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LET’S DEBATE ABOUT NEW SEPULTURA SONGS!

 Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 12:47pm by

Two new Sepultura songs, “The Treatment” and “We’ve Lost You,” are now avail on the band’s MySpace page. The tracks come off of A-Lex, Sep’s forthcoming, Cavalera-less, A Clockwork Orange-themed album. Since we’re nothing if not dorks here at MetalSucks, I thought it would be fun to needlessly dissect, judge, and argue about the two tracks. After the jump, read my thoughts, and then tell me why I’m a genius/asshole in our comments sections.

  • “The Treatment.” I neither love nor loathe this song. It sounds enough like Chaos A.D.-era Sep not to offend me, but I also don’t see it taking “Refuse/Resist”‘s place in the Metal Anthem Hall of Fame anytime soon. New drummer Jean Dolabella seems to come from the Lars Ulrich “Play the Least Interesting Thing at Any Given Moment” School of Percussion, and if the lyrics are any indication, this is going to be the most heavy-handed interpretation of A Clockwork Orange ever – which is saying something. But Andreas Kisser’s guitar solo is pretty cool.
  • “We’ve Lost You.” Wow. I actually really dig this song. The opening acoustic guitars keep up the band’s tradition of incorporating world music into their metal without sounding like the group is just repeating themselves. The riff is pure elephants marching shit, which, y’know, I love, and the trippy midsection is awesome (Why do I always forget how bad-ass Andreas Kisser is?). Dolabella’s drumming is still not super-creative, but I don’t know if there’s room for super-creative drumming in this tune anyway. And I really, really want to scream along with the chorus, which I mean as high praise.

So, there you have it. These two songs tell me almost nothing about whether or not I’m going to enjoy this record. It could be really “blah” or Sepultura could surprise me for the second time in a row.

A-Lex comes out on SPV on January 27 here in the U.S. and slightly earlier everywhere else in the world.
Okay, cats and kittens. Time for you to weigh in…

-AR

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  • Mike

    These tracks, like most of Sepultura’s latter day material, gets a big “meh” from me. I want them to at least try to incorporate a few thrash songs. The solos are ok, but I even think they could be better. Not bad though.

  • dthrasher

    I could give a shit about sepultura, never really done anything for me, but I do have to say that I think the album art is pretty damn cool. Don’t see the clockwork orange correlation, but neat nonetheless.

  • Johnny Death

    I think these two new songs show how much of the spirit of Sepultura involved having a Cavalera in the group.

  • Dr J

    We’ve Lost you has a nice groove to it, but I wouldn’t pick it up anytime soon. I wouldn’t say it necessarily’meh’, because if I heard it over a friends house it would probably turn my head, but It’s been done before. When you write an album as good as Chaos A.D, Arise or Beneath the Remains you need to make some innovative changes to your music to keep attention, otherwise you just turn into a band that sounds like it’s copying itself, especially considering they only have half the members now.

  • http://www.thrashhits.com HughDoVoodoo

    Whenever I hear the Seps these days, it always seems a bit like being stuck in the company of a hyper-active 8 year old, running about doing lots of dumbass tricks before turning and looking at you and bleating “di you see? did you see that, mister? huh? huh?”. So eager to please, but not anything impressive.

  • ryan

    the only thing i’ll say is that they’re better than the song in that volkswagen commercial :D

  • joethecabdriver

    meh

  • Anxiety Hangover

    I guess my only question is “Why?” What the hell happened to the dudes that released such awesome albums twenty years ago? I know people get older and their tastes change, but there’s no excuse for this late-90′s-sounding, one-step-above-nu-metal shit.

  • http://cultclassicmoviereview.blogspot.com You Don’t Know Me

    It’s good. Not great, but it’s good, solid Sepultura. I liked Dante XXI. I think this will be just as good. I’ll pick it up, definitely.

  • http://www.myspace.com/robbiedrechsel Robbie

    This cover artwork by the same guy that did Death Angel’s newest one? Got a bunch of his stuff saved but can’t remember his name. Made some “tank churches” too!

    - Robbie

  • http://www.myspace.com/bminekime enemyofgod72

    @Robbie — I was thinking the same thing

    I thought both of these songs were interesting. I haven’t listened to much Sepultura since Max left and I forgot how good Andreas can be too. That said it sounds to me like Andreas definitely listened to what his ex-bandmates were doing. Both of these songs are in the same fast punk-like style as Cavalera Conspiracy which CC did much better. I’d say the new drummer sucks but that would give him credit for having any talent at all.

  • Twinkle Tits

    I never liked their new signer !

  • http://www.yourmomsahotmilk.com MarrowMan

    I’ve listened to the whole album several times, and have to say there are better songs coming. It’s a pretty decent album, but I still like Dante XXI more.