E' uscito "Shogun", il nuovo album dei Trivium, e nessuno si è ancora presa la briga di recensirlo. Vabbè, ho pensato, magari nessuno si è accorto che hanno fatto il disco nuovo, o magari a nessuno interessa recensirlo dato che, leggendo i vari commenti alle recensioni di "Ascendancy" e "The Crusade", appare chiaro che a 99 utenti su 100 questi sbarbati americani fanno alquanto schifo.
Ora, io non mi definirei propriamente il loro fan numero uno, ma, visto il polverone che hanno sollevato in questi anni con il loro ingresso sulla scena metal mondiale, mi sembra quantomeno doveroso analizzare questa loro ultima fatica a prescindere da cosa se ne pensi, quindi me ne occupo io.
Quest'opera, in quanto a sforzo creativo, supera senza dubbio le precedenti. Le canzoni hanno una lunghezza media considerevole e il numero di tracce è leggermente inferiore, segno forse che ci si è concentrati di più sulla sostanza dei singoli pezzi. Le parti strumentali sono tutte estremamente curate, Heafy e compagni sfoggiano una tecnica sopraffina (anche se troppo spesso si lasciano andare a sboronate senza capo nè coda), sempre Matt esibisce qui un cantato in growl assai più convincente. Le tracce, a un primo ascolto, scorrono senza troppo da segnalare, ma ad un esame più approfondito mostrano un rilevante salto a livello qualitativo, terrei a segnalare soprattutto "Kirsute Gomen", "Down From The Sky" e la title-track "Shogun", che nei suoi 11 minuti raggiunge livelli di epicità mai visti nelle opere precedenti.
Quest'album è uno spartiacque nella carriera dei Trivium, da questo momento sono davanti a un bivio, che li porterà o ad essere consacrati nella hall of fame del metal o ad essere ricordati come mero fenomeno di passaggio che ha scimmiottato i grandi del passato. Io mi sento di considerarlo come il loro disco finora meglio riuscito e gli do 3 stelline, il prossimo che faranno da me riceverà o zero o cinque, ma spero di tutto cuore nella seconda ipotesi.
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01 Kirisute Gomen (06:27)
He who walks the fire breathes
He who walks the fire breathes
Unlike the rest
Living by the bloody creed
Kirisute gomen
Air of battle tasting stale
Reeks of deceit
Send the bitter straight to hell
Kirisute gomen
In their wretched guts all they want is to feed
Unending covetous hunger known as greed
As the last legion makes it's way to the skies
I can see in their eyes
They've already died
Inside, but as for the outside
I'll take their fucking heads
Quake has bred with the storm
Conceiving war
Wicked stampeding hordes
Kirisute gomen
In their wretched guts all they want is to feed
Unending covetous hunger known as greed
As the last legion makes it's way to the skies
I can see in their eyes
They've already died
Inside, but as for the outside
I'll take their fucking heads (x2)
Chorus:
I will never be what they
Want me to
I live by my own path in life
No turning back now
I won't be held down
Forced into a shallow grave built upon their empty ways
There's no turning back
There's hell to pay
such disarray
A bloodied mess
flesh masquerade
With all the blood making a flood
You made your path by crossing us
He who spits the fire seethes
All he detests
Decapitating
bloody creed
Kirisute gomen
In their wretched guts all they want is to feed
Unending covetous hunger known as greed
As the last legion makes it's way to the skies
I can see in their eyes
They've already died
Inside, but as for the outside
I'll take their fucking heads (x2)
Chorus
I will never be what they
Want me to
I live by my own path in life
There's no turning back
05 Throes of Perdition (05:54)
Blind-folded and gagged, stood waiting
With the whole world: my firing squad
At the edge of the world I'm faced out
Staring the sun right in the eye
Vultures circle above, hyenas mocking the kill
Excrement drooling down their chins
Atop the cliffs I look down, into the starving Hell-mouth
The rabid foam crashes hard on its teeth
Their mouth's salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet
As they're feeding their guns: "ready, aim"
They say I'll live, if I die for their cause
Living under the rule of fellow Cro-Magnon fool
They fear who leads and will kill to stay still
Their mouth's salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet
Without eating from their claws
Life feels like Hell should
But this Hell’s so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with the rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it
Such melancholy, burning the stars from skies
As we melt, drowning inside their bloodied eyes
Hope is ravaged, running from lacerations
Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die
Die!
Die!
Life feels like Hell should
But this Hell’s so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with the rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it
GO!
Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die!
11 Shogun (11:54)
Won't walk the Earth a specter
Won't hold my tongue from lashing out
This is my writ of honor
Drawn by the blood that I have shed
The beasts will soon assemble
Conjoining in their putrid flesh
Their hearts don't beat desire
They pump violence and poison
Flesh opens up, blood's retreating
Flesh opens up, blood's retreating
Death's embracing, all is ending
Death's embracing, all is ending
Time will not heal all of your pain
I cannot wait for it all to come crashing
Down
The monsters walk among us
Leeching the blood out from what's good
Infecting at transmission
Swallowing innocence from life
Our time has come to stand forth
The wretched womb from which they feed
Behold the loathsome demons
Send them into the hell they made
Flesh opens up, blood's retreating
Flesh opens up, blood's retreating
Death's embracing, all is ending
Death's embracing, all is ending
Time will not heal all of your pain
I cannot wait for it all to come crashing
Down on your face, ripping your veins out
Your insides win and kill you from within
And the seas will rise as serpents
Spawned from the mouth of Earth's surface
Soon the skies will fall fast, burning
Open wide and eat the suffering
The pulse is now quickening
Softly, it's painstaking
Look within to calm the storm
Raging inside the form
There's no turning back
For I'm witness to the changing
Take all you have brought to sacrifice
For you will lose much more
If you succeed in this battle
You still will lose so much more
The pulse is now quickening
Softly, it's painstaking
Look within to calm the storm
Raging inside the form
There's no turning back
For I'm witness to the changing
Take all you have brought to sacrifice
For you will lose much more
If you succeed in this battle
You still will lose so much more
4x
Time has come to face all evil
Now the seas rise up as serpents
Spawned from the mouth of Earth's surface
As the skies now fall fast burning
Open wide and face the suffering
The inferno spews out hell's horde
Casting the flames upon our world
As death eclipses all the light
We make our last stand, 'til death: fight
Time will not heal all of your pain
I cannot wait for it all to come crashing
Down!
Time will not heal all of your pain
I cannot wait for it all to come crashing
Down on your face, ripping your veins out
Your insides win and kill you from within
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Altre recensioni
Di Hell
Qualcuno tagli le corde vocali a Heafy.
I ragazzi suonano ma senza criterio e senza rendere una sola canzone veramente memorabile come han fatto, a loro tempo, i Metallica o i Megadeth.
Di tiroHmpare
Tu sei il passeggero. Al volante c'è un giovanotto inesperto. Va a tutta velocità.
Temerarietà: Matt Heafy gioca con il fuoco. Rubacchia riffs al metallo estremo ed elabora melodie cool.
