THE BEAST

Brazilian Heavy/Thrash Metallers, appropriately called Neo-Thrashers, of VALVERA have unleashed their fantastic and sinister new music video for its song "The Damn Colony" on the band's official Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/valveraoficial).

"The Damn Colony", a track featured in the band's acclaimed and praised work, "Cycle Of Disaster", which had its video pre-released two days earlier in partnership with Metal Hammer Portugal, is a track based on the horrendous history of Hospital Colonia Barbacena, in Minas Gerais. Founded in 1903 and with a capacity of 200 beds, the hospital had an average of 5,000 thousand patients in 1961 and became known for the mass genocide that occurred especially between the 60s and 80s. Trains with full wagons (called "crazy trains"), similar to those in German concentration camps, dumped" human waste "for" treatment "at the hospital daily.

Watch "The Damn Colony" (Official Video) on:

Direction and Photography: Plínio Scambora (@plinioscambora)
Art Direction/General Production: Raquel Tejada (@quel_tejada)
Production Assistants: Aline Lopes (@a_linelopes) and Rennan Carlos (@ rcarlos.arch)
Set production: Matheus Sabino (@sabinofilmes)
Making Of Still: Fabrício Silva (@fabricioluizs)
Makeup: Fabrícia Rodrigues

Actors: Carla Costa (@ carla.csta), Pedro Pellegrino (@pellegrinopedro) and Jaque Rofer (@jaquerofer)

Figuration: Eluizio Felix (@eluiziofelix), Raquel Ferreira, Maria Luciene Oliveira, Rose Pereira, Sergio Machado (@ _sergio.machado_), Bárbaro Xavier (@barbaroxavier), Karla Camioli (@karlacamioli), Carla Gobato (@cacagobato), Sebastião Vieira and Matheus Aiello (@ aiello.mclion)

"It is a really horrendous, sinister and even unbelievable history to believe in. In this hospital, people's clothes were stripped, their hair shaved and their names erased. Naked in body and identity, kidnapped humanity, men, women and even children ate rats and feces, drank sewage or urine, slept on grass, were beaten and raped to death" commented Gabriel Prado.

It is estimated that about 70% of the inmates had no diagnosis of mental illness. The hospital was intended to contain the undesirable, with the function of cleaning and sanitation in the locality, in the words, "unpleasant and uncomfortable people" for someone with more power, such as political opponents, prostitutes, homosexuals, beggars, people without documents, epileptics , alcoholics, pregnant girls and raped by their bosses, wives confined so that the husband could live with his mistress, daughters of farmers who lost their virginity before marriage, among other marginalized groups in society.

"The Colonia Hospital's patients died of cold, hunger, disease. They also died of electroshock. In a few days, the electroshocks were so many and so strong that the overload knocked down the city's network. In periods of greater capacity, 16 people died each between 1969 and 1980, more than 1,800 bodies of patients were sold to 17 medical colleges in the country, without anyone questioning. When there was an excess of corpses and the market shrank, the bodies began to to be decomposed in acid, in the Colonia Hospital, in front of the patients still alive, so that the bones could be commercialized", commented Rodrigo Torres.

The Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, a pioneer in the anti-asylum struggle in Italy, was in Brazil and met Colonia in 1979. At the time, he called a press conference and vented: "I was in a Nazi concentration camp today. Nowhere in the world, I witnessed a tragedy like that."

"The exorbitant and silenced numbers (for more than 50 years) of summary, cold and violent executions that took place at the Colonia de Barbacena hospital far outweigh the deaths registered and hidden in the Brazilian military dictatorship (among Indians, peasants, persecuted politicians, etc. They surpass even the numbers of the bloodiest dictatorships in Latin America, Chile with more than 40 thousand and Argentina with more than 30 thousand dead", commented Glauber Barreto.

"As artists that we are, we have an obligation to speak, to be the voice of the people, to bring questions and answers so that things like this never happen again", concluded Leandro Peixoto.

More information:

“Cycle Of Disaster”, the third studio album by the brazilian band Valvera, was released in August 2020 via Brutal Records (USA and Canada), Plastic Head (Europe) and Voice Music (Brazil), and has been receiving excellent reviews by fans, Brazilian and worldwide specialized press, including being listed as one of the best releases of 2020 on many respected websites, magazines and sites around the world the world.

Recorded at Dual Noise Studio, in Sao Paulo/SP, produced by the band together with Rogerio Wecko (mastering, mixing and sound engineering) and with cover art by the experienced Marcelo Vasco (Slayer, Machine Head, Metal Allegiance, Kreator), "Cycle Of Disaster" is now available in CD format and also on all traditional worldwide streaming platforms.

Current Line-Up:

Glauber Barreto - Vocals / Guitars
Rodrigo Torres - Guitars
Gabriel Prado - Bass
Leandro Peixoto - Drums

Discography:

“Cidade em Caos” (Album/2015)
“Demons Of War” (Single/2017)
“Back To Hell” (Album/2017)
“Bringer Of Evil” (Single/2019)
“Glow Of Death” (Single/2020)
“Born In A Dead Planet” (Single/2020)
“Cycle Of Disaster” (Album/2020)

Listen to VALVERA on:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/valveraoficial
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/br/artist/valvera/1043332035
Bandcamp: https://valvera.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/valvera-music
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3S87lwfQs6K1O1WsQrpPhz
Deezer: www.deezer.com/br/artist/8945888
Napster: https://br.napster.com/artist/valvera
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B015TRXRMG

Social Midias:

Site: www.valvera.com.br
Store: www.valvera.lojavirtualnuvem.com.br
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bandavalvera
Instagram: www.instagram.com/valveraband
Twitter: twitter.com/valvera_oficial