NERVOSA
Nervosa: back to ensure all Hell breaks loose
PRESS/GREGORY DOURTOUNIS
Jailbreak
NAPALM
Brazil-based thrashers reinvent themselves for a second time
THE 2020S HAVE been turbulent enough for most people, but for Nervosa it appears to have reached another level. Having spent the previous decade cementing themselves as Brazil’s foremost entry to an international thrash revival alongside the likes of Evile, Havok and Warbringer, they underwent a complete line-up change in 2020 that left guitarist Prika Amaral as the sole original member. They came back from the brink with a stormer of an album in 2021’s aptly named Perpetual Chaos – only for the band to disintegrate again. Following this second Nervosa breakdown, Prika stepped up to the lead vocalist role and recruited another entirely new international line-up.