Their first album was released in 1983 and was titled Crucificados pelo sistema. Released on the Ataque Frontal label, it was one of the best-selling hardcore albums to come out of the country, and was soon considered a punk classic worldwide. The line up was João Gordo (vocals), Mingau (guitar – later in many punk and pop bands in Brazil, currently playing in Ultraje a Rigor), Jabá (bass) and Jão (drums). Soon after, with the fall of the São Paulo punk scene (because of associated gang violence), the band split up and since then João Gordo has been accused of selling out and betraying the DIY ethics of the hardcore punk movement for several alleged reasons; he has said, "I'm a traitor since 1983, because I told the guys I played hardcore, not punk. Then, I got labelled.(...)That's a stigma".[1]
Initial crossover thrash era
In 1985, RxDxPx came back, but with a different line up and sound. They brought thrash metal to their music, influenced by bands such as Slayer, Exodus, Kreator and hardcore bands around the world that were also transitioning to a more thrash metal sound, like Suicidal Tendencies, D.R.I., English Dogs, Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front and others (including Brazilian bands such as Lobotomia and Armagedom). Jão switched over to playing guitar, and an old punk named Spaghetti (who later adopted a thrash metal sound) replaced him on drums. Subsequently, they released the Descanse Em Paz album on Baratos Afins in 1986.
With their new sound, they began to associate more with heavy metal bands, becoming friends with longtime RxDxPx fans Sepultura and other bands of the Brazilian 1980s metal scene, including Korzus and Anthares. Their next studio release with Baratos Afins Records, 1987's Cada Dia Mais Sujo e Agressivo, was also released in an English-language version (Dirty and Aggressive) (the band feared that their English was so grammatically inaccurate that many of their native English speaking fans might ridicule their translated lyrics).[citation needed] This release continued the band's D-beat drum tempos.
In 1989, they signed to Roadrunner Records at the urging of Igor Cavalera of Sepultura, who played one of the band's tapes for the label's executives. RxDxPx then went to Germany to record their next studio LP, Brasil. With Harris Johns of Voivod and Tankard producing, the band's production quality improved substantially in contrast to their previous releases; the instrumentation was noticeably more technical.
In 1990, they returned to Germany to record their last album with the 'classic' line-up of João Gordo, Jão, Jabá and Spaghetti. With Harris Johns acting again as producer, their next album titled Anarkophobia was met with criticism by some fans for being the band's most metallic release to date, having considerably more complex and lengthy song compositions and more technical musicianship. Nevertheless, Anarkophobia increased their profile within the worldwide metal scene of the early 1990s.
But in mid-1991, they had their first line-up change in years, with Spaghetti leaving the band, citing that he had "been tired of the musical life".[citation needed] They auditioned several drummers to replace him, including Beto Silesci from Korzus, but the band decided that Silesci's style was too metal for the new direction they were planning to pursue. Silesci was in turn replaced with Boka of the Santos Beach thrash/death metal band Psychic Possessor. In 1992, RxDxPx released its first official live album, called Ao Vivo, with a corresponding music video for the song "Aids, Pop, Repressão" receiving heavy air play on Furia Metal of MTV (the Brazilian equivalent of Headbangers Ball).
At the decline of the thrash scene, under tension and personal problems (Jabá left the band and they had a heavy drug problem), they entered into the studio in 1994 to record their only 'all lyrics in English' album, called Just Another Crime In Massacreland. The album suffered a thin production and a low promotion by the label, and it was a hard time in the life of RxDxPx.[citation needed]
Return to hardcore punk
After the departure of Jabá, the band had several different bass players and recorded a studio album with only punk and hardcore covers called Feijoada Acidente?, a play on the Guns N' Roses album "The Spaghetti Incident?". (Feijoada is a traditional food from Brazil, a stew based on beans and pork.) There were two versions of this album: one covering only Brazilian bands such as Olho Seco, Lobotomia, Garotos Podres, among others; and one covering only non-Brazilian bands such as G.B.H., Black Flag, Anti-Cimex, Minor Threat, among others. At this time, Walter Bart (who used to play in a punk band called "Não Religião") and "Pica Pau" (Portuguese for woodpecker), who stayed in the band until 1999, played bass.
Released in 1997, Carniceria Tropical marked a return to hardcore and Portuguese lyrics, and the band regained their former success. The same year, João Gordo started to work as a VJ for MTV Brasil.
In 1999, the bassist Cristian "Fralda", who used to play in the punk rock band Blind Pigs joined the band, and they entered into the studio to re-record their first album, and called this album Sistemados Pelo Crucifa (a play on the original album title, "Crucificados Pelo Sistema"). The front cover was designed by the Korzus bassist, Dick Siebert.
Return to crossover
In 2002, they released the Onisciente Coletivo album, and came back to be more friendly with thrash metal, mixing the 1980s with 1990s faces. The bassist Cristian "Fralda" left to join the old hardcore/crossover/thrash band Lobotomia. In his place entered an old underground musician, the bass player Paulo Júnior, who still plays with his hardcore band called "Discarga" and guitarist of "Point of no Return".
