Sepultura - Kairos
Since the 90′s I’ve been an ardent supporter of Sepultura. I’m engrossed in they’re history, members leaving, and their constantly evolving musical changes. Each preceding record has had a variation/theme that separates prior releases, while still retaining a sound still uniquely Sepultura. I think and believe they’re as relevant now as they’ve always been, but have received ample amounts of cynical attitude from one legion/era of fans.
The last two records Dante XI, and A-Lex wove a greek narrative/mythos centered around the human condition. Here we are in 2011, Kairos returns them to a period of familiarity, while eschewing upon modern circumstances. Kairos is literally about life’s moments, each track looks at this idiom, and expounds upon this succinctly.
Roy Z produced Kairos, his touch pushes the continued variation with the signature guitar tone, while balancing out the bass and drum work. The vocals remain powerful, gruff, while evoking a warm distinction. Overall feel to Kairos is its organically raw, and methodically rhythmic prose. There is no other band that sounds like Sepultura, and this is why I love them.
The two covers Ministry’s Just One Fix, and The Prodigy Firestarter are interesting, whereas breaking tracks up with filler is annoying. It breaks up the albums flow, and frankly I wished they’d stop doing this. Otherwise the material on this record really is their finest, and I would like people to at least give this a spin. Thanks for reading.
****/*****
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