Music Pantera shows in The Town that it should be on the main stages of the Paulistano festival makes the biggest “day rock” mistake by relegating heavy sound and an anti -racist message from the very bound of Minas Gerais to the stage that

In 2022, the Black Pantera It was already a band in frank rise when he first performed in the Rock in Riofestival of the same directors of the The Town. At the time, the miners of Uberaba – MG performed a brief set alongside the Devoteedividing the repertoire with the Pernambuco group. There seemed to be not much confidence in their potential, but because it was a debut, it made some sense.

With the launch of Perpetual (2024), his fourth studio album (elected the second best of the year Rolling Stone Brazil), the trio composed of Charles Gama (voice and guitar), Gama Chaene (voice and bass) and Rodrigo Pancho (battery) grew even more. Naturally, he began to occupy valued spaces at festivals. But the return to Rock in Rioalso in 2024, it was attracted to an alternative stage, the Supernova. It is as if they have suffered a “downgrade”.

The impression continues in The Town 2025. The group has strength in many ways to present itself, without guests or other devices, in the Skyline or The Onebut ended up scheduled last Sunday, 7, for the Broken stagenovelty also alternative of the current edition of the event. Disputed the attention with the Bad Religionsubstitute for Sex pistols On the main stage, and obviously lost a considerable slice of audience as a result.

It sounds as if the curatorship of the São Paulo event, the same as Carioca, was afraid to play the one that is the largest Brazilian metal band today, considering only names that emerged in the 21st century. Preferred to bet on names like Initial capital, CPM 22 and Pittyveterans who have already played in these more valued spaces of the Rock in Rio – In the case of the Bahian singer, also of the The Townin 2023.

Still, none of this mattered to Charles, Chaene and Pancho. Faced with a considerable audience taking into account the situation – but clearly smaller than the deserved – the trio presented itself as if it were in the largest stage, to the widest audience and in the face of a transmission in the Multishow instead of the channel Bis. Also because their reality is “root” tours, playing to this day in every kind of place, including barbers and “hells”. For those coming from underground, this Sunday, 7, it was just another day of this trajectory.

And if it was just another day, the performance of the Black Pantera node Broken stage He strictly followed what made them known: his own fusion of thrash metal with hardcore, but not to the point of turning Thrash crossover, and extra whim in the groove. Heavy guitar with very straight lines forming a curious double with low funk, sometimes punk, but always in evidence and, why not, protagonism. Behind, battery that also comes ahead, accompanying and also guiding the transitions between swing and breaker. And, of course, an anti -concept message – beyond anti -racism – permeating the lyrics, but never in a lecturer. It is a fun show for a club that only generates hate on social network.

“Lamp”, Chosen for the opening, is preceded by a recording of Berimbau. Rhythmic, the song is one of the best and strongest of the trio’s trajectory.Boom!“, More pulled to the hardcore, motivated the first visible wheels – and the first shouts of” fire in the racists “from the audience.

From there, only slope below – in a good way. The wheels only grew, gaining flags and, consequently, security guards trying to erase. The audience was in the palm of the trio’s hand. The broken stage became stage Black Pantera. The soundly rude “Proverbs”, SELF -EXPLICATIVE“Fire in racists”(Succeeded by shouts“ no amnesty ”also coming from the gifts), the unique ballad of the night“Translation”, The funk-thrash“F &”, The heavy“Paste”… It is a difficult task to select set highlights.

In the end, two questions remain about the future. First: where the Black Pantera will expand its sound in the next album, given the evolution between Rise (2022) and Perpetual? Second: When will the two largest festivals in Brazil put the trio on the main stages, where do they deserve to be?

Black Pantera show setlist at The Town 2025:

1.
2. Boom!
3. Proverbs
4. Standard is the car & lho
5. Fire in racists
6. Perpetual
7. Natural Selection
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11. Ratatatá
12. Without amnesty
13. UNF & CK This
14. Revolution is chaos (preceded by anesthesia stretch – Pulling Teeth of Metallica)

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