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Ecco il 1985, ero un teenager metallaro e non ho avuto una vita semplice. Aggiungo un piccolo particolare: sono sempre stato etero. Voi direte che cosa c'entra? Facile da spiegare, non potevo andare in giro a fare il piacione raccontando dell'uscita di Black Metal dei Venom, o che Neil Turbin lasciava gli Anthrax dopo un album favoloso. Come potevo raccontare di Kill’Em All che mi stava travolgendo o degli Slayer che mi stavano cancellando i neuroni. L’unica possibilità di approccio era avvicinarsi alla New Wave, quindi Talk Talk, Adam Ants, Simple Minds e Depeche Mode a palla. Testi dei Duran Duran e Spandau Ballet a memoria. Doppio guardaroba e doppio atteggiamento. Camice da laboratorio con il caprone dei Venom e giubbotto di jeans con toppa posteriore gigante di Ozzy in Bark at the moon. Ma anche cappottone spigato nero con sciarpa nera, pantaloni neri, scarpe nere e guanti mozzati neri. Minchia che fatica.
La musica ci aveva divisi in due gruppi: cappelloni e dark, entrambi abbastanza anneriti. Io più annerito degli altri perché vivevo nei due mondi contemporaneamente.
Ed eccomi lì, a vivere il 1985. Grande anno per la musica Metal. Forse starete pensando “Falloppio stai facendo una cazzata, il disco che stai presentando è datato 2008. Ti sei mangiato broccoli, fagioli e altri ingredienti che ti hanno causato gas dall'intestino fino alla scatola cranica?”. No. Tranquilli. Il disco degli Exodus che piano piano recensirò è una riedizione dell’album d’esordio “Bonded by Blood” dal titolo “Let there be Blood”. Il titolo “Patto di Sangue” (in realtà la traduzione sarebbe “Legati dal sangue”, ma permettetemi una traduzione meno letterale e più teatrale), è facilmente spiegabile. California, spiaggia, un gruppo di ragazzi ubriachi marci, ascoltavano dallo stereo dell’auto i Venom e i Mercyful a tutto volume. Presi dalle vaccate che uscivano dalle casse, decisero di tagliuzzarsi i palmi delle mani e unirli per suggellare un patto con il sangue, istigati da un giovane Kirk Hammett, forse più fuso di tutti gli altri.
Come una valanga a cielo terso, nasce un disco importantissimo per il nuovo genere musicale ribattezzato “thrash”, che mi piace tradurre in “batosta”, da non confondere con “trash”, monnezza. Per un problema discografico, il disco esce l’anno dopo la sua realizzazione ed è una botta di musica violenta e originale. La voce di Paul Baloff ti mette i brividi come il gesso sulla lavagna, la chitarra di Holt è una bastonata sulla schiena e Hunting è un tritasassi che ti asfalta i timpani.
Dopo questo esordio, tour mondiale, casini sfrenati, droga e Mr.Baloff viene cacciato. Gli anni passano e il tira e molla con il cantante è periodico. Peccato che a “tirare” di più era proprio lui. Pippa oggi, pippa domani e dopo un giro in bicicletta, Mr.Baloff stramazza al suolo. Entra in coma e non avendo parenti stretti, data l’impossibilità di salvarlo, i componenti della band prendono la drastica decisione di staccare le macchine pochi giorni dopo l’attacco cardiaco.
Le lancette si sono spostate velocemente e siamo arrivati al 2008. Il sogno di Baloff e di tutti gli Exodus era rifare il loro primo disco con i suoni più moderni. E così nasce il tributo al loro primo singer, “Let there be blood” che non presenta nulla di nuovo, i pezzi sono identici e hanno lo stesso minutaggio. Sono ovviamente interpretati da un nuovo cantante che se la cava bene. I soli di chitarra sono molto più fresh and clean. Nulla di eccezionale, un semplice ricordo del passato con un vestito nuovo. Forse evitabile? Si, però la grandezza e la stima che il mondo metal ha nei confronti degli Exodus l’ha ribadita di recente Dave Mustaine nell’organizzare un tour per i Big Four Thrash Metal: Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax e Metallica. Siccome i Metallica sono i più fighetti, e probabilmente non accetteranno di abbassarsi al livello delle altre band, il quarto gruppo potrebbe addirittura essere quello degli Exodus perché il patto di sangue continui nel tempo.
Vi auguro prurito al culo e braccia corte.
