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ANTHARES "No Limite da Força" LP (limited to 500 copies! includes 2 sided-insert)
15 eur each copy
Special limited t-shirt (50 units only) + LP: 25 eur (T-Shirt not sold separately!)

The best Thrash record recorded in the 80's in Brazil along with Sepultura's legendary "Schizophrenia" and Ratos de Porão "Brasil"! This is top-notch Speed Metal mixed with Thrashcore, an all-out attack of vicious headbanging so much imitated nowadays! This record is very hard to find nowadays, so here's a chance to own the vinyl and this time in an upgraded edition with bonus tracks (from the 1993 demo "Cannibal")!
Limited to 500 copies, 50 of them with T-Shirt available only on mailorder through Blood & Iron.
www.myspace.com/antharesmetal

THE ANTHARES STORY SO FAR…
Formed in the São Paulo city by a group of friends playing in the beginning cover versions, Anthares became a reality in 1985, when the first line-up was set up with Evandro Júnior on drums and Pardal on bass (being these two the only original members today on the band), Cristian and Zé Aranha on guitars and local Metal legendary singer Henrique “Poço”.
With the band name taken from a star of the Scorpio constellation the band starts to write their own tunes with social awareness lyrics, warning of the listener to all the social alienation around, like social violence, wars, the nuclear nightmare, dictatorships and paranoia.
The first Anthares show was in July 1985, more concerts followed including one with Black Metal legends Sarcófago for 1800 people in 1987!
On December of the same year, “No Limite da Força” comes out released by the famed Metal label Devil Discos.
The band gave shows all the year of 1988, while many reviews in magazines and fanzines featured rave reviews for “No Limite da Força” and radio interviews were given to support the promotion of the álbum.
1988 and 89 were also the years of legendary shows with other cult acts from Brazil such Sepultura, Dorsal Atlântica, R.D.P., Korzus, MX, etc.
1989 was also the year Cristian left the band to live in Chile, which was his birthplace. Replacing him, came Topperman who played in the first line-up of Korzus. A few months after, it was Henrique “Poço” who left because of divergences with the producer for the supposed second album. It was the end of a cycle of glory.
In 1991 Aranha gave his place to Maurício (ex-Megaforce). And just in the end of 1991 they found na appropriate singer: Renato.  
The band started to write new material sung in english to try to reach the international market.
The band recorded two demos in 1993 and 95 the style was a bit different from the rawer Speed/Thrash from the beginning. They were more influenced this time by the early 90’s Bay Area Thrash scene.
In 1996, the personal pursuits of each of the band members make the band split up.
Until 2004, the idea of putting Anthares back on track was never forgotten. Frank (the new singer) decided to invite the other Anthares members for a special show in June 2004. Renato living in the U.S. could not contibue with the band so Frank himself joined the band along with Evandro Júnior, Pardal, Topperman and Maurício on guitars.
Bringing a new setlist of songs with a new musical direction contrasting heavyness and technical ability, Anthares are back singing again in Portuguese language, maintaining the old roots of the band mixed up with it’s new destructive aggressiveness. LONG LIVE ANTHARES!

         
Remastered and expanded edition of this Brasilian Epic/Doom Metal classic from the underground!
Hear: www.myspace.com/calvariowhitemetal

"Hmmm.....
Can anyone really think of an 80's, real Doom Metal band from South America? No, me neither. Don't get all worked up here; CALVARIO were not real Doom nor 80's, but I guess they were as close as you'd get. Closing my eyes and pretending I've never got to see the credits, I'd bet "Ioxye" was some obscure Minotauro-realease that'd somehow slipped through my fingers. CALVARIO's dark and obscure Metal sound so typically Italian and it's not only my inability to discern the italian language from spanish/portoguese that's to blame. Fans of THE BLACK, PAUL CHAIN'S VIOLET THEATRE, RUN AFTER TO, DARK AGES and the likes should really take a peek across the Atlantic, above the '89-horizon and check this one out.

Already with "Tola Odisséia" we are thrown into a DARK QUARTERER/OMEGA(UK)-like maelstrom of black sludge. The quick jump to more generic HM and then a seedy ballad on the tracks to come saves you from completely loosing your breath. Unfortunately. The all-out Doom in "Jesus Aos.." should have me rolling on the floor after this, but the awkward riffing takes plenty of listenings to get into. Hm... I should love this. It's not too far away from BLACK HOLE's bleaker moments. Next side: The instrumental title track shred! Suddenly they're a galloping, melodic Epic Metal band! Yay! ...and then more Doom follows in "Pacto", this time more straight-forward and pounding. Great shit. "Passporte Ao Paraíso" starts out as an aucusting, medieval 'ballad' that half-way into the song turns into yet another soaring Doom-rocker. Ending with the heavy, epic headbanger "Tempos De Justica", CALVARIO prove themselves to be one of Brazil's best hidden secrets.

"Ixoye" is a sure buy, but will take up plenty of turntable-time to prove itself. I've probably had this album in my collection for more than half a decade, and it still has plenty of secrets to unveil at every listening. The vocals are fucking STRANGE! Kinda like Patrice le Calvez of frenchies KILLERS... or U.D.O. on a Robert Plant-trip if my obscure references are getting tiresome. Not to anyones surprise they were White Metal as fucking hell (extra special thanx to STRYPER for X'ssake!), but plenty of morose metallians has gotten away with it earlier, so why bother." (Dan Edman / www.thecorroseum.com )