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• ‘Even Lucifer was using a fan’: Brazil bakes as mercilessly hot spring begins

  26-09-2023 17:48
  
  Having just emerged from its warmest winter since 1961, the country is sweltering amid unforgiving and unseasonal temperaturesA ferocious heatwave was sweeping South America, and samba composer Beto Gago (Stuttering Bob) saw only one thing to do: pop out for an ice-cold beer with his drinking buddy Joel Saideira – Last Order Joel.“Damn, it was grim around here yesterday,” the 76-year-old musician grimaced as he stood outside his home Irajá – reputedly Rio’s h
  
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• ‘Our drummer used human tibia bones’: the hellish birth of Brazil’s heavy metal scene

  26-09-2023 15:57
  
  Responding to police brutality, hard labour and the threat of nuclear war, members of Sepultura, Holocausto and more explain their decidedly anti-tropical musicHeavy metal has always revelled in its us-against-the-universe attitude, remaining steadfast in the face of hostility and outright ridicule; its bands were often born in the shadow of industrial decline, recession or the cold war. Few, though, can claim to have faced the struggles of Brazil’s early extreme metal acts, as their count
  
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