RATOS DE PORAO – Onisciente Coletivo CD

65,00 zł

This speedcore band, Ratos de Porao, from Sao Paulo, Brazil plays blazing, fast music with death metal-type vocals and leftist, apocalyptic lyrics. On some past releases, they've done a good job at switching up this formula and coming up with some songs that don't fit that mold. But on Onisciente Coletivo they rarely do that. The songs meld into one another, like one very long hardcore song. The different themes range from a song called "Necrochorume," about a neighborhood in Sao Paulo where cadavers from an old graveyard have polluted the water supply, to songs about American imperialism like "Próximo Alvo," to a song about a Nazi computer program invented by IBM that recognized and segregated Jews from non-Jews called "Cybergenocidio." Some of the themes are interesting, but generally the English translation of the lyrics, and the accompanying short texts, don't shed much light on the subject matter. There's plenty of "The system has swallowed me" and "Which will be the next target in Amerikkka?"-type lyrics, which appear not to have been written with much thought. Overall, a ho-hum effort. ~ Adam Bregman

RATOS DE PORAO ("Basement Rats") hail from Sao Paolo, Brazil, where they have been a cornerstone of the punk/hardcore community for almost twenty years! Bringing a unique hardcore style that mixes the old school hardcore from 80´s, SLAYER, ultra-fast bits, and crazy guitar riffs, it sounds like they definitely have not played all of their cards yet. Onisciente Coletiv is their most politicized stuff to date �covering the endless social issues in Brasil, such as massive unemployment, poverty, and criminality, to the latest terrorist events in the US. The album addresses how capitalist imperialism makes the world safe for transnational corporations and discusses the process of satisfying people with the attractions of consumerism.

Onisciente Coletivo features 14 songs of sheer, unmitigated power. To make it sound big, dirty, and heavy they decided to call Alex Newport (Nailbomb, At the drive-in, Samian, Fudge Tunnel, The Pattern) to produce.