Episode 257: Testament Native Blood year 2012. English Version

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00:00:23 - Welcome to this podcast.

00:00:25 - Today the group of Chuck Billy Testament, a member of what was called the trash metal movement of the 80s, is present.

00:00:38 - The song Native Blood, without being a classic of the group, I chose it for the energetic message to defend ethnic minorities, of which Chuck is a direct descendant.

record it in 2012, for their album The Dark Roots of Earth. The song is musically great work by the band, specifically by guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnik.

00:01:07 - Musically, this album is wonderful. Dark Roots of Earth really nails into the cough

00:01:12 - Often the typical components that make a thrash metal band successful, not that Testament needs it.

00:01:18 - They have established the sound throughout their 29-year career.

00:01:26 - Greg Christians basses solid broad the album, while maintaining the immersion, and Gene

00:01:31 - Hugglin's drums are fantastic.

00:01:35 - However, the real star of the show here is frontman Shark Billy, and the vocal work that he contributed to this album.

00:01:44 - The Native Blood video is about the growth of young Native Americans over the years.

00:01:49 - When faced with hatred, racism, bullying and harassment, use the nature sanctuary to recharge and ponder the lessons you learned from your grandfather to handle these very difficult situations in a way that honors and dignifies yourself himself and his people.

00:02:10 - Really previously said about native blood, it's almost like a protest sign, that Native

00:02:15 - Americans have a voice, that needs to be heard, that's the chorus of the sighing.

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00:02:58 - She did it on our reservation, on our property and I invited the whole community.

00:03:02 - It's Northern California Tribe, the POMO, it's where the tribal elders are in it and tribal police and everybody really pitched in and it was and it's funny it really brought the community closer together because we've all known each other families on the reservation but nobody really was together and it was funny once we shot that everybody came and supported us everybody came down and we had the dancers there and it was almost like a pow wow it was really spiritual it was more than shooting a video and then the video won the

00:03:31 - Native American Music Awards you know again it was like wow you know

00:03:35 - You know, just heavy metal, look what I did in our native culture, you know, it's like, wow.

00:03:43 - It was a display called Up Where We Belong, and it was Native Americans in pop culture.

00:03:48 - But it was just kind of something they just contact and reach down and said, if I want to be a part of it, of course, you know, turn that down.

00:03:55 - To be recognized in pop culture, you know, for heavy metal, you know, this type of music because it wasn't just, we represented our style of music,

00:04:03 - It was just natives in pop culture.

00:04:05 - But I was really honored because if you're thinking, okay, heavy metal, the Native American, who's the first one to pop the mine?

00:04:11 - Okay, me maybe.

00:04:11 - So I was like, okay, I'll carry the flag and represent.

00:04:16 - You know?

00:04:20 - It's the enjoyment that I had when I started it.

00:04:22 - You know, I still hear my mom say, don't be a singer, don't be a musician, go to school.

00:04:27 - But that's what I love, you know?

00:04:28 - And she was proud of what I've done and accomplished, sticking with what I do.

because I put all my all into it.

00:04:34 - Anything you do in life, the more you do it, you get better at it.

00:04:37 - Especially like band like us, we started and went this whole scene and back to where we are today from like the early 80s through the 90s where the metal kind of wasn't happening.

00:04:46 - Reviving back to 2000 and coming back strong again.

00:04:49 - I think we're kind of at our peak right now.

00:04:52 - For me, you speak for myself singing.

00:04:53 - I feel, you know, I'm singing better, you know.

00:05:02 - We're never asked of all, we're never asked of all

00:05:12 - We're never asked of all, we're never asked of all

00:05:22 - I want to reach and touch the sun Blister in my soul, but I can't feel

00:05:51 - You can be safe and out of my way

00:05:55 - I'm doing my own way

00:05:58 - Cross my path and give what you deserve

00:06:03 - I wanted this world to stay out of my way

00:06:08 - My voice will be heard

00:06:11 - I'm alone

00:06:14 - I won't be afraid

00:06:16 - I got something to say

00:06:19 - My voice will be heard

00:06:21 - So low, native blood

00:06:34 - Forever proud, so goddamn loud

00:06:38 - It's me alone, against the crowd

00:06:41 - Right or wrong, it's wrong and I'm a chose

00:06:45 - There's no excuse, attitude

00:06:48 - Got something here that I must prove

00:06:51 - Lift you in instead of fun to lose

00:06:56 - I want in this world to stay out of my way

00:07:01 - My voice will be heard so strong

00:07:07 - I won't be afraid

00:07:09 - I got something to say

00:07:12 - My voice will be heard so loud

00:07:17 - Blade of blood

00:07:47 - I need to walk before I could run

00:07:53 - We'll never push the clock, push back

00:07:59 - I need to walk before I could run

00:08:04 - We'll never push the clock, push back

00:08:09 - I need to walk before I could run

00:08:14 - We're never pushed, I push back

00:08:17 - And now I'm free to throw the first pledge

00:08:20 - I've been warned, cause I'm always right

00:08:22 - And when I'm long, I won't admit it

00:08:25 - I'm the pressure, but I want you about

00:08:28 - They broke the wall after I came out

00:08:30 - But this is straight, this is my beliefs

00:08:33 - Sleek

00:08:43 - Whenever I stumble, whenever I fall

00:08:46 - I won't be pushed on against the wall

00:08:49 - This wildness world will tell me what to do

00:08:53 - Nowhere to run, native blood

00:08:57 - I wanna reach and touch the sun

00:09:00 - Listen in my soul

00:09:01 - But I can't feel

00:09:05 - I'm warning this world

00:09:07 - To stay out of my way

00:09:10 - My voice will be heard

00:09:13 - I'm alone

00:09:15 - I will be afraid

00:09:18 - I got something to say

00:09:21 - My voice will be heard

00:09:23 - So loud

00:09:25 - Native

00:09:26 - I'm warning this world

00:09:29 - To stay out of my way

00:09:31 - My voice will be heard so strong

00:09:36 - I won't be afraid

00:09:39 - I got something to say

00:09:42 - My voice will be heard so low

00:09:46 - Name to blood

00:09:51 - My name to blood

00:09:56 - My name to blood

00:10:01 - Monday to blood