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.
conspiração subliminar
Ratos De Porão Lyrics
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Tudo tem um onde,um como e um porque
Calculistamente arquitetado
Planejado,conspirado sem você saber.
Tudo que está por trás da vida
E tudo que está por acontecer
Até a suas noites mal dormidas
Jello estava certo
Todos contra você
Jello estava certo
Querem nos fuder(Refrão)
Abaixo do linear da estendida
Um estímulo escondido que você absorveu
Se espalham mais idéias corrompidas
Mensagens subliminares tomam conta de você
Os teledependentes dessa vida
Facilmente controlados pela tal conspiração
Obedecem todas as ordens transmitidas
Conspirando pelo efeito da manipulacão
-Refrão-
Introduzido a tomar Coca-Cola
Mesmo sem vontade entro na liquidação.
Total baixaria,comprei cigarros
Mesmo que não fume a um puta de um tempão.
The lyrics to Ratos de Porão's song "Conspiração Subliminar" express the idea that nothing in life is a coincidence and everything has a plan behind it. The song speaks to the idea that everything in the world is meticulously calculated and planned, yet those being controlled by the conspiracy may not be aware of the behind-the-scenes workings. The lyrics suggest that even one's sleepless nights are a part of the scheme.
The chorus refers to Jello Biafra, lead vocalist of the American punk band Dead Kennedys, who was known for his politically charged lyrics and criticism of capitalist society. The song suggests that Biafra's commentary on social issues was accurate and that many people are against us. The lyrics discuss the idea that the population is being controlled by subliminal messages that are carefully placed in everything from advertising to music. The song mentions the manipulation of tele-dependent people in society, who are controlled by orders transmitted by the conspirators.
Line by Line Meaning
Nada é apenas por acaso
Nothing happens by chance
Tudo tem um onde,um como e um porque
Everything has a reason, a way and a why
Calculistamente arquitetado
Calculatedly designed
Planejado,conspirado sem você saber.
Planned, conspired without your knowledge.
Tudo que está por trás da vida
Everything behind life
E tudo que está por acontecer
And everything that is yet to come
Até a suas noites mal dormidas
Even your sleepless nights
Foram estudadas sem você saber
Were studied without your knowledge
Jello estava certo
Jello was right
Todos contra você
Everyone is against you
Querem nos fuder(Refrão)
They want to fuck us (Chorus)
Abaixo do linear da estendida
Below the extended line
Um estímulo escondido que você absorveu
A hidden stimulus that you absorbed
Se espalham mais idéias corrompidas
More corrupted ideas are spreading
Mensagens subliminares tomam conta de você
Subliminal messages take over you
Os teledependentes dessa vida
The teledependent of this life
Facilmente controlados pela tal conspiração
Easily controlled by such conspiracy
Obedecem todas as ordens transmitidas
Obey all transmitted orders
Conspirando pelo efeito da manipulacão
Conspiring for the effect of manipulation
-Refrão-
-Chorus-
Introduzido a tomar Coca-Cola
Introduced to drink Coca-Cola
Mesmo sem vontade entro na liquidação.
Even without the will, I enter the liquidation.
Total baixaria,comprei cigarros
Total debauchery, bought cigarettes
Mesmo que não fume a um puta de um tempão.
Even though I haven't smoked in a fucking long time.
Contributed by Leo G. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
gabriel souza oliveira king
essa musica fala sobre os mestres do mundo que controlam a populaçao atraves de mensagens subliminares
Andres Branco
Awesome
weirdo
ou é uma forma de ridicularizar mentes que pensam dessa maneira? "Os teledependentes dessa vida Facilmente controlados pela tal conspiração Obedecem todas as ordens transmitidas Conspirando pelo efeito da manipulacão"