Agonia e Morte

This album is a mess from start to end. This supposed crossover band comes from São Paulo, Brazil. Incidentally, this is also the hometown of Brazil's number one crossover band, Ratos de Porão. W.C.H.C. had to be intimately familiar with the music of these local masters of the genre - but their own effort somehow ended up like a resounding failure. There is not a single riff I ever want to hear again.

To even call W.C.H.C. a band is a stretch. Though the individual instrumental performances are above first-time beginner level, there is no tightness as a collective. The song arrangements are incoherent and chopped-up with incessant breakdowns. If a song shows signs of going somewhere, the energy peters out with yet another breakdown. To me this is a token that W.C.H.C. lacked the skill to unify riffs into songs, and bridge the parts together.

The production is one of the worst I've ever heard. The guitar is heard as a faint scratching behind the bass, and the vocals are muddled as hell. Not that I'd want these cookie monster vocals to appear clearer in the mix anyway. The fact that I don't speak Portuguese is only a part of the reason why I can't decipher the lyrics. I'm guessing that some of the lyrics are humorous, but humour is difficult to translate to other times and environments. On the song "Kill Garfield", the singer sort of gives up and resorts to babbling. And why not? It makes equal sense as the songs that have actual lyrics.

The only thing with any reminiscience of value is the cover art's background. It has a cool colour scheme. Sadly, the crudely drawn alien foils the picture. The sad-looking alien with disproportionate limbs and weird muscles is badly positioned in the composition. W.C.H.C. only belongs in a "worst of thrash" collection.