A dire la verità mi sono avvicinato con molti pregiudizi verso questo album del quartetto di New York... vuoi perchè il precedente "Uncivilization" non mi aveva entusiasmato per niente malgrado le collaborazioni con nomi importanti, vuoi perchè negli ultimi periodi i miei gusti sono molto orientati sulla melodia o sull'emo intelligente (Dredg, Yaphet Kotto)... sta di fatto che Kill or be Killed è rimasto per molto tempo sotto la voce "da ascoltare".
Un bel giorno mi sono deciso... ok, oggi è la giornata giusta... parte la prima traccia... "World on fire (intro)" che come quasi tutti gli intro è senza dubbio inutile... e poi arriva la vera "World on Fire"... il mondo è a fuoco... e che fuoco cazzo! Metalcore pesante come un macigno, molto più pesante di quanto i Biohazard non avessero mai fatto... batteria sparata, le voci di Evan e Billy che si sovrappongono sin continuazione, la prima in un simil-growl e la seconda in uno scream disperato. Bella bella!
Passo alla seconda traccia... comincia lenta... che palle, ecco tornati i Biohazard meno ispirati... e invece no! Ecco che la batteria riparte! E anche se nel ritornello si rallenta un po' fa niente... ogni tanto bisogna anche rilassarsi...
Non vi faccio una recensione canzone per canzone... starei ore... comunque tirando le somme direi che questo disco è più che discreto... ovviamente difficilmente brillerà per originalità... ma almeno "regala" una mezz'ora abbondante di musica fatta con passione, sincerità e esperienza. Perchè sti quattro energumeni pluritatuati, ambasciatori di una città in cui la vita non dev'essere troppo semplice per i più sfigati, e diciamolo tranquillamente pure un po' tamarri sono in giro da 15 anni... mica bruscolini e Linkin Park!
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04 Kill or Be Killed (02:41)
The taste of blood erases all the guilt
Tear down the walls and all that was built
As history repeats we kill without thought
Do onto others is what we're taught
I can't go on I'm losing my faith
Lost all hope in the human race
Walking tall, kill or be killed
Stronger than ever we will rebuild
Scavenging for something more
Something wordth me dying for
All is fair in love and war
We will avenge and even the score
Kill, Kill or be killed
Revenge evens the score
Death for a cause
Live for nothing more
We gotta stand up and fight, let's ignite
We gotta put our shit behind us, it's time to unite
Like dynamite we'll explode and take back what is ours
And never let them win again, die you fucking cowards
05 Heads Kicked In (04:39)
The cold winds of war, numb the nations soul
They taste the bitter fear as a grim future appears
Criminal leaders building hate
Under siege the world segregates
The day has come, the end is at hand
The earth a corpse, a barren waste land
Cower in fear, humanity prays
Blood upon, our final days
No god can grant any salvation
There's no escaping incineration
Bound and tortured, heads kicked in
Children slaughtered, heads kicked in
Nations ruptured, heads kicked in
Lives aborted, heads kicked in
In this world terror reigns supreme
The earth a carcass with its bones picked clean
Inpending doom, too little too late
Clenched inside the fist of fate
With savage bloodlust, we feed on the kill
Self destruction, our only true skill
Will our children ever get a clean slate
Barbaric society, united in hate
The charred remains of war machines
The lifeless twisted bodies
Blind eyes that peer from their heads
The crowded carraiges of the dead
06 Beaten Senseless (02:09)
Beaten senseless in everyway
Life dissappears, get's blown away
New world chaos in disarray
A second to die and forever to pray
The time has come to push to fight, to die, to live
This time I take the fall
Don't sort them out just kill them all
Just never push my back against the wall
Beaten senseless, violent relentless
No hope defenseless, beaten senseless
Now you pushed me over the edge
Can't take it no more, I'm seeing red
Beaten senseless over the head
Never gonna stop until your all fucking dead
Vengeance is my only thought
Rage, abuse, the wars I've fought
Self preservation is self taught
Turn your back and you'll be caught
Crushing pain intensity a violent beating senselessly so cruel, agony
Broken spirit, broken home,
a broken man who can not cope with pain, misery
08 Open Your Eyes (03:16)
Open your eyes motherfucker
In this world of bullshit and lies
Jealously and hatred run rampant
Simple minded fould, cower in fear
To the slaughter the weak are branded
Eyes closed tight and ears held shut
To what is going on right around you
A dull pain deep in your guy
With fists or words I pound you
I hate your apathy
I'm gonna make you see
For all humanity as you are on your knees
You say how can it be,
You thought you held the key
But you never cared about me
Your death will set me free
There's a riot inside my mind
The agony fuels my fire of hate
Fed up with your conservative views
Your concerns just seem too little too late
Apathy, you live for yourself
In the guilded cage of your insolent mind
I cut off your head in the name of what's right
And free the ideas of human kind
09 Penalty (03:03)
What's inside my state of mind, can you deal with reality?
Who pays the price for hating, who decides our final fate?
Can you reall trust the government, can you really believe the truth?
Will you die for what you believe or will you suffer like a fool?
Sacrifice, penalty
You gave your life
And paid the price of hate
Is there anyone you can count on when it's time to do things right?
Or are these people just fucking maggots sucking you for all your life?
Who looks out for our best interests, who cares about their fellow man?
Or are we all just fucking animals fucking each other anytime we can?
Who's gonna beg for mercy
When the time to fight back comes
Get down on bended knee and pray
For our salvation
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