Brasil [Digipak] - Ratos De Porao

Brasil by Ratos De Porao is a true masterpiece, an ideal mix of punk, hardcore and thrash metal with even the nice occasional melodical touch thrown in for good measure, fast instrumental work and outstanding guitar solos to get your fingers moving (particularly on the track Law of Silence) to, to add to the idealistic guitar solos there is also some amazing bass lines and militant hammering drumming throughout.

The vocals are spot ...
...are super too. Depending on how you look at it - it's either an abominal row from the word go or a classic album of thrash fused punk full of anger and energy. It's very hard to select a favourite track as the Brazilian outfit blast their way through regularly visited punk topics like politics, drug overdoses, alcoholism, law and order but some of the most enjoyable tracks are undoubtedly of a native theme - Brasil, Amazonia Never More and Land of ... more

Brasil by Ratos De Porao is a true masterpiece, an ideal mix of punk, hardcore and thrash metal with even the nice occasional melodical touch thrown in for good measure, fast instrumental work and outstanding guitar solos to get your fingers moving (particularly on the track Law of Silence) to, to add to the idealistic guitar solos there is also some amazing bass lines and militant hammering drumming throughout.

The vocals are spot on for the genre and the lyrics and subject matter are super too. Depending on how you look at it - it's either an abominal row from the word go or a classic album of thrash fused punk full of anger and energy. It's very hard to select a favourite track as the Brazilian outfit blast their way through regularly visited punk topics like politics, drug overdoses, alcoholism, law and order but some of the most enjoyable tracks are undoubtedly of a native theme - Brasil, Amazonia Never More and Land of Carnival.

There are two versions of the album, one in Portuguese and one in English and it was this album that made the album more well known, undoubtedly their best work and a classic album in my eyes.

1. Amazônia nunca mais/ Amazon never more
2. Retrocesso/ Backwards
3. AIDS, pop, repressão/ AIDS, pop, repression
4. Lei do silêncio/ Law of the silence
5. S.O.S. país falido/ S.O.S. broken country
6. Gil Goma/ Gil Coma
7. Beber até morrer/ Drink' till you die
8. Plano furado II/ Fucked plan II
9. Heroína suicída/ Suicide heroin
10. Crianças sem futuro/ Children without future
11. Farsa nacionalista/ Nationalist farse
12. Traidor/ Traitor
13. Porcos sanguinários/ Bloody pigs
14. Vida animal/ Animal life
15. O fim/ The end
16. Máquina militar/ Military machine
17. Terra do carnaval/ Land of carnival
18. Herança/ Will I receive my heritage? 

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