Il primo passo verso il techno-death. Con questa semplice frase possiamo definire un altro grande lavoro targato Schuldiner.
Uscito nel 1991, anno dell’esplosione del genere, “Human” è il primo album dei Death che va oltre le classiche sonorità death-metal. Questo disco, insieme a “Unquestionable Presence” degli Atheis e a “Testimony of the Ancients” dei Pestilence, inaugura l’inizio del prog/death, più comunemente chiamato techno death.
Techno sta per “technical”, è indica quel genere contaminato da influenze jazz, fusion e prog. La band, originaria della Florida, non cerca di mutare il proprio sound, ma lo arricchisce, evolvendo la tecnica posseduta. Chuck Schuldiner guida i suoi in un intricarsi di melodie e ritmiche complesse e tecnicamente proibitive. Oltre al solito “attacco frontale” che i Death sferrano nei precedenti dischi, si nota un elaborazione musicale molto complicata. Infatti la tecnica assurda e le sonorità “celebrali” rendono l’ascolto del disco affascinante.
Soprattutto nella base ritmica, basso – batteria, si sentono i cambiamenti apportati. Non a caso la presenza del mitico Steve Digiorgio, che esegue linee di basso fuori dal comune. La batteria, diretta da Sean Reinert, sfonda qualsiasi cosa, entrando prepotentemente in qualsiasi pezzo, devastando così, i nostri eccitatissimi timpani! I riff creati da Schuldiner e Masvidal, sono sempre rabbiosi e velocissimi. Chuck, oltre a compiere elettrizzanti assoli, esplode con la sua voce puramente distruttiva. Canzoni come “Lack Of Comprehension” o “Togheter As One”, sono la prova “vivente” della ferocia del disco! Pesantissimi i testi, con contenuti riguardanti le interiorità più profonde dell’anima e della mente umana.
Veloce, potente, malinconico, rabbioso, elaborato, tecnico, psicopatico e devastante! A livello emotivo il miglior album death metal mai esistito. Meraviglioso da ascoltare, ma difficile da interpretare, se non con una buona concentrazione.
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01 Flattening of Emotions (04:29)
Where is the person that could have been
Who, what took over, when did the end begin
Should we not prepare for the uncertain
Mysteries of our life, of our destiny
See things that are not there
Intruding voices
What went wrong to their picture perfect life
They once knew - Flattening of emotions
A mind shared by an uninvited stranger
Which comes and goes as choose to appear
Should we not prepare for the uncertain
Mysteries of our life, of our destiny
See things that are not there
Intruding voices
What went wrong to their picture perfect life
They once knew - Flattening of emotions
02 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
03 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
05 Lack of Comprehension (03:43)
A condeming fear strikes down
Things they cannot understand
An excuse to cover up weaknesses that lie within
Lies
Laying your guilt and pain
On people that had no part in the molding of a life
That creates its destruction
Lies
Right before your very eyes
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your part in the demise of a life
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
Reaching into the minds of those that created
The depression in which they
In which they drowned their flesh and blood
Lies
So easy to blame the
Everlasting fear on a pathetic attempt
To justify the ending of life
Lies
Right before your very eyes
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your part in the demise of a life
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
08 Vacant Planets (03:48)
Mysterious object of flight on a voyage
To correct what they have done, What we are doing
Perhaps submerged, Living in the inner most
Recesses of the planet - No choice but
To adapt to an underground world
Limiting our passages of thought
Are they the examples of regression
A life form's abusive progression
In a realm so vast, We sit among the Vacant Planets
So many worlds yet to be seen that once have shared
The same effects that come from greed, Mass production
Perhaps submerged, Living in the inner most
Recesses of the planet - No choice but
To adapt to an underground world
Limiting our passages of thought
Are they the examples of regression
A life form's abusive progression
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Di ElectricOne
"Human è l'ultimo album dei nostri che possiede ancora tutte le caratteristiche intrinseche del genere, quindi passionale ferocia esecutiva, potenza e timbrica gutturale dei suoni."
"La vera forza di Human è rendere un simil coacervo di capacità tecniche fruibili all'ascolto, donando vivide emozioni sonore per l'appunto umane."
