Death punks Clan dos Mortos Cicatriz claw through the silence with “Nada,” the first single and video from their debut full-length, Técnicas de Morte, set to drop March 21.
The new track is a death knell ringing out of Curitiba, Brazil’s festering underbelly, a taste of the fifteen-track, twenty-five-minute slab of nekro-hardcore to come. No mercy, no light. Just a raw howl from the slums and graveyards, where suffering’s the only currency.
The band—Michael Wilseque, Weliton Lisboa, Felipe Soares, Ênio Guilherme—doesn’t mess around. “Nada” hits like a brick through a skull. Soares’ vocals scrape like a specter’s rant, lyrics all his own, spitting venom at nothingness with a preacher’s fury and a corpse’s calm.
Wilseque’s guitar slashes wild, frantic licks weaving chaos into something almost majestic, while Lisboa’s drums and Guilherme’s bass hammer down, relentless, demented, a rhythm section built to bury.
Recorded at Estúdio Laje by Felipe Sad, mixed by Wilseque, and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air, it’s unpolished—grit and bile preserved in every note.
The video by covacoletiva is no cleaner: stark shots of Curitiba’s fringes—gutters, morgues, the kind of streets that swallow lives whole.
Clan dos Mortos Cicatriz stands amid it, instruments in hand, caught mid-ritual by Ana Clara’s lens. Antônio Leal’s artwork backs it up, death-scarred and unyielding, with MA’s layout locking it into Sentient Ruin Laboratories’ catalog as SRUIN236.
This is death punk’s lineage—Black Flag’s bite, G.I.S.M.’s snarl, Misfits’ gloom, Rudimentary Peni’s decay, Christian Death’s wail, The Damned’s sneer, Hellhammer’s frost, Ildjarn’s desolation—smashed into a jagged rite of refusal, a sound that doesn’t bend, only breaks.
Técnicas de Morte looms ahead, a full “grim manifesto of total refusal and an undying ode to death and suffering,” as Sentient Ruin puts it.
Fifteen short blasts—poems, denunciations, epitaphs, oaths, war cries—across a canvas of gangrenous riffs and spectral shrieks.
“Nada” is just the first wound, a standalone cut today, but the full album’s coming.
