I Ratos de Porao (br) in Unica data italiana a Torino, Spazio 211
Ratos de Porão, la band thrash/hardcore punk brasiliana anche conosciuta con l’acronimo R.D.P., arriva a Torino per la sua unica data italiana. Originari di San Paolo del Brasile, Ratos de Porão sono attivi fin dagli anni ’80 periodo in cui i loro lavori raggiunsero una fama internazionale. La loro musica è una combinazione di Hardcore Punk e Metal.
Spazio 211
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Unica data italiana
Ratos de Porao (Br)
opening: Uprising (ita) + Blue Vomit (ita)
Sabato 1 luglio 2017
Spazio211 via Cigna 211, Torino
apertura porte ore 21:59
ticket € 15 + DP
Prevendite: http://bit.ly/RATOS_TORINO
Evento Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1330394413682507/
Opening: Uprising + Blue Vomit
Ratos de Porão (tradotto in italiano: Topi di Fogna), la band thrash/hardcore punk brasiliana anche conosciuta con l’acronimo R.d.p., arriva a Torino per la sua unica data italiana. Originari di San Paolo del Brasile, Ratos de Porão sono attivi fin dagli anni ’80 periodo in cui i loro lavori raggiunsero una fama internazionale. La loro musica è una combinazione di Hardcore Punk e Metal.
Info concerto: http://www.spazio211.com/sat-1-julratos-de-porao/
Ratos de Porao (San Paolo,Brazil)
Ratos de Porão (Portuguese for “Basement Rats”) is a Brazilian crossover thrash/hardcore punk band from São Paulo. They were formed in 1981, toured South America, North America, and Europe and still continue to play today. Their core lineup of João Gordo on vocals and Jão on drums and later guitars has remained since virtually the band’s beginning.
Lead singer João Benedan (better known as João Gordo) is a former well-known VJ on MTV Brasil and later worked at Rede Record in a comedy TV show called: “Legendários” (Portuguese for “Legendaries”). He now has a YouTube channel where he hosts a talk show and cooks vegan food, called Panelaço.
Ratos de Porão, or simply RxDxPx, was formed in November 1981, existing in the Brazilian (São Paulo city) punk rock scene (alongside bands such as Olho Seco, Cólera, Inocentes, Garotos Podres, and Lobotomia). Directly influenced by the UK 82 hardcore bands such as Discharge, G.B.H., Varukers and Swedish and Finnish bands such as Anti-Cimex and Kaaos, they started to write songs that criticized Brazilian society, a revolutionary concept at the time. Their sound is regarded as one of the rawest of their scene (because other bands such as Cólera and Garotos Podres were more ‘punk rock’ sounding than ‘hardcore’).
Their first album was released in 1983 and was titled Crucificados pelo sistema. Released on the Ataque Frontal label, it was one of the fastest selling hardcore albums to come out of the country, and was soon considered a punk classic worldwide. The line up was João Gordo (vocals), Mingau (guitar – later in many punk and pop bands in Brazil), Jabá (bass) and Jão (drums). Soon after, with the fall of the São Paulo punk scene (because of associated gang violence), the band split up and since then João Gordo has been accused of selling out and betraying the DIY ethics of the punk movement for several alleged reasons; he has said, “I’m a traitor since 1983, because I told the guys I played hardcore, not punk. Then, I got labelled.(…)That’s a stigma”.
In 1985, RxDxPx came back, but with a different line up and sound. They brought thrash metal to their music, influenced by bands such as Slayer, Exodus, Kreator and hardcore bands around the world that were also transitioning to a more thrash metal sound, like Suicidal Tendencies, D.R.I., English Dogs, Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front and others (including Brazilian bands such as Lobotomia and Armagedom). Jão switched over to playing guitar, and an old punk named Spaghetti (who later adopted a thrash metal sound) replaced him on drums. Subsequently, they released the Descanse Em Paz album on Baratos Afins.
With their new sound, they began to associate more with heavy metal bands, becoming friends with longtime RxDxPx fans Sepultura and other bands of the Brazilian 1980s metal scene, including Korzus and Anthares. Their next studio release with Baratos Afins Records, 1987′s Cada Dia Mais Sujo e Agressivo, was also released in an English-language version (Dirty and Aggressive) (the band feared that their English was so grammatically inaccurate that many of their native English speaking fans might ridicule their translated lyrics).
