This Friday, the 25th, Curitiba experienced one of its hottest nights in recent times. Although it was 17 degrees Celsius on the pleasant Curitiba night, the temperature inside CWB Hall didn't match the weather outside. Krisiun , Ratos de Porão , and the British band Napalm Death turned the venue into a veritable pressure cooker with the intensity and brutality of their performances.
The night began with two excellent opening bands. Both shared a common thread: powerful female vocals. The Curitiba-based band Ethel Hunter delivered a respectable, straightforward death metal set. With numerous blast beats on the drums, fast riffs, and a well-defined, slapped bass, the band demonstrated great cohesion in their approach. A special mention goes to vocalist Larissa Pires , whose guttural vocals are so powerful and stable they would make even Alissa White-Gluz envious.
The second band of the night, Manger Cadavre? São Paulo, came with a slightly more polished sound. With riffs very much in the thrash style and a more energetic stage performance from vocalist Nata Nachthexen , the band managed to lead the first mosh pit of the night. With a strong and politically charged ending, the band demonstrated to the next guest of the night that the reactionaries would not be among us.
Basement Rats
With a slight delay, one of the most politically important bands in our country arrives: Ratos de Porão. With some difficulty, João Gordo takes the stage and delivers a variety of high-quality screams and shouts (even claiming to have lost his voice). Drummer Boka drives the beats with great technique and speed. Jão, wielding his Les Paul guitar, has killer riffs with a very full tone. Bassist Juninho is responsible for the excellent stage performance, with varied jumps and great vigor. The scenes where Jão and Juninho duel with their instruments, with João in the middle, are iconic.
João also had a problem with his microphone's return signal, which caused him to lose his microphone to the backing vocalists so that the lead singer could continue the show. Despite the problem (and many curses from João), the audience responded enthusiastically, making the mosh pit go wild from the first to the last song. Songs like "Crianças sem Futuro" (Children Without a Future), "Beber até Morrer" (Drink Until You Die), and "Descanse em Paz" (Rest in Peace) delighted the audience, who sang loudly. But it was during "Crucificados pelo Sistema" (Crucified by the System) that the biggest mosh pit of the night was created, with 1/3 of the audience present circling and battling on the floor of the CWB Hall.
Krisiun
After the brutal crossover/punk of Ratos, the stage gave way to the powerful death metal trio Krisiun from Rio Grande do Sul. Everything about the band is extreme and maximized: the backdrop is enormous, Max Kolesne is mounted at a higher angle, and the omnipotent presence of the giants Moyses Kolesne (guitar) and Alex Camargo (bass and vocals) makes them colossal at the edges of the stage. The band delivers the most extreme of Brazilian metal. Blasts and abrupt drum segments, intense and dissonant riffs, and a gruesome vocal performance.
The band's fast-paced, aggressive, and dizzying musicality would have been the perfect recipe for inciting the audience to create huge mosh pits, but the heat and stuffiness in the venue were so unbearable that all the mosh pits that started at the beginning of each new song didn't last long, leaving the audience only to nod their heads to show their satisfaction with the band's sound.
The feeling of being in an oven was so intense that even those who were enjoying the show from a distance found themselves dripping with sweat. This ended up making the audience a little more reserved, but nothing prevented them from shouting the band's name at the end of each song. Songs like "Combustion Inferno," "Serpent Messiah," and the older "Hatred Inherit" are fine examples of the band's brutality, but it was during the tracks "Apocalyptic Victory" and especially "Blood of Lions" that the audience sang the loudest.
Napalm Death
After the musical violence unleashed by the gauchos, it was time to wait for the headliners, Napalm Death. In the meantime, a good portion of the audience went outside for some fresh air, but they quickly returned so as not to miss the start of the world-renowned grindcore band. However, a delay in setting up the stage due to some technical problem disrupted British punctuality, and a delay of a little over an hour irritated the audience. But just when patience seemed to have run out, the problem was resolved. And with incredible speed to take the stage, Napalm Death was finally ready to finish delivering speed and brutality to a crowd still thirsty for the mix.
The band, comprised of Danny Herrera on drums, touring guitarist John Cooke (replacing guitarist Mitch Harris ), vocalist Barney Greenway , and legendary bassist Shane Embury , are equally ferocious and impressive in the studio as they are live. Danny is flawless in his performances. John masterfully represents the band's official guitarist, with fast riffs and ripping backing vocals. Shane is a spectacle in himself; his unique bass playing is stunning, with great speed and precise movement.
Barney, on the other hand, is extremely energetic and has an incredible stage presence, always agitated, jumping and headbanging whenever he unleashes his deafening screams. But just as he is impetuous in his musical performances, during the breaks he is very friendly and affectionate with the audience, always thanking them and even stopping to give autographs in the middle of the show, in addition to having strong and relevant social speeches.
With a setlist packed with heavy, short songs, “Next On The List”, “Rise Above”, and “The Truth Be Known” had some serious mosh pits, with plenty of heavy hitting. We had classics like “Scum”, “Suffer The Children”, “MAD”, and the Dead Kennedys cover “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”. Plus, of course, the brief “Dead” and “You Suffer”.
After the powerful performance by the British band ended, the pressure cooker atmosphere at CWB Hall could finally release pressure. With a record-breaking evacuation, the street in front of the venue was filled with people dressed in black, eager to breathe some fresh air and share their impressions of the stupendous night of extreme music they experienced this Friday. With such a high-caliber lineup, the Curitiba residents in attendance will certainly remember this epic night fondly, despite the setbacks.
Ratos de Porão Setlist:
- Antifascist Alert
- Crowd
- Amazon never again
- Nationalist farce
- Ignorance
- Law of silence
- Death to the king!
- Satanic Bullshit
- Bad Trip
- To die
- Mad Society
- Children without a future.
- Crucified by the system
- Rest in peace
- VCDMSA (Living each day dirtier and more aggressive)
- War
- Politicians in the name of the people…
- Chaos
- Realities of war
- Universal Church
- Heritage
- AIDS, Pop, Repression
- Drink yourself to death
- Crocodile
- General crisis
Krisiun Setlist:
- Kings of Killing
- Combustion Inferno
- Ravager
- Scourge of the Enthroned
- Necronomical
- Apocalyptic Victory
- Blood of Lions
- Serpent Messiah
- Hatred Inherit
- Black Force Domain
Napalm Death Setlist:
- From Enslavement to Obliteration
- Taste the Poison
- Next on the List
- Contagion
- Rise Above
- Resentment Always Simmers
- That Curse of Being in Thrall
- Amoral
- If the Truth Be Known
- Backlash Just Because
- Fuck the Factoid
- Suffer the Children
- Mass Appeal Madness
- Scum
- MAD
- Success?
- You Suffer
- The Code Is Red… Long Live the Code
- Dead
- Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Dead Kennedys cover)
- Survival Instinct
- Contemptuous
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