Statues On Fire
Iv (purple)
The fourth album of the Brazilians! "IV" was created under difficult conditions. After Jair Bolsonaro came to power, a lot of things had changed a lot for Brazilian punk bands. We'll just let the band speak: "The feeling of living at the end of the world is somehow inherent, well, we know that there are some other parts of the world that are even worse than here, Brazil is known for beautiful beaches, carnivals or nice and happy people, nothing more. Bolsonaro came to power in 2018 power, fascist and authoritarian agenda, he promoted the worst genocide ever, denied the Covid vaccine, told people to go to work and nothing happened and the results were more 700,000 dead, no vaccine, no oxygen in hospitals, etc. Besides putting up with the Covid pandemic, he tried to destroy the pillars of our democracy by calling for the military to take power. "Bolsonarismo," as it is called here, has also turned into a cult.The Christians have become a big problem here too, their agenda in the Brazilian Congress has cut all funding for the Yanomamis Indians, Bolsonaro has promoted the Golden Diggers campaign, destroyed the Amazon rainforest, the most horrible campaign of deforestation, Indians are dying, rivers are poisoned, here too we have the increase in the number of weapons sold, violence against minorities, women, blacks, etc. Jair Bolsonaro says:Family, God and Homeland (just like Mussolini said it too... clearer than that...). And there is also a massive campaign of Fake News, everywhere. Most songs are about this situation, we can't sit at home and just ignore what's going on! Statues On Fire "IV" is mainly an anti-fascist and anti-good Christian album, some other songs go to a personal level as well."