Bizarra Locomotiva is an Industrial music

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band of Portugal

Portugal

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. Its history dates back to 1993, when Armando Teixeira (voice and machinery) and Rui Sidónio (voice) started a band to participate in Modern Music Competition of the city of Lisbon

Lisbon

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After participating in the Biennale of Young Creators of Mediterranean Europe, the Bizarra Locomotiva when in a national tour. In August 1997, the band performed the in Southwest Festival promoting Fear Now?. In Bestiario, 1998, the band highlights a wider musical range, welcoming new environments and sounds. In 2002, Homem Maquina, mankind once again was the subject of fierce criticism. The band members dressed in suits symbolizing the human machine.
In 2004 the band released Ódio, a comeback to the raw and heavy sounds that weren't at present in Homem Máquina and by that the arc of themed based records came to an end. After 5 years the band released Álbum Negro which gained attention from the media and had very positive reviews, this record features Fernando Ribeiro from Moonspell

Moonspell

Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band from Brandoa, Lisbon. Formed in 1992, the group released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before the release of their first album Wolfheart...

 as guest vocals in the song O Anjo Exilado.

Discography

• Bizarra Locomotiva, Simbiose Records, 1994.
• First Crime, Then Live, Simbiose Records, 1995.
• Fear Now?, Simbiose Records, 1996.
• Bestiário, Simbiose Records, 1998.
• "XX Anos XX Bandas", (Comp.) (tribute to Xutos & Pontapés
  Xutos & Pontapés
  Xutos & Pontapés are a Portuguese rock band, who got together in Almada, Portugal in 1978, 4 years after the Carnation Revolution. They started off in the local punk rock scene and set the trend - singing rock tunes in Portuguese...
  
  ) EMI Records, 1998
• Homem Máquina, Metrodiscos 2002.
• Ódio, Metrodiscos, 2004.
• Álbum Negro, Ragingplanet, 2009.

Current members

• Rui Sidónio - Vocals
• Miguel Fonseca - Guitars
• Alpha - Synths
• Rui Berton - Drums

Past members

• Armando Teixeira - Vocals, Samples
• Ernesto Pinto - Drums
• Marco Franco - Drums
• BJ - Synths