Dopo il debut Down With The Sickness, che mi era piaciuto solo per 4/12 (Voices-Stupify-Fear-Shout 2000), i Disturbed tornano con un secondo lavoro e lo fanno, a mio modo di vedere, nel migliore dei modi.
Believe è un album che si ascolta con facilità dalla prima all'ultima canzone; il passo in avanti fatto dalla band è notevole; se agli inizi risaltasse l'originalità del loro sound (difficile trovare analogie con altri gruppi), ora si riesce anche ad apprezzare a pieno la qualità delle canzoni ed è difficile trovare una nota stonata.
Il CD si apre con il singolo “Prayer”, canzone che mette in risalto le capacità canore di David Draiman mediante tratti melodici alternati a gradevoli tratti più duri ma mai pesanti e, dopo aver assaggiato l’essenza Disturbed attraverso “Liberate”, si passa ad “Awaken”, la quale è una traccia che si ascolta decisamente bene, specialmente se il genere in questione piace come al sottoscritto.
Il pezzo che segue, vale a dire “Believe” evidenzia ancora una volta le qualità melodiche di Draiman, dopodiché si passa alla notevole “Remember” per poi passare ad “Intoxication” e “Rise”; tre tracce che si ascoltano ad un sol fiato.
Con “Mistress” e “Breathe” si torna al solito, seppur piacevole, genere delle prime, per poi passare alla canzone che più ricorda il primo album, ovvero sia “Bound”. Infine abbiamo la splendida “Devour” (una delle mie preferite) e la melodiosa “Darkness”.
Concludendo mi sento di dire che il CD è veramente bello, l’unico lato negativo che riesco a trovare è che, escludendo l’ultima canzone, l’album varia poco ed al primo ascolto può sembrare quasi tutto uguale, ad ogni modo la qualità è ottima.
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01 Remember (04:22)
Sensation washes over me
I can't describe it
Pain I felt so long ago
I don't remember
Tear a hole so I can see
My devastation
Feelings from so long ago
I don't remember
Holding on, to let them know
What's given to me
Given to me
To hide behind
The mask this time
And try to believe
Blind your eyes to what you see
You can't embrace it
Leave it well enough alone
And don't remember
Cut your pride and watch it bleed
You can't deny it
Pain you know you can't ignore
I don't remember
Holding on, to let them know
What's given to me
Given to me
To hide behind
The mask this time
And try to believe
If I can
Remember
To know this will
Conquer me
If I can
Just walk alone
And try to escape
Into me
Sensation washes over me
I can't describe it
Pain I felt so long ago
I don't remember
...I'm just
Holding on, to let them know
What's given to me
Given to me
To hide behind
The mask this time
And try to believe
If I can
Remember
To know this will
Conquer me
If I can
Just walk alone
And try to escape
Into me
Into me
Into me
02 Bound (03:51)
Ready
Darkness cover me
I'm not ready to die, girl
Because of what you don't tell me
I'm not ready to walk inside of where you're taking me
I'm not ready to die, girl
Because of what you don't tell me
I'm not willing to compromise the man I want to be
Think you're a little bit closer
To changing me
You're never winning me over
You're wasting time
Think you're a little bit closer
To changing me
You're never winning me over
You're wasting time, yeah
Leave me be
I'm not ready to die, girl
Because of what you don't tell me
I'm never going to tow the line of your conformity
I'm not ready to die, girl
Because of what you don't tell me
I'm not ready to leave the realm of anonymity
Think you're a little bit closer
To changing me
You're never winning me over
You're wasting time
Think you're a little bit closer
To changing me
You're never winning me over
You're wasting time, yeah
Wasting time, yeah
Get away from me
Ready
Think you're a little bit closer
To changing me
You're never winning me over
You're wasting time
Think you're a little bit closer
To changing me
You're never winning me over
You're wasting time, yeah
You're wasting time, yeah
You're wasting time, yeah
You're wasting time, yeah
03 Fear (03:50)
Be something again,
up,up,up,up,up,up!!!
Be something again,
up,up,up,up,up,up!!!
Be something again,
up,up,up,up,up,up!!!
Be something again,
up,up,up,up,up,up!!!
