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Sepultura
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Dante XXI
SPV USA
Release: 3/14/2006
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Rated:
Review by:
Zeanix
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Dante XXI, the newest album Sepultura has bestowed upon their listeners, is a musically translated derivative of a book entitled "Divina Comedia" (The Divine Comedy) by author Dante Alighieri. The content of this book describes a journey between hell, purgatory and paradise (through the mind of Dante). The mutation of this book into Sepultura's music is teeming with more hellish atmosphere in comparison to the other two notable planes of deathly existence. Sepultura veers away from its "roots" by presenting a more thrash metal aspect to their music over the blossomed wonder of their 1996 release Roots, which had a higher content of home induced, South American trash metal (much like say, Soulfly, but that will be the only comparison between the two).
The album spans nearly 40 minutes with the only ear catching song being the finishing touch "Still Flame," a seemingly instrumental track with chanting monk-like vocals kicking it off and eventually transforming into a mellow, melancholy, taste of that South American metal they could be defining as the paradise of the album. Preceding further into the disc, "Ostia" brings about a bipolar aura as it constantly transitions between vocalist Derrick Green's angered lyrics, a violin oriented cream filling, and back (I brought up the point because the violin part adds a distinctiveness from the other songs).
All in all, the album isn't too shabby. I'd prefer it to other thrash metal records that have come out recently. It seems to whip through rather quickly with acceptable transition tracks being the intro to track four, two, one and three (yes… in that order). Despite the two noted songs, the rest breezed by as if it were one long ass track with pauses between tracks. Keep in mind, I'm not shooting them down, just giving you a feel for what's in store. |
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