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██▌ Artist...: Barbatos ░▐██▌
░▐██ Album....: Let's Fucking Die! ░██▌░
▓▐██ Year.....: 2014 ▓▐██▓
▓▐██ Rel.Date.: 2020-11-22 ░▐██▓
▐██ Genre....: Thrash Metal ██▌░
░ ██▌ Label....: AreaDeath Productions / Xmusick ██▌
▐██ Source...: CD ▐██
░▐██▌ Type.....: Reissue ▐██▌░
▓▄████ Quality..: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo ████▌░
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1. Metal Hangover 2:21
2. Grave Violator 3:07
3. Satanik Butcher! Apocalyptic War! 3:11
4. Baby I'm Your Man 3:05
5. My Girlfriend with Other Guy 2:21
6. Satanik Devastation 1:40
7. Beer is My Leader 1:59
8. Victory! Blazing War 1:53
9. Crazy as Hell 2:24
10. Smash the Fucking Discos 1:28
11. I'm Getting Sick of You 1:45
12. I Hate My Life 3:03
13. Sodomy at the Graves 3:05
14. Exterminations 3:13
15. Raped in Hell 2:50
16. Midway (Instrumental) 3:48
17. Riot Metal Girl (Bonus Track) 2:43
18. Metal Slut Fuck Me (Bonus Track) 2:58
19. Red Leather Bitch (Bonus Track) 2:32
20. Satanik Beer (Bonus Track) 2:24
21. Rocking Metal Motherfucker (Bonus Track) 2:28
22. Blond Hair and Bitch (Bonus Track) 2:32
23. Grave Violator (Bonus Track) 2:52
24. Baby I'm Your Man (Bonus Track) 2:36
25. Dick is Fucking Big (Bonus Track) 2:35
26. Prophecy of the Evening Star (Bonus Track) 2:59
27. Satanik Metal Fucking Hell (Bonus Track) 3:31
28. War 666 (Bonus Track) 2:40
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74:03
Tracks 17-18: recorded in 2010.
Tracks 19-28: rehearsal @ Slaughter House studio in Calgary (Canada) on
18/09/2013.
If Cards Against Humanity, an adult Madd Libb-style card game, were a
band, it'd be Barbatos. Hailing from Japan, Barbatos is your fundamental
bare boned, profane metal outfit. With lyrics preaching crude,
patriarchal notions of sex, acts of deviance and drinking merely to get
fucked up, Barbatos is just as sacrilegious and absurd as you can get;
just as blasphemous as Cards Against Humanity, and just as fun.
From the unfaithful girlfriend (ôMy Girlfriend with Other Guyö) to the
idealized metal slut (ôMetal Slut Fuck Meö), BarbatosÆ mastermind
Yasuyuki Suzuki on their latest Areadeath Productions release, LetÆs
Fucking Die!, bellows the barbaric war cry of all metalÆs
sausage-fest-card-holding, sex obsessed brethrensÆ wet dreams. As a
lyrical subject, women are only presented as means for sexual
gratification or are demoted to the role of the scheming bitch (ôBlonde
Hair and Bitchö; ôMy Girlfriend with Other Guysö). As can be rationally
assumed, womenÆs role with sex in BarbatosÆ lyrics is merely being
fuckable objects, and not an active participant. Sex is also lyrically
expressed as a means of self-inflation and affirmation for ridiculous
patriarchal notions of masculinity (ôMy Dick is Fucking Bigö).
Stigmatized ideas of women and pompous concepts of masculinity are not
the only perverse subjects presented in BarbatosÆ music, the ideology of
being true (with a v?) and drinking yourself into a comatose state are
also wailed about in songs like ôMetal Hangoverö and ôSatanic Beer,ö
where drinking yourself into a black out, acting like an intoxicated
deviant, and being an alcoholic are bluntly articulated and even
encouraged. As such, beer is put on a golden pedestal in the frostiest,
dirtiest pint glass ever. In the words of Yasuyuki Suzuki himself, ô
Beer is so fantastic/ Beer is my medicine/ Metal Beerùthis is what I
like/Metal Beerùit tastes alright/ Beer is my Leader!ö (ôBeer is My
Leaderö). Beer is god.
Instrumentally speaking, Barbatos is a metal-punk hybrid that isnÆt
trying to reestablish anything or even distinguish itself from Yasuyuki
SuzukiÆs other musical projects, such as Abigail. This isnÆt a harsh
criticism of their unremarkable, indistinguishable-ness, itÆs just
merely stating the fact that they are just another one of Yasuyuki
Suzuki awesome projects, and sounds like it too. Moreover, like Yasuyuki
SuzukiÆs other outfits, BarbatosÆ generic raw, rudimentary aural discord
would be a real treat live. However, the raw, rudimentary feel of
BarbatosÆ music doesnÆt always translate well recorded, sometimes even
sounding like an annoying, arrhythmic thudding in the background. As
such, the dirty chaos that is BarbatosÆ material is definitely suited
for the live setting. With such obscene lyrical content and such
primitive metal instrumentals, BarbatosÆ material awakens the
beer-guzzling, fist pumping sicko in all of us. So Drink on!
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The dirty secret of Barbatos- as the band went further along in their
career, they just got punkier, to the point where "Let's Fucking Die!"
is really a lot more punk than metal. Granted, it's metal-influenced
punk- there's a big helping of oldschool speed metal, and the punk/metal
strains of Motorhead are all over this disc- but it's punk nonetheless.
Unsurprisingly, it sounds like the band is a lot more comfortable
playing this than the black/thrash style of previous albums- here, all
the black metal influence has basically been excised in favor of a sound
that takes as much from The Ramones as any metal band. It's a fun and
enthusiastic release, fairly one-dimensional and straightforward, that
shows Barbatos doing what they do best: rocking out with big, stupid
songs that display just how far you can get on attitude alone.
This album works in a couple basic modes: Motorhead-influenced speed
metal, where fast punk-meets-Priest riffs collide with aggressive
drumming and shrieking vocals, and straightforward punk tracks which
take influence from everything from crust to The Ramones without batting
an eye. The two flavors go together remarkably well, bound together by
the core of punk riffing that infuses even the most metal sections, and
while the riffs tend to be simple and traditional, they're always
engaging, intense, and captivating; they're the soul of the music
gliding over a perpetual river of d-beats and shouted Engrish. More
surprising than the more aggressive moments are the tracks that bring to
mind the slower, more emotive tracks The Ramones would do; "Baby I'm
Your Man" quite literally sounds like a mid-era Ramones song, using the
same basic chord structure in the main riff as "Pet Sematary"- minus the
more extreme vocals and it could be from the '70s with no trouble.
Of course, while the band is pretty good at making catchy punk tracks,
this album does suffer from some measure of repetition and ultimately
pointless tracks. Around four tracks could probably be cut from this
album to make a leaner, more immediately gripping release- as it is, my
attention tends to wander around and only come back for my favorite
songs. Though none of the tracks are obviously weaker than the others,
the sheer similarity of most of them can turn this album into kind of an
ordeal to listen to, even if the music is solid at its core. It all
depends on how much you enjoy the style- for me, this is good, but an
occasional listen. Barbatos are hardly reinventing the wheel on this
one, but it's entertaining and even surprisingly nuanced music at times,
and I think that's good enough for music like this.
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