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Nel 1992 la musica era dominata prevalentemente dalla scena Grunge iniziata dai Nirvana, e i Big Four (tranne gli Slayer) e tanti altri gruppi metal hanno iniziato a seguire una musica più commerciale ed orecchiabile, un classico esempio è il famoso "Black Album" dei Metallica. Ma da qualche parte nel Texas c'era una band, che nel 1990 aveva pubblicato un'album con il titolo "Cowboys from Hell", un masterpiece del thrash metal inizio anni '90 che presentava elementi NWOBHM. Due anni dopo pubblicano il loro terzo album (se non si considerano quelli con Terry Glaze e "Power Metal"), intitolato "Vulgar Display of Power". Un must del thrash metal che insieme all'album successivo "Far Beyond Driven" daranno il via al movimento "groove metal".
Phil Anselmo aveva già dimostrato le sue doti vocali con l'album precedente, ma lo stile di canto assomigliava a quella di Rob Halford (cantante dei Judas Priest). Allora doveva distaccarsi da quella voce melodica e allo stesso tempo potente, ed infatti si è avvicinato ad una voce più rabbiosa, più aggressiva e più incazzata che mai, "Fucking Hostile" ne è la prova. Molti l'hanno soprannominato come il "nuovo" Henry Hollins, che sarebbe stato l'ex cantante dei mitici Black Flag. Dimebag Darrell (all'epoca si chiamava Diamond Darrell) anche lui aveva mostrato le sua favolose abilità chitarristiche, ma qui ha dato il meglio di sé stesso, i suoi riff massicci e veloci rendono le canzoni più spettacolari ed avvincenti, ma i suoi assoli sono devastanti e allo stesso tempo melodici (ascoltatevi tutte le canzoni). Il fratello batterista Vinnie Paul, nell'album precedente in una canzone che corrisponde al nome di "Domination", ci ha fatto capire che ha le palle più grosse di quelle di un toro. Qui invece, ha dato una dimostrazione alquanto stupefacente, si può ascoltare in "Rise" quanto sia veloce e devastante, e la canzone in sé per sé è spettacolare è talmente potente che demolirebbe un edificio da venti piani. Rex Brown anche lui in quest'album ha dato una buona prova nel saper usare il basso, lo si può ascoltare in "Regular People", ma nell'album successivo ci farà capire che è degno di suonare il basso elettrico.
L'album in sé per sé è un must, con le prime sette canzoni una più bella dell'altra, e le migliori in assoluto sono "Walk" il loro inno di battaglia che veniva suonato sempre nei live, "Mouth for War" è un gran bel pezzo che ricalca il classico thrash metal. "Fucking Hostile" è una piccola canzone di due minuti (circa) ed è una delle più veloci e brutali dell'album, poi ci sono le due semi-ballad "This Love" e "Hollow". Peccato che dopo queste iniziano ad esserci dei cali di ritmo come "Live in a Hole", "Regular People" però sono sempre di buon livello e "By Demons Be Driven" che secondo me, è quella che rovina l'album.
In poche parole "Vulgar Display of Power" è un must del thrash metal e un passo avanti per la band texana, anche se non è al livello di "Cowboys from Hell", rimane pur sempre un ottimo album che lo consiglio vivamente di ascoltare a qualsiasi metallaro in cerca di un album aggressivo.
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01 Mouth for War (03:57)
Revenge
I'm screaming revenge again
Wrong
I've been wrong for far too long
Been constantly so frustrated
I've moved mountains with less
When I channel my hate to productive
I don't find it hard to impress
(Pre) Bones in traction
Hands break to hone raw energy
Bold and disastrous
My ears can't hear what you say to me
(Chorus) Hold your mouth for the war
Use it for what it's for
Speak the truth about me
Determined
Possessed
I feel a conquering will down inside me
Strength
The strength of many to crush
Who might stop me
My strength is in number
And my soul lies in every one
The releasing of anger can better any medicine under the sun
(Pre)
(Chorus)
There comes a time within everyone to close your eyes to
what's real
No comprehension to fail
I vacuum the wind for my sail
Can't be the rest
Let others waste my time
Owning success is the bottom line.
Like a knife into flesh
After life is to death
Pulling and punching the rest of duration
No one can piss on this determination
02 A New Level (03:57)
Now a new look in my eyes my spirit rise
Forget the past
Present tense works and lasts
Got shit on
Pissed on
Spit on
Stepped on
Fucked with
Pointed at by lesser men
(Pre) New life in place of old life
Unscarred by trials
(Chorus) A new level of confidence and power
Demanding plea for unity between us all --
United stand
Death before divided fall
In mock military order
Vulgar
Power
Impatient
Because time is shorter
(Pre)
(Chorus)
No fucking surrender
Can't lose
Life kills
03 Walk (05:14)
Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistence?
