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Parlare di band come Megadeth, Metallica o Iron Maiden non è mai facile: c'è in ballo la storia della musica, e si rischia di eccedere o in complimenti eccessivi al loro presente basati solo sul loro passato o, nel caso opposto, su accuse irrispettose per dei lavori non più all'altezza dei tempi d'oro.
I Megadeth di Dave Mustaine, ex Metallica dalla testa calda, hanno pubblicato nel 2007 "United Abominations": un lavoro che giudico positivo, nel loro splendido vecchio stile, ma non certo all'altezza di capolavori come "Killing Is My Business", "Peace Sells", "So Far, So Good... SO What", "Rust In Peace". Questi restano autentici capolavori del thrash. In seguito i 'deth avevano seguito la scia dei concorrentissimi Metallica, passando ad un heavy più classico e melodico ("Countdown To Extintion", "Youthanasia") prima di produrre qualche album-shock più vicino al commerciale che altro: "Cryptic Writings", "Risk". Fortunatamente negli ultimi anni hanno recuperato le antiche sonorità thrash ("World Needs a Hero", "The System Has Failed"), strada seguita anche da quest'ultimo "United Abominations", pur non arrivando a creare un vero gioiello capace di segnare la storia: ormai le idee sono poche.
"United Abominations" ha un'ottimo sound, delle belle sonorità thrash, ma ritengo scontato, ripetitivo e poco coinvolgente il cantato di Mustaine in gran parte delle song. "Sleepwalker" inizia lenta e procede con riff martellanti, ricalcando i tempi d'oro anche nelle parti vocalist. Assoloni e scariche chitarristiche valgono alla traccia un bel 6,5. "Washington Is Next" ha un bel riff introduttivo, abbastanza melodico. Il cantato è cupo ma si fa più profondo nel ritornello, orecchiabile. Le chitarre alternano franenti melodici ad altri più aggressivi, la batteria pesta bene: 6,5. "Never Walk Alone... A Call To Arms" è altrettanto in old style, ma il ritornello è un pò banale. voto 6. Dopo un inizio pacato, "United Abominations" accelera e si inasprisce; carino il ritornello, voto 6,5. "Gears Of War" è aperta con un riff solenne, e il cantato è cupo. Traccia poco trascinante, va un pò meglio nel ritornello. Voto 5,5. "Blessed Are The Dead" è abbastanza coinvolgente, ha un buon sound che merita un buon 6. "Play For Blood" si avvia promettente con assoli frequenti e riff rocciosi. Le parti cantate sono poco piacevoli, specie inizialmente. 6. "A Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)" è un plagio del buonissimo pezzo del 1994 dei Megadeth, storpiato dai coretti con l'italiana Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil) in una mera operazione commerciale che non vale più di 5. "Amerikhastan" è introdotta da assoli robusti. Discreto il cantato, ma sempre inferiore alla musicalità. voto 6. Batteria e scosse cattive aprono "You're Dead", ma ancora una volta la composizione cantata non è all'altezza e non ti prende. Voto 6. "Burnt Ice" è un pò meglio in quest'ottica, sempre di pari passo con buona musicalità thrash: 6+.
Insomma, il disco suona bene ma è un pò arido e monotono (salvo poche eccezioni) nelle parti riservate al pur bravissimo singer, il grande Mustaine. Dave ha fatto la storia e resta un mito, però non per questo me la sento di giudicare l'ultimo lavoro per più di quello che realmente vale. I Megadeth la storia l'hanno scritta a caratteri cubitali, e lo hanno fatto alla grande fino a 10-15 anni fa: è inutile chieder loro altre meraviglie di tale portata, se volete divertirvi davvero con il gruppo di Mustaine vi consiglio di ascoltarvi piuttosto i primi 5 superalbum!
