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