Nation - Sepultura
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  • Summary: The first release in three years from the Brazilian heavy metal band, which is fronted for the second time out by new vocalist Derrick Green.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Green's heightened tunefulness along with the broadened emotional resonance that results should enable this band to relate more to an enlarged fanbase... [#154, p.63]
  2. A magnificent return to the band's brutal, almost hardcore punkish, roots.
  3. 'Nation' is not bad - it's taut and tense and if you buy it quick you'll get to hear their logic-defying cover of Bauhaus' 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'. But it's hard to reconcile 'Nation''s obsession with the scourge of globalisation with Sepultura's conversion from third world pioneers to just another angry hardcore band.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. erikah
    10
    it is great album,but max is a legend,derrick is just a good singer
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  2. MarcD.
    5
    It's difficult for me to put down a hard working metal band, but "Nation" simply does not bring the visceral strength of "Beneath the Remains" or "Schizophrenia," and it doesn't come anywhere near the power Sepulura's monster twin peaks of "Arise" and "Chaos A.D." Max is certainly not irreplaceable, but the new dude doesn't do much to compete with the mad Brazilian on the drum kit. And doesn't Derrick Green sound a little Jello Biafra-like on the song "Politricks"? Expand
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  3. derrickgreeenhaterwhat
    0
    Sepultura were amazing with max....with the likes of well Everything. thankfully his new band soulfly are amazing....every album classic...as far as im concerned the next album after "roots" is not "nation" it is "soulfly" ....too round off this album is absolute rubbish with recycled ideas taken from max and robbed everything max believes in Expand
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