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Garanzia. Una parola che sta benissimo associata ai teutonici Kreator. Band che ha fatto dell'intransigenza e del "proselitismo" metallico i suoi punti cardine per dispiegare una carriera ormai quasi trentennale.
A pochi giorni dall'uscita della loro ultima fatica, intitolata "Phantom antichrist", il richiamo della ruvida voce di Mille Petrozza, è stato troppo forte per non riassaporare uno degli ultimi cd partoriti dai tedeschi, nonchè uno dei loro più sottovalutati. Il platter in questione è "Enemy of god", dato alla luce nel gennaio del 2005.
I nostri avevano tentato la via sperimentale nelle partiture industriali di "Cause for conflict" e nell'heavy metal stemperato di "Outcast" e "Endorama". Lavori che a torto sono stati accantonati, per essere poi rivalutati con il passare degli anni. La riconciliazione con il passato era avvenuta nel 2001, con il full lenght "Violent revolution". "Enemy of god" si posiziona proprio sulla scia stilistica del suo predecessore, tornando all'aria fottutamente aggressiva che aveva pervaso gli esordi. Un ritorno al thrash metal quindi, quello incazzato e perennemente rivolto alla critica verso i sistemi politici ed istituzionali moderni. Odio facilmente percepibile nei testi di Petrozza, Ventor e compagnia.
L'attuazione di tutti i principi basilari che avevano caratterizzato i primissimi lavori, qui torna a farsi sentire. Ancor più che in "Violent revolution" codesto vomito metallico è decisamente più aggressivo e "tirato": pezzi come le infuocate "Impossible brutality" (canzone da "distruzione") e "World anarchy" ne sono l'incandescente riprova. Ma ciò che rende questo lavoro interessante è il tentativo di sommare alla loro classica attinenza distruttrice, le cadenze più ragionate, retaggio di un lavoro come "Endorama". Petrozza e la sua band dimostrano in brani come "Voices of the dead", "Dying race apocalypse" e nella conclusiva "The ancient plague" di aver assimilato il passato in funzione del presente. Uno stratagemma forse di mestiere, manieristico, ma che garantisce anche imprevedibilità ad un album di thrash metal classico e puro.
Lavori di questo genere si portano dietro pregiudizi ormai ben radicati, ma riescono ancora a colpire nel segno, almeno con alcune eccezioni. I Kreator di "Enemy of god" sono una di queste. Un lavoro massiccio, veloce e aggressivo, che ha tutti i capisaldi del thrash. Unica nota stonata è la voce di Petrozza, non più incisiva come in passato. Per il resto un cd e un gruppo da rivalutare.
1. "Enemy Of God" (5:44)
2. "Impossible Brutality" (4:30)
3. "Suicide Terrorist" (3:29)
4. "World Anarchy" (3:55)
5. "Dystopia" (3:41)
6. "Voices Of The Dead" (4:34)
7. "Murder Fantasies" (4:50)
8. "When Death Takes Its Dominion" (5:38)
9. "One Evil Comes (A Million Follow)" (3:20)
10. "Dying Race Apocalypse" (4:41)
11. "Under A Total Blackened Sky" (4:28)
12. "The Ancient Plague" (6:57)
Elenco tracce testi e samples
02 Impossible Brutality (04:30)
Impossible Brutality
All I see is terror
All I see is pain
All I see is mothers dragging children to their graves
A curse as old as time an armageddon misery
Spectators of a world in ruins
Hypnotised I'm staring at
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Is all there was is all there'll ever be
All I see is violence
All I see is hate
All I see tyrants dragging servants on a chain
A curse as old as time an armageddon misery
Spectators of a world in ruins
Hypnotised I'm staring at
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Is all there was is all there'll ever be
How much more can you take
Propaganda mind control
From the cradle to the grave
Poisoned fruits to kill the soul
The weak following the blind
Fearfull hearted empty eyed
In this mortal plane of slaves
Life's opressors can not be destroyed
All I see is terror
All I see is pain
All I see is mothers dragging children to their graves
A curse as old as time an armageddon misery
Spectators of a world in ruins
Hypnotised I'm staring at
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Impossible Brutality
Is all there was is all there'll ever be
And as your world collapses
I'll watch it die in silence
I wish this day would come now
Await it's dawning without fear
04 World Anarchy (03:55)
World Anarchy
Isolated world in pain the tyrants bitter triumph
Devoted celebrate the empires ice cold victory
Feed their soulless bodies to the vultures and the lions
They're scared to raise their voices in disasters long foreseen
