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In ben undici anni (per ora) di onorata carriera, i Machine Head hanno avuto il pregio di essere uno dei pionieri di quel nuovo stile musicale, sorto dalle ceneri rimaste del vecchio Thrash Metal, che prenderà il nome di "Post-Thrash", che sarà una delle fonti ispiratrici dell'allora nascituro movimento Nu Metal.
Va riconosciuto a questa band che nel corso degli anni non si è mai impiantata su una formula ferma, ma ha sempre cambiato pelle album dopo album, e questo ha causato sia elogi che critiche. A detta di molti, il momento più difficile del gruppo fu quello tra il 1999 e il 2001, periodo dove uscirono "The Burning Red" e appunto "Supercharger". Se i primi due album, "Burn My Eyes" e "The More Things Change", avevano riscosso enormi successi grazie alla violenza simil-thrash che emanavano, nel susseguente album la svolta crossover/nu metal che la band aveva intrapreso aveva lasciato perplessi molti fans.
Capitanati, come al solito, dal signor Robb Flynn, frontman, cantante e chitarrista (nonchè scrittore di molti dei testi); i Machine Head di "Supercharger" non si discostano molto dalle sonorità di "The Burning Red"; infatti l'album in questione può essere definito il suo proseguimento, però (secondo me) un po' più maturo e personale. Molti hanno etichettato questo album come semi-fiasco solo perché gli Head non erano ritornati ai vecchi tempi (ritorno che avverrà nell'album successivo), io invece lo definisco un gran bell'album nel genere in cui è stato inserito. Le canzoni sono tutte piacevoli e "gustose" e, se vi piace questo genere, vi assicuro che vi piaceranno subito al primo ascolto.
Pezzi lenti e melodici come "Crashing Around You", "Only The Names" e la bellissima "Deafening Silence" si alternano a vere bordate adrenaliniche come l'opener "Bulldozer" (che inizia con un bel riffone e passa da parti lente a momenti veramente potenti), "Trephination" e la finale title track "Supercharger". E naturalmente non mancano tracce di ottimo rap-metal come "All In Your Head", "American High" e "Kick You When You're Down" (stupenda!); da notare che queste tre canzoni, oltre ad avere lo stesso tipo di sonorità, trattano lo stesso argomento nei testi e cioè le tristi esperienze da emargianto che ha vissuto Flynn in adolescenza. Veri e propri inni a non arrendersi mai alle difficoltà. Ma le parti rap non finiscono lì, sono presenti qua e la, come in "White Knuckle Blackout!" durante la parte "da pogo" ("You wanna fire my fuel? I'll fire back a fuck you!!"), e nel finale di "Blank Generation", riuscendo a "salvare" la canzone dalla sua eccessiva staticità.
Pur non essendo un gruppo nu-metal, i Machine Head hanno realizzato un signor album; certo, niente di originale, ma molto personale e godibile al massimo. Chi ama queste sonorità non si faccia sfuggire questo album, e nemmeno "The Burning Red". Se invece vi piacciono sonorità più "thrashy", andate subito a cercare gli altri album della band.
In conclusione, gli assegno 4 stelle solo perché lo ritengo inferiore a "Burn My Eyes" e "Through The Ashes Of Empires" (secondo me i migliori album del gruppo).
PS: Nella versione digipack dell'album (quella che ho io) sono presenti 4 bonus track: "Holy In The Sky" (cover della canzone dei Black Sabbath), "Ten Fold" e le versioni live di "The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears" e di "Desire To Fire" (canzoni contenute nel precedente disco).Lunga vita ai Machine Head e a Robb Flynn!!!!
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02 Bulldozer (04:37)
Into the battles making, cages rattle,
There's a pain that's inside us,
And we're letting it out'
Charge right in,
We dare to fail, no one is giving in,
Always we live to win,
A hunger turns and burns inside of all of us,
And it will not be denied.
Walking a path untravelled, to reach higher levels,
Challenging always, goin' against the grain'
Blood for blood, that is the rule and we will make the rules,
Never be fortune's fool,
There's right and wrong in almost everything we do,
For us we do what is right.
Bulldozer feeds off of the weaker as they fall,
Bulldozer crushes, all'
Somebody told me, I should do what they told me,
But there's a whole in their plan, and I'm tearing it down'
Trust our guts, follow our hearts no one can break these nuts,
These lips ain't kissin' asses,
The path of most resistance tests all of our strength,
The strength will not be denied.
Bulldozer feeds off of the weaker as they fall,
Bulldozer crushes, all'
Bulldozer feeds off of the weaker as they fall,
Bulldozer crushes, all'
Walking on paths untravelled,
Challenging one and all,
Deeper into the battle,
Alone and standing tall.
