Gates Of Metal Fried Chicken Of Death
What does Massacration stand for? Since their accidental beginning (they composed their first songs for a sketch comedy TV show and ended up being a huge national success), they have been delivering some of the funniest lyrics and some of the most old-school riffs possible.
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Their inspirations are mainly Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Manowar (actually they make fun of Manowar's lyrics), but they are able to create a (bizarre) style of their own. The nature of the lyrics is funny by itself: in order to make fun of Brazilian bands that only have lyrics in English, Massacration's lyrics are intentionally written in a very broken version of that language (which may be unintelligible in a native speaker's ears), but ends up being extremely funny and satirical. That works so well that the rhymes become easy to come up with (they use typical English suffixes like -ation) and the more screwed up the lyrics are, the funnier they are. Also, the lyrics are brought to us by the weirdest and highest-pitched male vocals I have seen in years.
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According to the band's fictional biography, the vocalist 'Detonator' sought advice from the God of Metal in order to be the best heavy metal vocalist of all time. That god then told him to chop his own balls off, which he did. Musically speaking, they are extremely traditional.
Actually, they try to make their songs sound as old as possible: By using old-school riffs, Bruce Dickinson-like screams and even the weak distortion often used by Iron Maiden, Massacration delivers something that could be easily be mistaken for a 70's recording. The drums here are not impressive, but the band doesn't have an actual drummer: the one that appears in the videos and is part of the official line-up is just a friend of the other band members, being the drums actually recorded by them (their session drummers wear masks during the concerts). This album has some great songs. Metal Bucetation has a terrific introduction, brought to us by some of the best screams the vocalist is able to deliver and by a very creative riff. Metal is the Law has a very interesting chorus and some of the best riffs of the album, while the vocals sound somehow emotional for a person that doesn't understand the lyrics. Also, Metal is the Law has some of the most screwed up lyrics I have ever seen, which is awesome for this band.
'Evil Papagali's lyrics make no sense at all, being a kit filled with random sentences about an evil bird. Yet, the song is great, having a riff at the introduction that would be difficult for Steve Harris to come up with. The song starts out fast, and simply doesn't slow down (it even lacks a solo), in order to make headbanging as good as possible. The introduction of this full-length is extremely nice: it is basically an evil voice, backgrounded by wind effects that could be easily mistaken for a supernatural being predicting the apocalypse. Yet, it's just a cake recipe. The musicians here are somehow gifted, but the album is far from perfect.
Almost half of it is composed of regular songs, with no memorable parts. Alright, the lyrics are funny as hell, but you can't headbang to lyrics. Sometimes it feels like they have exhausted their creativity, and sometimes them seem to be unable to come up with new stuff.
Anyway, these guys do have potential. Remember, this album is only a debut. The first thing you should know about this band is that it's a joke band built as a parody of bands like Manowar (read the additional notes section for more information on this), and so the album is also a joke. All the songs here were composed by the band members, and some of them really play the instruments (except the drummer, if I'm not mistaken) while the others are substituted by session musicians. As the songs are sung in Portuguese, mixed with a (itentionally) very poor English, you'll probably be able to enjoy this album only if you speak Portuguese. The album brings us some already know songs (thanks to the Herme's & Renato humor show on the Brazillian MTV) like Metal Massacre Attack, Metal Bucetation and Metal Milk Shake.
These are all good and funny songs, which were released much before the album, on the TV show. Metal Bucetation, the song that finishes the album, has a funny and unexpected techno remix version, which starts after a long silence at the end of the album (and might surprise many when they think the album's already finished). Aside these older songs, there are also some highlights on this release. The first one is the first track, it is just hilarious, you'll be surprised by a very gloomy voice with a dark ambient music background describing how to make a cake.
Then comes the album's best track: Metal is the Law. This song is not only funny (especially when you're watching it's videoclip) but it shows also some good music, with a riff based on a song made famous by the Brazillian Volleyball team that won 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, a very nice touch. The other highlight is Metal Glu Glu, which feature's Sergio Malandro, a trash TV artist, another very nice touch. The downside of this album is that many songs sound just like fillers (and it is quite clear they indeed are), like Away Doom, Metal Dental Destruction and others. These tracks are easily overlooked. As you may have already noted, if you're not Brazillian you'll probably not be able to enjoy this release, but the most important thing to keep in mind, being Brazillian or not, is that this is a joke band, which made a joke album with joke music, so do not take them seriously by any means, this is neither the purpose of this album or of the band itself. As long as you remeber this, you may get some enjoyable moments from this release.