Attualmente Peter Steele è conosciuto come una rock-star, cantante dei Type O Negative, vanta di uno strepitoso successo, in particolar modo negli anni novanta (quando era ancora credibile). Il suo atteggiamento da depressoide maschilista è stato il suo biglietto da visita per anni, la sua voce caratteristica dal tono basso e particolare, lo ha trasformato in un uomo ricco e famoso.
Ma prima del 1991, anno in cui i Type O Negative debuttarono con l'album "Slow Deep And Hard" Peter Steele era la mente di un altra band: i Carnivore, ecco, 'Retaliation' è il loro secondo album. Questa band di New York è caratterizzata da suoni rozzi, chitarre cupe, una batteria martellante che nei suoi tempi non disdegna di inserire di tanto in tanto il blast beat primordiale e una voce iraconda.
Tutto ciò descritto è inserito in un album registrato in maniera semi amatoriale, ricco di errori esecutivi e piccole ingenuità. Per il mio modo di vederla tutto ciò non significa monnezza anzi a me l'album piace. Si sa che nel 1987 (anno di uscita del disco) non importava tanto se non eri un musicista perfezionista, l'importante era che si spiegasse bene il "concetto" e che fosse condito di estremismo puro. I Carnivore non erano eccellenti nella tecnica, ma il messaggio che spiegavano era forte e chiaro. I loro testi possono essere fastidiosi per molte persone, non ci sono mezze parole, erano giovani ed in più era Peter Steele a scrivere i testi, quindi e possibile immaginare quanto maschilismo, razzismo e messaggi violenti possono essere descritti nei loro brani.
Si inizia con "Jack Daniel's and Pizza" traccia non musicale, solo rumori di un tizio che vomita, per passare alle altre undici traccie questa volta tutte sounate con attitudine estrema tra Thrash Metal ed Hardcore. Tra i brani più famosi si possono trovare "Angry Neurotic Catholics" o "Ground Zero Brooklyn".
Se non siete infastiditi da questi temi non del tutto "civili" e amate in particolar modo la musica veloce e chiassosa, potete tranquillamente acquistare l'album, se invece non corrispondete alla descrizione appena citata, girate alla larga da questo disco.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
02 Angry Neurotic Catholics (02:47)
I'm suffering from depression
the anger turned within
what do I gain for all my pain
perhaps a seat in heaven?
Don't do what you want
do what you're taught is right
your life is built on paranoia and guilt
don't forget your valium tonight
The agony I must endure
my mind is painful and swells
the punishment for what I've done
is forever the pains of hell
how come what is natural
has to be a sin?
why would God give me this urge
if I cannot give in?
they say don't give up
that Jesus loves me
I went down into my basement
confused and depressed
put Black Sabbath on
razor blade in hand
a Wilkinson I think
ten slashes on each arm
my only wrongdoing
was being born human
and following my instincts
I never was happy
I never was sane
so I shall be extinct
the growing pool of crimson
at last I am pure
witness my sanguineous penance
I don't need anyone
my soul's been set free
death is total independence
stand up straight
stomach in
shoulders back
sound off
Angry Neurotic Catholics
It's a sin
Angry Neurotic Catholics
It's a sin
03 S.M.D. (02:26)
You don't like the clothes I wear
I'll shave my head or grow my hair
What makes you look over here
What are you queer?
