BRUTAL FAITH, this Brazilian band was created in 1997 in São Paulo.  This band has been seen as a "revelation" in the scenery of Thrash/Alternative Metal.   The musicians are: Maurício Cliff, (bass/backing vocals), Pete Cavalleiro (guitars) and Tony Fontao, a former member of Leeway, a wellknow Hard Core band from New York (drums/ lead vocals) .

BRUTAL FAITH ´s first album  was released  in October, 2000 by Animal Records (recently the band is no longer part of Animal Records by contract)  and it was produced by Marcelo Pompeu ( a wellknown Rock/Metal Producer in Brazil).  This CD contains a mixture of sounds from the 70´s  with Modern aggressive music, Metal, Alternative and Hardcore, which has been drawing attention of the public who are affectionate of Metallica, Pantera and Sepultura. The album  has been distributed not only in South America by Century Media, but also in Europe and United States by Perris Records. To promoted their album they  played  around the country and during their presentation at the Olympia (the most important Music House in São Paulo, Brazil) together with Overkill, they broughted more than 5000 kids at the place.

BRUTAL FAITH has been listened  in many radio stations  not only in Brazil, but around the world like Verrice (Chicago's underground Webstation), as an example. Their first video has been seem for several times at  the Brazilian MTV and others Music Channels. A  lot of articles about the band has been appearing in specialized south America Metal Magazines as Rock Brigade, Metal Head, Dynamite, Planet Music and Roadie Crew.

 BRUTAL FAITH also appearing at many music sites, the songs  (Resistance, Time We live in, Burning Ground and Bitch) hits the top charts at MP3's for more than two weeks on roll. The band was invited to participate at Coffin Joe's latest movie, which will be released  in the first semester of 2002,  recording the soundtrack  with Sepultura. At the same year, BRUTAL FAITH will  participate, as the only South America representative, playing  "Jump in the Fire",  in the Oficial Tribute to Metallica, by Perris Records, together with the band,  C.O.C. and L.A. GUNS,  had confirmed their appearence.