REVIOLENCE - Violent phoenix (CD-EP 2008) 13 min.- 03/2008 - http://klasma.piranho.de/reviolence.html

Brazil and Thrash Metal always went pretty well together. REVIOLENCE continue this tradition with Violent Phoenix. Shortly after being founded in 2003 the band recorded an EP In Pieces and presented it on the internet. After that things slowed down significantly due to major line-up changes at nearly every instrument.
Violent Phoenix is the second publication is including the whole cover artwork available for download.
Quickly downloaded the stuff and listened filled with expectation to find out what REVIOLENCE has to offer.
There are four tracks all together (The annunciation is just a short Interlude) with real oldschool Thrash Metal and an unmistakable Power-Metal influence.
Not really what gets me going. But this quintett from Sao Paulo really knows how to play and bring the feeling across. Here are no amateurs that are trying to play hard music no matter what the cost. On Violent Phoenix almost everything is convincing.
The instrumentation and sound of the EP is comparable to recordings of well known bands. I was especially impressed with the drumming of Edson Graseffi, whose style is extremely lively but also the guitar duo Guilherme Spilack and Chico Crestana. They play fine riffs and come back with melodic solos, leads and double-runs.
The climax is without a doubt Abduction. The last song (About angels and demons) offers a short bridge with acoustic latino guitar (almost like Samba or that direction). The bass (Mauricio Cliff) plays more than a background role with REVIOLENCE and is allowed to start off the title track solistically. The vocals of Carlos Furtado are real aggressive but a little too much in the throat.
All in all the songwriter only needs to work on creating a little more fluent changes. Especially on the last song that's an issue.
None the less...get on the computer, visit the homepage and download the songs.
How else could you get a hold of a cool piece of Brazilian Thrash/Power-Noise?
www.reviolence.com