I Sepultura, da sempre devoti ad un potentissimo e aggressivo thrash-death metal nel 1996 incontrano la bellezza del suono tribale ed innestano abilmente un crossover di suoni che va dal già testato thrash style, ai ritmi tribali passando per i ritmi sincopati del nascente movimento nu metal di Korn e Deftones, quello che viene fuori è il capolavoro assoluto del gruppo di Belo Horizonte e costituisce anche il suo "apogeo", perché dopo il successo mondiale dovuto alle vendite proprio di "Roots", i membri cacceranno il frontman Max Cavalera, mente e braccio della band, sostituendolo con lo scarso Dereck Green.
Il disco inizia con il classico dei Seps "Roots Bloody Roots" che davvero è un pezzo di storia del metal in generale, senza togliere nulla a canzoni come "Troops Of Doom" o "Arise" penso che questa song sia quella che più rappresenta il gruppo brasiliano: una voce aggressiva e sempre impostata su un medio growl e riff spaccaossa ed in più il giusto tocco tribale che caratterizzerà anche (e soprattutto) il nuovo gruppo di Cavalera, gli ottimi Soulfly. Altro classico (e capolavoro) con "Attitude", introdotto da un ottimo ritmo tribale filtrato poi nel movimento sincopato della batteria di Igor Cavalera e dalla vomitevole (e bellissima) voce di Max, a tratti il ritmo cambia e diventa più incalzante, davvero un'ottimo esempio di crossover tra metal e tribalismo. Questo disco è pieno di classici, un altro è la thrash metal "Cut-Throut" più vicina ai lavori precedenti, altra song di punta dell'album è la seguente "Ratamahatta", dove c'è l'importante collaborazione con David Silveria, batterista dei Korn e il duetto tra Max e il connazionale Carlinos Brown, importante è il fatto che sia il primo brano cantato in portoghese.
Sempre in tema di classici e di ottimi episodi di questo ottimo album è la fenomenale "Spit", ritmo accellerato e bel riff, voce più aggressiva del solito e impronta thrashy. Zeppa di ospiti è "Lookaway" scritta da Jhonatan Davis (voce dei Korn), in cui intervengono Mike Patton (Faith No More) e Dj Lethal (ex-House Of Pain, Limp Bizkit), dal punto di vista musicale è un torbido nu-metal intinto di attitudine dark (lo stesso stile utilizzato da Davis nella colonna sonora "Queen Of The Damned"), Davis ha un'ottima prestazione ma a dominare sugli ospiti è sempre Max, il lavoro di Dj Lethal è (stranamente) ben fatto e si adatta alla struttura della song, uno dei pezzi migliori del disco. Thrash ben eseguito sono "Dusted" e "Born Stubborn", emozionante e momento di pausa e rilassatezza è "Jasco", una strumentale melodica dominata dalle chitarre acustiche(in parallelo a quelle che poi saranno le "Soulfly" nei lavori successivi della nuova band di Cavalera).
Forse il riff migliore dell'intero disco e anche quello meno conosciuto è "Itsari", un'eccellente canzone thrash metal che si ascolta davvero piacevolmente fino alla fine. Bizzarra chiusura è affidata a "Dictatorshit", pezzo lungo poco più di un minuto che consiste in una velocissima thrash-death metal song, che seppur breve si rivela buona. Un elogio particolare per la produzione, davvero buona, dopotutto c'è Ross Robinson, alle prese già con l'esordio dei Korn e in seguito con i dischi di Slipknot, Soulfly, Machine Head ("The Burning Red"), Limp Bizkit ecc... In conclusione è l'album della consacrazione di una band importantissima per il thrash, per il death, per il nu e per il metal in generale, "Roots" avvinghia l'ascoltatore dal primo all'ultimo riff assassino, ha dentro di se tutto quello che ci si aspetta da un capolavoro, da un classico, ovvero fede alla tradizione (molte sono le canzoni thrash-death) e molta innovazione (influenze tribali e nu metal).
L'unico errore di quest'album è che è l'ultimo dei Sepultura con Max nella line-up, senza di lui un altro album così geniale e bello non lo rifaranno mai !
Elenco tracce testi e video
01 Roots Bloody Roots (03:32)
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
I
Believe In Our Fate
We Don't Need To Fake
It's All We Wanna Be
Watch Me Freeeaaak !!