In 2006, they released Homem Inimigo Do Homem.
On 13 August 2013, Ratos de Porão announced on their Facebook page that they were working on a new album. Entitled Século Sinistro, the album was released on 27 May 2014.
Another eight years passed until the release of their upcoming eighth studio album, Necropolítica, on May 20, 2022.
Vida Animal
Ratos De Porão Lyrics
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Se mate na cozinha
E chame sua mãe pra ver
Se você quer matar
Exploda um orfanato
E comece a chorar
Vida Animal Vida Animal Vida Animal !
Se você que sorrir
Olhe pros mendigos
Que não tem pra onde ir
Se você quer fuder
Estrupe a vizinha
Até o sangue escorrer
Vida Animal Vida Animal Vida Animal !
Mas você
Não vai se arrepender
De ter sido anormal
Sua mente é psicótica
Seu coração é muito mal
Mas você vai sofrer
Na camisa de força você vai apodrecer
Então você só me diz
Com toda minha maldade Eu ainda sou feliz
Vida Animal !
The lyrics to Ratos De Porão's song "Vida Animal" are a dark and disturbing commentary on the inherent violence and cruelty of human nature. The song's opening lines, "If you want to die, kill yourself in the kitchen, and call your mother to watch," suggest that there is a perverse pleasure in self-destruction and the desire to shock and horrify others. The lyrics go on to encourage violent acts such as blowing up an orphanage or raping a neighbor, painting a picture of a society driven by instinctual and base desires.
The chorus of the song, "Vida Animal Vida Animal Vida Animal," reinforces the idea that humans are no better than animals, driven by their primal instincts and desires. The singer of the song seems to revel in the depravity and insanity of their own thoughts and actions, declaring that they are "happy" even in the face of their own inevitable institutionalization.
Overall, "Vida Animal" is a scathing critique of the darker side of humanity, an exploration of the depths of human depravity and the consequences of giving in to base desires.
Line by Line Meaning
Se você quer morrer
If you really want to die
Se mate na cozinha
Kill yourself in the kitchen
E chame sua mãe pra ver
And call your mother to watch
Se você quer matar
If you want to kill
Exploda um orfanato
Blow up an orphanage
E comece a chorar
And start crying
Se você que sorrir
If you want to smile
Olhe pros mendigos
Look at the homeless
Que não tem pra onde ir
Who have nowhere to go
Se você quer fuder
If you want to fuck
Estrupe a vizinha
Rape the neighbor
Até o sangue escorrer
Until blood flows
Mas você
But you
Não vai se arrepender
Won't regret it
De ter sido anormal
For being abnormal
Sua mente é psicótica
Your mind is psychotic
Seu coração é muito mal
Your heart is very bad
Mas você vai sofrer
But you will suffer
Na camisa de força você vai apodrecer
You'll rot in a straitjacket
Então você só me diz
Then you tell me
Com toda minha maldade Eu ainda sou feliz
With all my evilness, I'm still happy
Vida Animal!
Animal life!
Contributed by Andrew N. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Ellen Mariana
Se você quer sofrer
Se enforque na cozinha e chame sua mãe para ver
Se você quer matar
Exploda um orfanato e comece a chorar
Vida animal 3x
Se você quer sorrir
Olhe pros mendigos que não tem para onde ir
Se você quer fuder
Estupre sua cozinha até o sangue escorrer
Vida animal 3x
Mas... você não vai se arrepender de ter sido anormal
Sua mente é psicótica seu coração é muito mal....
Mas você vai sofrer
Na camisa de força você vai apodrecer
Então você só me diz
Com toda essa maldade ainda sou feliz
Vida animal
Matheus fuster giacometti
muito boaaaaa
Ellen Mariana
Se você quer sofrer
Se enforque na cozinha e chame sua mãe para ver
Se você quer matar
Exploda um orfanato e comece a chorar
Vida animal 3x
Se você quer sorrir
Olhe pros mendigos que não tem para onde ir
Se você quer fuder
Estupre sua cozinha até o sangue escorrer
Vida animal 3x
Mas... você não vai se arrepender de ter sido anormal
Sua mente é psicótica seu coração é muito mal....
Mas você vai sofrer
Na camisa de força você vai apodrecer
Então você só me diz
Com toda essa maldade ainda sou feliz
Vida animal
repórter urbano
Estrupe sua vizinha até o sêmen escorrer.
Paulo Roberto
foda dms mas o cover do claustrofobia fico mt foda quase q melhor
JulioRwoger
mano sei lá, essa letra ai com ''cozinha'' eu peguei no metal archives, mas eu acho que é vizinha mesmo.
Aaraujo Leandroo
Mais Voce, Não vai se arrepender de ter sido animal....
Felipe Augusto
Sou meio ruim de ouvido, ouvir Raimundos e RxDxP é sempre com letra.rs
Adriano Neto
Estuprar a cozinha é foda ahsahaush
Pedro thiago Andrade
Loka.!
Felipe Augusto
Julio, não seria "Estupre sua vizinha até o sangue escorrer" ?