Deafkids (Brazil/Neurot Recordings) @ Bello Bar, Friday 16th October

[Enthusiastic Eunuch]

Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents

Deafkids
(Brazil/Neurot Records)

Friday 16th October
Bello Bar
Doors 8pm
Tickets via https://billetto.ie/e/deafkids-brazil-neurot-records-tickets-19410

The Brazilian duo DEAFKIDS returns with a vital and combustive new album, CICATRIZES DO FUTURO (SCARS OF THE FUTURE). This nine-track sonic assault forges a path beyond the conventions and boundaries of static musical genres. Here, electronic fury and feverish organic percussion collide with a relentless Latin American punk spirit. CICATRIZES DO FUTURO is the band's first non-collaborative full length since 2019's Metaprogramação, and will be available on LP, CD and Digital formats via Neurot Recordings on 29th May 2026.

Imbued with a frantic Afro-Latin pulse, lead single "CICATRIZES" (SCARS) is available to listen to today and features a dirty, danceable and sweat-soaked intersection between raw punk and clave-led Afro-Cuban music, with a futuristic approach and bloodshot eyes. Heavy pulsating 808 bass drums hit hard as a characteristic D-beat foundation for Sarine's ultrafast percussion played in the Guaguancó rhythm, driving a relentless Acid-House bassline and fuzzed walls of guitar riffs while processed vocals screams in absolute madness.

"The lyrics of 'CICATRIZES' are like an eyewitness account of a world collapsing, facing its devastating material and psychological consequences. Describing the journey from apathy to traumatic perception, from alienation to incurable witnessing, the song captures the state of a consciousness that, awakening from the collective delusion, confronts the terrifying reality that has been concealed. The rhetorical question 'Is it all a delirium?' is quickly answered and amplified: it is not individual, but a collective 'great delirium!', a toxic and dominant narrative that normalizes the absurd and paralyzes action."

"Conceptually, the album is a visceral diagnosis of a world intoxicated by its own fictions of power, tracing the anatomy of a systemic grand deception and exploring its mechanics of psychological, social, and material domination, the indelible marks imprinted on bodies and minds and it's catastrophic consequences. It is a journey from the poisoned and addicted collective psyche to the desperate search for an antidote, while the future seems to be already cursed by the very forces that pretend to build it. Yet, for all its thematic weight, CICATRIZES DO FUTURO is hypnotically danceable - physical and ritualistic music that demands body movement as a form of mental cleansing. The album doesn't just reflect a fractured and violent world — it breathes desire to live and resist through new sonic paths."

They continue, "Our music comes from the perception of the environmental, political, and moral toxicity that permeates our realities under such conditions. In the context of the album, the scars are those of a brutally stolen past reflected in a wicked future. A permanent mark of violence is also a memory that will never be silenced!"

Formed in 2010 in Volta Redonda/Rio de Janeiro and signed with the North-American label Neurot Recordings since 2017, the work of multi-instrumentalists Douglas Leal (vocals, guitar, electronics, samplers, percussive, artwork, etc) and Marian Sarine (drums, percussive, electronics, bass) consistently blends the raw spirit of noise and punk with complex global rhythms and electronic experimentation, creating a vibrant and provocative body of work that challenges musical and aesthetic conventions.

[Enthusiastic Eunuch]

This Friday night. Wild Rocket (Ire) and KOMBI (Brazil) also play. Tickets still available online and on the door

[leoos]

My brother saw them in Birmingham last night. Loved it. Ear destroying was one of the messages I got as a review along with many more.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Managed to score a ticket for the Cork gig, but highly recommend for anyone, that bitta Wild Rocket is a lovely bonus. Caught them at Roadburn a couple of years ago and they were wonderfully discombobulating, tiny room should make it even better.

[StoutAndAle]

Managed to score a ticket for the Cork gig, but highly recommend for anyone, that bitta Wild Rocket is a lovely bonus. Caught them at Roadburn a couple of years ago and they were wonderfully discombobulating, tiny room should make it even better.

Looking forward to the Cork gig tonight. I am genuinely curious to see how this one will be received in that room - especially by the punters on the other side of the wall.

I've been to a few gigs in there that were louder than Coughlan's usual folk stuff and spotted some of the staff fretting about the volume.

The support - Bodycam - are good too.

[StoutAndAle]

Deafkids were the absolute business in Cork last night. Could have done with a bit more guitar in the mix but the thumping energy from the drums was something else.

Certainly glad that I had earplugs, I could feel my shirt vibrating.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Yeah, louder volume on the amps would've been the way to go alright but it wasn't egregious, I get that's not their usual show in there as you said, engineer probably just freaked out looking at the size of the cabs 

Love them, just relentless from the first beat and brilliant to watch. Those toms with no reso heads the drummer had up high were about half a foot from my face and I definitely felt them in my skull!

Bodycam were the perfect support. Actually didn't have the plugs in for them and though they sounded great, Michelle has the perfect voice for that style, always intelligible through the wall of bass and noise.

[decy]

Deafkids were brilliant. Was right in front of the drummer which was a great spot but those high toms definitely provided some new and exciting hearing loss.

[StoutAndAle]

I wondered had I crossed to the other side of the room, by the fireplace, if the guitar would have been clearer. Was the amp head branded as Power City?

I meant to say that Bodycam were deadly too. It was my first time seeing them live (I think...), got in just as they started. Bass, noise and decay - glorious. My buddy, who I thought wouldn't be into them at all, got really hooked.

We had to step out before the end of the Bodycam set because there was some tool vaping and blowing it back towards us. Wouldn't stop or get away from me, no matter how much I asked him and I felt my temper rising. Ended up in the smoking area where the smell of cigarette was, somehow, not nearly as bad as the hum of watermelon bubblegum. 

[decy]

We had to step out before the end of the Bodycam set because there was some tool vaping and blowing it back towards us. Wouldn't stop or get away from me, no matter how much I asked him and I felt my temper rising. Ended up in the smoking area where the smell of cigarette was, somehow, not nearly as bad as the hum of watermelon bubblegum. 

Glad that didn't waft my way, might have sent me into full Larry David mode.

[Metaldude]

Will there be sign language again this gig for all the deaf kids??

Is there discount for hearing impaired

Stage times?