Mystifier (Bra) - Göetia (1993)

Mystifier (Bra) - Göetia (1993)

Fuck I love this band, and this album in particular.  Half of the songs here are found on Wicca but honestly, I much prefer these recordings a lot more. Originally released in  1993 by French label Osmose, it omitted An Elizabethan Devil Worshipper's Prayer Book for some strange reason.  It is really beyond me since that is one of the best songs on the album.  Luckily, when it was released locally in the bands home country of Brazil by Hellion records they decided to add it again.  I really have no clue why they didn't do have it on the Osmose LP pressing.  It's there on the CD and you'd think they cut it due to space on the record itself being an issue, but they did it in Brazil, so who knows.  All I know is that right here is the Brazilian pressing, which is all you need.  Makes sense since it is a fucking Brazilian band, right?

Tracklisting:

1. Aleister Crowley And Ordo Templi Orientis
2. An Elizabethan Devil Worshipper's Prayer Book
3. The Sign Of The Unholy Cross
4. Caerimonia Sanguilentu (Goetia)
5. Beelzebuth
6. The Realm Of Antichristus
7. The True Story About The Doctor Faust's Pact With Mephistopheles
8. Cursed Excruciation/The Sinuous Serpent Of Genesis (Leviathan)
9. The Baphometic Goat Of Knights Templar In The 12th Century

Country: Brazil

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Zona Morta (Bra) - Nómades (1989)

Zona Morta (Bra) - Nómades (1989)

From the time I first laid my eyes upon this EP up until finally finding and owning a copy a good nine years had passed.  It is probably the longest any record I really wanted desperately has eluded my grasp.  This is actually the first time I have ever actually seen one for sale since I first started looking all those years back.

At times this EP sounds like Iron Maiden, but with raspy black/thrash vocals.  Whatever it sounds like, it is highly recommended.

Tracklisting:

1. Prelúdio Para Zona Morta
2. Catedrais
3. Unidos Pelo Aço
4. Nômades
5. Faraós 2.000 D.C.

Country: Brazil

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Corpse (Bra) - I Live, You Die (1990)

Corpse (Bra) - I Live, You Die (1990)

Not only is this an extremely generic thrash album, it is also one of the lamest and stupidest yet hilarious album covers I have ever seen.  Good job Corpse.

Tracklisting:

1. Heaven Needs Money
2. Slaves Of Our Inventions
3. Back To My World
4. I Live, You Die
5. Toxic Death
6. Life Reflections
7. Reason To Kill

Country: Brazil

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Dorsal Atlântica (Bra) - Antes Do Fim (1986)

Dorsal Atlântica (Bra) - Antes Do Fim (1986)

These guys were certainly ahead of everyone else in Brazil at the time.  By the sounds of them you'd expect something like this to come out of Belo Horizonte, but these guys are actually from Rio.  Fast and raw, they certainly sound Brazilian in that sense.  It's very aggressive, but at times it feels like it is more of a very, very fast and aggressive heavy metal album opposed to all the Thrash/Death recordings of the time.

Tracklisting:

1. Caçador Da Noite
2. HTLV - 3
3. Álcool
4. Depressão Suicida
5. Vorkuta
6. Joseph Mengele
7. Guerrilha
8. Inveja
9. Morte Aos Falsos

Country: Brazil

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Exterminator (Bra) - Total Extermination (1987)

Exterminator (Bra) - Total Extermination (1987)

1987 was definitely a good year for extreme releases and this is about as extreme as it gets.  Not only are some of the songs in Portuguese, the songs in English are so broken that trying to understand what is being said is quite difficult to say the least.  So we got the best of both with that, which more than makes up for the lack of everything else present on this album.  It's so extreme in that when it's good it's good, when its bad, its BAD.  For example the musicianship.  They get some stuff going pretty well, it sounds evil as fuck and gets pretty heavy.  But all the while I think to myself, are these guys even playing the same song at the moment?  Whatever, I still love it.  If Fighting Against The Sky Angels isn't the best song title you've ever heard then I don't know what is.

Currently I only own the later bootleg which apparently has a lower sound quality than the original.  I can't really see the original as being so much better than what it is because of what it is, but I will soon have my hands on it and be able to see for myself.  The easy way to distinguish the bootleg is the bars on the window in the top left of the artwork are cut off and not visible.  I won't go into detail about why people say this album cover is so controversial, I think you can figure that one out yourself.

Tracklisting:

1. The End
2. Nightmare
3. Exterminator
4. Marchando Para A Morte
5. Voyage To Hell
6. Speed Metal
7. March Of The Exterminator
8. Pro Inferno Vou Te Levar
9. Haunting The Church
10. Fighting Against The Sky Angels

Country: Brazil

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Holocausto (Bra) - Negatives (1990)

Holocausto (Bra) - Negatives (1990)

What an absolutely disappointing album.  After hearing Campo De Extermínio for the first time I was blown away that something could sound like that.  I quickly made it my fucking business to own that album and it was the first LP from Brazil I ever bought.  After a while I decided to hear something else by these maniacs.  So here I am, worshipping Campo De Extermínio then I hear Blocked Minds and then Negatives.  What the fuck is this bullshit?  This isn't even bullshit, this is horse shit.  Vanilla thrash whos only redeeming factor is that sometimes it sounds a bit like later Voivod, which is not the best thing to have going for you, as well as being on Cogumelo records.  So me being a completionist I have to have this waste of paper and plastic in my collection.

