Extreme metallers BRUJERIA will release their fourth full length album, entitled »Pocho Aztlan«, on September 16 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The release will be followed by a US tour this October alongside CATTLE DECAPITATION and PIÑATA PROTEST.

01.10.  USA     Baltimore, MD – Soundstage

02.10.  USA     Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

03.10.  USA     New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre

04.10.  USA     Philadelphia, PA – Voltage

06.10.  USA     Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom

07.10.  USA     Chicago, IL – Reggie’s

08.10.  USA     Minneapolis, MN – Cabooze

09.10.  USA     Kansas City, MO – Riot Room

10.10.  USA     Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater

12.10.  USA     Seattle, WA – Studio Seven

13.10.  USA     Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater

14.10.  USA     Oakland, CA – CA Deathfest (BRUJERIA only)

17.10.  USA     Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy

18.10.  USA     San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick

05.07.  SLO      Kranj – Trainstation Subart

06.07.  A          Vienna – Escape Metal Corner

07.07.  E          Viveiro – Resurrection Fest

08.07.  D         München – Backstage

09.07.  D         Torgau-Entenfang – In Flammen Open Air

11.07.  CZ        Ostrava – Barrack Music Club

12.07.  SK        Bratislava – Randal Club

13.07.  RO       Rasnov – Club Rockstadt

14.07.  CZ        Trutnov – Obscene Extreme Fest

07.08.  DOM   Santo Domingo – Escenario 360

18.09.  USA     Las Vegas, NV – LVCS

»Pocho Aztlan« is the band’s first release since »Brujerizmo« was released in 2000 via Roadrunner. It was recorded over the course of many years and at several studios around the globe. The end result was mixed by Russ Russell (NAPALM DEATH, THE EXPLOITED).

Check out the track video for the song ‘Viva Presidente Trump!‘ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJzMzW3kuY. The track comes from their recent 7″ release by the same name, which is now available for purchase digitally on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play. Purchase the single here: nblast.de/BrujeriaDownloads

BRUJERIA‘s legend has proliferated for nearly three decades. When the band first emerged from the sunbaked hellscape of Los Angeles in 1989, the city was on the brink of chaos. Daryl Gates ruled the LAPD with an iron fist, overseeing a legion of blue-suited stormtroopers who cracked brown and black skulls at every opportunity. Rodney King, the ’92 riots, and CA governor Pete “Pito” Wilson‘s anti-immigrant Prop 187 were all on the bleak horizon. The Mexican-American agitators of BRUJERIA captured the mood of the city’s minorities with the band’s infamous and widely banned 1993 debut, »Matando Güeros« (“Killing White People”), quickly becoming the Spanish-language counterparts to early grindcore masters TERRORIZER and NAPALM DEATH. Led by lyricist and mastermind Juan Brujo, BRUJERIA were alternately rumored to be satanic drug lords and members of well-established metal bands. The truth, as always, lays somewhere in between.

 

Fast forward to right about now: »Pocho Aztlan« is BRUJERIA‘s first new album in 16 years. The title translates to “Wasted Promised Land,” a combination of Aztlán, the fabled ancestral home of the Aztecs, and the term pocho, which native Mexicans use to refer – not always kindly – to their counterparts born in the States. Brujo himself is pocho, a man caught between two worlds. Many pochos are not exactly accepted with open arms in Mexico. Meanwhile, they’re too often regarded as second-class citizens in their adopted US home. Brujo has transcended both scenarios through the power of BRUJERIA‘s uncompromising grindcore and death metal. His all-Spanish lyrics are as vivid as they are effective: Bona fide tales from the frontlines of the drug war, the racial divide, and the battle for the border. “A lot of BRUJERIA songs are true stories,” Brujo says. “And if they haven’t happened yet, they will happen.”

Juan Brujo (John Lepe) | vocals

Fantasma (Pat Hoed) | vocals, bass

El Cynico (Jeffrey Walker) | bass, guitars, vocals

Hongo (Shane Embury) | guitars, drum programming

Hongo Jr. (Nick Barker) | drums auxiliary

Pinche Peach | vocals, samples

Pititis (Gaby Dominguez) | female vocals, backing vocals, guitars

A Kuerno (Chris Paccou) | guitars