Brazilian Doomers Acidemia Reveal First Sounds From Debut Full-Length!
Imbued with acerbic criticism and immersed with misty, dense sonority, the Brazilian trio ACIDEMIA don't deny their roots, bringing in the DNA elements from bands such as Electric Wizard, Sleep, Windhand, and Ufomammut. The corrosive veil evoked by Henrique Soares (bass, vox), Mateus Varela (guitar), and Thiago Granetto (drums) seems to permeate every element of their sound, which brings us to the band's current moment where they tread the path to 'Podridão' (2021), their first studio album.
Mainly influenced by the current global moment, the lyrics of the album Podridão (the band's first work to have compositions in the native language) talk about human misery, suffering, uncertainty, moving towards to become the densest, well-prepared and captivating material of the band created in 2015 in the city of Lages. That's what we start to see now with the debut of his first single, the track "Névoas de Ácido," available exclusively here.
Listen: Acidemia - 'Névoas de Ácido'
Who will say what is right?
Extinct acting by desperation
Feeding with pain
Annihilating their own fear
The masked despair
The same blood running through the veins
A raw face
The truth in a reflection
Existence, black magic
Illusion, despair
Seven lit candles
Ritual and darkness
The disturbed mind, ordering to act
No feeling, deep immensity
The disturbed mind, ordering to act
No feeling, deep immensity
The dusk is near
Mists near to the surface
Scream of horror and despair
Will it be an order for the next kills?
Acid corroding through the skin
Every drop is a suffering, eternal moment
You only live once, don't you?
The band Acidemia carries a slow, dirty and dissonant sound proposal composed by a power trio that originated in the city of Lages, Brazil. Around 2015 they started with Jams without commitment just to relax, inspired by bands like Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard and Sleep with Rubens Silva on guitar, Thiago Granetto on drums and Henrique P. Soares on bass and vocals. Through some riffs played in Jams, set out below songs that would be a basis for the band's first EP entitled 'Extinction, recorded at Fatboo Studios and released in late 2018, with six songs that portray the hatred expelled by society.
Since then the band started playing at festivals promoting their first EP, and one of the shows was at Santana's Sunday where they shared the stage with the bands Balthazar and Losna, having as their first audiovisual record the song entitled “Slow Children ” which opens the EP.
In July 2019 at the event Sétima Semana do Rock Catarinense, the band Acidemia performed in the famous acoustic shell of Joca Neves square located in Lages, showing a slow and unprecedented sound for the general public. From this show in the square came the second material entitled 'Live in Swamp,' with six songs played live, one of them unpublished entitled "Podridão," showing that the band was already starting work for the first full album with a new identity and with lyrics in Portuguese.
Acidemia - Live in Swamp by ACIDEMIA
The new songs continued to appear in 2020. However, with the departure of Rubens Silva, Mateus Varela started to play guitar, continuing the composition of the album. In March, there was the first show with a new lineup and some new songs. With the advance of the pandemic, naturally as ideas that emerged for the album were turned to something more intimate and darker of the human being, related to anxiety and depression. With this new lineup influences were increased in the identity from bands like Monolord, Ufomammut, Old One, Windhand, making the sound more experimental and abstract. In 2021, they started recording their first album entitled 'Podridão.'