Utterly disgusted.

Get fucked.

Piss off

Please.  Do not disappoint me when I get to see you play all of Campo De Extermínio in Berlin this coming November.  Don't do a Negatives on me.

Tracklisting:

1. Seconds
2. Opened Eyes To Nothing
3. Austroptecus Tecnologicus
4. Muted By Fear
5. Action Levels
6. Negatives
7. P.M.D.
8. Congratulations Mr. Money
9. Contrast
10. Platzs Pitz
11. Falling Into The Void
12. Disappointing The Ridiculous Analysis
13. Choked Expressions

Country: Brazil

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Karisma (Bra) - Sweet Revenge (1983)

Karisma (Bra) - Sweet Revenge (1983)

Besides some bands I may have never even heard from Brazil before (not so likely I am sure), this was one of the last ones I ever discovered.  I don't know when or where, but it ended up taking me quite a few years to actually find a copy of this.  First time I laid my eyes on that cover all I could think of was what the fuck is that thing, and what is it doing?  Whatever it was, I knew I had to hear this because it looked incredibly bad and gave me a very lo-fi vibe, the same kind of feeling I had when I first saw the Exterminator LP.  When I finally got a chance to hear it I was surprised.  Yes, it was bad, but it was not as bad as I expected and was definitely no Exterminator.

Being released in 1983 meant it was really early on in Brazil for metal with only Hard Rock from the 70's like Som Imaginário and Rock Da Mortalha and Stress releasing their first album a year before in 1982 being the only fully metallic sounding band of the time.  Infact, it was so early that the band sounds just like it could have come out of the NWOBHM.  Easily fitting that time frame, it's easy to think this is perhaps just another band from the UK, after all, it sounds just like Holocaust, especially the vocals.  The production is rough as all get fucked, but that is to be expected from so early on in a country like Brazil.  The first Stress album a year earlier is a bit more polished than this is to give you an idea.

What I really love about this album though, is that all lyrics are sung in English.  "English".  As I may have written times before, I love broken English.  I am not sure what it is about it, but it has a very strange feel to it and this album does not disappoint.  Apparently the vocalist/guitarist/main songwriter Helmut Leschonsky was living in the USA for a short period at the end of the 70's and beginning of the 80's before returning to Brazil to form Karisma. This no doubt may have had an influence to sing in English as many other bands at the time were still using Portuguese in Brazil.

Tracklisting:

1. We Are Here To Fuck Your Ears
2. We've Got Rock
3. Far Away From Home
4. In My Bed
5. Orient Fucker
6. Honey, You Got Money
7. Too Much Drugs
8. Stairway To Heavy

Country: Brazil

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Harppia (Bra) - 7 (1987)

Harppia (Bra) - 7 (1987)

It's a hard decision which to pick as to what I'd say my favourite Harppia release is.  My favourite track is definitely Salém (A Cidade Das Bruxas) on the 1985 EP A Ferro E Fogo, but I think this album wins overall.  As you may have guessed, being from Brazil and all, this band sings only in Portuguese, which is why it is sometimes titled Sete (Seven in Português).  As soon as you put this record on and Na Calada Da Noite starts, you know they were fans of Iron Maiden.  Not so much to vocals, but very much so in way the guitar is played.

I started out on the more extreme stuff out of Brazil when I was a lot younger and as I got older I discovered there were actually a lot of the more traditional heavy metal style bands coming out of the country.  This was one of the first bands I stumbled upon like that along with Azul Limão and as I mentioned before, the artwork really pulled me in to wanting to hear and own this record.

Tracklisting:

1. Na Calada Da Noite
2. Voz Da Consciência
3. Magia Negra
4. Balada
5. Guerras
6. AIDS
7. Sete

Country: Brazil

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Azul Limão (Bra) - Vingança (1986)

Azul Limão (Bra) - Vingança (1986)

When it comes to heavy metal albums from Brazil, Azul Limão works it's way into my top 4 along with Karisma, Harppia and Alta Tensão.  The band's name translates in English to Blue Lemon, which is Brazilian slang for LSD.  So from the get go, with a name in Portuguese you can probably guess that the lyrics are all in Portuguese too, makes sense.  Production on this album is great, it's not too lo-fi but not so polished, it has quite the edge to it.  Drums and bass are all there, loud and clear and the guitar really cuts through.  A lot of the tracks on this album such as Portas Da Imaginação and Satã Clama Metal are quite fast for this style of metal, but then it gets evened out with a few slow ones too like Sangue Frio and O Grito.

The overall feel of albums like these from Brazil is a strange feeling for me.  I really love the artwork on this album.  I don't know what it is even meant to be of but it sure works for me, it's what made me want to listen to this album.  First time I saw it I just knew I had to have it, I didn't care if it was shit or not.  Lucky for me the music was good too.

Tracklisting:

1. Abertura
2. Portas Da Imaginação
3. Satã Clama Metal
4. Sangue Frio
5. Fora Da Lei
6. Não Vou Mais Falar
7. O Grito
8. Você Não Faz Nada
9. Vingança

Country: Brazil

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