One step from lashing out at you
You want in to get under my skin and call yourself a friend
I've got more friends like you, what do I do?
Is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I've been, belong
You can't be something you're not
Be yourself, by yourself, stay away from me
A lesson learned in life, known from the dawn of time
Re, spect, walk
What did you say?
Re, spect, walk
Are you talking to me?
Are you talking to me?
Run your mouth when I'm not around, it's easy to achieve
You cry to weak friends that sympathize
Can you hear the violins playing your song?
Those same friends tell me your every word
Is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I've been, belong
You can't be something you're not
Be yourself, by yourself, stay away from me
A lesson learned in life, known from the dawn of time
Re, spect, walk
What did you say?
Re, spect, walk
Are you talking to me?
Are you talking to me?
Re, spect, walk
What did you say?
Re, spect, walk
Are you talking to me?
Are you talking to me?
No way punk!!!
Re, spect, walk
What did you say?
Re, spect, walk
Are you talking to me?
Are you talking to me?
Re, spect, walk
What did you say?
Re, spect, walk
Are you talking to me?
Are you talking to me?
Walk on home boy!!!
04 Fucking Hostile (02:48)
Almost every day, i see the same face
on broken picture tube, it fits the attitude.
If you could see yourself, you'd put you on a shelf
your verbal masturbate, promise to nauseate.
Today I'll play the part of non-parent,
not make a hundred rules for you to know about yourself.
Not lie and make you believe what's evil is making love and
making friends and meeting God your own way ...the right way.
(Chorus)
To see, to bleed cannot be taught
In turn, you're making us
Fucking Hostile
We stand alone
The truth in right and wrong, the boundaries of the law,
you seem to miss the point, arrested for a joint?
You seem to wonder why hundreds of people die,
you're writing tickets man, my mom got jumped they ran!
Now I'll play a public servant,
to serve and protect by the Law and the State.
I'd bust the punks that rape steal and murder
and leave you be, if you crossed me.
I'd shake your hand like a man ...not a God!
(Chorus)
Come meet your maker boy, somethings you can't enjoy.
Because of Heaven/Hell, a fucking wive's tale.
They put it in your head, then put you in your bed.
He's watching - say your prayers.
'cause God is everywhere.
Now I'll play a man learning priesthood,
who's about to take the ultimate test in life.
I'd question things because I am human,
and call no one my father who's no closer than a stranger.
I won't listen !!
(Chorus)
05 This Love (06:32)
If ever words were spoken,
painful and untrue.
I said I loved,
but I lied.
In my life,
All I wanted,
was the keeping (of someone like you)
As it turns out,
deeper within me,
love was twisted and pointed at you.
- Never ending pain. Quickly ending life -
(Chorus)
You keep this Love (Thing), Love (Child), Love (Toy)!
You keep this Love (Fist), Love (Scar), Love (Break)!
You keep this Love!
Love!
Love!
You keep this Love!
Love!
Love!
You keep this Love!
I'd been tempting one,
stole her from herself.
This gift in pain,
her pain was life.
And sometimes,
I feel so sorry,
I regret this (hurting of you)
But you made me...so unhappy,
I'll take my life (and leave love with you)
- I'd kill myself for you. I'd kill you for myself -
(Chorus)
You keep this Love Thing, Love Child, Love Toy!
You keep this Love Fist, Love Scar, Love Break!
You keep this Love!
Love!
Love!
You keep this Love!
Love!
Love!
You keep this Love!
No .. more .. head ..trips!!
06 Rise (04:36)
We've got no time to lose
Your news is old news
Hate this, hate me, hate this
Right approach for the wrong
It's time to spread the word
Let the voice be heard
All of us, one of us, all of us
Dominate and take the motherfucking world
[Pre-Chorus]
Mass prediction, unification
Breathing life into our lungs
EVERY creed and EVERY kind
To give us depth for strength
Taught when we're young to hate one another
It's time to have a new reign of power
Make pride universal so no one gives in
Turn our backs on those who oppose
Then when confronted we ask them the question
That's wrong with their mind?
What's wrong with your mind?
