A Brazilian punk band whose name means 'anger' and whose music has stayed politically raw for decades.
For the uninitiated, 'Burgo - Alienação' and 'Zero Zero' still sound like they were recorded yesterday. That's the point.
Cólera matters because they never stopped being exactly what their name promised: angry. They formed in São Paulo in 1987, right in the thick of Brazil's political turmoil, and songs like 'Burgo - Alienação' delivered that frustration straight. The band faced actual censorship and arrests for their lyrics, which makes their steady output, from 1988's self-titled album to 2011's 'Pela Liberdade', a quiet act of persistence.
The core four, Gigante, Xixo, Waldir, and Macaco, started playing that fast, raw punk in 1987 and stuck with it. They put out records like 'Somos Todos Iguais' in 1991 and 'Direitos Humanos' in 1995, always keeping the political messaging clear even as lineups shifted slightly around them.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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