Three years after being founded in 1990, the band entered a more professional phase, in a line-up with founder Cristiano Fusco on guitar, Wagner "Castor" on bass, Amilcar Christofaro on drums, and Vitor Rodrigues as frontman and singer. They started touring in and around São Paulo and soon recorded a demo, released in 1993, A Soul in Hell. Their first CD was Shivering (1995); their break-through came with Asylum of Shadows (1999).[citation needed]
Their 2001 album, The Unholy Spell, came right after the band's first tour in Germany. In 2002, Cristiano Fusco left the band, and the band hired Mauricio Nogueira (a seasoned studio musician who played for Krisiun as well as other local bands like In Hell and Zoltar), and went on their first Brazilian tour.[citation needed]
Pandemonium produced by Marcello Pompeu and Heros Trench (Korzus) was released in 2003. The CD was supported by a TV video clip for "Pandemonium" and "Horror and Torture." Again, the band played all over Brazil. Then, in 2006 Torture Squad embarked on a European tour, headlining in 16 towns in Germany and 4 in Austria. Afterward they played in more cities in Brazil until they participated in the Brazilian pre-selection for the famed Wacken Open Air festival. They eventually won the final in São Paulo,[2] and they represented Brazil at Wacken Battle of the Bands 2007, which they won. This victory won them a contract with Armageddon Records (Germany); Mauricio Nogueira also won the "best guitar player" award, which earned him a brand new Dean guitar and a Marshall pre-amp.
Hellbound, was released in May 2008 by Armageddon, not long after Mauricio Nogueira left the band for personal reasons and Augusto Lopes (Eternal Malediction) was announced as the new guitarist. In 2008, Torture Squad embarked on a 60-date European tour, which will include a show at Wacken Open Air.
The year of 2009 started pretty well for Torture Squad. After the release of Hellbound and its excellent repercussion in Brazil, Europe and the United States, it was followed by a European tour with two of the world's major thrash metal bands, Overkill and Exodus. The tour began in mid February in London, where the Brazilian group performed for the first time, and included 12 more shows in countries like Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
Their most recent studio album “AEquilibrium” was released in Europe on August 2010 by Wacken Records / H'art / Zebralution / SAOL. They recorded a new version for the title track of their third album “The Unholy Spell” which is included as bonus track with the title of “The Unholy Spell 2010”. The album was recorded in São Paulo/Brazil, at Norcal Studios with producers Brendan Duffey and Adriano Daga. In January 2011, guitarist Augusto Lopes left the band and André Evaristo replaced him.
In March 2012, the frontman Vitor Rodrigues left the band. Soon after that, the band turned out to be a power trio with André Evaristo taking the lead vocals along with the guitar. With this line up they played with important concerts and festivals in South America, which is held in Quito city, the capital city of Ecuador, for an approximate audience of 25,000 people.
In 2013, the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of the demo-tape A Soul in Hell, their first studio recording, which was celebrated in the Twenty Years Torturing People Tour 1993–2013, that started in May in Europe, alongside Artillery, Gama Bomb and Tantara, with 18 concerts in 20 days. From April to August, 2013, the band chose, again, Norcal Studios to record their seventh studio album, Esquadrão de Tortura (Torture Squad in Portuguese), and reprising the association with Brendan Duffey and Adriano Daga as producers. Esquadrão de Torture was the first work recorded by the band as a trio and the first lyrical concept album, narrating, in chronological order, the period in which Brazil was governed by a military regime (from 1964 to 1985), being also the first album to have a title in Portuguese. The official release date was November 15, Brazil's Republic Proclamation Day.
In July and August 2014, the band did their second South American tour with thirteen shows in four countries; Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay. Finishing the year in their hometown São Paulo / SP on December, 20, recording its show which was released in mid 2015 on DVD and CD and titled “Coup d´État Live”. In September 2015, vocalist / guitarist André Evaristo left Torture Squad to pursue other personal projects, bringing the band back to its traditional line-up as a quartet featuring Mayara Puertas on vocals and Rene Simionato on guitars, continuing the tour of “Coup D´État Live”. Already with their new line up, the band went to studio to record the EP “Return of Evil”, with four songs: the new “Return of Evil”, “Swallow Your Reality” and “Iron Squad”, and the new version of “Dreadful Lies”, originally released in the 1998 first album Shivering. The EP will also had a multimedia track with the video clip of “Return of the Evil” and a mini documentary of the EP recording sessions, and the videos of “Dreadful Lies” and “Iron Squad” exclusively made for the EP, which was released in February 2016.
