Hardcore, metal and rap band
Las Ratas is a Tenerife band that emerged in early 1993 and is documented by the Canary Islands Government for its mix of hardcore, metal and rap and its appearance at Festimad 2012.
The Canary Islands Government places Las Ratas’ emergence in early 1993 and notes that by 2012 they had accumulated twenty years of activity. The same source records more than one hundred performances in the archipelago, concerts as support for international and Spanish acts, and their participation in Festimad 2012 through the Canarias Crea programme.
Las Ratas matters because it represents the crossover line of Tenerife alternative music, where hardcore, metal and rap coexisted with festival and venue circuits. Its presence at Festimad with institutional support shows how an island band with a hard sound could project itself towards mainland spaces.
The institutional source defines the proposal as a mix of hardcore, metal and rap. That combination places the group within 1990s and 2000s crossover aesthetics, with a strong rhythm section, dense guitars and vocals close to the energy of rap and hardcore.
Transmission comes through concerts, festivals and the memory of a hard-music scene that shared audiences with punk, metal and urban crossover. The entry expands the catalogue towards neighbourhood and venue sounds that rarely appear in narratives centred on song or folklore.
The Canary Islands Government places the band’s start early in the year.
The band performs at Festimad with Canarias Crea support.
Tenerife
Since the twentieth century
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Gran Canaria
First performance in 1969; first album in 1970
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Gran Canaria
Active between 1965 and 1972; Ciclos was released in 1974
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