[Chorus]
It's time to RISE, RISE, RISE
It's time to RISE
We've lived with past mistakes
And we've lived with our own
Forgive, forget forgive
Be a man, not a child
There are to tears for peace
Of the common sympathies
Educate, reinstate, educate
A thing of past
The trouble in the states
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
(Guitar Solo)
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
07 No Good (Attack the Radical) (04:49)
In the states
There's a problem with race
Because of ignorant past burned fires
From evolution
We've been killing each other
I figure man should have it down to a science
No chance
Not for a minute
Not for a second
I won't be defensive
I'm straight out in my opinion
You'd better listen to a man who knows what he is saying
I've seen your side
You run and hide for the mere fact that you feel inferior
Be superior
And know your interior
Race, pride, prejudice
Black man, white man
No stand
Live in the past
We make it last
A hated mass
No solution
Mind pollution
For revolution
So low behold my eyes
This land of fools will rise
No good
For no one
You blame oppression and play the role of criminals
To rape and burn show progress is minimal
White hoods and militants you know it's such a pity
Living, breathing
Violence in your city
If one man
Had one home
In one world
He'd live alone without variety
Full of anxiety
No one to point at, question
Or even talk to -- in his private grave
No matter what color
He wouldn't be saved from hell
He dwells
A closed mind playing the part of prison cells
Race, pride, prejudice
Black man, white man
No stand
Live in the past
We make it last
A hated mass
No solution
Mind pollution
For revolution
So low behold my eyes
This land of fools will rise
No good
For no one
09 Regular People (Conceit) (05:27)
I've trampled on that road
That you think you own
You had that smartass attitude
It's time to stop the fiction
I live it every day
While your mind's far away
I'm out here putting pride on the line
And you case on me with pure respect
One change
At one thing
Hard time is coming
My time, your pain
I reign on you
(pre-chorus)
You think you own
I take away
Take it with me
You think you own
I take away
Make it my own
(chorus)x2
Most regular people would say, "It's hard!'
And any streetwise son of a bitch knows
Don't fuck with this!
Then so many times
You practiced in the mirror
To be just like me
but you just can't see
(you ain't got the balls, son)
I fight for love of brother
Your friends fight one another
You can't see because your head's up your ass
And just in case you think your bad
I crush your rush
I rule, you fool
I'm immovable stone in your world of weak--
I speak!
(pre chorus)x2
(chorus)x2
(solo)
(chorus)x2
Don't fuck with this!
10 By Demons Be Driven (04:40)
Serving the faith
Abduction the oath
It lie in wait for the offering
Religion is old
For drawing the young
Purity withers and dies
Never return to the ones that provided
Children draining parents of will
I hold out my hand to bloodless child
I'm taken by the one I was saving
From death
(Chorus)
By demons be driven x2
Beckon the call x8
With decline in mind
End not far
We're left hanging alone here
He pulls us from nails
Shatters our bones
Leaving us crippled and strewn
Boiling my corpse in the blood of his children
Praying for his god to prevail
Burying us with loved ones
To sleep with shelled children of the sixth dimension
(Chorus)
11 Hollow (05:48)
What's left inside him?
Don't he remember us?
Can't he believe me?
We seemed like brothers
Talked for hours last month
About what we wanna be
I sit now with his hand in mine
But I know he can't feel...
No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead
I'm close with his mother
And she cries endlessly
Lord how we miss him
At least what's remembered
It's so important to make best friends in life
But it's hard when my friend sits with blank expressions
No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead
He as hollow as I alone now
He as hollow as I alone
A shell of my friend
Just flesh and bone
There's no soul
He sees no love
I shake my fists at skies above
Mad at God
He as hollow as I converse
I wish he'd waken from this curse
Hear my words before it's through
I want to come in after you
My best friend
He as hollow as I alone
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Altre recensioni
Di cliffburton86
Il sound è sempre lo stesso, targato PANTERA! Un suono infuocato, esplosivo, che genera il cosiddetto pogo.
Dopo aver ascoltato questo pezzo, vi verrà la voglia (per la gioia di Coppino), di distruggere tutto ciò che vi circonda!
Di Vinsex
Violenta melodia e melodia violenta.
“FUKIN’ HOSTILEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”: l’apoteosi dello stadio brado reso musica.
Di jackpizzello
porca miseria puttana infame che cazzo di schifo di album di merda del cazzo della puttana troia della mamma di dimebag darrell!
lo tengo a tutto volume in modo da sentirlo dal cesso in caso di violenta stitichezza, altro che le purghe di mussolini!
Di thetrooper
"Il migliore album della band e il migliore in assoluto degli anni 90"
"Una formula unica ed irripetibile ai giorni d'oggi"
Di TheBoss
Solo dal nome "Pantera" si capisce che il suono non è affatto rilassante.
Questo album è degno di essere comprato dagli amanti del Buon Metal.