In September 2016, the band made a historic tour in Brazil playing 28 gigs in 32 days throughout the country from north to south. Soon after the Brazilian tour, the band did a European tour comprising 19 gigs in seven countries. The Return of Evil tour finished in February 2017, doing 13 shows during 16 days in the country side of São Paulo and Paraná.
In April 2017, the band started the recording of their eighth album entitled Far Beyond Existence released on July 13 (World Rock Day). In August 2017, they started the Far Beyond Existence Tour as headliner, alongside Brazilian bands Hatefulmurder, Warcursed and Reckoning Hour, performing 26 shows in 30 days all over Brazil. In November, after seven years, the band returned to Buenos Aires / Argentina for a mini tour of four dates.
Starting the year 2018, the band returned to the road. The "Zumbis Squad Tour" undertook eight shows in the country side of São Paulo in February. In March, the band made another South American tour, playing in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
DIscogs
A Soul in Hell (1993) - Demo
Shivering (1995)
Asylum of Shadows (1999)
The Unholy Spell (2001)
Pandemonium (2003)
Death, Chaos and Torture Alive (2004) - Live
Chaos Corporation (2007) - EP
Hellbound (2008)
Æquilibrium (2010)
Esquadrão de Tortura (2013)
Possessed by Horror (2015) -EP
Coup D´État Live (2015) - Live
Return of Evil (2016)
Torture Squad (2017) - Compilation
Far Beyond Existence (2017)
Torture Years (2019)
Unknown Abyss (2021)
Área 51
Torture Squad Lyrics
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Lost in this place called Dreamland
Lights shinning in the sky
Things so strange to understand
Tales of ET's, spread in our minds
Lies in high degree
Rip the night like a sight with amazing velocity
The fear and the perplexity
With your ships crossin' the sky
Bringing the old prophecy
Fire, water, death, destruction!
Hidden files keep secrets that can't be revealed
Tales of aliens working with humans
It's to surreal!
Building a new technology
Advanced memory, made by ET's
A new way of life or this a new way to kill
(Chorus)
UFO! Disturbances in the night
Owing to this new form of life
Divine gods from another space
Or black demons bringing disgrace!
This is the area 51...
When they appear in the night
The fear and the perplexity
With your ships crossin' the sky
They are bringing the old prophecy...
Prophecy!!!
The lyrics to Torture Squad's "Area 51" are focused on the mystery and fear surrounding the infamous military base in Nevada, USA. The "chill in the spine" that the singer feels upon entering the area represents the unease that many people have about what may be happening behind closed doors. The reference to "Dreamland" is a nickname for the base, and the "lights shining in the sky" may be a reference to reported UFO sightings in the area. The singer notes that there are things that are "strange to understand" and mentions "tales of ET's," indicating that the song is playing with ideas of extraterrestrial life and the possibility of the US government keeping information from the public.
The second stanza adds to the fear and confusion, with "hidden files" and aliens potentially working alongside humans to build "new technology." The lyrics suggest that this technology could be either a "new way of life" or a "new way to kill," indicating that there is potential danger behind what is happening at Area 51. The chorus emphasizes the chaos that may come with beings from another planet arriving on Earth, with the possibilities of "disturbances in the night" and the arrival of "divine gods" or "black demons."
Overall, the lyrics to "Area 51" tap into a common contemporary paranoia about what is happening at the base and what the government may be hiding from the public. By playing with ideas of aliens and a new way of life, the song presents a bleak picture of what might be coming in the future.
Line by Line Meaning
Feel a chill in the spine
A creepy feeling that sends shivers down one's back
Lost in this place called Dreamland
Confused and disoriented in a mysterious, unknown location
Lights shinning in the sky
Bright, glowing objects hovering in the air
Things so strange to understand
Mysterious phenomena that are difficult to comprehend
Tales of ET's, spread in our minds
Stories of extraterrestrial life that are circulated and believed by many people
Lies in high degree
A lot of false information and deception surrounding the truth
Rip the night like a sight with amazing velocity
A fast and powerful force that tears through the darkness of night
When they appear in the night
Referring to the aforementioned bright, glowing objects
The fear and the perplexity
The terror and confusion that these objects instill in people
With your ships crossin' the sky
Observing the movement of the strange objects in flight
Bringing the old prophecy
Fulfilling a prediction or foretelling of future events
Fire, water, death, destruction!
