Review of Into the Future

The disc starts to spin. There is the customary silence that precedes all'incipit the first track. Then a figure with four drumsticks and - as in an episode of Doctor Who - you find yourself (despite the title that shines the future) in 1986. Damage to the film "Blue Velvet" and "Shanghai surprise" on TV's "The Boys III C" and the department punk / hardcore and more specialized shops was the terminus of a disc titled Bad Brains "I against I", that fans simply can not digest at 100%, but - as often happens - is destined to be regarded as a milestone for the growing crossover between metal, punk and genres "aliens".
This is the effect that makes "Into the Future" time machine and amarcord, certainly, but with elements of a strong and conscious evolution. In a nutshell, this ninth album Rastafarians of Washington is the third element of a hypothetical trilogy / manifesto with the devastating self-titled debut and "I against I" an arc where the angry hardcore punk with reggae of the early blunders you go to metal / punk / reggae / dub deconstructed in order to achieve a finished form in which the four genres blend and harmonize, rather than staying stuck or combined as in the previous work.
The atmosphere is very tense: the riffs as hard as stone, the voice of HR somewhere between madness swollen veins in the neck and the lullaby from holy ganja and rasta impregnated with the spirit of Jah, the pieces articulate and full of stop & go ... it is clear that "Into the future" is a great record, in spite of reputation as a band in the decaying Bad Brains have earned a long time. Well if that decay was an opportunity to touch the bottom and stand up well, so be it.
The four punk / metal / rasta "all black" - for the record, classically trained: HR on vocals, Dr. Know to six strings, Darryl Jenifer on bass and Earl Hudson to the skins - they shot for sale and overwhelm us with 13 pieces brutal, but not obvious, that unfold along lines bizarre and amazing. There are real gems as "Youth of Today", which begins with punk momentum and turns into a piece of strong colors dub, shards of hardcore violence as "Come down," which borrows heavily from the glorious first period of the band; pieces dub strange and alienating as "rubadub love", and finally compositions like "Popcorn" pure metal severely contaminated by which we understand as the Bad Brains influenced illustrious colleagues such as Faith No More, Beastie Boys, Living Colour, TV on the Radio and Mars Volta.
H.R. they found the fire and its visionary golden age. And we are ready to welcome their sonic sermon.

TRACKLIST
"Into the future"
"Popcorn"
"We belong together"
"Youth of Today"
"Rubadub love"
"Yes I"
"Suck sess"
"Jah Love"
"Earnest love"
"Come down"
"Fun"
"Maybe a joyful noise"
"MCA dub"