Review: Nabat – Nati Per Niente

A great release by the legendary band Nabat

Came up in 24 version, “Nati Per Niente” by the Bologna local Nabat, first published in 1996 for Banda Bonnot, it reprinted in 2018 in vinyl 12 plus CD from Hellnation, the same year, by the way, of the following full-length entlited “Banda Randagia” from the historic band oi!

I cannot say if it was a succesful album or not, reading around I found different opinions, but I’ve always appreciate them during live- and I still believe they’re great in this dimension- I must say that I’ve always appreciate this album.

For the first time I have it in person, the way fundamentalists intended, in vinyl format, completely different in respect of the cold youtube’s.

In this album, Nabat play from the oi to the first period easy slogan and try to enrich sounds and riffs with blues influences and sequences, making it original and catchy. In my personal opinion, it isn’t so bad for the kind of music, in fact it make it surely more accessible to other music genre and less obviuous. The songs that got me more are without doubt “Cronaca di un uomo ferito” (than retook it in Banda Randagia) and the last one, a real hymn, “Ti sei fermato ad ascoltare mai”. The rest is without any doubt, as I was saying, of quality, yet these two are fantastic.

The lyrics talk as usual about social complaint, focusing on exploited class, they are immediate as usual but not easy at all. Also the cover is beautiful, it’s different from the original edition in which there is Steno with eyes popped out while he’s singing, rage oi!

Well, an album wich you must have, maybe not one of their best but certainly faisty and of character.

Thanks to Hellnation which brings the attention on an album that deserves to be handled again!
Reviewed by Tom
Translated by Anna Maria De Vincentiis