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Nu-metal non significa necessariamente disastro. E neppure è sinonimo di commerciale. La verità è che, come del resto ogni genere, va saputo fare bene, e in effetti spesso ciò non è avvenuto, anche perché molti hanno cercato di approfittare del nuovo genere per riempirsi le tasche (e il conto), accentuando l'elementarità dei pentagrammi (caratteristica basilare di questo genere) e rendendo le canzoni orecchiabili (più colpa dei produttori che degli artisti).
Per fortuna non è il caso di questo “Burning Red” dei Machine Head, disco criticatissimo da chi conosce il gruppo dagli esordi (e dai metallozzi), vuoi per il cambiamento di stile, vuoi per puro pregiudizio.Tuttavia un lavoro praticamente perfetto, il migliore del genere (almeno secondo me): infatti tutti gli elementi del “grande disastro” , citati prima, sono assenti, per un sound di assoluto spessore, valorizzato da un'aggiunta di stile personale.
Si tratta di un album abbastanza omogeneo (in questo sono sempre loro), molto potente: dodici tracce di impatto addirittura devastante, e il tutto senza essere mai ripetitivo né troppo lungo (nemmeno 50 minuti).
Dopo la calma apparente dell' intro “Enter the Phoenix”, incontriamo “Desire to Fire”, che sembra emulare lo stile dei Rage Against The Machine, ma con più furia di loro; “Nothing Left” è piacevole, con il suo ritmo insostenibile, mentre “The Blood, The Sweat , The Tears” è caratterizzata pesantemente da cadenze rap. Subito dopo "Silver" tenta (senza riuscire molto) di far riposare le nostre orecchie da tutto quel frastuono, che però si rifà vivo in “From This Day”, ancora rap (quello tecnico però, con le vocali belle chiuse); “Exhale the Vile” si distingue per il suo ritmo lento e atroce e per l'apprezzabile cantato nel ritornello, seppure per pochi secondi; per chi lo volesse sentire più a lungo, ecco una cover dei Police, “Message In a Bottle”: era difficile, ma loro sono riusciti a trovare la giusta chiave di interpretazione. “Devil With the King's Card” ripropone il ritmo lento, con un'atmosfera ansiosa: degna di nota la tematica centrale, cioè il recente litigio tra la band e l'ex chitarrista Logan Mader, sostituito da Ahrue Luster fino al 2002. “I Defy”, seguita a ruota da “Five”, sono due canzoni che, dopo che si ascolta il resto dell'album, non sorprendono più, e ai metallari integralisti fanno pronunciare tutti gli insulti che non hanno rivolto mai neppure al peggior nemico. E neppure gli verrebbe voglia di continuare. D'altronde manca solo una traccia, la titletrack, interamente melodica.
A mio parere, una vera e propria dimostrazione di forza da parte della band di Oakland, che pur non appartenendo per natura al genere, ci si è cimentata, e ha saputo fare un disco molto più sostanzioso di quelli che facevano gli inventori (tipo Rage Against The Machine o Korn) e altri gruppi prettamente nu-metal (Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Sevendust, etcetera), e senza renderlo minimamente commerciale
Elenco tracce testi e samples
04 The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears (04:11)
Oh yes I walk the path that righteous
Many men have walked before
And this pain's held
A broken shell
Straight shackled onto the floor
So welcome to the world
That I lived in
Puking up bile and hate
My world has turned
To false inclusion
Sickening broken state
But then I'd see
There's things in me
That make you want it
More than you
But I deny all this
'Cause pain was my bliss
Get wasted on self-destruct
So hold on to the edge
It's all about
The blood, the sweat, the tears
Attribute to the strength
Built through the years
It's all about
The blood, the sweat, the tears
Attribute to the strength
Built through the years
Attribute to...
Oh yes I walk the path
That gives me
Confidence strong and pure
Now I realize
That freedom rises
From confronting the source
I built these walls around me
And I can break them all away
I'll focus all the strength I call
Into unstoppable energy
So hold on to the edge
It's all about
The blood, the sweat, the tears
Attribute to the strength
Built through the years
It's all about
The blood, the sweat, the tears
Attribute to the strength
Built through the years
Attribute to...
