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Quinto capitolo per i figli del lago Bodom... e ora mi piacerebbe dire: grandissimo capolavoro che riscatta il contorto (ma interessante) "Hate Crew Deathroll" e il caruccio (ma nulla più) "Follow The Reaper".
Purtroppo, ammesso che non voglia sparare sulla croce rossa, non posso negare che questo disco sia una delusione.
Nonostante sia salvabile, rimane il punto più basso di una carriera eccezionale. La questione è che i Children Of Bodom sono diventati una delle mie band preferite per due motivi:
1. "Something Wild" è stato il primo disco Metal che ho ascoltato.
2. Il gusto classicheggiante della chitarra di Lahio che suonava con uno stile di timbro Malmsteeniano, portandolo verso orizzonti più estremi e la fantastica tastiera che portava la melodia a fondersi simbioticamente con la brutalità del Death-Metal.
"Are You Dead Yet?" è un disco molto tecnico, ma non suona.
Le canzoni non entrano in testa e gli assoli non hanno feeling, sono poco ispirati. Le influenze Thrash devastano la matrice Power e quel senso melodico che apparteneva ai primi due dischi viene mestamente abbandonato. La musica degli esordi dei Children Of Bodom era qualcosa che evocava uno spirito satanico e mistico (vedasi "Red Light In My Eyes part.1" e "Touch Like Angel Of Death"), mentre questo disco trova Lahio cantare in stile Nu-Metal, la tastiera non è più una componente portante e il tutto suona troppo Slipknot (casino?). I riffs non sono lontani da "The Gathering" dei Testament (quello è un capolavoro), ma nonostante siano parecchio potenti, non hanno lo stesso impatto emotivo.
Le canzoni migliori sono la title-track e il primo singolo "In Your Face", ma non sono dei capolavori. Complessivamente il risultato è troppo omogeneo, ripetitivo e incapace di catturare l'ascoltatore.
Io intanto vado ad ascoltarmi la cavalcata di "Towards Dead End".
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
02 Are You Dead Yet? (03:54)
Don't hear, don't deem
Drown in before you dive
Don't care, commit
To your self destruction drive
I kiss the ground with
Love beyond forever
Flip off the sky with
Bleeding fingers till I die
Enemy, take a one
Good look at me
Eradicate what
You will always be
Your tainted flesh
Polluted soul
Through a mirror I behold
Throw a punch, shards
Bleed on the floor
Tearing me apart but
I don't care any more
Should I regret or ask myself
Are you dead yet?
Wake up, don't cry
Regenerate to deny the truth
The fiction you live
In blindfold your eyes
Disclosure, self loathing
This time you've gone too far
Or could it be, my nemesis
That you are me?
Enemy, take a one
Good look at me
Eradicate what
You will always be
Your tainted flesh
Polluted soul
Through a mirror I behold
Throw a punch, shards
Bleed on the floor
Tearing me apart but
I don't care any more
Should I regret or ask myself
Are you dead yet?
03 If You Want Peace... Prepare for War (03:57)
Pain ain't even really what you wanna be
5 feet under seeing your humanity
The opportunity to divide
the opportunity of being apart!!
Soon be there, the moon in the sky tonight
We're burning on a purified
Smash your face and then I beat it down
Are we really gonna die
Get up and fight, release your rage, come on and fight
Standing straight faced, it is your fate, calling my name
Calling me pain, and if you stay, you'll bite the scythe
Waiting for you I want to just tell you
If you want peace, prepare for war
Fuck!
Get up and fight, release your rage, come on and fight
Standing straight faced, it is your fate, calling my name
Calling me pain, and if you stay, you'll bite the scythe
Waiting for you I want to just tell you
Get up and fight, release your rage, come on and fight
Standing straight faced, it is your fate, calling my name
Calling me pain, and if you stay, you'll bite the scythe
Waiting for you I want to just tell you
If you want peace, prepare for war
04 Punch Me I Bleed (04:51)
From the reign I’ve built
Of shame and guilt
I go back and take a look
At myself and what
I have done so far
At the bridge he’s lying
Waiting till light
No choice to go
Back where, he was
Okay to us
You’re to come
And save me
Going down I walk
My way till now
Deep to the obscurity
Obliterating you in every way
With my life’s insanity
Battered up again
I’m going right inside
Curled up on the floor
Wonder ways to kill the pain and
What doesn’t kill you
Will only make you pissed off
Sweep back to kill
You can't make it go away
So let's, take a shot at me
Just when you punch me, I bleed
Going down I walk
My way till now
Deep to the obscurity
Obliterating you in every way
With my life’s insanity
-Solo-
No choice to go
Back where, he was
Okay to us
You’re to come
And save me
Going down I walk
My way till now
Deep to the obscurity
Obliterating you in every way
With my life’s insanity
06 Next In Line (04:19)
Let me tell you to try
What did you tell yourself
Another day goes by
Tell me why does [??]
