Featuring horrific cover art and perhaps even more horrific, a malignant sound combining brutal thrash, grindcore and black metal that was rarely heard, Holocausto made it’s way through the tape trading circuit in 1987 with their debut Campo de Exterminio which still stands as one of Brazil’s most violent and controversial albums to date. This stuff is so brutal, it makes Sepultura’s early material sound like Britney Spears. If that isn’t the most stellar review an album of this stature and sound could garner, I don’t know what is.

Holocausto split up in the early 1990’s after releasing three more albums, and have recently reformed in 2004 and put out a comeback album in 2005 entitled De Volta ao Front. I have yet to hear this new album, but I am anxiously looking for it because I want to hear what Holocausto sounds like over 20 years after their controversial debut release.

Despite it’s uncompromising cover art and questionable themes, Campo de Exterminio is a true example of extreme underground metal that was harsher than all the Death’s and Napalm Death’s at the time. Seek this out, but be forewarned, you may have to pay a hefty pricetag as I don’t think this has been reprinted.

http://www.myspace.com/holocaustowarmetal

http://www.holocaustowarmetal.kit.net/

CODY