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I'm Scared
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Last Login: 11/16/2005 3:30:53 PM
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when i think of brazil, i think of several things.
first, i think of the group of brazilian script kiddies who defaced a web site which i'd had the poor judgement to use php-nuke as a cms for. they'd used an old news module hack to perform a cookie-cutter attack on mine and 18 other similar sites that morning.
secondly, i think of some of the great metal which has come out of brazil. of course the first brazilian metal band which any serious metalhead would know of is sepultura, who have been quite prolific over the years. 'arise' stands as a classic thrash album. however, when they released 'roots' they had begun delving into a tribal-sounding, 'world music' sound which alienated more than a few fans who appreciated sepultura's thrash sound. also, they ousted their frontman max calvera. max then formed soulfly, which continued this tribal sound.
with soulfly's latest, 'dark ages', soulfly has changed their sound. max has returned to writing some excellent thrash metal. the world music sound is still there, but definitely not in the forefront. this album has caused ppl who have derided soulfly's tribal sound to concede that soulfly is beginning to kick some serious ass. this is their strongest album by far.
* the dark ages: ambient noise, really just an intro to:
* babylon: tribal drums and a chugging riff leads into a foot-tapping, mid-tempo tune. a second guitar does a consistent, ambient sort of wailing throughout.
* i and i: this is a decent thrash tune. a very nice speed riff w/ the standard oom-pa oom-pa thrash drum pattern which always amuses me b/c it reminds me of polka music lol. there are some great rhythm changes, and there is quite a 'world music' interlude (it is soulfly, after all).
* carved inside: heavy flanger on the bass at the beginning, sounds very cool. joined by guitars, then going into a driving, dramatic sound.
* arise again: this song has great composition. melodic. dramatic. majestic, even.
* molotov: killer opening w/ the anthemic shouts and wailing guitar. rollicking, groovy sounding solo.
* frontlines: thrash, baby. awesome hammer-on-pull-off riff, and the oom-pa drum pattern is going strong here. great solo. great transition to the ending. awesome tune.
* inner spirit: it gets pretty tribal here, as you can guess from the song title. there is some decent rigging though. the vocals are very clean and soft-sounding in most parts, singing about ancient prophecy and whatever. this is the kind of song where you would picture someone doing some cliché pose w/ their hands stretched upward & some moon-eyed expression on their face.
* corrosion creeps: decent chugging riffs. double-bass. but it feels mid-tempo. it definitely picks up in the middle for a bit, then goes tribal towards the end.
* riotstarter: major tribal sound here. in fact, there's nothing metal-sounding until 1:44, then a droning bass backs up a scintillating, echoey guitar riff and an intermittent siren-type sound. pretty cool sounding, groovy tune.
* bleak: this one's pretty laid back, but still aggressive sounding. a stomping-dinosaur-sounding bridge goes into a few different parts of the song, including a really weird ending.
* (the) march: this brief tune sounds downright industrial/techno.
* fuel the hate: angry-sounding riffs and vocals. politically-charged song about the beginning of the nuclear age. aaargh the annoying bird-chirping tribal interlude makes me want to nuke some freaking jungle.
* staystrong: cool, driving tune. cool title, too. but it's interwoven w/ a really unfortunate tribal-sounding part w/ some truly wretched, affected vocals which sets my teeth on edge.
* soulfly v: the last song is something of a soulfly tradition. every soulfly album has a song titled 'soulfly #' (i.e. soulfy i, soulfly ii, etc.). now all the previous soulfly songs have been these sexayyyy sounding, "c'mere baby" kind of songs which only serve one purpose, and that's to get w/ your woman for some lovin', and w/ the brazilian tribal sound, you could have some kind of tarzan-and-jane-in-the-jungle thing going on w/ your groove. but 'soulfly v' is different, and i'd say much better. it's still great music to boink to, but it sounds like some sweet, mellow jimi hendrix tune, much more guitar-driven.
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