So this is why
We're falling down
The...
I am the chosen next in line
Sent to slaughter your mankind
Rip the souls, born to die
No reason for you to fight
What is this for?
I to say
And we leave
I am the chosen next in line
Send to slaughter your mankind
Rip the souls, born to die
No reason for you to try
I am the chosen next in line
Send to slaughter your mankind
Rip the souls, born to die
No reason for you to try
09 We're Not Gonna Fall (03:25)
Woah yeow
They try kicking and screaming as loud
Contation break us apart
Will not control us they wont hold you down
I'm sorry give my life to you
Another day of falling down your way
Pushing and screaming cause
they thought it might be right
Hey
Take my hand and fly
Will you never be that tall
Don't you be afraid
We ARENT* gonna fall
Did you think
I'd let you mix it up
Give me a reason bitch
You're gonna f**k it up
Hey
Take my hand and fly
Will you ever be that tall
Don't you be afraid
We ARENT* fall
Hey
Do you believe in what we've got
Try it, one shot
We stand once and for all
We're not ARENT* fall
[Solo]
Well you thought you had the authority
To slay, kill the minority
Together we stand tall
Not gonna crash, not gonna fall
Did you think I'd let you mix it up
Give me a reason bitch
I'm gonna f**k you up
It's real, into the charge
At the end we're standing up
10 Somebody Put Something in My Drink (03:19)
Somebody
Somebody Put Something In My Drink
Somebody
Another night out on the street
Stopping for my usual seat
Oh, bartender, please
tonic's my favorite drink
I don't like anything colored pink
That just stinks...it's not for me
It feels like somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something
Somebody put something
Blurred vision and dirty thoughts
Feel out of place, very distraught
Feel something coming on
Kick the jukebox, slam the floor
Drink, drink, drink, drink some more
I can't think
Hey! What's in this drink?
It feels like somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something...in my drink...in my drink...in my drink...in my drink
So you think it's funny
A college prank
Goin' insane for something to drink
Feel a little dry
Oh, I couldn't care what you think of me
Cause somebody put something in my drink
I can't think
Hey! Give me a drink
It feels like somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink...
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Altre recensioni
Di Masahiro
Con Are You Dead Yet? i Children of Bodom compiono un altro passo avanti, raggiungono quello che non raggiunsero con Hate Crew Deathroll.
5/5 a testa alta, sperando che continuino ad evolversi come hanno fatto finora.
Di 100x100 HELL
Alexi Laiho e soci non smettono mai di stupire e continuano a farlo nell'anno 2005.
Il ritornello di 'Are You Dead Yet?' mi è rimasto impresso ed ogni giorno lo canto fino all'esasperazione.
Di Painkiller
"'Are You Dead Yet?' è un album che sa incantare, ma che ti fa saltare a piè pari canzoni come la terza, la quarta e la sesta..."
"Living Dead Beat è un pezzo con i fiocchi, un mix spettacolare di maniglia wha-wha e overdrive... stile Gone Jackals."
Di The_MenTalisT
Un esperimento da parte della band di ricerca di un sound proprio e sempre nuovo, scelta assolutamente da non criticare.
Al primo impatto Are You Dead Yet? risulta un album fiacco, spento, quasi una delusione, ma in un secondo ascolto può sembrare interessante e sperimentale.
Di Alexandrino
"Gran bel lavoro ragazzi, con brani ultrapotenti e graffianti a ritmi estremamente e dannatamente da guerra!"
"Se a distanza di 8 anni non l'avete mai sentito CHE CAVOLO ASPETTATE? ... ROMPETEVI LE ORECCHIE!!!!!!"