In 1989, they signed to Roadrunner Records at the urging of Igor Cavalera of Sepultura, who played one of the band’s tapes for the label’s executives. RxDxPx then went to Germany to record their next studio LP, Brasil. With Harris Johns of Voivod and Tankard producing, the band’s production quality improved substantially in contrast to their previous releases; the instrumentation was noticeably more technical.
In 1990, they returned to Germany to record their last album with the ‘classic’ line-up of João Gordo, Jão, Jabá and Spaghetti. With Harris Johns acting again as producer, their next album titled Anarkophobia was met with criticism by some fans for being the band’s most metallic release to date, having considerably more complex and lengthy song compositions and more technical musicianship. Nevertheless, Anarkophobia increased their profile within the worldwide metal scene of the early 1990s.
But in mid-1991, they had their first line-up change in years, with Spaghetti leaving the band, citing that he had “been tired of the musical life”
They auditioned several drummers to replace him, including Beto Silesci from Korzus, but the band decided that Silesci’s style was too metal for the new direction they were planning to pursue. Silesci was in turn replaced with Boka of the Santos Beach thrash/death metal band Psychic Possessor. In 1992, RxDxPx released its first official live album, called Ao Vivo, with a corresponding music video for the song “Aids, Pop, Repressão” receiving heavy air play on Furia Metal of MTV (the Brazilian equivalent of Headbanger’s Ball).
At the decline of the thrash scene, under tension and personal problems (Jabá left the band and they had a heavy drug problem), they entered into the studio in 1994 to record their only ‘all lyrics in English’ album, called Just Another Crime In Massacreland. The album suffered a thin production and a low promotion by the label, and it was a hard time in the life of RxDxPx.
After the departure of Jabá, the band had several different bass players and recorded a studio album with only punk and hardcore covers called Feijoada Acidente?, a play on the Guns N’ Roses album The Spaghetti Incident?. (Feijoada is a traditional food from Brazil, a stew based on beans and pork.) There were two versions of this album: one covering only Brazilian bands such as Olho Seco, Lobotomia, Garotos Podres, among others; and one covering only non-Brazilian bands such as G.B.H., Black Flag, Anti-Cimex, Minor Threat, among others. At this time, Walter Bart (who used to play in a punk band called “Não Religião”) and “Pica Pau” (Portuguese for woodpecker), who stayed in the band until 1999, played bass.
Released in 1997, Carniceria Tropical marked a return to hardcore and Portuguese lyrics, and the band regained their former success. The same year, João Gordo started to work as a VJ for MTV Brasil.
In 1999, the bassist Cristian “Fralda”, who used to play in the punk rock band “Blind Pigs” joined the band, and they entered into the studio to re-record their first album, and called this album Sistemados Pelo Crucifa (a play on the original album title, “Crucificados Pelo Sistema”). The front cover was designed by the Korzus bass player Dick.
In 2002, they released the Onisciente Coletivo album, and came back to be more friendly with thrash metal, mixing the 1980s with 1990s faces. The bassist Cristian “Fralda” left to join the old hardcore/crossover/thrash band Lobotomia. In his place entered an old underground musician, the bass player Paulo Júnior, who still plays with his hardcore band called “Discarga” and guitarist of “Point of no Return”.
In 2006, they released Homem Inimigo Do Homem.
On August 13, 2013, Ratos de Porão announced on their Facebook page that they were working on a new album. Entitled Século Sinistro, the album was released on May 27, 2014
Special guests:
Uprising (Brescia)
Nascono a Brescia nel 2010,il loro sound è fortemente influenzato dall’hardcore d’oltreoceano,soprattutto a quello New Yorkese…all’attivo hanno 3 album ufficiali d’un hardcore molto energico con punte di metal e thrash….hanno girato la penisola in lungo ed in largo ed in questi anni hanno avuto il merito di suonare con bands di livello internazionale fra cui Slapshot, Sick of it all, Raised Fist, Agnostic Front, Vitamin X e Strife.
Blue Vomit (Torino)
I Blue Vomit sono un gruppo culto della prima ondata della scena punk rock italiana. Provenienti dalla Torino di fine anni ’70, sono oggi considerati come uno dei punti di congiunzione fra la prima scena punk e la scena hardcore italiana.
Nel dicembre 2012 i Blue Vomit si riuniscono con Enrico Fallullera alla batteria, Fabio Di Maggio al basso (membri originari della band),tuttora attivi con nuova formazione.
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