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Band: Juventude Maldita
Album: “Germinal” (Rebel Music)
Text by: Ricardo Tibiu (tibiu@karasukiller.com | www.chiveta.wordpress.com)
It´s ten years on the road, and the line-up has members and former members of Phobia, Flicts and Calibre 12. After being on the Cólera Tribute “Vira-Latas”, which also had Força Macabra (Finland), Rasta Knast (Germany), Agrotóxico, Ação Direta and Discarga, this band from São Paulo released their debut CD. Recorded and mixed analogically by Marcello Pompeu (Korzus) it has 15 songs where energetic punk rock prevails, with oi! references and just the exact amount of melodies. The highlights are “Nós Vamos Resistir” (and it’s “So Lonely”, by The Police reference), “Explorados” and “Grândola, Vila Morena”. This last one, written by Zeca Afonso is considered the anthem that annouced when the Armed Forces Movement overthrew the Portuguese government in the seventies, by military coup. In “Liberdade é uma Palavra”, JM receives Arthur, formerly in Flicts and currently in Naifa and Agrotóxico.
Contacts:
www.rebelmusic.com.br/juventudemaldita / www.rebelmusic.com.br / rebelmusicrecords@yahoo.com.br

Band: Calibre 12
Album: “Underground” (53 HC)
Text by: Ricardo Tibiu (tibiu@karasukiller.com | www.chiveta.wordpress.com)
On the 21 tracks from their new album, Calibre 12 mixes punk themes with eighties hardcore and a metal punch – “Vida de Cão”, “Patrão do Caralho”, “Descendo A Canelada”, “Eu Frito a Tampa” and “Igual, Só Que Diferente” are just like that. In the lyrics, political and social criticism (“Revanche”, “Bota Pra Dormir”, “Fumaça Preta”, “Não, Não Eu Não Sei” and “Signo do Ódio”) and exalting the punk/hardcore way of live they follow (“Underground”, “Hardcore Eu Sou” and “Quanto Mais Você Me Oprime”). That’s how the emo fad was destroyed in “Emo Lixo” [Emo Crap]. The CD has a multimedia track and the band received Marcão from Agrotóxico, Henrike and Gordo from Porcos Cegos and former Mukeka di Rato vocalist Bebê for backing vocals. Speaking about the latter, the Japanese must remember Oscar, Calibre 12’s drummer. He replaced Brek on the ten shows Mukeka played recently in Japan between late April and early May this year.
Contacts:
www.fotolog.com/calibre12 / www.myspace.com/calibre12 / www.53hc.com