PURE BRUTALITY! PANTERA가 남긴 전설의 명맥을 이어갈 유일한 밴드 램 오브 갓의 데뷰작 리마스터 + 보너스트랙 재발매 2000년 미국의 유력한 헤비뮤직 전문음악지 리볼버 매거진이 선정한 ‘69개의 가장 위대한 헤비메틀 앨범들’에 포함된 램 오브 갓의 데뷔작 [NEW AMERICAN GOSPEL]이 리마스터와 함께 보너스트랙들을 추가해 재발매되었다. 크리스 애들러 CHRIS ADLER의 동생, 기타리스트 윌 애들러WILL ADLER가 가입하고 처음으로 녹음하면서 밴드명을 번 더 프리스트BURN THE PRIEST에서 램 오브 갓으로 변경 하고 발표한 작품이다. 정확히 번 더 프리스트 시절에 두장의 앨범을 발매했기 때문에 음악적으로 램 오브 갓의 세 번째 앨범인 셈이다. 다이내믹한 살인적인 스래쉬리프들과 헤비베이스, 데쓰메틀의 그로울링 보컬, 그루브의 폭력성향은 누구도 램 오브 갓을 진부하다고 말할 수 없게끔 만들었고 그러한 모든 역량이 이 데뷔작에 담겨있다. 그리고 리마스터를 거친 레코딩은 그들의 팬들이 전정 만족 스러워할 수준으로 두 번째 앨범에 비해 다소 아쉬웠던 부분들을 잘 살려주고 있다. .... ....
The human condition is inherit claustrophobia. Compression of my space made complete. I would rip out my own entrails by hand just to be alone. Inanity rolls total through this sphere. Ostracized for clarity of vision. A dream unrealized of solitude that I should descend into autonomy & know the pain of fellowship no more. I feel nothing but a lack of space. Paradox of socialization results in duress. Rife with hostility, what has caused me so much hate? Humanity. Exterminate with extreme prejudice.
I'm a monster so don't walk my way. Don't trust my smile my teeth are like knives. I'll drag you down & suck you dry. Don't laugh at my jokes the punchline is murder. Don't enjoy my touch, every caress hides a chokehold. I'm only happy when I've ruined everything I see. Believe everything you've ever heard about me- suck it up. If you see me coming don't stop, just turn & walk the other way. I will not lie about what I have done, I will not lie about what I will do to you, the sweat of my exertion is pure poison, I'm hell...
Violence a natural reaction in a society whose advances are limited to its new technology; different only in the current mode of destructive intent. Date has replaced real life in this world, no hope for the stop of "progress." Inevitable bio-link implant will replace the feel of human touch. All memory surrogates downloaded bought & sold, no true sense of self. Impending sensory death looming near. A number, this is what you've become. Life digitized itemized commodified. Ha, ha, ha, this is what you work for...
All the fucked up things trap & punish me I cannot explain my problem. Kill my hopeless life I cannot be hypnotized. You owe me. Testi Canzoni Push aside the veil to welcome in the visitors. Eyes like halogen illuminate the soma peering out of spherical night mask. Paleolithic subconscious icons lumber through dreamscape archetype of archangel. Topside its far worse infants painted gauze peer through murky jars soon I'm wearing the skin of the morning star. Green locks my name fills an empty banner. Frank, what have you gotten me into now? I am not afraid to speak my heart & mind it cannot be saved sell me over. Fuck your hopeless world, I am blacker than the sun. Tragedy. Have you seen the speedy, yes? Bleeds through the sleep onto the page. I'm sailin'...
The dark crow man sits and stares into the oblivion into cold into nothingness it's snowing in his mind. He's created himself in his own image. Lust held for him means naught, a knock on the door brings no smile to his cruel lips the welcome in a woman's eyes holds nothing for him. Alone on his haunches the hair raises on the back of his neck. His dead eyes pierce the night. As his gaze falls down on the city it fills him the method ascertained, conviction. He knows what to do and moves to commit the deed.
The sore on the edge of your mouth it mirror the ones on your arm of black tar you've known the ripping. And I've seen you pissing your condition into the dirt. I know you don't want to live in the dirt you want to know nothing but dirt you know you can't beat weakness. Kill the flux. Stretched to breaking an obscene canvas on a stretcher of parasitism. You piece of shit I won't say your name but I will say this- FUCK OFF AND DIE (sooner the better). You've shot out your eyes but I'm seeing that you cannot feel anything of worth. Know that you've pissed life away, lost in your narcotic dreams. Heart pumping futile shit through your veins. Why does it bother? I want to punch in your sunken face and see your dusty blood smear through the air in a polluted crimson arc, splattering in a useless pattern on the concrete. Moribund.
Intrinsic rot. Traces of future. Your past will rise haunting you again. Tounging the glue stamp seal of your fold. Cased in forests of black steel rod. Vines of nerve float downstream. Sections of horror. This is something you must never do again. Falling spiral down. You know not what you are looking for but it will find you anyway. I've confessed this disease to you. Handed you a key to control. Fuel for your malicious intent. Punish me for my failure. Dissect my faith. Twisting my trust. Never, no more, I'm alone
Hate. Falling three feet to the ground. Face down on the cold floor of a well-oiled SF pigsty I met my one true love. Testi Canzoni Feel youth crushed somewhere between concrete & boot, another victim of the lower hate. You are not my god. You think this is funny don't you pig? How the helpless freak squirms beneath our state sanctioned soles, but what is he laughing at? There was nothing padded about a wagon full of mace. Rotator cuff hyper extends behind my back ribs cracking beneath a rain of sticks & heels falling down like the rain outside. Oh yeah bitch, I'm gonna remember your face your name your number and when I crawl out of this hole I'm going to make you all mine. Auschwitz Kent State Chi-Town 68 Tianamen Waco.
The human condition is inherit claustrophobia. Compression of my space made complete. I would rip out my own entrails by hand just to be alone. Inanity rolls total through this sphere. Ostracized for clarity of vision. A dream unrealized of solitude that I should descend into autonomy & know the pain of fellowship no more. I feel nothing but a lack of space. Paradox of socialization results in duress. Rife with hostility, what has caused me so much hate? Humanity. Exterminate with extreme prejudice.