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Chakal - Living with the Pigs

Brazilian Death/Thrash! - 78%

CHRISTI_NS_ANITY8, October 4th, 2007

Chakal are a forgotten piece of history in the Brazilian underground. Their thrash/death wasn’t so lucky as the one of their playmates Sepultura but surely they left us some very good albums and this good EP.
“Living With The Pigs” comes directly after their first full length and contains two tracks of pure death/thrash in pure ‘80s style! Great!

S.A.T.P. (Shoot at the Police) begins with a funny song for children that talks about The Four Pigs, as well demonstrated also in the cover art work. Very funny! But after few seconds we return to reality with a great riff, so raw and massive up tempo. The guitar sound reminds me the one in “Schizophrenia” album but more raw. The vocals are on the borderline between thrash and death. The good songwriting is well demonstrated in the mid paced riffs where the refrain has been collocated perfectly. The guitar parts doesn’t seem too easy and immature, but with a great groove and quite well structured. Check out the good, fast solo!

The second track is “Never Die Young” and is mostly an up tempo with a great, distorted and dissonant main riff. The guitar parts change quite often, contributing to create a good mix without being boring. The riff you can find at 2:00 is awesome, pure thrash with some influences from Mutilator band, always from Brazil. The chorus are so strange, followed by an obscure solo. Good song.

This is a very good EP that follows more or less the same style of their first album, but the music improvement yet can be hear. With the following album they would have become definitely thrash metal, with a better production but if you want raw sounds and good thrash/death, listen to this two songs.