听Vile《New Age Of Chaos》

Death metal band Vile tackle chaos and warfare head on with their third full length release aptly titled The New Age Of Chaos. While the band has gone through various lineup changes throughout the years, founding member/ producer and guitarist Colin Davis has remained and injected some new blood into the band for this go around. This CD lyrically deals with the scenario of a war between the West and Islamic terrorists, sung in true death metal style growling by vocalist Juan Urteaga. Urteaga's vocals are indiscernible for the most part as is often the case with bands of this genre; however one look at the lyrics printed within the booklet show that the band is capable of writing intelligent lyrics based upon the subject at hand. Davis also recruits some guest guitarists to show up and add solos to many of the tracks and there are enough, good solid riffs and grooves to keep the most die hard death metal fan satisfied. For the most part the riffs avoid being derivative, something a lot of bands fall victim to. I would say that all in all this is a pretty solid release for Vile, however if there is one drawback, it’s the overall length of the CD itself, which clocks in at a mere thirty minutes. Asking the consumer to shell out the price of a full length for what basically amounts to an EP’s worth of material may be a little hard for some fans to swallow.

和上一张专辑相比发生了巨大的变化，首先从歌词的概念有强烈的政治色彩。近些年美国和阿拉伯国家的矛盾越来越深，社会问题成为美国人关注的话题。VILE的成员显然也非常关注这些。不过他们的观点是对于阿拉伯国家的否认，甚至有一些过激。封面就是一把带有浓烈阿拉伯色彩的刀将地球劈开，鲜血淋漓。这影射阿拉伯文明最终将地球毁灭。其次在点题曲“The New Age of Chaos”歌词中他们写到“Erase their ancient scriptures，Rewrite their holy book，The words they preach mean nothing！”（废除他们的古老经书，重写他们的圣书，他们的宣言的那些一点意义也没有...）这些过激的言论不知道是否会带来阿拉伯人的仇杀，但是我已经看到网路上因此引发了一系列的争论。也有歌迷因此表示要抵制VILE的唱片。

从音乐上来看，VILE也和前面的作品有非常大的变化，没有了典型美式残酷死亡的嚣张和疯狂。新唱片的编写显得理智，非常有秩序。多了一些类似DEEDS OF FLESH，MORBID ANGEL 等乐队的 Groove 式段落。甚至有些段落有黑暗金属的感觉。这也是现代美国死亡金属所呈现出来的另外一个特点。音乐整齐而流畅，黑暗而且充满了死亡金属的进攻性。总体来说，The New Age of Chaos是一张非常出色的唱片。