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Agresión | Cultura 3

Nice mix of Deftones/Sepultura. But were those raps really necessary?
CD, 4Tune/Suburban

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 01 augustus 2002

This Amsterdam-based Agresión consists of the Venezuelans Alejandro Londoño and Juan Manuel De Ferrari on guitar and vocals, backed by the Dutch rhythm section of Jasper Dankaart (drums) and Marcel Capell (bass). Their second album Cultura 3 lies musically somewhere between Deftones and Soulfly. Sometimes it sounds a bit too much like either of the two, but there are far worse sources of inspiration for nu-metal bands. One of them is Limp Bizkit, and, unfortunately, Londoño and De Ferrari rap with a Fred Durst-like flow on a few occasions. And although those incidents are kept within acceptable limits, it is a completely unnecessary way to bring down the quality of the album, as their singing and grunting are fine. Then there is a little too much uniformity to the album — a typical genre problem — and some of the political lyrics are a bit simplistic (The album's title track, e.g., contains this line: "We never needed clothes in the goodness of nature / Now we've become the poors of your decaying world." That whole noble savage idea might have been The Now Thing in 1850, but in 2002 we know better. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not something that is highly regarded in the so-called goodness of nature.).

Still, Cultura 3 is far from a bad album. It has a nice fat sound, and as long as there is no rapping involved, the Deftones-style melodic touch lifts the material above the average. Remi Tjong Ajong of Green Lizard does guest vocals on My Sin. With Cultura 3, Agresión claim a position in the Dutch scene similar to that of Green Lizard in the Netherlands (and maybe even in the subtop of Europe) and second homebase South-America, where they've already played at the second largest rock festival of the continent.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/agresi-n/cultura-3/1744/
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