Walter Giardino started in V8, but his style soon clashed with that band and left it (he did not take part in any V8 LP). He was joined by Gustavo Rowek, the drummer of V8 that also left the band, and a pair of session musicians. Those two were soon replaced by stable members, Saul Blanch, Guillermo Sanchez and Sergio Berdichevsky.
The first LP was a success, but the second one (with the new singer, Adrian Barilari) gave them a success greater than any heavy metal bands in the country, even playing regularly in TV programs. They were the first metal band to play in a stadium. The LP "El Libro Oculto" was disliked by Barilari, who left the band. He was replaced by Mario Ian, the singer of Kamikaze, and later by Gabriel Marian. After a couple of CDs with low sales, the band broke up.
The band reunited a few years later, back with Barilari.
Albums
- Rata Blanca (1988)
- Magos, Espadas y Rosas (1990)
- Guerrero del Arco Iris (1991)
- El Libro Oculto (1993)
- Entre el Cielo y el Infierno (1994)
- Rata Blanca VII (1997)
- El Camino del Fuego (2002)
- La Llave de la Puerta Secreta (2005)
- El Reino Olvidado (2008)
- Tormenta Eléctrica (2015)
The band shows examples of
- The Casanova: "Hombre de Hielo" is about a rock singer that has sex with girls from the cities he visits with the band, and that he then forgets about.
- Genre Shift: The style of the band completely changed for "Entre el Cielo y el Infierno", and has little in common with their other productions.
- Nature Metal: "Guerrero del Arco Iris" is as subtle as a hammer to the head about its "Save the Earth" message, outright name-dropping Greenpeace's "Rainbow Warrior" ship in the song's name, and then asking the listeners to stop nature's destruction.
- Sdrawkcab Name: "Agord la Bruja". Agord is "Droga"note spelt backwards.
- Self-Titled Album: The first album of the band has no name.
- Shout-Out: "Guerrero del Arco Iris" is an homage to ecologic organizations such as Greenpeace, the song itself outright name-dropping the "Rainbow Warrior" ship. The video for the song
makes the reference more clear. - Star-Crossed Lovers: "La Leyenda del Hada y el Mago" is about the impossible love between a fairy and a wizard.
- Take That!: Downplayed. "El Gran Rey del Rock & Roll" begins with a reference to a character named Patricio who wanted to be a rock star, writing undecipherable lyrics and using media such as Rolling Stone and Si!note to reach out to people and "disappoint them". Comparisons with another band whose name started with Patricio began to appear, though Giardino, who wrote the lyrics to that song, denied that the song was directed to them, or Callejeros's singer Patricio Fontanet.
