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A-Lex is the eleventh studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura. It was released on 23 January 2009 by independent German record label Steamhammer Records. This is the first album featuring new drummer Jean Dolabella, since the departure of Igor Cavalera in 2006.[1] This is the second concept album released by Sepultura, following 2006's Dante XXI which was based on Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. A-Lex is based on the 1962 book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, which in 1971 was adapted into a film version by Stanley Kubrick.
[edit] Album informationThe album was recorded in São Paulo at Trama Studios and mixed at Mega Studios during 2008, since February through the process of composition [2] until August when the band finished the mixing process and revealed the track listing and album title. Andreas Kisser stated about the influences obtained from Burgess work:
The title is a pun on the main character from the novel, Alex and the Latin for "without law" [4]: al(away from) + lex(law); presumably, this is a reference to how Alex and his companions behaved. A-Lex is available in three versions: a deluxe digipak with an embossed cover, a regular jewel case and on a vinyl gate-fold LP. On January 16, 2009, the album was released in its entirety for exclusive listening on last.fm. [5] A music video for "We've Lost You", was filmed in São Paulo, Brazil. It was released in February 2009. Sepultura started the A-Lex World Tour 2009 in Europe. Later in North America, summer festivals and finally Asia/Oceania. [edit] ReceptionA-Lex sold 5,000 copies in its first week of release in Brazil [6] and 1,600 its first week of release in the United States. [7] A-Lex was well received by critics despite the absence of drummer Igor Cavalera. Alternative Press (p.108) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A-Lex deftly fuses the band's many stylistic phases, from the thrash and death metal that launched their career to later explorations of punk, hardcore, groove metal and even tribal rhythms." [8] Record Collector (p.103) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Much closer to a live, hardcore punk sound than the refined digital crunch of their previous records....As ever with Sepultura, Kisser's slick riffage and the visceral drums are the point." [edit] Track listingAll songs written and composed by Sepultura except "Ludwig Van", based the Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and "Paradox", co-written by Lucas Kater.[citation needed].
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