A warning of catastrophic consequences that may come from contact with alien life
Hidden files keep secrets that can't be revealed
Classified information that is not to be disclosed to the public
Tales of aliens working with humans
Stories of extraterrestrial beings collaborating with people on Earth
It's too surreal!
Difficult to believe or accept as real
Building a new technology
Developing advanced machines and systems
Advanced memory, made by ET's
Revolutionary computer technology created by extraterrestrial beings
A new way of life or this a new way to kill
An alternative way of existence or a means of causing harm and destruction
UFO! Disturbances in the night
Unidentified flying objects that cause disruption and chaos
Owing to this new form of life
Due to the presence of extraterrestrial beings
Divine gods from another space
Worshipped entities from beyond Earth
Or black demons bringing disgrace!
The possibility of evil supernatural beings invading and causing chaos
This is the area 51...
Referencing the secretive military base where much speculation and conspiracy surrounds its purpose
Prophecy!!!
Emphasizing the idea of a predetermined future event
Contributed by Liliana H. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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TORTURE SQUAD (Brazil) (2017) - GS Productions - GSP 190 4 CD BOX
The Unholy Spell — 2001 + Chaos Corporation (EP) - 2006
ИСТОРИЯ РАННЕГО TORTURE SQUAD. ЧАСТЬ ТРЕТЬЯ.
Вот так мы и дошли до третьего полноформата The Unholy Spell бразильского монстра TORTURE SQUAD.
Вспоминает ударник Amilcar Christofaro.
В 2001-м году специализированная пресса решила, что наш альбом лучший в Бразилии. Он был записан в Da Tribo Studios. В этом же году группа выпустила свой первый видеоклип “Abduction Was The Case”, который был множество раз был прокручен на MTV Brasil, на TV show Furia Metal.
В 2002 гитарист Cristiano Fusco покинул группы и был заменен на Mauricio Nogueira (ранее играл в KRISIUN). А тот сразу в путь, присоединился к команде в их первом бразильском туре «The Unholy Legion Tour 2002", вместе с Nervochaos.
“Будучи в туре, мы постоянно находились в поиске. Даже с потерей бойцов мы писали новые вещи для следующих альбомов».
The Unholy Spell — 2001 — 1 — 9 трэки. TORTURE SQUAD продолжает ломать стили и подходы, создавая свою личную вершину дэт-трэша, и все более она - эта вершина - становится уникальной, это хорошо просматривается в ходе прослушивания дисков по очереди.
А состав на диске оставался прежним. Vitor Rodrigues – Vocal, Cristiano Fusco – Guitar, Castor – Bass, Amilcar Christofaro – Drums. Гитарист ушел через год. Команда продолжает наращивать свой стиль грубого жестокого нетолерантного трэш-дэта, который как гигантский рашпиль заравнивает пространство и время. Бригада создает трэки с пониманием и акцентом, что они будут играться на концертах - драйвовые, напористые, угарные. В этом, возможно, и секрет их успеха, песен и музыкантов. Ставятся не абстрактные задачи, а вполне реальные цели. И таковая - главная цель, как мне кажется, - доступность материала.
Вокалист работает в двух как минимум тональностях, трешевой и дэтовой. И при том органично распределяет их по дорожкам. Где-то вокалы сталкиваются, но тут есть такой «фактор +» - Кастор помогает на бэк-вокалах. То есть, как только возникает необходимость - басист тут как тут.
Вижу, что полезно читать буклеты. Кстати, в боксе 8-страничный буклет, где изображен фронт каждого альбома и сзади - инфа с него. Этот заполнен бесчисленными тэнксами группам, журналам и издателям.
Chaos Corporation (EP) — 2006. 10 — 14 трэки. Два оригинальных трэка и два с демо 93 — прямо-таки демонстрация изменений, прошедших в команде. А вот здесь на гитаре играет Mauricio Nogueira. Эпишка вышла через пять лет после The Unholy Spell и видно:
1. Подходы к саунд-инжинирингу несколько поменялись. Вы это заметите.
2. Но это первое, новый гитарист Маурисио к тому времени разогнался по полной программе (или с самого начала отжигал, как виртуоз струнных). По факту - команда усилилась искусной гитарной игрой. Конструктивно музыка стала более плотной, и почему-то двинулась к интенсивному мастерскому трэшу.
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