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Nel 1993 il mondo già di per sè rumoroso dell'heavy metal è frastornato da decibel supplementari d'inaudita potenza. I Sepultura, esistenti già da 10 anni, si affermano a livello mondiale con "Chaos A.D." Con quell'uscita il metal raggiunge forme di maturità che prima aveva solo sfiorato. Fino a quel momento i Sepultura, pur godendo di notorietà abbastanza vasta anche fuori dal loro paese d'origine, il Brasile, non parevano destinati a sorti particolarmente brillanti. Si erano mossi nell'ambito thrash (con influenze death), con brani che ricalcavano lo stile degli Slayer. Chissà cosa spinse i fratelli Cavalera, Max e Igor a cambiare positivamente all'improvviso...con "Chaos A.D." i Sepultura si allontanano dalle stanche tematiche "sataniche" degli album precedenti, concentrandosi di più sul sound dell'album.
Già il primo brano lascia senza problemi: Refuse/Resist mette in mostra una guerriglia urbana che sa tanto di guerra, con imitazioni di sirena della polizia e di raffiche di mitra. Più o meno la successiva Territory è la stessa cosa. Slave New World parla della sottomissione delle varie tribù del nuovo mondo degli anni '500. Ragazzi, le influenze death non si sentono più, o meglio; le risonanze sono sempre cupe, anche se le tematiche si avvicinano molto a quelle dei gruppi hardcore/punk degli anni '80. Originalissima l'esecuzione di Biotech Is Godzilla, facendoci capire a quale tradizione i Sepultura si riallacciano. Un'altra stupenda canzone è Kaiowas, dedicata all'omonima tribù indigena brasiliana che si suicidò. Oramai non ho dubbi: il nuovo sound dei Sepultura è scaturito anche dai ritmi e dalle tradizioni brasiliane. Altra canzone da citare è Manifest, che è una dura protesta contro la polizia Brasiliana, autrice di una strage commessa nel carcere di Carandiru.
È un gran peccato che, col passare degli anni, sia successo quel che tutti noi sappiamo... i litigi tra i fratelli Cavalera, il periodo di sbandamento che la band avrà... Resta loro il merito di aver dimostrato, con "Chaos A.D.", come il metal possa essere ben più di pochi accordi ripetitivi e di pose esteriori oscillanti tra l'epico ed il satanico. Può essere coscienza, sia morale che civile.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Refuse/Resist (03:20)
Chaos AD
Tanks on the streets
Confronting Police
Bleeding the Plebs
Raging crowd
Burning cars
Bloodshed starts
Who'll be alive?!
Chaos AD
Army in siege
Total alarm
I'm sick of this
Inside the state
War is created
No Man's land
What is this shit?!
Refuse/Resist
Refuse
Chaos AD
Disorder Unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch
Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy
Refuse/Resist
Refuse/Resist
02 Territory (04:47)
Unknown man
Speaks to the world
Sucking your trust
A trap in every word
War for territory
War for territory
Choice control
Behind Propaganda
Poor information
To manage your anger
War for territory
War for territory
Dictators' speech
Blasting off your life
Rule to kill the urge
Dumb assholes' speech
Years of fighting
Teaching my son
To believe in that man
Racist human being
Racist good will live
Shame and regret
Of the pride
You've once possessed
War for territory
War for territory
03 Slave New World (02:55)
Face - The enemy
Stare - Inside you
Control - your thoughts
Destroy - Destroy 'em all
You censor what we breathe
Prejudice with no beliefe
Senseless violence all around
Who is it, that keeps us down
Once all free tribes
Chained down led lives
Blood boils inside me
We're not slaves, we're free
Face - The enemy
Stare - Inside you
Control - Your thoughts
Destroy - Destroy 'em all
04 Amen (04:27)
Forgive me father
Forgive me God
I know i've sinned
With no remorse
Apocalyptic visions
Went through my head Here today
Gone tomorrow
It's all insane
I'm feeling sick
I'm feeling numb
The storm will come
In the name of God i'm the chosen one
Terror raids the land
To ashes we'll be sent
In the name of God Lives cast away
Martyrdom of myself
Armageddon comes
In the name of God Not one more dead
Fire blasting, cutting edge
Children burn in flames
In the name of God We're going insane
Let us die
You don't realize
This is the time
God's sacrifice
Leaving behind
Lessons in hate
In the name of God We're all dead
Burn!
