us why
We hate society
And we're here to fight
I won't shake their hands
'Cause they're not our friends
Won't talk to you 'cause you can't be true
You've got problems, yet you keep hiding them
You entered their gate, but now it's too late
It's your mistake
07 Toxic Shock (02:28)
Toxins - buried underground
Seep into the water
Dioxin - she drank for nine straight months
Deformed her unborn daughter
Factories - spewing poison fumes
The cause of acid rain
Destroy crops and animals
Lives flushed down the drain
Radon - creeps up from the earth
Public dies of cancer
Danger - of chemical nightmare
When will we find the answer
Barrels leak the vile substance
There's no containing them
Contamination - of the food we eat
Absorb plutonium
Seconds ticking fast away
On Earth's bio clock
Politicians allow the dumping
Must be forced to stop
I hope they live on an abandoned waste site
And die of toxic shock
08 Bomber Zee (02:29)
The end is here per se
Coming near break of day
A bomber prepares for a flight
A blitzkrieg mission tonite
[Chorus:]
Writhing in my dreams
Feeling the painful screams
Torturing my brain
Driving me insane
Bomber up and away
Causing destruction today
Your mission almost complete
Never admitting defeat
[Chorus]
Bomber Zee again tonite
Feeling yourself in flight
Bombing in your mind
Wounding the life inside
[Chorus]
09 Public Assistance (02:47)
You spend your life on welfare lines
Or looking for handouts
Why don't you go find a job
You birth more kids to up your checks
So you can buy more drugs
Cash in food stamps and get drunk
[Chorus:]
Uncle Sam takes half my pay
So you can live for free
I got a family and bills to pay
No one hands money to me
You can go to school for nothing
Got that government grant
Get money in advance
When you're sick from shooting up
Medicaid pays full portion
When little Maria gets knocked up
She gets a free abortion
[Chorus]
How come it's minorities who cry
Things are too tough
On TV with their gold chains
Claim they don't have enough
I say make them clean the sewers
Don't take no resistance
If they don't like it go to hell
And cut their public assistance
11 Victim in Pain (00:48)
People say that I'm insane
A victim of society just in pain
Society's rules have made me cruel
I'm just the opposite, ain't no fool
The way I act or way I dress
Doesn't make me strong or make me best
Soon they'll find my reasons why
I'm open minded and not blind
But why am I going insane
Why am I the one to blame
Open your eyes, don't tell me lies
I'll be the one to live and rise
I'll think for myself and I'm sure to find
That society's rules won't change my mind
12 Remind Them (01:04)
They hate us, we'll hate them
They deny us, we'll defy them
They ignore us, we'll remind them
They taught us to hate and lie
To obey them and look into their selfish eyes
Reject the system and their games
The games they play to rise above
Laws they make, rules they could shove
Ideals to take over our minds
Unjustified greed to rule our lives
Their desire to overpower and conquer
To succeed for their own kind
Reject their authority, be aware of their schism
We won't adjust to their society
Their capitalistic from of prison
Remind them they taught us to lie
Remind them they've corrupted our lives
13 Blind Justice (01:26)
So they say they'll set me free
If I plead guilty and let it be
But I'm not the one who did their crimes
So why should I keep taking their jives
I'm done playing all their games
And being titled low life names
When I'm innocent and concerned
Of who I am and what I've learned
I'm not the one who did their crimes
There's no justice, there's just us
Blind justice screwed all of us
There's no justice, there's just us
We need justice for all of us
14 Last Warning (00:46)
When I try, to do the right
You always put me down
You're always on my back
Why do you hang around?
You can't see beyond your nose
What's making you so blind
The rules you make, those you break
This is your last warning
It isn't just a threat
Choose to disregard it
Wind up with regret
16 Power (01:44)
Power
Anti-social being
Human discharge
A fascist regime
We're fighting in the streets
Trying to be free
They say the regime will save us all
It's anti-social and gonna fall
17 Hiding Inside (01:20)
Hiding your feelings & yourself inside
Because you're afraid to express them
And lose your pride
But why try to be someone you're just not
Why keep hiding, letting the real you rot
Yes, you're afraid to get caught off gaurd
Because you don't know how they'll think
(Is he 'soft' or 'hard')
But does it really matter, does it really bother you?
To try to be someone else, a fool leading
Yourself on to (a life that's not for you)
Can't you act and be yourself
Not another character in a hardcore handbook
Well, we don't need anymore great american heroes
But real people being themselves, not weirdos
18 Fascist Attitudes (02:04)
Why should you go around bashing one another
If they look or think different, why let it bother
Everyones got their own style, their own thoughts
Don't let it bother you, don't let it get caught
Your fascist attitudes - we need the least
With a scene that's fighting for unity & peace
Don't need more anger; no more danger
Don't need to hate; stop before it's too late
Learning how to respect each other is a must
So why start a war of anger & danger among us
It's time to grow out of your nazi hypocrism
When you really don't want part of a fucked up system
20 Your Mistake (01:34)
We're here to be and the ones to succeed
No need for you to tell us how to be
Can't seem to find your reasons why
You tell us lies and think you're wise
Why can't you think before you sink
Why can't you see, then come to me
Tell us lies and ask us why
We hate society
And we're here to fight
I won't shake their hands
'Cause they're not our friends
Won't talk to you 'cause you can't be true
You've got problems, yet you keep hiding them
You entered their gate, but now it's too late
It's your mistake
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