Savant “ Portrait of reality “ MCD

From the southern hemisphere, more particulary from a country where poverty and corruption stand side by side with the joy for being alive and a rather uncompromised feeling about society, comes Savant, a very young Thrash band that portray on this Mcd a urge to force a more profound message about the chaos they live in! As many Thrash bands have portrayed in numberous releases, Savant give us a very pitch dark image of what surronds them, a real portrait of reality as it really is on their country... never minding how “sweet” their soap operas try to appear to us!
Appearing in November 95 as Oraculo and having as influences Sepultura, Slayer, Pantera, Death, Carcass and some others, they changed their monicker to Savant due to legal problems. On this Cd they show not an original sound yet their fierce eagerness to provide a rather powerful outburst does show that they have quality and confidence on themselves, it’s experience they’re lacking... Nevertheless, don’t let this turn you off because I’ve heard some new tracks, gently provided by the guitarrist Monika Reeves ( yep, guys, eat your heart out for this girl really knows what she’s doing on her instrument ), which sees them becoming stronger and more aggressive after the departure of three members right after the recording of the Mcd and the entrance of Joe Thunder ( bass ), Leo D’Costa ( vocals ) and Rogério Abittan ( drums ) that continues the band’s proposal with Monika and António Vargas ( guitars ).
On this Mcd one can find 5 songs that wander through shattered tormenting rhythms filling us with a blood seeking rage at one moment and a cold melancholy in another, much due to the fact of the band trying to give a pause to our neck and prevent it from being sore due to much headbanging. hehe The production isn’t that enjoyable to notice as it really seems to take a bit of the power that they wish to portray ( it makes me think that they would do more damage playing these songs live ) and I really wish that on their next cd they give us a much more furious sound that could twist necks and pierce ears... Somehow, after hearing their new songs, I think that it’s just that that they will do!!! hehe
A surprise comes when one notices that two of the songs are sung in portuguese ( a pity for all you foreigners hehe ) yet the message is still the same, the anger is still burning, these fearless thrashers are still welcoming reality with fists and stones... One thing that could be improved on their lyrics is the grammar and the extent of their message because then it would provide the underground with a more thicker expression of what’s really happening on Brazil and one doesn’t know, except on some few documentaries... Afterall, the more solid and coherent a message is, the more it makes others think!
The cover layout is a fearly decent one and it made me imagine that one always wanders senseless throughout this dominion one calls Life wishing to find a better place, seeing that same old light at the end and believing that there is really something great out there, something that is always wandering far from our grasp. Couldn’t the unknown be really a better place for us?
If you aren’t confortable with Thrash and face it as a part of Metal that is too much dead to really give something more to the underground, what can I say except... thank Devil that there are bands like Savant to proove you wrong! hehe Maybe it’s Death/Black/Doom/Goth that you apreciate the most, yet one must face the world as cruel as it is and which other metal style could be better than Thrash to give it plain and simple to all those corruptive motherfuckers around???