The more evolving changes,
The more we stay the same,
Full steam against the odds go,
Headfirst against the grain.
Full steam we go against the odds'
Headfirst we go against the grain'
Full steam we go against the odds'
Headfirst we go against the grain'
Full steam we go against the odds'
Headfirst we go against the grain'
Bulldozer goes against the odds'
Bulldozer goes against the grain'
Against the odds,
Against the grain,
We go against the odds,
Against the Grain'
This is the bulldozer,
This is the bulldozer'.
04 Crashing Around You (03:13)
"I am your nightmares, true scares
That dream when you can't stop from falling
Can't fight, can't run
Can't stop the person you've become
I am your heartbreaks, mistakes
That place inside you hate
I am the shadow following every move, reminding you
That it's never good enough, never good enough
Even though you'll try and try
I'm gonna call your bluff
Because I am the thing bringing the feelings when...
Your world comes crashing around you
smash down around you
when will you see that you cannot hide from me?
When you feel darkness, hopeless
Can't cope with all the stress
I'll make you hate life, bring strife
Remember failures hardened stare
And it's never gonna change, never gonna change
Always they'll be judging you
Comparing who and who
You trust in me but I only live to see
Your world comes crashing around you
Smash down around you
When will you see that you cannot hide from me?
When i come for you
When i see through you
When i eat through you
When i destroy you
You'll think you're betrayed, astray
I'll leave you ripped and torn so bad you
Can't trust, can't love
Can't understand why life's so fucked-up
I'm deep inside your mind
In constant remind
If you leave your thoughts to me, believe
I'll make sure that I see
Your world come crashing around you
Smash down around you
When will you see why you cannot hide from me?
I'll make your world come crashing around you
Smash down around you
I'll let you see why you cannot hide from me
Because I am you."
08 American High (03:45)
I was that kid sittin' over in the corner
Smiling with a shit-eating grin
And I was that kid smilin' In the back of class
'Cause I'm flyin' on mescaline
I was that kid drinkin' 40's on the bleachers
Getting drunk after school
Gettin' home too late, fallin' on my face
Way too drunk to skate
And actin' a fool
I was that kid never doing good at
Nothing except for maybe at P.E.
And I was that kid getting bullied by the
Filipinos rollin' with ABT
Me and my friends reading
The satanic bible thinking we should start a band
Cutting class to jam, cutting class to jam
In my dad's garaged we learned to
Act a fool - don't need to be cool
Pissed off too and breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in school
Don't rock 'n roll
But this is my american high
I was that kid prank-calling
Your girlfriend, couldn't get a goddamn date
And I was that kid that was
Getting hella busted for pissin' on the bart train
I fuckin' hated school except for hanging out with my friends
The outcast that was startin' up a band
Fremont was the town, California-bound
Bay area sound, taught me to
Act a fool - don't need to be cool
Pissed off too and breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in school
Don't rock 'n roll
But this is my american high
I'm that kid you tried to punk in english class
Now I'm in a band and your kissin' my...
Asteroids beat out homework
Slayer beat out Zeppelin
Not the sharpest noggin
That's why I'm in this band
And what you got against me, I don't need a new job
What you got against me, I'll get by on my own
Tellin' me I'm never gettin' by from songs
I love it when your proven wrong
Act a fool - don't need to be cool
Pissed off too and breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in school
Don't rock 'n roll
But this is my american high
Act a fool - don't need to be cool
Break the rules
Cause this is my american high
11 Blank Generation (06:38)
They say we been
going down and going
down
Been traveling on the road
to nowhere
Going down, round and
round
Trying to get to the place
where we started
When I was just a boy
at four years old thought
the world was joy
As a kid I'd play, just
create the day
as I saw it my way
But time blows by
And strips us to the bone
poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that we're
alone in this world
We learned to see all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
A toast to our blank generation
They say we been
going down, been going
down
Been traveling on the road
to nowhere
Going down, round and
round
Trying to get to the place
where we started
When I was seventeen
realizing the world wasn't
what she seemed
Underneath the night San
Francisco sky
I would see, too clearly
But time blows by
And strips us to the bone
poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that we're
alone in this world
We learned to take all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
A toast to our blank generation
So here's to our collagen
lips and saline tits
To our growth hormones
and antibiotics
To the Hollywood world
we made out of Barbie doll
hearts
After we melted them down
so we could make our new
start
Here's to a generation
scared and always
wondering why
Instead of playing doctor,
we play shoot each other
and die
Instead of ring around the
Rosie, we play hide from
Mommy
'Cause Mommy's been drinking
again and we don't
want to get beat
Even with all our tattoos,
and all our cheap thrills
there's still a hole inside
of us that may not ever get
filled
So we give back a little bit
of what the world's given
us
Giving back a bit of never
giving a fuck
Here's to the justice never
dealt, to innocent, proven
guilty
Here's to bad cops turning
cheeks when real cops are
on the street
Here's to the rat-tat-n-tat
of gun shots, and your life
is shattered
Here's to "Gimme me your
cash or your brains is
gettin' splattered"
Here's to mad cow disease
and all that yummy MSG
Here's to Mickey d's serving
all those mutant chick-a-dees
This is a toast to celebrate
the end of our innocence
This is a toast to celebrate
how...