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Bonded by Blood (03:35)
Black magic rites on this black evil night
Begin with the slice of the blade
Metal and blood come together as one
Onlookers they gasp in dismay
Taste the sweet blood of one another
Sharing without any greed
Bang you head as if up from the dead
Intense metal is all that you need
Murder in the front row
Crowd begins to bang
And there's blood upon the stage
Bang you head against the stage
And metal takes its price
Bonded by blood!
Metal takes hold death starts to unfold
It's loud like the worlds at an end
Your in a blood fury the metal won't stop
Onlookers they bang at command
Cutting your palm and drinking your blood
The power that few others dare
You feed the need to go out and kill
The same need that your blood brother shares
Murder in the front row
Crowd begins to bang
And there's blood upon the stage
Bang your head against the stage
And metal takes its price
Bonded by blood!
Black magic rites on this black evil night
Begin with the slice of the blade
Metal and blood come together as one
Onlookers they gasp in dismay
Taste the sweet blood of one another
Sharing without any greed
Bang you head as if up from the dead
Intense metal is all that you need
Murder in the front row
Crowd begins to bang
And there's blood upon the stage
Bang you head against the stage
And metal takes its price
Bonded by blood!
02 Exodus (04:16)
It starts with life, a way to live
I love the sound of pain
The more it hurts the better I feel
The world will fall insane
It comes to me late late at night
When I feel like being cruel
Whip out the chains and get the knife
And slay some innocent fool
Get in our way and we're going to take your life
Kick in your face and rape and murder your wife
Plunder your town your homes they'll burn to the ground
You won't hear a sound until my knife's in your back
The exodus attack!
The filthy sound of death and pain
Brings pleasure that I need
The rotting hide the burning flesh
The smell and I agree
Bloody corpse makes me feel great
Painkiller in my life
Cut bare flesh to the bone
Use a rusty knife
Get in our way and we're going to take your life
Kick in your face and rape and murder your wife
Plunder your town your homes they'll burn to the ground
You won't hear a sound until my knife's in your back
And the exodus attack!
Buzzards eat as well as worms
Nature s death machines
Pin you on the desert floor
Now you re hell's cuisine
I tell you all it's the way to live
Get stronger on death glory
Infringing on sacrificial rites
Death's your final story
Get in our way and we're going to take your life
Kick in your face and rape and murder your wife
Plunder your town your homes they'll burn to the ground
You won't hear a sound until my knife's in your back
And the exodus attack!
03 And Then There Were None (05:14)
Wars coming start running
Eyes blinded by the nuclear blast
Hearts beating retreating
All around are bodies burned to ash
Children crying and people dying
No salvation from this holocaust
Bodies burning and now their learning
In war painful death's the bloody cost
Life ends in sin
God cries world dies
And then there were none
The world starts to burn
The world powers learn
That satans work is done
Wheels grinding the glare's blinding
Bullets flying all around your head
Tanks crushing and soldiers rushing
If you live you'll wish that you were dead
Stop praying there's no saving
No salvation from your fiery grave
Brains swelling bodies smelling
And satan comes to see that no one's saved
Life ends in sin
God cries world dies
And then there were none
The world starts to burn
The world powers learn
That satan's work is done
04 A Lesson in Violence (03:46)
If you got something to say
Then come my way
I'm guarded by satan
I'm riding on baphomet
I'll teach you a lesson in violence
You won't soon forget
The pleasure of watching you
Is whati will get
Fight! - for what you believe to be right
Crushing with all your might
I laugh at their pitiful cries
They run from the fire in my eyes
Nothing can save them now
You've learned a lesson in violence
Get on your knees and bow
Or learn a lesson in violence
I love to stab my victims
Until they're dead
A knife to the throat
Or a smashing blow to the head
I'm judge and jury
My sentence has just been passed
Step into the circle of hell
If you think you can last
Fight! - for what you believe to be right
Crushing with all your might
I laugh at their pitiful cries
They run from the fire in my eyes
Nothing can save them now
You've learned a lesson in violence
Get on your knees and bow
Or learn a lesson in violence
05 Metal Command (04:12)
Your gathered here tonight
To heed our metal cry
Obeying all our wills
All others you defy
A wall of sonic sound
With amps turned up to ten
Our legions are advancing
To battle once again
Fists are in the air. banging everywhere
Thrashing to the sound faces melting down
It s time to fight for metal tonight
Bangers take your stand and obey
Our metal command!
