Extreme metallers BRUJERIA will release their fourth full length album, entitled »Pocho Aztlan«, on Mexican Independence Day (September 16) via Nuclear Blast Entertainment.
In support of this upcoming record, the band will embark on a 12-date touring trek through Spain and Portugal. Find all dates below!
06.12. E Valencia – Sala Rockcity
07.12. E Valladolid – Sala Porta Caeli
08.12. E La Coruna – Playa Club
09.12. E Oviedo – Sir Laurens
10.12. E Vitoria – Sala Jimmy Jazz
11.12. P Lisboa – RCA Club
12.12. P Porto – Hard Club
14.12. E Zaragoza – Sala Lopez
15.12. E Murcia – Garage Beat Club
16.12. E Madrid – Sala Penélope
17.12. E Barcelona – Sala Razzmatazz 2
18.12. E Mallorca – Es Gremi
More dates:
18.09. USA Las Vegas, NV – LVCS
24.09. USA San Bernardino, CA – Ozzfest
w/ CATTLE DECAPITATION, 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
‘No Aceptan Imitaciones’ OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO:
»Pocho Aztlan« – Tracklist:
01. Pocho Aztlan
02. No Aceptan Imitaciones
03. Profecia Del Anticristo
04. Angel De La Frontera
05. Plato O Plomo
06. Satongo
07. Isla De La Fantasia
08. Bruja-
09. Mexico Campeon
10. Codigos
11. Debilador
12. California Über Aztlan (DEAD KENNEDYS-Cover)
»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).
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.”
BRUJERIA are:
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
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