Liste der Bands Thrash Death Subhuman Profondo Rozzo

After a very successful demo Delirio n° 1 that shot them from the underground Italian scene to an awareness of wider public, the Italian thrash metal killers finally released their first full-length album under Canadian label Maple Metal Records. Continuing in what brought them  to the spotlight – Italian lyrics, fusion of classic thrash and death metal influences grasped in the band’s cover era and of modern, technical bands, raw sound and guitar solos – the album with name inspired by a classic horror film Profondo Rozzo came into the world and brought some more gore, violence and rage into it.


Unlike most of today’s bands, Subhuman jump from one theme to another, from porn stars to Vatican, dogfights to Jesus, Heaven and Hell to infamous Italian mafia. Unfortunately, all I can tell about the lyrics are themes, since Italian is for me a “little” inapprehensible, especially in this metal genre. On the other hand, there’s no doubt that the language gives the music completely different charge. And that’s probably another clue to success – not many listeners can blame the band for poor lyrics as long as not everyone understands them. Very witty!


What else makes this album so kick ass are time proved, by many bands used but still not kitschy hypes like a few seconds of spoken words or sound of marching as an introduction to the band’s version of an old folksong sung by partisans in WWII. Except of these, you can also hear a few pretty hearable rock’n’roll riffs and as well as on their first demo a few tones of an acoustic guitar and well timed solos.


As I said, the only thing that the themes of songs have in common is hate, whether it is a furious killer who came to heaven from a title song Profondo Rozzo (Deeply rude) or Nata Troia (Natural born whore) as well. “Deeply rude” is a very fitting name to express the whole atmosphere of the album. How else would you like to sing about porn and butchery? And is there any metal band that at least once doesn’t come across the theme of God, faith or Bible? I guess not, and Subhuman isn’t any exception, with Trenta Denari (Thirty silver pieces) or Infamia e Potere (Infamy and Power). Mafia have always been a fertile soil for filmmakers and musicians as well so it’s no surprise you can find a song titled Mafia on the album too. Continuing in purely Italian themes, there is an aforesaid partisan song Il Bersagliere ha 100 Penne, Odio Chiama Odio about dogfights and Babbo Fatale, about an evil Italian “Santa” (made from Babbo Natale). Songs as a critique of the church are a little back-numbered but in Italian they pretty sound like a provocation and mockery. As the album started off with a killer, one killer encloses it. 1110 Giorni (1110 Days) are a perfect finale, particularly with a sound of a broken radio in the last minute.


If there are any bands that could reverse prejudices about their country and traditions into their own benefit, Subhuman is definitely one of them. The album is catchy, lyric themes interesting and the sound is heavy and even though their demo sounds slightly more interesting to me, Profindo Rozzo is still worth listening and Subhuman worth watching and waiting for the next album.