Suck My Dick
Suck My Dick
Suck My Dick
You call my music sonic poison
Turn it down it's annoyin'
But it gives me pleasure to aggravate
The ones I hate
Walking down the Streets
A Bottle grazes off your head
From a window someone laughing
Spitting on your head
Find a weapon bash their skulls in
Don't they make you sick
Kill these fucking pricks
Shins and bangers joing fight or one
Those who persecute battle til' they've won
Tired of being pressured
To join their plastic army
You conforming clones will be sorry
Suck
I won't change for anyone
My
Keep fighting 'til I'm done
Dick
I got a right to be myself
And you can go fuck yourself
05 Race War (05:55)
Black against white
Yellow versus red
The fighting won't stop
Until we're all dead
Burning riots destroy the masses
Nightfall brings death,city reduced to ashes
Don't call me your brother
We fell from different cunts
And your akins an ugly color
Race war
We're going to a Race war
Hate war
We're going to a Hate war
Heyndicial homicide
Bloodshed, rampage torture is not subsiding
Chaos, bedlam, violent ethnic uprising
Moslems against christians
And the arabs versus jews
The catholics and protestants
No one wins we all loose
Everybody's gonna die
Xenophobic tendencies
Instilled in us at birth
Are mislodled racism
Hostilities getting worse
Accept the fact my distant cousm
Insocateel environments
May just be the key
Human beings suspicious
Soon fear grees to hate
We'll have each other by the throat
When forced to integrate
Mothers watch their children die
And each other hand
Cain and Abel set the course
Ethnocentric command
Race ware
Hate war
06 Inner Conflict (05:02)
Nothing can stop the pain
and nothing can stop the pain
suffering from anxiety
it seems like an eternity
Somebody somebody kill me
somebody put my out of my misery
Inner Conflict
Inner Conflict
The pain it only gets worse
and the pain it only get worse
give up 'cause there is no hope
life is hell when you can't cope
Large two inch maggots decorate my vomit
infecting eyes oozing pus
acknowledge the stench of human excrement
swamps of mucus prevalent
every hole in my body drips blood
every hole in my body drips blood
every hole in my body drips blood
Hate is fear
I rip at my face in the mirror
death approaching
expiration growing nearer
I'm rotting inside
I'm disgusted with myself
I'm in hell
08 Technophobia (03:55)
You fear change and all that's new
stand in the way of progress
like primitive man afraid of fire
'till he explored it's many uses
The power of the atom at our disposal
yet it is called unsafe
nuclear energy so clean and pure
your ignorance is a disgrace
Do not resist
it is your destiny
have we not all become
the children of technology
Holding your fate in a magnetic grip
of all your irrational fears
the shadow of machinery cast upon the flesh of man
blood, sweat, and gears
the robots of dawn offsprings the industry
spot you in the cobalt blue light
one fell swoop and you've become a memory
away with your intrusive life
Into the reactor!
You worship a dead man hung with nails
only a fool would die for the sins of humanity
on your knees before electronics
lets replace this religious insanity
tear down the churches instead on the ground
build there the holy reactors
give us the children science and math
in place of bibles and pastors
You bleeding heart liberals
who oppose the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
must be compelled to retire
you serve only as obstacles and should be used
to fuel the nuclear pyre
09 Manic Depression (03:06)
Manic depression is touchin' my soul
I know what I want but I just don't know how to heh!
Go about gettin' it
Feelin' sweet feelin' Drops fom my fingers
Manic depression is a catchin' my soul Yeah
Woman so weary The sweet cause in vain
You make love You break love It's all the same when it's
When it's over
Music sweet music I wish I could caress Caress Caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess!
Well I think I'll go turn myself off and go on down All the way down
Really ain't no use in me hangin' around in Your kind-a scene
Music sweet music I wish I could caess and a kiss Kiss
Manic depression is a frustratin' mess!
Music sweet music Sweet music Sweet music
Music sweet music Sweet music Yeah
10 U.S.A. for U.S.A. (03:21)
Listen to this all you douchebags
It's time that we laid down the law
We're tired of taking your shit
And we ain't gonna take it no more
Be prepared to fight and die
So that wr may be free
And if you don't like it here
Then packs your shit and leave
Our forefathers died in war
So that you could live better
We at least owr it to them
To keep the stars and stripes forever
Planting bombs on planes
Blowing up our ships
Hill our kids and women
Find this dickless slobs
Hang them by the scrotum
Lets and the terrorism
You think yourself a God
Would follow to the death
A spineless yellow faggot
A bunoh of stiking slobs
Hiding behind masks
Show yourself 'ya maggot
United we stand
Divided we fall
And that's the way it's gonna be
Don't ever for liberty
All the bullshit countries
Who think they'll beat the giant
World peace on upheaval
Wr'll nuke'em to the stoneage
Send the message clear
'Ya don't fuck with the eagle
12 Sex and Violence (03:50)
Money wrench in my hand
in my groin a swollen gland
tonight perform brain surgery
or some gynecology
clockwork orange fast becoming
rampant street gangs overrunning
after darkness raging war
what do they keep living for?
Sex and Violence
I love to hear you scream in vain
splattered blood and semen stains
rape and murder lesson learned
meaning of life? - Pain and sperm
prey upon the old and helpless
reconditioning is useless
ultra-violent offsprings of gore
what do they keep living for?
Sex and Violence
If you can't eat it or fuck it...
then kill it!
Sexual deviation
Religious desecration
Civil mutilation
Violent procreation
Bleed for me
Carico i commenti... con calma
