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L’album che ha portato successo e popolarità ai californiani Fear Factory è proprio “Obsolete”. Nati agli inizi degli anni ’90, la band originaria di Los Angeles debutta nel mondo metal con “Soul of a New Machine”, creando una sorta di fusione fra death – thrash – industrial metal. E’ proprio questa la sonorità presente nel 5° (direi meglio 3°) lavoro della band. Le uniche novità è un suono molto più “commerciale” e una produzione migliore rispetto ai precedenti dischi, da parte della casa discografica Roadrunner. Il disco è ben impostato con ritmiche e tempi abbastanza forti. La carica di potenza che viene sprigionata a tratti dall’album, ricorda molto quella dei Machine Head.
Le canzoni che spaccano veramente sono “Shock”, che apre (in tutti i sensi) il disco; rabbiosa e piena di odio è “Hi-tech hate”, che assieme a “Freedom on fire” e a “Obsolete”, possono essere chiamate vere e complete traccie “pesanti”. Infatti il resto del disco contiene canzoni nelle quali si alternano riff e ritmi molto trattenuti e dirette e devastanti esplosioni di violenza, contemporanee ai growl del cantante. La prova di Bell Burton è infatti, molto altalenante; i suoi growl sono molto potenti e malvagi, ma quando (molto spesso direi..) ci illustra la sua voce “pulita” sono dolori: abominevole, lenta e per nulla intensa.
La totale mancanza di assoli, stile nu-metal, fa perdere ulteriori punti al disco e al gruppo. Infatti i due chitarristi Dino Cazares (ormai un ex, in quanto passato ai Brujeria) e Christian Wolbers si limitano a produrre insieme al bassista Andrei Shives e al batterista Raymond Herrera, una discreta musica. Presenti nel disco molti effetti “metropolitani”, in stile violenza urbana e radio trasmittenti della polizia. I testi sono ispirati soprattutto a tali “effetti ribelli”. Un discreto disco, che parte ed esplode con poca frequenza e rara continuità, ma quando questo accade diventa tutta un'altra musica.
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01 Shock (04:58)
Shock
Shock
Shock
Shock
Welcome to my world
Headfirst to the earth
With my sights on the goddamn kill switch
I've become a fuse
Charged with attitude
Fixed and dialated by my anger
I have become a direct
I have become a current
I have become a direct
I have become insurgent
I will be the power surge
Shock to the system
Electrified, amplified
Shock to the system
Shock
Shock
Alternate my wires
Heat my core desire
I will not stand for condemnation
I've become the volts
To lead the revolt
Fuck with me ensues certain danger
I have become a direct
I have become a current
I have become a direct
I have become insurgent
I will be the power surge
Shock to the system
Electrified, amplified
Shock to the system
I am the power surge
I am the insurgent
Electrified, amplified
Electrified, amplified
Shock!
02 Edgecrusher (03:39)
Due to the graphic nature of this program, listener discretion,
is advised.
Conceived in a hell beyond your depth of perception
Chaotic case of conquering domination
Psychopath snaps, fired chains of imprisonment
A bludgeoning force that's undermining the government
Bridge:
Inflict strain upon the structure
Collapsing below my pressure
Inflict strain upon the structure
Collapsing below my pressure
Chorus:
Break of the Edgecrusher
Break of the Edgecrusher
Break of the Edgecrusher
Break of the Edgecrusher
Break of the Edgecrusher
Break of the Edgecrusher
The purist, non-conformist, jaded subhuman terrorist
From flesh to steel & blood to blade, I fight to exist
A rival of justice, extreme rush of hatred
Survival in a twisted world where nothing is sacred
(Bridge and Chorus 2x)
Break of the Edgecrusher
Break of the Edgecrusher
05 Descent (04:36)
Descent...
Descent...
Falling victim from neglect
Designed thoughts and intellect
Forgotten and displaced
The crux of my dismay
I feel nothing
I am nothing
I feel nothing
Nothing
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
Deeper into this abyss
Weighted down and sinking fast
Life did not offer me
More than false destiny
I feel nothing
I am nothing
I feel nothing
Nothing
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
I am nothing
I feel nothing
I am nothing
I feel nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing...
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
How deep I descend?
How deep I descend?
How deep I descend?
How deep I descend?
07 Freedom or Fire (05:11)
How can you accept social suppression
This weak state of mind in our time
I demand release from hypocrisy
I'd rather die than be held down, forced down
Freedom or fire
Freedom or fire
Freedom or fire
Freedom or fire
I'm on the threshold of revolution
I'd rather burn than be held down, forced down
Freedom or fire
Freedom or fire
Freedom or fire
Freedom or fire
Unrestrained determination
Set ablaze for liberation
Huh !
Locked in chains of this sovereignty
Let me be 'cause I long to be
Free!
Free!
Free!
Locked in chains of this sovereignty
Let me be 'cause I long to be
Free!
Free!
Free!
Unrestrained determination
Set ablaze for liberation
Set ablaze
Set ablaze
Set ablaze
Set ablaze
Freedom or fire
Freedom or fire
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom or fire
08 Obsolete (03:51)
Nothing is the way it seems, discerning man from machines
Dominate as to erase, wiping man off earth's face
Fueling engines through deceit, to eradicate humanity
Man is obsolete
Erased, extinct
Nothing is the way it seems
Discerning man from machines now
Dominate as to erase
Wiping man off Earth's face now
Defaced by all inept justice
Shamed by the mental abuses
Branded "inferior weakness"
Ordered to cease and to desist
Man is obsolete
Our world, obsolete
Man is obsolete
Erased, extinct
(Man) Obsolete [x4]
Fueling engines through deceit
To eradicate humanity
Defaced by all inept justice
Shamed by the mental abuses
Branded "inferior weakness"
Ordered to cease and to desist
Man is obsolete
Our world, obsolete
Man is obsolete
Erased, extinct [x2]
(Man) Obsolete [x4]
Man is obsolete [x4]
09 Resurrection (06:35)
Consumed with memories that preceded today
Given a chance to bereave life that's slipping away
Suffered through tragedy of my slow decay
Deceptive tendencies dragged my soul away
All that I know there was no god for me
Force that shatters all, absence of mortality
Revive all my fears
Revive wasted tears
Revive void within
Revive once again...
Forsaken by destiny, forsaken by my own mind
I must remove my skin to see belief in your eyes
All that I know there was no god for me
Force that shatters all, absence of humanity
Revive all my fears
Revive wasted tears
Revive void within
Revive once again...
Revive all my fears
Revive wasted tears
Revive void within
Revive once again...
Reach for the sky
Touch the sky
Revive a hope
For mankind
10 Timelessness (04:08)
I've felt darkness
closing in on me
chilling shadows
surrounding me
I've had the poison
leak into my skin
and it corroded
my heart away
bled away
cut away
dark night of my soul... [4x]
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Di killgod
"Obsolete è un cd da comprare a scatola chiusa, una rarità del genere o meglio un misto di stili spettacolare."
"La miglior batteria della storia dei Fear Factory."
