Bizarra Locomotiva - Musicbox Club Docs #11

Industrial rock, they called it. In Portugal, Bizarra Locomotiva is the band which better represents that angered and neurotic scream, those sounds designed for the urban wreck of the technological age. Born in 1993 by the joint efforts of Rui Sidónio and Armando Teixeira with the then influential Modern Music Contest of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa in mind, which they ended up winning, the band released their self-titled debut album the year after. Over the course of two decades, their formation suffered some changes, but the music, in turns more synthetic, contaminated by the machine, or guided by the guts impulse of a brutal, straight to the bone rock sound, has maintained its main focus: the oppresion of mankind chained by moral and technology. That was the basis of conceptual albums like “Bestiário”, released in 1998, or “Homem Máquina”, from 2002. “Álbum Negro”, with liner notes by the writer José Luís Peixoto and featuring Fernando Ribeiro, singer of Moonspell, in the song “O Anjo Exilado”, was released