05 Kaiowas (03:43)
[Instrumental]
This song is inspired by a Brasilian Indian tribe called "Kaiowas", who live in the rain forest. They committed mass suicide as a protest against the government, who was trying to take away their land and beliefs.
06 Propaganda (03:33)
Why don't you get a life and grow up
Why don't you realize that you're fucked up
Why criticize what you don't understand
Why change my words, you're so afraid
You think you have the right to put me down
Propaganda hides your scum
Face to face you don't have a word to say
You got in my way, now you'll have to pay
Don't, don't believe what you see
Don't, don't believe what you read
No!!!
07 Biotech Is Godzilla (01:52)
Rio summit, '92
Street people kidnapped
Hid from view
"To save the earth"
Our rules met
Some had other
Secret Plans
No... No... No... No...
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Say what?
Strip-mine the Amazon
Of cells of life itself
Gold rush for genes is on
Natives get nothing
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is Godzilla
Mutations cooked in labs
Money mad experiments
New food + medicine?
New germs + accidents!
Like Cubatao
"World's most polluted town"
Air melts your face
Deformed children all around
Bio-technology
Ain't whats so bad
Like all technology
It's in the wrong hands
Cut-throat corporations
Don't give a damn
When lots of people die
From what they've made
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is A.I.D.S?
Stop!!!
08 Nomad (04:59)
Travelling through the time
Moving slowly in the sand
Knowledge is the weapon
Against the hunger in the land
Solitude met herself
Lessons from the primal step
Memories from an ending life
Liars can't stop the tribes
Nomad, Nomad, Nomad, Nomad
Brother is the son of rape
The blood that once unites
Wanna choose the way they die
Look inside their minds
(echoes in the)
Actual tribe no longer sounds
The ancient teachings failed
Movement of my culture
My beliefs have no more tales
Who are you to criticize
To judge and burn the tribes
The world will be extinct
And your flesh will rot with mine
Nomad, Nomad, Nomad, Nomad
09 We Who Are Not as Others (03:42)
We who are not as others
We who are not as others
We who are not as others
We who are not as others
We who are not as others
We who are not as others
We who are not as others
10 Manifest (04:49)
Friday, October 2nd 1992
Chaos has descended in "Carandiru".
the biggest penitentiary complex in
South America
Over a hundred inmates dead and
hundreds injured on the massacre
The police arrived with helicopters
and over two hundred armed forces
They took the jailblock called
"Pavilhao Nove"
and opened fire on the
inmates in a holocaust, method of
annihilation. The government of the city
of Sao Paulo cannot control
the brutality of it's police
Holocaust, Body Piles
Confrontation, Mutilation
Discipline, Ignorance
Conflagration, Torture
Over eighty percent of the inmates were
not sentenced yet. The bodies were filled
with bullets and bites from the police dogs
The police try to hide the massacre saying
there were only eight deaths
The violence of Brasilian cops is very well
known outside of Brasil, This kind of
extermination is a method that they use to
get rid of the overpopulation in the jails
The violence of the cops left the whole
pavillion destroyed after the rebellion
"Pavilhao Nove" (Pavilhao 9)
11 The Hunt (03:59)
We Went Into Town On The Tuesday Night
Searching All The Places That You Hang About
We're Looking For You
In The Back Street Cellar Dive Drinking Clubs
In The Discotheques And The Gaming Pubs
We're Looking For You
You Will Pay The Price For My Own Sweet Brother
And What He Has Become
And A Hundred Other Boys And Girls
And All That You Have Done
We Picked Up The Trail At The Seven Crowns
One Of Your Cronies - He Was Doing Your Rounds
We Followed Him
Just A Silhouette Figure Up Market Pass
Where The Headlamps Shine On The Broken Glass
We Followed Him
Over The Bridge By The Old Canal
Where The Shadows Dance On The Lighted Wall
He Stopped To Light Up A Cigarette
And We Dived Into A Doorway
No Police, No Summons, No Courts Of Law
No Proper Procedure, No Rules Of War
No Mitigating Circumstance
No Lawyer's Fees, No Second Chance
There Are Lasses Getting Trouble On Their Own Home Beat
There Are Old Folk Battered In The Open Street
In This City Of Ours
There Are Eyes That See But Say Nothing At All
There Are Ears That Hear But They Don't Recall
In This City Of Ours
So We Followed Your Man Back To Your Front Door
And We're Waiting For You Outside
'Cause Not Everybody Here Is Scared Of You
Not Everybody Passes On The Other Side
No Police, No Summons, No Courts Of Law...
