Artist description In-your-face aggressiveness and fury! Pounding guitar riffs, groovy bass lines, powerful drums and melodic'n'harsh vocals. Jungle metal combined to anguished lyrics.

Music Style 3rd World Heavy Music For The Masses

Musical Influences Metal, indie rock, hip-hop, funk and hardcore.

Similar Artists Sepultura, Slipknot, Incubus, Deftones, Helmet, Korn, Faith No More

Artist History The band started out in march of 1997. After 10 months practicing, the band recorded and produced a 3-track self-titled Demo CD. They began playing some shows at its hometown (Salvador) and gained quick notoriety for their aggressiveness and tightness. After headlining some shows, they opened for the national heroes, Sepultura. On November, 1999 the band changed it's name to fantoche. fantoche is now living in San Diego, California - USA, is recording their new demo and is planning a US tour very soon.

Group Members R. Nuñez - main throat and lyricz; Marcelo - dtuned rhythm guitz; Julio Fernandez - bazz; Jera - 3rd world drumz

Instruments Evil throat; 6 & 7-string ESP guitz; Boss effectz; 5-string Ibanez bazz; Tama drumz; DW hardwarez, Sabian and Zildjan cymbalz

Albums 1998' Demo CD (n/a)

Press Reviews "These songs are so intense they’ll make your ears bleed. Pimps has gained my respect as fast as a cannon ball for their wise lyrics and aggressive music." - Pedro Einloft, Pimp Rock Palace's webmaster."One of the main reasons I like this band is because they seem to have it all together. They play like a well-oiled machine: the tempo is always precise, all the guitars and vocals and drums complement each other perfectly, and the transitions in the songs are excellent. These guys definitely have something special." - Ryan, The Noise Box's webmaster.

Additional Info The original CD made by the band, contains a 1 minute edited live video shot at Salvador. But it's not avaliable any more.

Location Salvador, Bahia - Brazil

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