After the release of their previous album “Dante XXI” our old pals from Brasil gained back a large number of the fans they lost after the “Roots” era. Well, when “A-Lex” hits the stores you’ll hope that the Cavalera bros never return to the band! That means that you’d wish for no goddamn reunion! If I sound quite excited is because I begin to realize what it means to progress and evolve as a band without losing your identiy. And you know something? Sepultura worked hard for this. They roamed around people and unpleasant situations for a long time. They experimented, tried and finally achieved to develop what they first started to explore back in 1993 with “Chaos A.D.”.

What would a fan expect from a new Sepultura album? Shouting vocals about the worldwide injustices, groovy guitar riffs combined with stable or fast rhythm section and weird paranoid solos! You’ve got the whole package plus a somewhat concept idea on “A Clockwork Orange” and some symphonic, orchestral parts on the track “Ludwig Van” and not just that! The band unleashes a fury of 18 songs that are mostly characterized by aggression, maturity and love for the extreme metal. And don’t mistake maturity for turn to the mainstream. Here you’ll get some of the best tracks the band has ever done, the best album Derrick Green has done with the band (since he joined 11 years ago) and definitely the best album Seps have created after “Chaos A.D.”! Jean Dolabella behind the drum kit is doing what everybody wished for all these year: beating the shit out of it! Yes, my friends! This album, in total, is the fastest since “Arise”! But don’t also mistake this as a back to the roots album! This is the brand new Sepultura album! It has nothing to do with what they did until 1991 and don’t forget we’re talking about almost 2 decades ago!

“A-Lex” (the name of the hero in “A Clockwork Orange”) also stands for ‘no law’; something the band has realized is missing from today’s world. If you feel that the riots that happened recently in Athens were somewhat an expression against the inequity of the system then you found your soundtrack for the first months of 2009!