Brazilian hardcore veterans Ratos de Porão (Basement Rats) spit metal and bone splinters on this “Holiday In São Paolo” romp, managing in a spare 16 minutes and 55 seconds to barnstorm such topics as ethnocide (on the title track, “Cannibal Civil War”) and corporate science (“Biotech Is Godzilla,” copped from Jello Biafra and Sepultura), while throwing in goofs on samba and poser metal/hardcore.


The sound splatters like a grody food joke at the junior-high cafeteria (especially the cover art, reminiscent of The Dead Kennedys’ Plastic Surgery Disasters), but it’s a short enough set to enjoy the thick ‘n’ chunky spew without too nasty an aftertaste.
November 2001, Illinois Entertainer

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