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01 Sleepwalker (05:53)
I should be calling collect from jail
For the things I commit each night in my head
Like last night in my sleep I got to snuff you
But then I woke up again, safe in my little bed
No one is safe when I close my eyes; I come to take your life
I get to force your untimely disappearance
Each night in my dreams, when I'm fast asleep
I close my eyes and you just vanish soon as I
Lay down my head when I'm dead to the whole wide world
No one is safe when I close my eyes; I come to take your life
And then I wake up again and it was all just a dream
And everything is the same
Sleepwalker - Did I give you concrete shoes?
And throw you off of a bridge
Sleepwalker - When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul's mine to keep, I feel you near me
Go to sleep, Sleepwalker
Just taking a stroll; don't go to sleep! Here's some toothpicks for your eyes!
You always make an excellent cadaver
I roll your body up in a carpet to make music in the
Trunk of my limousine, wrapped up in a rug
A fitting end, is that I send you up the river like a punk
No one is safe when I close my eyes; I come to take your life
The angel of death is pissed off at me again
Just because I got to put you out of my misery
It doesn't matter, I am without fear
Now you're dead, I won't shed another bloody tear for you
No one is safe when I close my eyes; I come to take your life
I'm calling down the thunder, then you'll sleep with the fishes
The answer to all of my wishes
Sleepwalker - Did I tell you I was in movies?
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch
Sleepwalker - Everyday, another way, I know you can hear me
I think you'd look nice in a Colombian necktie
Should stop your tongue from wagging the dog
No more stupidity from you, as I pull your tongue through
For a smile from ear to ear, now there's nothing to hear
No one is safe when I close my eyes; I come to take your life
And then I wake up and it was all just a dream
And everything is still the same
Sleepwalker - Did I give you concrete shoes?
And throw your body off of a bridge
Sleepwalker - When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I feel you near me
Sleepwalker - Or did I tell you I was in movies?
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch
Sleepwalker - Everyday, another way, I know you can hear me
Sleepwalker - Did I buy you the farm?
Put a horse head in your bed
Sleepwalker - When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I feel you near me
Sleepwalker - Everyday
Everyday another way
Sleepwalker - When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I know you can hear me
02 Washington Is Next! (05:19)
The quiet war has begun with silent weapons
And the newest slavery is to keep the people
Poor and stupid, "Novus Ordo Seclorum"
How can there be any logic in biological war?
We all know this is wrong, but the New World Order's
Beating down the door, oh something needs to be done
There was a king, an evil king
Who dreamt the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, no prophet could interpret
Of seven years of famine, the wolf is at my door
As predicted years ago, that that was, that is, that is no more
The word predicts the future and tells the truth about the past
Of how the world leaders will hail the new Pharaoh
The eighth false king to the throne; Washington is next!
Disengage their minds, sabotage their health
Promote sex and war, and violence in the kindergartens
Blame the parents and teachers; it's their fault, "Annuit Coeptis"
Attack the church dynamic, attack the family
Keep the public undisciplined till nothing left is sacred and
The "have-nots" get hooked and have to go to the "haves" just to cop a fix
I am the king, an evil king
Who dreams the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, nobody could interpret
Of seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
As predicted years ago, that that was, that is, that is no more
The word predicts the future and tells the truth about my past
Of how the world leaders are waiting to usher in
The eighth world power of modern Rome; Washington is next!
There was a king, an evil king
Who dreamt the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, no prophet could interpret
Of seven empires fallen, the wolf is at my door
As predicted years ago, that that was, that is, that is no more
I am a king and I dream the wildest dreams
And nobody could interpret
Seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
Ooh, that that was, that is, that is no more
There's something at my dooor, some anciet mystery
The future tells the truth about the past
And I'm the eighth false king to the throne
I've got you in my crosshairs, now, ain't that a bitch?
Washington, you're next!
04 United Abominations (05:35)
United Abominations
Music and Lyrics Dave Mustaine
Within striking distance from Ground Zero sits a smoldering international cauldron, the United “Abominations” as it were. Born to prevent wars, as if war was in the face of disaster, and stood silent while terrorization took hostage the world.
In a mire of hypocrisy, ignores sex crimes by its blue helmets, and enables terrorism, so in the end, it has failed. And the UN is where our so-called friends get to stab us in the back, and we pay 22% of their tab to host our enemies here at home.
