Here's the huge discography CD for this Brazilian hardcore band, containing a massive 59 tracks and over an hour's worth of music. All of the liner notes are in Portuguese so it's a little hard to make out the details on some of these songs, but I believe that included are a handful of unreleased tracks, the self-titled 7", split 7"s with Entrails Massacre and Dudman, the split 10" with Subcut, the split LP with Death Slam, and some compilation tracks. Their style is definitely a little different from the norm since a lot of the newer songs are moderately paced, blending hardcore, punk rock, and grindcore. So one minute it might be fast chord progressions with scathing high-pitched screams, and the next it could be a quirky midpaced run with burly shouts, then onto some chunky metallic notes or crossover styles, etc. There's are a lot of little rocked out quirks and oddities too, making for a bit of a strange listen at times, but I like it for the most part. Among some of the standouts: "I Buy Your Freedom" is a little darker and more menacing, "Our Hate For Racists" is a fast blast of succinct hardcore fury, "Purification" opens with some weird ska chords or something before blazing into some crossover, "Murder Child" has some noisier textures and blasts straight through without messing around, while "We're Replaced Gears" is slower and more pounding in tempo with shouted vocals that have a really cool feel happening. Also included are a number of cover songs from The Varukers, Ratos de Por?o, Slayer ("Epidemic", which they pretty much pull off with a hardcore twist), Dorsal Atl?ntica, A??o Direta, Rot, and Drop Dead. It seems that the band got more diverse over time, as most of the older material focuses on speed and shorter songs with higher-pitched vocals taking the lead role more often. Of course the recordings are a little raw, but for the most part everything sounds okay. A little inconsistent since so many different sessions are represented, but okay. The self-titled 7" and some of the other earlier recordings have the bass in the left channel with the guitars in the right, which is a little odd (though it's cool to hear such prominent basslines), but the newer unreleased songs sound pretty fluid, and as a whole the disc plays through pretty well. Sometimes it sounds like there are some weird flutters in the panning or something but I can't tell if I'm just hearing things due to the rugged recordings or not? The layout is pretty crude but it gets the job done. Included is a bunch of collaged artwork, liner notes that seem to be about some socio-political issues specific to Brazil, the original artwork for the records and indications of which songs came from which previous releases (it's a little hard to make sense of this since nothing is listed in any real order, but you can kind of figure it out), plus lyrics for the first five tracks. Coincidentally those tracks are almost all in Portuguese, whereas most of the song titles elsewhere are in English, so I can't get much of an idea about the lyrical content other than to say that it seems like the band has a serious message but also takes a more lighthearted stance on occasion since they seem to have fun. 59 tracks in 65 minutes is way too much to take in one sitting for me, but this is a solid attempt at documenting this band's work to date. Discography's ought to be as complete as possible and this one does a good job of cataloging the band's recorded material, though I can understand why they couldn't print all of the lyrics since that would've taken up entirely too much space and been very expensive. I'm not very familiar with this band so I can't offer much insight as to their history, but this is a nice collection that should please their fans.
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Running time - 65:50, Tracks: 59
[Notable tracks: I Buy Your Freedom, Industry of Life, Epidemic, Slave Workers Life, We're Replaced Gears, Life View]
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