Ci tenevo a completare la discografia ufficiale dei grandissimi Death, quindi mi sono deciso a recensire anche Fate, quinta uscita discografica del gruppo di Chuck Schuldiner. Analizzarlo sembra una cosa abbastanza inutile, dato che si tratta di un best of che non è altro che una compilation da cui sono tratti brani dai primi quattro album, di cui i primi tre sono considerati di un'altra galassia rispetto ai lavori raffinati ed ultratecnici a cui ci ha abituato la band più tardi.

Tanto per la cronaca siamo davanti ad un best of discreto, visto la presenza di alcuni pilastri quali l'immortale "Zombie Ritual", le cattivissime "Mutilation", "Left To Die" e "Baptized In Blood", le ragionate "Spiritual Healing" e "Altering The Future", le songs tratte da "Human", cioè le sensazionali "Suicide Machine" e "Toghether As One", per non parlare canzone-emblema dei primi Death, vale a dire "Pull The Plug", ma bisogna dire che sono molti i "celebri tagliati", e tanto per dirne alcuni cito "Beyond The Unholy Grave", "Leprosy", "Low Life", "Living Monstruosity", "Flattening Of Emotions", "Lack Of Comprehension" e "Vacant Planets".Beh, non mi resta altro da dire su questo Fate, se non altro che vi consiglio di farlo vostro (se lo volete originale però sono cazzi visto che è fuori stampa da molto) solo se siete dei fanatici di questa grande band, visto che è molto meglio possedere tutti i lavori di Schuldiner, ognuno merita pienamente i soldi spesi...

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01   Zombie Ritual (04:33)

Revengeful corpse out to kill
Smell the stench, Your guts will spill
Vomit for a mind, Maggots for a cock
With his axe the corpse will chop

Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell

Drink from the goblet, The goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, Now you want more
Drifting from the living, Joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, Now infest your head

Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual

Ceremony now complete
Chosen one is now deceased
Fucking, Raping zombie whores
Killing, Feasting no remorse

Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell

Drink from the goblet, The goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, Now you want more
Drifting from the living, Joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, Now infest your head

Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual

Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual

02   Together as One (04:08)

Labelled a creation of evil
Ridiculed for their shocking appearance
Sharing both please and pain
Two minds, Two hearts, One soul
Separating mentally
An illusion of privacy
Together - They absorb each other's lives
As One - They will live and they will die
A living hell has begun

Displayed as a nightmare
Criticized through words and eyes
As they stare
To the normal it seems grotesque
Connected by a bond of flesh
Two minds, Two hearts, One soul
Separating mentally
An illusion of privacy
Together - They absorb each other's lives
As One - They will live and they will die
A living hell has begun

03   Open Casket (04:56)

Approach the image filled with fear
As the image grows so clear
Future now takes full control
The one whose past you now behold
Touch - The flesh it is so cold
Turn away - You now have been told
Never to return, Memories will last
In the future, You'll think about the past
Never to forget, What you have seen

People come to pay respect
Taking pictures of the dead
That is what life comes to be
Once they lived, Now they're deceased

Death is oh so strange
The past no one can change
What you can't predict
Is how long you'll exist
Open casket - Open casket

Life will never be the same
Death can never be explained
It's their time to go beyond
Empty feeling when they're gone

Never to return, Memories will last
In the future, You'll think about the past
Never to forget, What you have seen
What can not be real you now believe

04   Spiritual Healing (07:45)

05   Mutilation (03:28)

Massacred, Hacked to death, My revenge
Slicing deep, Into your flesh, The pain intense
Dreams of hate, Misery, Fill my mind
Puke in your face in disgust, It's time to die

You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain

Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation

Staring your severed head in the face
I celebrate a faggot's death, Human disgrace
Hanging your mangled corpse for display
My revenge was fulfilled upon this day

You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain

Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation

You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain

Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation

06   Suicide Machine (04:22)

Controlling their lives
Deciding when and how they will die
A victim of someone else's choice
The ones who suffer have no voice
Manipulating destiny
When it comes to living, No one seems to care
But when it comes to wanting out
Those with power, Will be there
Prolong the pain
How long will it last?
Suicide machine
A request to die with dignity
Is that too much to ask?
Suicide machine
How easy it is to deny the pain
Of someone else's suffering

Robbed of natural abilities
In death they now seek tranquility
In a confused state of mind
Extending agony, They must be blind
Manipulating destiny

When it comes to living, No one seems to care
But when it comes to wanting out
Those with power, Will be there
Prolong the pain
How long will it last?
Suicide machine
A request to die with dignity
Is that too much to ask?
Suicide machine

07   Altering the Future (05:36)

Creating a life only to destroy
Saved from a life of the unemployed
Where crime is the only way to survive
Which is the best to be dead or alive?
Maybe a chance but maybe not
Born to be thrown in the trash to rot
To exist in this world may be a mistake
The one who is your child, it's their choice to make

Death and life taken so easily
Right or wrong, whose choice will it be?

Abortion, when it is needed
Execution, for those who deserve it
The giving and taking of life will always be
Altering the future

Look into the future to prepare us for our fate
Controlling our existence with every life we take

Life for a life should remain the rule
The innocent victim that is what's cruel
Look to the past is what we should do
When justice was done and justice was true
Using our laws to help their escape
An easy way out is what they create
Claiming insane is the way to freedom
People are stupid enough to believe them

Death and life taken so easily
Right or wrong, whose choice will it be?

Abortion, when it is needed
Execution, for those who deserve it
The giving and taking of life will always be

08   Baptized in Blood (04:30)

Under command a new-born child
Submerged in blood, The dead they smile
Growing possessed, Burning inside
A bloody feast for us tonight

The way of death
Is growing hear just take my hand
Skies grow black
Unholy corpses upon their land

The dead they gather around
Praising the child they found
Possessed, The child shall kill
The future is now revealed

Baptized in blood
Destined to burn
Baptized in blood
Reborn they'll learn

Gather around, Watch and see
A new creation of misery
Taking the place of the elderly dead
Forbidden ways now in his head

The way of death
Is growing hear just take my hand
Skies grow black
Unholy corpses upon their land

The dead they gather around
Praising the child they found
Possessed, The child shall kill
The future is now revealed

Baptized in blood
Destined to burn
Baptized in blood
Reborn they'll learn

Baptized in blood
Destined to burn
Baptized in blood
Reborn they'll learn

09   Left to Die (04:38)

10   Pull the Plug (04:27)

Memory's all that's left behind
As I lay and wait to die
Little do they know
That I hear their choice of life

End it now, it is the only way
Too cruel, that is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope - Why don't you

Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way

Once I had full control of my life
I now behold a machine decides my fate
End it now it's all to late

What has now been days, It seems like years
To stay like this is what I fear
Life ends so fast, So take your chance
And make it last

End it now, It is the only way
Too cruel, That is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope - Why don't you

Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way

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