We go from town to town
And leave a trail of death
And if you don't surrender
You'll breathe you final breath
There will be no survivors
No prisoners of war
Join our ranks or perish
We'll slice you to the core
Fists are in the air thrashing everywhere
Banging to the sound, faces melting down
It s time to fight for metal tonight
Bangers take your stand and obey
Our metal command!
Our legions show no mercy
The final hour nears
Sonic blast deafening
It's ripping through your ears
There is no retribution
For those who do not dare
There's only execution
Your dead without a prayer
Fists are in the air thrashing everywhere
Banging to the sound, faces melting down
It s time to fight for metal tonight
Bangers take your stand and obey
Our metal command!
06 Piranha (03:52)
Slicing jaws a way of life
Brought up to waste mankind
Loki's pets his little children
Deadly eyery time
Trapped in swamps by gates of hell
Don't ever: let them out
For if you do and they escape
You'll fight a bloody bout
Piranha kill in a pack - you'll run
Piranha start to attack - you'll done
If you think you can beat - deadly school
If you think you can live - vou're a fool
Gates of hell are old and cracked
They tumble and they fall
Out rush a bloody wall of death
To kill anything at all
Their sole mission is to kill
Strip your bones and flesh
Rip out your eyes tear off your face
An agonizing death
Piranha kill in a pack - you'll run
Piranha start to attack - you're done
If you think you can beat - deadly school
If you think you can live - you're a fool
07 No Love (05:48)
come into my home
black master rules the night
see the power start to surge
upon a hellish sight
it's time to raise them up
up from below the grave
white bones glow savagery
provide the light we crave
turn to look at baphomet
from below and not above
welcome to my sacrifice
tonight there'll be no love
the darkness is my lover
she makes he feel strong
take what I wamt, when I want
at night I do no wrong
when I walk the streets:
got loki on my side
slit your throat, drink your blood
who cares when others die
turn to look at baphomet
from below and not above
welcome to my sacrifice
tonight there'll be no love
you thought you'd live for oh 50 long
now it's your turn to die
live with satan down in hell
born to forever cry
took your life I don't feel bad
born to live in hell
died for nothing. slow decay
your body starts to smell
08 Deliver Us to Evil (07:43)
In my grave down below
Hell's fire starts to glow
My prayers have now been heard
By my lord, my god. master lucifer
There is no life or birth
When the undead walk the earth
Unholy blaspheme and torment
Are now set free
Lead us into temptation
A reign of terror will begin
Deliver us to evil
We promise death, world's end
Incubus in the sky
Pentagram held high
Hell's filth hounds begin to bark
The bells begin to tone
Virgin lies in blood
The blood was once her own
The redness and the horror of blood
Swept across the land I stood
Lead us into temptation
A weigh of terror will begin
Deliver us to evil
We promise death, world's end
Black prince of hell
In fire he reigns
Your god above wrapped up in chains
There is no love
When works collide
Deliver us to evil
When god has died
I laugh while they cry
Their fears build up inside
In their confusion they try to run
But it's no use, my work is done
Slow death is the price
For living such wasted lives
Their bodies they burn and bleed
Until they bow, my word they heed
You've led us into temptation
Our reign of terror has begun
Deliver us to evil
Prince of hell
Satan's son!
09 Strike of the Beast (04:17)
Walking down the backstreets
The noon is full and high
You feel your body start to sweat
Someone's about to die
You turn around and run
It's the only thing to do
Someone's about to die
And that someone... is you
Time to run or fight
Off the strike of the beast
You hear the creature's hooves
Start to echo through your brain
You fear the demon's hellish howl
It makes you go insane
You smell the creature's fowl stench
Laced with death and waste
Don't lose your mind he's right behind
Breathing fire in your face
Time to run or fight
Off the strike of the beast
If you fail you'll be
The hellish demon's feast
Black as night he begins his flight
Wings outstretched in the cold
Glowing eyes, he wears no disguise
His evil has yet to be told
Breathing fire the beast is flying higher
Now he swoops down on his prey
All the world a horrid mess
Leaving black earth in decay
The beast prepares for battle
And you prepare to die
The blood running down your throat
Dulls you woeful cry
You can feel the power rage within your soul
When you die you go to hell and live... forevermore!
Time to run or fight
Off the strike of the beast
If you fail you'll be
The hellish demon's feast
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