Rio De Janeiro band Rakta’s latest release is an intense experiment. For their new 7” single, the death rock band has emerged as one band with their city contemporaries, não wave punkers Cadaver Em Transe, and formed a project called Rakta em Transe. The result feels like the accompanying music for an unknown pagan ritual where urgency and frenzy are a constant and the expansive energy spreads throughout all four brief but piercing tracks.

RIYL: Rakta, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Paralisis Permanente, Skeletal Family, and Vzyadoq Moe.

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Recommended Tracks: 1, 2, and 4

1. (2:29) **Estreito Engano – Entrancing organ riff intro with startling bassline, tribal drum sequence, reverb vocals, loud echoing guitars, and a spoken word intervention late in the track.
2. (1:42) **Anonimato – Organ driven upbeat rhythmic punker with female/male frenetic duet, random piano riffs, and lots of echo.
3. (2:47) Espiral – Rakta being Rakta - ancestral beats, distorted vocals, and reverberating guitars. The way music sounds in a nightmare.
4. (3:28) *Apena mais um – Slow beginning with echoing male vocals spitting words and sentences here and there, a sporadic distorted female chorus follows the sequence. Guitar parts and a faster drum tempo build up track until the whole thing gets loud and frenetic. Song ends at 3:17.