Brazil, the land of feijoada, caipirinha, g-strings, best soccer players ever and 6x world champion bodyboarder Guilherme Tamega, is one of the first Latin American countries to have punk rock music back in the late 70's. It started with bands like Colera, Ratos de Porao, Lixomania, Lobotomia, just to name a few. Here's a documentary called "Botinada: A Origem do Punk no Brasil", that documents its origins, the early bands and the entire early history of the punk scene in this portugese-speaking country of the Americas.
As the 90's approached, The Blind Pigs (now called Porcos Cegos) emerged with their kick-ass blend of melodic hardcore/punk, first with the label, Grita!, and then on their own Sweet Fury Records. This band put Brazil in the punk rock map with their classic "Sao Paulo Chaos". Around the late 90's, we interview lead singer, Henrike, for our previous printed fanzine and he told us in one of the questions about a couple of local brazilian bands. I did not get into any, until now. One of them is a rad skate punk band called Gritando HC, they have only one album out with their original line-up called "Ande de skate e destrua". Their lead singer died in 2001 but they left this incredible piece of recordings. Enjoy!
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