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Attore, poeta, scrittore, Henry Rollins è uno dei personaggi più interessanti del panorama musicale, non solo un'icona dal fisico possente e tatuato, ma anche una mente molto lucida ed aperta.
"Come in and burn" non ha la stoffa del capolavoro soltanto per riproporre a distanza di diversi anni da "The end of silence", il classico suono alla Rollins Band, post-punk/metal. Modo di suonare che la band è stata tra le prime a proporre già dal finire degli anni '80, in cui ancora non si parlava di nu-metal, di Korn, di Rage Against The Machine, ma di gruppi come Rollins Band, Kyuss e Living Coulor. Ascoltare oggi "Come In And Burn" può dare l'impressione del già sentito, ma in menti più sensibili può risaltare la diversità del modo di concepire la musica e l'attitudine concentrata dai musicisti e da Rollins rispetto a gruppi di nuova formazione che hanno un suono forse anche più pesante (Slipknot?).
Tecnica e precisione ai musicisti non mancano, lo stile è, ovviamente, un derivato dei migliori Black Sabbath unito con le influenze hardcore-punk del periodo, essendo stato anche, Henry Rollins, frontman di una band hardcore fondamentale, i Black Flag; la chitarra segue riffoni precisi e secchi (Shame, Disappearing Act), il chitarrista fa largo uso di wah-wah e piazza assoli splendidi dove sono pertinenti, il basso è parecchio effettato e robusto, la batteria precisa e potente, la voce dal classico stile parlato di Rollins segue note più alte all'esplodere delle canzoni (All I want)e si abbassa quando si aprono parti più melodiche ed oscure (Inhale Exhale), con la voce che raggiunge toni bassissimi, e strumenti che si percepiscono appena, per poi tornare a graffiare e a picchiare alla grande.
Le canzoni spesso si rassomigliano un poco, ma spiccano certamente capolavori come l'opener Shame, All I Want, la potentissima The End Of Something, perfetta sintesi delle esplosioni rabbiose e dei tratti parlati con un bel basso, e ancora On My Way To The Cage, Spilling Over The Side, Unknow Hero. Insomma, e i muscoli Rollins li sa mettere molto bene nella musica e lasciando spazio alla mente nello scrivere i testi, spesso anche poetici, evitando di scrivere bambinate alla Phil Anzelmo (Pantera) incentrate sul pestare a sangue il prossimo.
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02 Starve (04:08)
I stay out late
I go alone
I needed sleep
I go without
I go along
I go all night
I go all night
I make the colors go
I push my senses out
I push my senses out
I keep my existence lean
I starve starve
I make the colors go
I starve starve
I make the colors go
and hear I am keen eyed my mind is low to the ground
and in my mind real time is mine and I know what I know
I step up and get none
I step up and get none
I take less and less and less and less and less than none
I starve starve
I make the colors go
I starve starve
I make the colors go
at the back of mind I hear the engines whine
at the back of mind I hear the engines whine
go all night go all night
I make my blood scream
I kiss my fear on the mouth
I kiss my fear on the mouth
I make my blood burn
I starve starve
I make the colors go
I starve starve
I make the blood scream
I make the blood burn
and when I step up I get up all the way
and when I step up I get off all the way
when turn my back and walk away
I never come back
I go without I feel the cold but I never come back
I go loooooong
I am goooooone
I starve starve
I make the colors go
I starve starve
I make the blood scream I make the blood burn
05 On My Way to the Cage (03:20)
On my way to the cage
I'm getting taught a lesson
On my way to the cage
I'm choking on the medicine
On my way to the cage
I'm stepping hard on four-leaf clovers
On my way to the cage
I'm learning the same thing over and over
On my way to the cage
The taste of blood is in my mouth
On my way to the cage
My fear is in their eyes
On my way to the cage
My animal blood is pure
On my way to the cage
No regrets and no last words
On my way to the cage
I heard the crowd roar
Thoughts of you were long behind me
I couldn't ask for more
The lights are almost blinding
Come closer, tears open my eyes
And fear me, and fear me
Your soul is on a leash
Your mind is on a string
Your world's inside my fist
You push yourself above me
But there's something you have missed
You always say you hate me
But you watch me anyway
It's a pain you can't resist
On my way to the cage
I'm larger than life and laughing at death
On my way to the cage
I'm sipping on pain and feeling fine
On my way to the cage
You're paying your price and I'm paying mine
On my way to the cage
I'm watching you cry and wave goodbye
On my way to the cage
I heard the crowd roar
Thoughts of you were long behind me
I couldn't ask for more
The lights are almost blinding
Come closer, tears open my eyes
And fear me, and fear me
Your soul is on a leash
Your mind is on a string
Your world's inside my fist
You push yourself above me
There's something you have missed
You'll always say you hate me
But you'll watch me anyway
You can't resist
10 Inhale Exhale (03:39)
Inhale resolve, Exhale ambition
Inhale all I need, Exhale all I want
Inhale love of life, Exhale fear of death
Inhale power, Exhale force
I have all I need
I can live without
I have what I need
I can live without
Inhale tolerance, Exhale judgement
Inhale what I am, Exhale what I think I am
I have all I need
I can live without
I have all I need
I can live without
Don't hold me down
Don't hold me down
Don't hole me down
Inhale fact, Exhale assumption
Inhale what I want to be, Exhale what I want to be seen
Don't hold me down
Don't hold me down
Don't hole me down
I have all I need
I can live without
I have what I need
I can live without
I have all I need
I can live without
I have all I need
I can live without
I can live without
I can live without
I can live without
12 Rejection (04:38)
I had it wrong for so long in my head
I was walking around like I was dead
And all the time my mind was stuck on you
And I clawed, while you stalled
I was a fool to think we were involved
I guess I needed to believe it, so bad
Rejection never felt this good
Everything unclear, now so well understood
At first I didn't see it as kind
But you did me a favor when you left me behind
You might not believe it was true
It's all those things you never said that told me all about you
It's the things you try to conceal that get revealed
And I had to get it wrong before I had got it right
And I'm not the kind to argue, I'm not the kind to fight
By the time I'd reached the truth I'd reached the end
Rejection never felt this good
Everything unclear, now so well understood
At first I didn't see it as kind
But you did me a favor when you left me behind
Now I'm alone, and I'm burning
I am hurting like hell but I am learning
The scars will take me far like they always do
And I believe I'm alright
I do believe I am alright
Rejection never felt this good
Everything unclear, now so well understood
At first I didn't see it as kind
But you did me a favor when you left me behind
'Cause now I see how you are
Now I see how you are
Now I see how it is
And now I see what you do
And I watch them line up
I watch them fall down
One after one
One after one
I watch your smile grow and grow and grow
I think to myself, it couldn't be me!
No way!!
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Se qualcuno gli attaccasse un cavo elettrico nel profondo del culo sarebbe capace di illuminare a giorno una qualsiasi fottutissima metropoli.
La mia musica non ha sigle, etichette o definizioni del cazzo... ascoltami e fatti la tua esperienza.