We've become desensitized
if life is to grow
some life must die
We learned to take all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
our generation
We now embrace all the
corruption
and greed, all its hate, all
its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
our blank generation.
12 Trephination (04:58)
I used to want to take a
drill to my head
Let the pain out of the hole
I used to want to cut the
veins in my neck
Cool the blood boiling my
soul
When I wondered, why my
daily headaches thundered
Tried to buffer, pushing
down the pain I suffered
Mutilated, feeling so
humiliated
Cannot wash the dirt off
underneath my skin
There was a part of me left
far behind
When at the age of five
years old
I had my innocence taken
from me
Emptiness would fill the
hole
Now a second grader,
thinking why I don't feel
better
Why I'm filthy, why the hell
I feel so guilty
When drawing stick men
of pornographic men and
women
Thinking all the time
there's something wrong
with me
Everyday for three years
from dawn 'til dusk a
migraine
would take me and break me
And it'd cripple me so
much that
In dreams, it'd seem, with
a hole in my temple
that I could probably make
my headaches finally go
away
Trephination
trephination
The enemy inside of me
won't let me free
wants me to bleed
And after three years now
my headaches wear off
For reasons not quite to
me known
The acupuncture needles
sticking my skin
Pushed them down as far
as they'd go
But now I'm older and now
inside my anger smolders
from depression, to fighting
Taking out my vengeance
Consequences, now I'd
question during sex if ...
Is this how it fucking feels
or am I faking it ?
No longer the child that
you left there at the bart
tracks
I'm now at 17, left in an
empty blackness
On drugs, with thugs, and
thinking Goddamn?
I'm ending up in a failure,
in the gutter passed out
Trephination
trephination
This enemy inside of me
won't let me free
wants me to bleed
Now I'm older and in this
man an anger smolders
Now I'm thinking a hole in
you is what I'm seeing
Your depression, is the
dent I kick in you in
vengeance
Consequences are the pain
I'd give to you
I know that I'm dreaming,
but in this dream I go in
go through it, and end it
And though I'd never do it
I'm killing you, hand on
the trigger - pull it
Your final thought'll be a
bullet in your fuckin' head
Trephination
trephination
This enemy inside of me
I'm now killing
to make me free.
13 Deafening Silence (05:33)
Well, She looked right into my eyes and said to me
The hurt that you try to hide is killing me
I drink a thousand lies, to freeze the past in time
I've tried to fill this silence up
But now it's back again
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My god, I'm down in this hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road called life
Well, She says that I'm insecure, I guess she's right
Cause just when I think I'm sure, alone at night
The agonies come back, this pain won't let me be
I try to fill this silence up
But now it's back again
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My god, I'm down in this hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road called life
Don't need your sympathy
I just want for this silence to stop killing me
It's deafening
It's deafening
This silence inside me
I try to fill this silence up
But now it's back again
It's empty like suicide
This pain inside
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My god, I'm down in this hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road called life
Don't need your sympathy
I just want for this silence to stop killing me
14 Supercharger (03:51)
Electricity is pulsing
through our veins a charge
is racing
A chain reaction through
the four of us,
to you, will make
the transformers begin
converting into overdrive
Power surge now
exploding through
Energy, filling the ominous
void within you
No need to live your life in
that gap
Got what you need right
here on lightning tap, so
Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Amplify, terrify
supercharger electrifies
Getting under skin, we're
like a rash
Spreading over your body
we are the itch you
scratch
That doesn't seem to go
away
Protons, neutrons, electrons
synchronizing into one
In sheer power all will
pale
heaviness off the Richter
scale
Forever crushing the
competition in their tracks
100,000 Volts we blast, so
Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Amplify, terrify
supercharger electrifies
Your - little sticks of
dynamite
We're - the fuse and
we're the light
Electricity is pulsing
through our veins a
charge is racing
A chain reaction from the
four of us,
to you, has made
it crystal clear we'll win
this war
Destiny...Victory
Braveheart - mindset, full
attack
Kamikaze, never look back
in this war, a victory is if
you feel this too
You feed off us, and we
feed off you, so
Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Amplify, terrify
supercharger electrifies
Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Supercharger
Supercharger
Supercharger
Supercharger.
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