Ho conosciuto gli A.H.C. nel 2002 quando rimasi colpito dal clip di "Just so you know", un gran pezzo nu-metal dalle atmosfere molto "faithnomoriane", allora mi affrettai a procurarmi l'ellepi "The war of art" per capire che mi trovavo di fronte all'ennesimo gruppo clone, ad un grande bluff, all'idea di "gruppo-clone" che se lo avessi io recensito l'album non sarebbe nemmeno andato oltre il 2 regalato (per la presenza del singolo e per la buona produzione).
Un paio di ascolti, il singolo sopra citato rimane un caso isolato, l'album è sugli scaffali a riempirsi di polvere. "Vedremo cosa faranno più avanti" pensai allora, sono passati 3 anni ed eccoli col nuovo "The Feeding", eccoli con una nuova line-up ed una nuova casa discografica.
L'ascolto con gran scetticismo e... SORPRESA, il disco in questione non è affatto un brutto lavoro!
Inizio subito ai 100 all'ora col primo singolo estratto "Loyalty", un gran bel pezzo, molto aggressivo che poggia sul fraseggio classico del Nu (paranoia/rabbia) qui riproposto in modo semplice ma efficace. Poi il disco fila via dritto, non sempre all'altezza visto che i pezzi si fanno si ascoltare ma come entrano nell'orecchio vi ci escono, fino a "Take what I've taken" che ha nell'intensità finale il momento migliore.
Rispetto al suo predecessore è innegabile che il gruppio abbia aggiunto al proprio sound una maggiore dose d'intensità e rabbia rinfrescando la miscela che sapeva un po' troppo di frittata stracotta. La rabbia di "Leave me Alone", l'andamento sbilenco di "Erratic" e la solenne conclusiva "To Be Me" sono altri momenti piacevoli del disco.
In mezzo agli ultimi due però vi sta il picco dell'album: quella "Cowards" che è una vera e propria fucilata nelle orecchie, una furia allo stato puro che non ha mai una caduta di tono, uno vero e proprio sfogo che non può non passare inosservato.
Un lavoro più che dignitoso che promuove il gruppo e le sue capacità compositive notevolmente migliorate, ma il tutto è ancora collocabile nel calderone Nu-Metal; non vedo e non sento quella personalità che permetterebbe al gruppo il salto di qualità, c'è poca originalità... forse arriverà il successo di massa ("Loyatly" potrebbe avere le carte in regola), ma forse tra un mese non se ne parlerà neanche più visto che il tempo passa e le mode cambiano.
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01 Loyalty (03:27)
It's just a reason to deny
All the limits that border
On the thiniest frailties
that makes a sudden change
I'll pay my soul into sleep
I'll make up words that I keep
Letting nothing go to anyone at all
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
All of them
Bleed at the nerves
That take so long
To wear down
I'll pay my soul into sleep
I'll make up words that I keep
Letting nothing go to anyone at all
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
(This time I let go)
This time I have made enough mistakes
For you to bear against me in direct break
Our original ideals, you let us down
And betrayed our trust with all your promises
I see a piece of shit alive in you
Cast them near enough to be a truth
This time I have made enough mistakes
For you to bear against me in direct break
Our original ideals, you let us down
And betrayed our trust with all your promises
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
Where is your loyalty now
When all the cards have been left on the table?
02 Pledge Allegiance (03:23)
We're just the braces amidst
These selfish trials and fits
Not so safe or scared or dumb is the rest
Our unravelling has just
Enough of it here to be
Drown propped up and watching
You stare at us pull you down
You read the news
You take the vows
You blame the costs
We play the chords
Now the only course
That traces an end
To the violence
Has left us without any
Chance to stand our ground
... Stand up and ...
March
Get back in line and
Fight
The time to start is
Now
Don't let yourself play the
Fool
There's no way out
Placatingly wound we search
Without purpose the game ends
Promise me today
So tomorrow's a new surprise
All these sores lingering
Shutdown and loving it
The greedy hands will lie
But we stand ready to strike
Yours' is the blood
Theirs' the first
The speed the greed
The machines and the paper dolls
We didn't want this
We didn't need this
We couldn't see it coming
But we're to blame for it
... Stand up and ...
