Rata Blanca

Rata Blanca are Argentina’s heavy metal institution: Walter Giardino’s neoclassical guitar built on the Blackmore/Malmsteen line, and “Mujer Amante” — a power ballad an entire continent knows by heart. Stadium metal in Spanish, decades before the industry noticed the market.

In the atlas they anchor Argentina and the whole Spanish-language metal tradition the Anglo canon habitually skips.