The Mediator Between The Head And Hands Must Be Sepultura
Sepultura have announced the title of their new album, and it’s both kinda clunky and not very metal sounding: The Mediator Between The Head And Hands Must Be The Heart. And while you might be thinking, “Sheesh, who do these guys think they are, Fiona Apple or something?”, you should know that the title is actually a quote — or, er, a line written out on an interstitial card — from Fritz Lang’s silent sci-fi classic, Metropolis, and the Thea von Harbou novel upon which it’s based. (The same film, you may recall, which served as the inspiration for the most recent Abysmal Dawn video.) Explains guitarist Andreas Kisser:
“I was inspired by a phrase which is the main message of [Metropolis]: ‘The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart’ to express what we are saying on the lyrics. In the movie, a crazy millionaire wants to transform a robot into a real person. That’s kind of the opposite of what we live today.
“More than ever we are robotized, through the worldwide web, Google glasses, chips under our skins and the globalized slavery our society suffers nowadays. The phrase points to the heart as being the human factor who keeps a man, a man, not a robot. The heart beats with freedom of choice, we have to think by ourselves to create a real world, not a matrix.
“Being a novel written in the early 1920′s, it’s almost prophetical. It helped us to put the ideas together for the lyrics to express what we see today. I live in São Paulo, Brasil, one of the big metropolis in the world with more than 20.000.000 people living and working in it. I know how it is to live in daily chaos, our music reflects a lot of that feeling.”
Metropolis is also highly concerned with class conflict, which seems like it would be an ideal subject for Sep… but based on this quote, it doesn’t sound like they’re concentrating on that aspect of it very much.
The album will be out later this year on Nuclear Blast,and features a guest appearance from Dave Lombardo.
[via The PRP]
