SEPULTURA — Kairos (review)

SEPULTURA — Kairos album cover Album · 2011 · Groove Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Kairos" is the 12th full-length studio album by Brazilian thrash/groove metal act Sepultura. The album was released through Nuclear Blast Records in June 2011. It´s Sepultura first release on the label after their long business relationship with SPV/Steamhammer ended.

...the album is divided into four parts, each ending with a short interlude (except the outro "4648" which is a great deal longer). All tracks on the album are thematically based on the ancient Greek word "Kairos", which means something like "The right or opportune moment (the supreme moment)".

The music on the album is thrash/groove metal. It´s actually nice to hear how many thrashy riffs the band have chosen to include this time around, because IMO that´s when they are strongest. There´s good variation on the album, which in part is due to the two faster paced thrashers "Mask" and "No One Will stand", the Ministry cover "Just One Fix" and the industral metal track "Structure Violence (Azzes)". The two latter I could have done without though. They might bring variation to the album, but why on earth include a cover track that is vastly inferior to the original and a rather soulless industrial metal track? The rest of the tracks are good but seldom reaches higher than standard quality level for the band. One of the highlights is "Relentless" which features a pretty badass riff.

To be honest I expected much more from "Kairos" than what I got. There´s simply little here that makes my blood boil. I don´t know if it´s the quality of the songwriting, the flat Roy Z sound production or something else, but to me "Kairos" is just another album in now a long line of albums by the band that has left me unimpressed. Of course the level of musicianship is high as ever, the sound production is professional (if you enjoy Roy Z´s productions) and as such the songwriting is professional too, but I´m still left with a feeling that they could do so much better, and that feeling warrants that "Kairos" gets a 3 star (60%) rating from me.
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