I hate your lives
Falsehood and lies
I hate your world
Your paradise drowns in chaos to breed
World Anarchy
World Anarchy
Kings ruling emptiness and terror over ruins
Fast destruction slow death to all masters of the earth
Kings rulers autocrats in corpse mountain seance
The harvest of all all cultures raped by axe and sword
I hate your lives
Falsehood and lies
I hate your world
Your paradise drowns in chaos to breed
World Anarchy
World Anarchy
06 Voices of the Dead (04:33)
Oldest dream without a dream
Cold but sweet and tempting
As I look into those eyes long gone
And it feels like you were still a part
Of this restless world
From beyond you reach out for my hand
Come closer follow me
Are you willing to pay the price
To see what the future will bring
Here in the place where the weak become strong
And the lowest of life become kings
All are lost in euphoria
No failure or earthly disease
Glorious and proud, stands the beggar now crowned
Who once lived a life on his knees
Tonight I hear you whisper
Deep inside within my head
Tonight I see familiar faces
Voices of the dead calling me
Are you aware of the hate and the greed
That would fall forever from you
Do you believe that this mortal coil
Is the only path you can choose
Memories of life
Memories of death
Right here its all the same
So come on over to the other side
And let go of this life of pain
Tonight I hear you whisper
Deep inside within my head
Tonight I see familiar faces
Voices of the dead calling me
So my friend don't leave me now
There's nothing I would miss here
Let me join the cirle now and teach me how to fly
Love and hate, lust and joy
I have seen it all here
So lead me through and light my path
Embrace me as I die
07 Murder Fantasies (04:50)
Murder Fantasies
A mind consumed with anger
From the womb I was insane
I cannot help but hate you now
Can't breath cannot think straight
Like a wounded beast I long for your death
A vision of you dying is forming in my head
I look down on the things you stand for a believe
I crave control of subjects
I will take you to the final extreme
I want to kill you
Take away your life
In torture as you die
I want to kill you
Your death I want to feel
Create your corpse in murder fantasies
Feel me coming closer
Eyes all filled with tears
As long as you don't fade away
The pain won't disappear
Nothing will be left of your repulsive world
I'll take you to a place where your cries
Cannot be heard
My laughter, like salt, I pour into your wounds
Hysteric screams of pleasure
An abstract violent soundtrack to your doom
I want to kill you
Take away your life
In torture as you die
I want to kill you
Your death I want to feel
Create your corpse in murder fantasies
Just you and me now the ritual begins
There will be no emotion just cold-blooded killing
When you least expect it I'll stand before you
Don't try to escape for today
My fantasy comes true
I want to kill you, I want to kill you, I want to kill you
I'll make you suffer
I'll make you scream
I will be known as dispose the supreme
Inhale from those I despise
Expendable, taker of life
Caress the blade, I lay waste
Erased!!!
12 The Ancient Plague (06:57)
Silent places after rain
Monuments fall the last strike of fate
End time ravens over blood ocean flames
Spread the ancient plague
Among the wolves of wrath
As the last sad existence enters the grave
Battle torn the angels cry with not a soul to save
Let us close our eyes and dream of the plague
Spread the ancient plague
Among the wolves of wrath
Purify the earth from all of its worms
Dissolving into the void through the thunder and the storms
Let us close out eyes and dream of the plague
Spread the ancient plague
Among the wolves of wrath
Patriots and Warfare
Demonstrating arrogance
Superior armies waiting for their final call to arms
Winds of mayhem choirs for the final pestilence
A gospel rapture battle cry of barbarians
Death to all the empires
Death to lifelong wars
Death to bitter sons of the Antichrist
Death to the World
Silent places after rain
Monuments fall the last strike of fate
End time ravens over blood ocean flames
And I saw millions of souls
Preparing for the last incarnation
No more earthly pleasures no more life's temptation
And the ghosts of long forgotten societies
Cast out wicked dreams from the heart of the lost
The future is drowning in the ashes of the past
And through the toxic stench of human tragedy
A saviour appears in a red mask in front of me
AND SATAN IS HIS NAME!!!!!
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