Years of
sleeping matter waiting to be found. The time transforms living plants and
animals while creatures are extinguished and others evolve. Humans are born,
intelligence develops and gives us the power to break barriers and conquer our
world. We discover the black liquid, the source of our energy that corrupts our
minds with greed. We can now conquer everything because petroleum gives us
life. We can´t live without it but it also takes our life away, covering our
consumerist personality with its dark viscosity. Death becomes energy and
energy becomes death. Cars filling roads in a mix of engine hoarseness and
veils of smoke, boats covering oceans with a putrid layer of bio matter,
animals suffocating in a gluey black dress and there’s no way out of this
violent addiction.
There´s
a sound filling the contaminated oxygen you breathe. A well oiled mechanical
orchestra liberates chemical pollution through metallic noise that corrodes the
most sensitive ears. The harsh melody calls from the depths of Earth, anxious
to get out in form of death metal expressing itself through brutal music. “Living
Flesh” the first live performance from Nader Sadek´s “In the Flesh” project
will see the light of day on February 27th in a self-release. The
live act demonstrates the huge presence in stage of some death metal and black
metal monsters that together with excellent guest musicians offer an enormous
dose of extremely well played music to haunt a society increasingly attached to
petroleum.
The
November 20, 2011 show featured the original line-up of “In the Flesh” record
as well as two new performers. With Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy), Rune Eriksen (Aura
Noir, Ava Inferi, ex-Mayhem), Novy (ex- Behemoth, ex-Vader), Steve Tucker
(ex-Morbid Angel), Sean Frey (guest live guitarist) and Carmen Simões (back
vocals) the result was an incredible conjuration of heavy symphonies for an
excited crowd.
The
Egyptian creator of ideas, shapes, lyrical concepts… art! Nader Sadek is the
mastermind of this magnificent work and he believes that perfection is born
from passion. It is obvious that he seeks perfection when he focuses with
inspiration and motivation in the concretion of a task and the live performance
of “In the Flesh” wasn´t an exception. Nodding to the petroleum theme he
brought the drums to the front of the stage as a metaphorical engine driving
the music, while the disembodied voices of the singers emerge from the rear of
the satge behind the guitars and bass. Sadek himself takes the stage to baptize
small, gut-like objects in a black tar-like liquid and throw them into the
audience. I can say that perfection is almost there with a combination of
environment and music that creates a solid image of the record concept.
It is
obvious of course that without the hybrid formation that contemplates the huge
machinery sounding vs human fragility soundscape the final result would be
impossible. Not only had the three expert musicians (Steve, Flo and Rune)
exuded in perfect symbiosis an incredible show of raw death metal but also they
managed to contrast with a melodic journey in top of a furious sound being able
to create different layers in the music. The riffing sometimes can be very
melodic but other times it can actually be disharmonic and very black
metal-influenced. Flo is a killer in the drums and he attacks the front of the
stage with full force giving life to the metaphor Sadek wanted to create. He
also has the spotlight in a track that doesn’t appear in the studio album with
a drum solo that changes between mechanical noise and more rhythmic patterns,
paralleling the overlap of man and machine… it is worthy every minute of your
attention. Carmen Simões voice haunts with beauty and horror at the same time
giving the important atmosphere, without her this live art wouldn´t be
complete.
The
songs themselves differ from the original album arrangements. They are played
at a much higher speed and have been extended to allow the crowd to immerse and
capture this dark blend of visceral music. “Living Flesh” is a truly
magnificent live album that should be at least in a metal-head collection. It
is true that there aren´t many live albums worthy of your attention but this
one is a rarity, a super formation in harmony profaning the stage like there´s
no tomorrow.
01.Re:awakening
02.Nigredo in Necromance (live)
03.Sulffer (live)
04.Mechanic Idolatry (live)
05.Soulless (live)
06.Rusted Skin/Drum solo (live)
07.Of this flesh (live)
08.Re:exhaust
09.Petrophilia
This is an exclusive video release of the track "SOULLESS" by "NADER SADEK". The video was authorized only for promotion. Courtesy of Metalranks & Metalpaths and of course Nader Sadek.
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One melee with the words, ideas and its paradoxes... albuns that are news, the reviews at "HeavyHardMetalmania.net", always with its watermark, Pedro Ribeiro, with love for beer... sorry, music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years, then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. "The wisdom is found in the extremes, all extreme Metal here!"
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