Hold on
I'm not falling
Not falling down again
Hold on
I'm not falling
Not falling down again
It's all about
The blood, the sweat, the tears
Attribute to the strength
Built through the years
It's all about
The blood, the sweat, the tears
Attribute to the strength
Built through the years
Believe me that
Time will sear the wound
Time will sear the wound
Time will sear the wound
05 Silver (03:51)
Yes i hold some keys of gold
With cigarettes and silver bullets
Angels cry and devils lie
The world is our stage
Look inside and try and find
The part of me that's whole
I wish I knew
But I got threw behind
Take my hand
Across this land
Escape this, all the hell inside
Create this man
To make my stand
And break this hardened shell in time
I see a mirror to me
The lines along my face are drawn in
I believe reflections bleed
The sorrows of our souls
Let me know the hurt that shows and wish it all away
Cause now you'll see
Why the pain and me
Collide
I see the walls around me
Fall around me
And everything is alright
I see the god among me
Fall among me
And everything beside
I see those walls surround you
Tie and bound you
You'll drown cause you're so
Cold
Cold
Cold
Cold
Take my hand
Across this land
Escape this, all the hell inside
Create this man
To make my stand
And break this hardened shell in time
06 From This Day (03:56)
Kill
1,2,3,4
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
You gotta stand tall and cut away the ties
Drop walls and hold that head up high
The world is fast and youth ain't gonna wait
So grab a hold before it gets to late
Bare your soul and strip away the cold
Of withered life that's past so gray and cold
Cause all the pain that's filled these eyes you see
Was made to bleed just recently
Tears that made me,
Ashamed to be me,
But that gave me,
Strength to see me,
Made a spark that lit the dark that let me shine
Time to see, believe this in me
This pain that I feel deep inside
Time to see, believe this in me
This pain that I feel deep inside
'Cause it's time we come together
Be on because I'm bout to So do it now or never
I fall sleep to freeways far from here
Spend half the night just drinking beer
From this day on shall be the words
My flesh and bones shall make it hurt
Don't you test
I'll have to mess with you
Do my best so fuck the rest of you
One of these days you'll see I've always been right, right
Time to see, believe this in me
This pain that I feel deep inside
Time to see, believe this in me
This pain that I feel deep inside
Ouuu Ouuu
And it makes me glad When I see the sun
And it makes me sad When you feel my one
And I thank my god Got a girl like you
And I thank my god Did you save me
Time to see, believe this in me
This pain that I feel deep inside
Time to see, believe this in me
this pain that I feel deep inside
Time to see, believe this in me
this pain that I feel deep inside
Time to see, believe this in me
this pain that I feel deep inside
07 Exhale the Vile (04:56)
Can't match the stare within these eyes
Do you have the strength for all your lies
Can't stand the pain with which i see
This integrity is what i breathe
I inhale this life i gave to you
And exhale the vile
Time will tell Because my friend and
Never will I concede the end
Cause catarac resin fills my eyes
Never gonna see the man Through your fake lies
Tell me the things that'll take time
To help see the things That'll take this
Burn inside of me
Can't feel the sting from words gone by
Can't keep the papers filled with lies
Ten fold, this confidence I breed
Created back the words I see
I'll inhale this gift I gave to you
And exhale the vile
Kill this fire with gasoline
Convictions I spit, my faith obscene
Heretic Jackals worship liars
Forever I'll be the god that you desire
Tell me the things that'll take time
To help see the things that'll take this
And hold onto things that'll make my
To make me the thing that breaks this
Burn inside of me
Time will tell because my friend and
Never will I concede the end
Heretic Jackals worship liars
Forever I'll be the god that you desire
Tell me the things that'll take time
To help see the things that'll take this
And hold onto things that'll make my
To make me the thing that breaks this Burn inside of me
Burn inside of me, Burn inside of me, Burn inside of me
08 Message in a Bottle (03:31)
Just a castaway
An island lost at sea, o
Another lonely day
With no one here but me, o
More loneliness
Than any man could bear, o
Rescue me before I fall into despair, o
I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle, yeah ohhhhh
Message in a bottle, yeah
A year has passed since I wrote my note
But I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep us together
Love can mend your life
But love can break your heart, o
I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle yeah
Message in a bottle
I'm sending out an SOS... (repeat)
09 Devil With the King's Card (04:04)
Come burn with me
Because I burn with conviction
From a pain you'll never never
Understand
Never forget what i said
Cause you ain't half of me
I'll shatter and break
Anything that stands
In front of me
Were taking down
What the fuck is ever
In our way
So get away
I will see your
Rise and fall
I will be your
Rise and fall
I will make your
Rise and fall
I will create your
Rise and fall
Come burn for me
I'll forgive despise your actions
Cause you never ever
Backed the words you said
Give into it and admit
That you're the one who quit
You said it yourself
"I'm the best" and you
"can't handle it"
So now watch while
Machine Head takes it all
It all
And i feel for you
Because your eyes they whore
And i think i hurt
Because of something more
I see you falling all apart
Because you lies they
Decide your whore
I will make the walls fall down
Down
Fall down
I will see your
Rise and fall
I will be your
Rise and fall
I will make your
Rise and fall
I will create your
Rise and fall
10 I Defy (03:41)
Be my one, would you take my sun
Would you tell someone
Whether we had fun
With you heroes, double zeros
Running circles around your fears
I'm never ever falling again
Would you take my grace
Look into my face
With your limp handshake
And your smile that's fake
Would you back my fight
Say you're down for life
Well it's easy to say
When your words don't mean
Nothing
Anger makes me long for
A better way
You'll fear my strength
If I'm backed into a cage
Because I defy
I defy
I defy
I defy
I defy
See my fate, understimate
I intoxicate while you emulate
With the losers and users
Sucking up to the abusers
And I'm never ever falling again
For the tricks you play
Or the fronts you claim
You just can't fake
The respect I've made
You're a parasite
You conform on site
You're the link in the chain
That was weak and
Always will be
Anger makes me long for
A better way
You'll fear my strength
If I'm backed into a cage
Because I defy
I defy
I defy
I defy
I defy
11 Five (05:17)
I remember was the month october,
In a garage I was standing,
Scared and somber,
I could smell your breathing,
And the pain you're leaving,
So ashamed I'm feeling,
And now I am left to fate.
For all the times I've been losing my mind,
You molest and destroy just a five year old boy,
You made me suffer,
Motherfucker,
Ripped my heart out,
It was so good.
I remember words that never left me,
For a skull of silver here's what you'd do for me,
If you tell I'll kill you,
Rip the child out from you,
Wish that I could stop you,
Please God make this go away.
For all the times I've been losing my mind.
You molest and destroy just a five year old boy.
And you made me suffer, motherfucker.
Ripped my heart out,
Innocence was lost.
And I feel it
I can't take it
I don't want it
Anymore
Was only five
And I feel it
Can't take it
Anymore
For all the times I heard you,
Say in my goddamned mind,
Make it sooner if I suck you,
I'd make you suffer,
Make you suffer,
Motherfucker
For all the times I've been losing my mind,
You molest and destroy just a five year old boy,
And you make me suffer,
motherfucker,
Ripped my heart out
I was only five
Five
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