March
Get back in line and
Fight
The time to start is
Now
Don't let yourself play the
Fool
There's no way out
Watch us coming
While you drop away
Bow your fucking heads
And pray for us
Cause it's my time
And it's our side
You can't stop us any longer
Bow your head
Pray for us
It's our time
It's our side
04 Ridicule (04:48)
Ridicule my own
So precious alone
These faces of everyone
Remind me of home
You're plotting riddled sin
All my needs giving in
Blow me a kiss and leave me to the dogs
So, you think you got it
You think you know me
You wanna bring me down
I am in my finest hour
Ridicule my own
So precious alone
These faces of everyone
Remind me of home
You're watching me dying
How am I looking?
Why don't you take a picture
You're plotting riddled sin
All my needs giving in
Blow me a kiss
And leave me to the dogs
My fear, traps me waiting for it
My past is glowing red and yellow, again
Run, back where you came from
Not that it matters
I'll never see you again
My fists strain to sift mercy
Ridicule my own
So precious alone
These faces of everyone
Remind me of home
You're plotting riddled sin
All my needs giving in
Blow me a kiss and leave me to the dogs
My fear, traps me waiting for it
My past is glowing red and yellow, again
My fate will show me where to follow
08 Erratic (03:22)
Stalking the currency shifts
As cause becomes
Embedded codes digital mistakes
So all the rest can
Choke for need and strain to bleed
The hunger I fix a taste for the feeding
This panic perpetuating poison upon us
As it plagues me into
Running the gamut again
Surprise you're wrong
I'm not the defects for ones
You left out
Erratic an addict
Is leading my fall
Back to the faces
My weaknesses live
Shots down and riding the bomb
Routine submissive disease
Just let me rot
Done with all these innocent thieves
While all us weak ones
Choke for need and strain to bleed
The hunger I fix a taste for the feeding
This panic perpetuating poison upon us
As it plagues me into
Running the gamut again
Surprise you're wrong
I'm not the defects for ones
You left out
Erratic an addict
Is leading my fall
Back to the faces
My weaknesses live
Shots down and riding the bomb
09 Fiend (04:20)
I want to be
Somewhere far from here
I'm watching you
As you wave goodbye
I won't take
I won't weigh you down
Following suit
So just count me out
I can't get it out
Can't put it together
I should have known better
Than to turn into this
I can't believe
I've become removed
Tighten the line
And pull up hello
I will change
I won't weigh me down
Carving this space
Never count me out
I can't get it out
Can't put it together
I should have known better
Than to turn into this
Fiend
I say
Everything's how it ought to be
I say
Nothing should ever change
I say
I only know how I used to be
I say
I don't want a fucking thing to do with it
Fiend
10 Cowards (02:51)
This is the way to find my harlequins face
To my junkie dead body
Still covered in lace
The flesh still warm where skin had once been my lips
My smile just scattered fragments lining the ditch
You like to watch when I bleed
(like a coward)
I've got some right here for you
I push you down on your knees
(such a good whore)
I make your dreams come true
At 60 miles an hour on course and pace in hybrid mental states
So my pathetic limp kiss has never caught this way
No catalyst begins across the face of those who end
Leaving its scar too deep for all of your attempts to mend
Come on cowards
Come on you whores
I've got no choice but this if
I can't get rid of it
You'll never be any match
For what I can do to myself
I'm still stuck here breaking it backwards apart
Watching all the raindrops cover up before we can start (
like a coward)
Without a doubt that all will be washed away
There's still no proof to see if I will someday
You like to watch when I bleed
(like a coward)
I've got some right here for you
I push you down on your knees
(such a good whore)
I make your dreams come true
I've got no choice but this if
I can't get rid of it
You'll never be any match
For what I can do to myself
Come on cowards/come on you whores
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