Reject
Are you no one
Feel you nothing
You know I'll bet you think
You have a good reason to be living
In the limelight of the fortunate ones
you're too weakened by the poison
That they feed you in the living lie
They don't believe you
Call to no one
Trust in nothing
Little impotent one
I don't wanna be x4 innocent, you know
I don't wanna be x3 I don’t want to let them hypnotize me
Punk ass, are you listening
Can you hear me or are you deaf and dumb to my language
Do the real words seem to hurt you
Well put em' up muthafucker
you're gonna feel it
When I stamp it on your forehead
So you will never forget
That you're a reject
And you're no one
And you're nothing
Little impotent one
I don't wanna be x4 innocent, you know
I don't wanna be x3 I don’t want to let them hypnotize me
I don't wanna be x4 innocent, you know
I don't wanna be x3 I don’t want to let them hypnotize me
Fear awaken
Go with it now
And let it overcome you
Fear awaken
Your mind is racing
I don't understand why you don't like me
Why don't you like me?
Am I so different from you
Now does it scare you that I'm able to discern
What to love and what to burn
I'll add your fuel to the fire now
Stand back, brother take your hand back
Leave it and I might crack
More than a smile or two you see
Don't judge what you don't understand
You can't deny what has been given to me
I don't wanna be x4 innocent, you know
I don't wanna be x3 I don’t want to let them hypnotize me
I don't wanna be x4 innocent, you know
I don't wanna be x3 I don’t want to let them hypnotize me
Fear awaken
Go with it now
And let it overcome you
Fear awaken
Go with it now
Go with it now
Your fear awaken
Go with it now
And let it overcome you
Fear awaken
Your mind is racing
Erasing now
Reject
Are you no one
Feel you nothing
You know I'll bet you think
You have a good reason to be living
In the limelight of the fortunate ones
You know.
04 Conflict (04:40)
You are enemy
You are my hated enemy
I am enemy
Number one-rated enemy
I'm labeled enemy
I am your mortal enemy
My actions enemy
Make me your bitter enemy.
[Chorus]
All the world around enemy, (ow ow)
They're tearin' up the ground enemy, (ow ow)
They're drawn in by the sound, enemy, enemy
I must eliminate my enemy.
Your people enemy
My people's hated enemy,
What are you enemy
Though a created enemy.
Terminate the enemy
Eradicate the hated enemy
I am an enemy
My very greatest enemy.
Chorus
Shout
You try to tell me that you love life,
Then find another way to kill life.
Wanting, Love Life
Needing, Kill Life
Wanting, Love Life
Needing, Kill Life
Kill your...
Enemy (repeats)
You try to tell me that you love life,
Then find another way to kill life.
05 Droppin' Plates (03:56)
Well here we go again, get up
A little something for your ear hole, get up
Tearing a part of my soul again, get up
Disturbed in the house we're droppin' plates
You said it couldn't be done
Told me that it's the kind of battle
that just couldn't be won, you know
You're too sick, too hard, too fucked in the head
You'll never make it, no, not in this lifetime
Well guess again, my friend, don't act surprised
We got the bass drum kick that will blow out your eyes
'Cause when you hear this shit, you'll get to steppin'
Gonna fight the war and use my music as a weapon
You know I'm talkin' 'bout
Recognition
You know I'm talkin' 'bout
Vindication
Another goddamn slap in the face
Don't wanna give us a place, are you afraid?
Well, fear this, 'cause I'm a breakin' through the walls of your nightmare
Wake up, time to die!
The way I'm livin' there is no compromise in it
Better get ready for another surprise and it
May leave a mark because I'm a comin' in fast
Plantin' thoughts in your mind and a droppin' plates on your ass
Well here I come, I'm droppin plates on your ass, bitch
You never mind and you don't need this
Well here I come, I'm droppin plates on your ass, bitch
You never mind and you don't need...
Well on your mark, here we go again (hey, yeah, yeah)
Well never mind 'cause you're not the number 1 (oh, yeah, yeah)
You're too hard and from the other side (hey, yeah, yeah)
I think it's time to bring it home again (right to me)
You know I'm talkin' 'bout
Recognition
You know I'm talkin' 'bout
Vindication
Here I come, I'm droppin' plates on your ass (x4)
Plates on your ass, bitch, plates on your ass
Well here I come I'm droppin' plates! I'm droppin' plates
Plates on your ass, bitch, plates on your ass,
Here I come I'm droppin' plates! I'm a droppin' plates
Well on your mark, now here we go again, I'm droppin' plates
I use my music, my weapon, I'm droppin' plates
Right through the walls of your nightmare, I'm droppin' plates
Well here we go, we're droppin' plates
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Di Dr.Metal
Finalmente un pezzo diverso dalle altre che riesce a farsi notare.
Sono tutti belli ma si somigliano troppo tra loro, sono troppo simili tra loro eccetto 2 o 3.