SEPULTURA - Kairos
July 14, 2011, 13 years ago
(Nuclear Blast)
One is tempted to keep this review short and direct: reunite with the Cavaleras already, it'd blatantly (and simply) say. But after hearing Kairos in its entirety (and thinking back to 2008's impressive A-Lex), the line of argumentation that says we might as well have three great metal bands instead of just one starts to resonate, as all of SEPULTURA, SOULFLY and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY are writing albums at the top of their respective games, though we aren't foolish enough to ever classify Kairos in the league with any of Seputlura's pre-Roots hallowed ground. As such, Kairos is another vaguely interesting and eminently solid Derek-era affair, Sepultura clearly trying to write linearly and without the circles of so much of its post-Roots efforts: you really get the feeling that Andreas and Paulo had Beneath The Remains on perpetual repeat while writing Kairos. You can't bottle lightning twice, though: why not just reunite with the Cavaleras?