I Say
We're Growing Every Day
Getting Stronger In Every Way
I'll Take You To A Place
Where We Shall Find Our
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Roots Bloody Roots
Rain
Bring Me The Strength
To Get Through Another Day
And All I Want To See
Set Us Free
Why
Can't You See
Can't You Feel
This Is Real
Ahhh
I Pray
We Don't Need To Change
Our Ways To Be Saved
That All We Wanna Be
Watch Us Freak
02 Attitude (04:15)
One Week Of Struggling
On The Real World Is..
So You Can See !!!
Feel Your Soul And...
Shape Your Mind To Warfare
It's All For Real
Live Your Life
Not The Way They Taught You
Do What You Feel !
Survive The Jungle
Give Me Blood
Give Me Pain
These Scars Won't Heal
What Were You Thinking
What A Wonderful World !!!
You're Full Of Shit
Leave It Behind
They Don't Care If You Cry
All Is Left Is Pain
Can You Take It ?
Can You Take It ?
Can You Take It ?
Can You Take It ?
The Only Way
To Get Away
Kill Your Pride
Attitude
I Won't Take It
I Won't Take It
I Won't Take It
I Won't Take It
So In The End
I Want To See Some Respect
( I Said )
You Better Show Some Respect
( I Said )
Attitude And Respect
03 Cut-Throat (02:44)
Telling lies right into your face
Grab your soul and make a disgrace
Make you believe you're bigger than life
No one cares if you'll live or die
Waiting for the moment to strike
To take possession to take your heart
Turn your part into a farse
Without respect, without regret
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
You promess this and promis all
Deep inside nothin at all
In a war of filth and greed
We don't need none of this shit
All I say that will survive
We know what's true, we know what's right
We're going through this till the end
And I know you're not my friend
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Fuck!
To give in - no fucking way
To give in - no way
So don't tell us it can't be done
Putting down what you don't know
Money isn't our god
Integrity will free our soul
Enslavement pathetic
Ignorant corporations
Cut-throat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
Cut-thoat - cut-throat
Cut-throat
04 Ratamahatta (04:30)
Piboca
Garagem
Favela
Fubanga
Maloca
bocada
Maloca
Bocada
Fubanga
Favela
Garagem
Piboca, PORRA !!!
Ze Do Caixao
Zumbi
lampiao
Hello Uptown
Hello Downtown
Hello Midtown
Hello Trenchtown
Ratamahatta !!! ...
Hello Uptown
Hello Downtown
Hello Midtown
Hello Trenchtown
Ratamahatta !!! ...
05 Breed Apart (04:01)
Creepy Crawl
on Concrete And Dust
Asphalt Jungle
Piles Of Crust
Non Sense Thoughts
Inside The Mind
What Really Means
What I Want ?
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Straight Old Thoughts
To Force You Down
Raping Rape
Breed Apart
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
Open Up Your Mind
And Go Your Own Way
06 Straighthate (05:21)
I ask myself why am I so hateful
it means part of my nature
people say I'm fucked in my mind
feels like there is nothing left inside
Walking on different dirty streets
but the same old feeling still exists
hate�s like a shade that never leaves
leave me alone I don't need simpathy
What goes around
comes around
you going down
down
STRAIGHTHATE
Criticize and call me negative
you never faced life or reality
separate myself from the rest
what the fuck do you expect?
What goes around
comes around
you going down
down
STRAIGHTHATE
Grow in the ghettos made me real
to deal with my fears
motherfucker you don't understand
pain and hate
07 Spit (02:46)
Face them ,face them
leave your farce
same thing,same way
your karma will come
ask me no questions
I tell no lies
ask me again
I spit in your eyes
Live your life,leave me alone
face me,face me
feel the cut
open sore
always bleeding
09 Dusted (04:03)
Dusted
You make me mute
Hidding the truth
Revealing a farse
Created by your mind
What do you expect
Exposing your lies
Printed in your eyes
There's no alibi
To cooperate and not be allowed
They're killing my name / sewing my mouth
Prospect in life
Lost in the line
To cooperate
And just be alive
You gonna fall hiding the truth
You gonna crawl finding the truth
To blame myself it's my disgrace
To blame the world by my mistakes
Dusted [3x]
Turn around and turning around
And turning around and sinside out
Turn around and turning around
And turning around and inside out
Do not disturb !