And We Could Spent Our Whole Lives Waiting
For Some Thunderbolt To Come
And We Could Spent Our Whole Lives Waiting
For Some Justice To Be Done
Unless We Make Our Own
No Police, No Summons, No Courts Of Law...
12 Clenched Fist (04:57)
Pain, makes me stronger
Everyday
Life is chaos
You gotta deal with it
Expressing my agressions
Through confusion
Face reality
Nothing is like it used to be
Don't tell me I don't know
You don't live in my war
Revolt and anger
I won't take it anymore
Dont' get me wrong
You don't know where i've been
Dont' get me wrong
You don't know where i'm from
Don't get me wrong
It's been a painful way
Don't get me wrong
You wouldn't understand
Soul
Mind
Fist
Soul
Mind
Fist
Soul
Mind
Fist
13 Policia (01:48)
Dizem Que Ela Existe Pra Ajudar
Dizem Que Ela Existe Pra Proteger
Eu Sei Que Ela Pode Te Parar
Eu Sei Que Ela Pode Te Prender/Te Fuder
Policia Para Que Precisa
Policia Para Quem Precisa De Policia
Policia Para Que Precisa
Policia Para Quem Precisa De Policia
Dizem Pra Voce Obedecer!
Dizem Pra Voce Cooperar!
Dizem Pra Voce Toma No Cu!
Dizem Pra Voce Filha Da Puta!
Policia Para Que Precisa
Policia Para Quem Precisa De Policia
Policia Para Que Precisa
Policia Para Quem Precisa De Policia
[Translation (Sepultura Version)]
They Say It Exists To Help
They Say It Exists To Protect
I Know It Can Stop You
I Know It Can Arrest You/To Fuck You
Police For Who Need
Police For Who Need Police
Police For Who Need
Police For Who Need Police
They Tell You To Obey Them!
They Tell You To Collaborate With Them!
They Tell You: Take The Asshole!
They Tell You: Son Of The Bitch!
Police For Who Need
Police For Who Need Police
Police For Who Need
Police For Who Need Police
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Altre recensioni
Di wwwhatemoornet
Il risultato è che con queste idee e questi riff i Sepultura hanno involontariamente dato inizio a quella corrente che oggi chiamiamo nu metal e di cui faremmo molto volentieri a meno.
Un disco che farà la storia e la fortuna di questo gruppo brasiliano di Belo Horizonte che involontariamente ha cambiato qualcosa nel mondo della musica estrema
Di korn
L'album è molto violento e brasiliano, fonde molti generi musicali.
L'ultimo grande album dei Sepultura, un'opera imprescindibile per tutti.
Di sofficino
Chaos A.D è un disco molto bello che esce dai canoni della musica estrema.
La propria musica si evolve ma mai si commercializza, che invece altre band iniziano a percorrere in quel periodo.
Di ThirdWorldChaos
"Chaos A.D. rappresenta un momento fondamentale della storia della band e solo Max, Igor, Andreas e Paulo Jr. avrebbero potuto tirar fuori un disco così intenso, granitico e semplicemente spettacolare."
"Come non cantare a squarciagola il ritornello di 'Territory'? Impossibile rimanere passivi di fronte a tale violenza, a tale rabbia a tali assalti frontali che non fanno prigionieri."