Ambassadors from countries otherwise known as "The Catastrophe" enjoy Diplomatic immunity, living in Manhattan, while their children are turned into prostitutes. It’s a complete and utter disgrace! A blot on the face of humanity! And they get away with it!?!
Poverty in their kitchens
Held hostage by oil-for-food
Yet their own plates are full off the fat of their lands
There’s no blood on their hands, right Gojo?
They promised to tell the truth
Without leaving a fingerprint.
They will lose the UN one way or another.
The victim, I fear will be us, sisters and brothers!
The UN is right; you can’t be any more “un”
than you are right now, the UN is undone.
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun.
The threat is real, the Locust King has come.
Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done.
It's payback time, at the United Abominations.
A grave and gathering danger
the decision to attack
based on secret intelligence, it’ll take years
I fear to undo the failings in Iraq.
You may bury the bodies
but you can’t bury the crimes.
Only fools stand up and really lay down their arms
No, not me, not when Death lasts forever
The UN is right; you can’t be any more “un”
Than you are right now, the UN is undone.
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun.
The threat is real, the Locust King has come.
Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done.
It's payback time.
(Foriegn speakers talking)
The UN is right; you can’t be any more “un”
Than you are right now, the UN is undone.
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun.
The threat is real, the Locust King has come.
The UN is right; you can’t be any more “un”
Than you are right now, the UN is undone.
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun.
The threat is real, the Locust King has come.
Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done.
It's payback time, at the United Abominations.
NATO invaded Yugoslavia to end ethnic cleansing, there was no UN.
The US invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, there was no UN.
Saddam Hussein violated 17 UN resolutions; The UN was asked to join the war in Iraq. The US invaded, there was no UN.
Libya bombed a discotheque in Berlin killing Americans, there was no UN.
Iran funds a mosque, and attacked the US in the seventies, there was no UN.
Facing war, without end, looking into the future.
There...was...no...more...UN!
09 Amerikhastan (03:43)
Recruiting the ill-fated for "The War"
A legion of uneducated, bankrupt souls
With a lust for revenge, answering the call
From New Yorqatar to Califorabia
Desperation provides fertile ground for religious extremism
This glorious brainwashing where prejudice lies
Like a crouching tiger
Tormenting peasents till they erect an army
Under everyone's nose
In the end propaganda destroys their DNA, god help them
All that they envisioned of what things would come to be
Turned into a pink mist when they blew to smithereens
We are just a war away from Amerikhastan
When God versus god; the undoing of man
Promising a vapor, in the end they become one
No rules of engagement, this enemy hides
Amongst women and children
And to beat violence, you must ignore the focus groups
You must send in the Mossad, turn off the BBC, CNN
and don't look back
Rest assured there'll be no more Middle Eastern crisis, hell!
There'll be no more Middle East!
These are your people Lady Liberty
Pull up your dress today
And tattooed is "Property of the USA
A subsidiary of Halliburton"
Surprise?!
But a roaring lion is about to be unleashed on earth
Hey, Jihad Joe? Guess what? We're coming to get you!
All that you envision of what things will come to be
Turns into a death knell when you look behind the scenes
We are just a war away from Amerkhastan
When God versus god; the undoing of man
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Altre recensioni
Di gemini
La perfetta sintesi della carriera dei Megadeth: potenza thrash anni '80 e melodia heavy anni '90.
Decisamente una delle migliori uscite dell'anno e della band stessa, degno di essere accostato a Rust in Peace e Countdown to Extinction.
Di d3str0y3r
Questo disco non è nulla di eclatante, ma gli arrangiamenti sono più che buoni, e la produzione eccellente.
La band di Mustaine si dimostra sempre meritevole di ascolto, grazie al proprio impegno per suonare con passione, e non per i puri introiti commerciali.
Di Goodwolf
"Il disco parte benissimo con 'Sleepwalker', 'Washington is next' e 'Never walk alone'"
"'United abominations' è un pezzo politico, che non mi esalta da nessun punto di vista."