Leave me alone
The fear within inside and beyond
The fear within inside and beyond
You make me mute
Hidding the truth
Revealing a farse
Created by your mind
What do you expect
Exposing your lies
Printed in your eyes
There's no alibi
You gonna fall hiding the truth
You gonna crawl finding the truth
To blame myself it's my disgrace
To blame the world by my mistakes
Dusted [6x]
10 Born Stubborn (04:07)
Born Stubborn
Stubborn from the start
Obey no one no matter what ?!
Our life it's our right
Why don't you go away
We live without orders
We live without rules
Tearing down the wall
That try to hold us in
Born in pain
Born stubborn
I got my tribe it's my own right
And I don't have to tell you why
It's been like that from the start
And you can't break it apart
Sepultura in our hearts
Can't take it away
These Roots will always remain
Born in pain
Born stubborn
Stubborn from the start
Obey no one no matter what ?!
Our life it's our right
Why don't you go away
We live without orders
We live without rules
Tearing down the wall
That try to hold us in
Born in pain
Born stubborn
I got my tribe it's my own right
And I don't have to tell you why
It's been like that from the start
And you can't break it apart
Sepultura in our hearts
Can't take it away
These Roots will always remain
Born in pain
Born stubborn
Born in pain
Born in pain
Suffering life
Make us rise
13 Ambush (04:39)
Screaming
For more justice
Amazonia burns
Can you hear them?
I'll fight
To save another day
So join us
And we'll make them
Leave this land
Threating
To kill how we feel
if we stop them
It'll be worth
Dying for...
When you go down!!!
You go down fighting!!!
M.Fxxx
14 Endangered Species (05:19)
Endangered Species
Life !!
The struggle to survive
Crawling, ragin
Feed the hate inside
Are we going to see another day ?
Are we going to make it all the way ?
Are we going to see the light of day ?
Are we going to make it till the end ?
Rise !!
Bad moon rise
Another war, another crime
End in sight
Bleak !!
Why & what the fuck ?!?
Shut your mouth, shut your mind, this the way
You're just another prey
Is that what we've became ??
RISE ! [8x]
Are we going to see another day ?
Are we going to make it all the way ?
Are we going to see the light of day ?
Are we going to make it till the end ?
Endangered Species [3 x]
Is that what we've became ??
15 Dictatorshit (01:25)
1964
coup d'état
military force
hundreds dead
why did they disappear?
dictatorshit
1995
we still alive
we still hear the cry
from the ones that survived
why did they disappear?
dictatorshit
16 Procreation (Of the Wicked) (03:39)
You Are Blind
Deny The Sun And Light
Who's Are The Objections
From Where Come The Doubts?
Procreation Of The Wicked
Procreation Of The Wicked
Serenades Of Oppositions
Absurdity, Human Fate And Hope
True Reflection Of Community
Procreation Of The Gods And Lords
Procreation Of The Wicked
Procreation Of The Wicked
Kane And Abel's Love And Dead
Love And Hate Is What We Are
Dagger And Grail (Have)
Fallen Off The Alter
Procreation Of The Wicked
Procreation Of The Wicked
Procreation
17 Symptom of the Universe (04:16)
Take Me Through The Centuries To Supersonic Years
Electrifying Enemy Is Drowning In His Tears
All I Have To Give You Is A Love That Never Dies
The Symptom Of The Universe Is Written In Your Eyes
Yeah
Mother Mooch Is Calling Me Back To Her Silver Womb
Father Of Creation Takes Me From My Stolen Tomb
Seventh Night The Unicorn Is Waiting In The Skies
A Symptom Of The Universe, A Love That Never Dies
Yeah
Take My Hand, My Child Of Love Come Step Inside My Tears
Swim The Magic Ocean I've Been Crying All These Years
When Our Love Will Ride Away Into Eternal Skies
A Symptom Of The Universe, A Love That Never Dies
Yeah
Oh My Child Of Love's Creation, Come And Step Inside My Dreams
In Your Eyes I See No Sadness, You Are All That Loving Means
Take My Hand And We'll Go Riding Through The Sunshine From Above
We'll Find Happiness Together In The Summer Skies Of Love
Carico i commenti... con calma
Altre recensioni
Di cliffburton86
Ultimo, vero, grande album degli ultimi, veri, grandi Sepultura.
Un metal estremo in chiave “brasiliana” come non si è mai visto e come probabilmente non si vedrà più.
Di magico vento
"Dopo l'opening track Roots Bloody Roots si intuisce già che ci ritrova con qualcosa di dannatamente potente ed intenso."
"Ratamahatta con le sue svariate influenze è il pezzo più significativo di questo nuovo corso."
