Brujeria - Brujerizmo (2000)

 

Brujerizmo is their third studio. Brujerizmo featured a more groove-oriented style, with a clear and refined sound as opposed to the deathgrind style of the previous albums.

This was the last album recorded with Asesino and Güero Sin Fe, who were 2 of the 5 original members when the project began in 1990.

BEAT 005 CD

-Tracklist:

01. Brujerizmo     03:50
02. Vayan sin miedo     02:16
03. La traición     01:57
04. Pititis, te invoco     02:23
05. Laboratorio cristalitos     01:31
06. División del norte     03:51
07. Marcha de odio     02:48
08. Anti-Castro     02:33
09. Cuiden a los niños     03:30
10. El bajón     01:59
11. Mecosario     02:45
12. El desmadre     01:41
13. Sida de la mente     04:35

-Line up:

- Juan Brujo: Vocals
- Fantasma: Bass, Vocals
- Pinche Peach: Vocals
- Pititis: Guitars, Vocals (female, backing)
- Asesino: Guitars
- Güero Sin Fe: Bass, Guitars
- Greñudo: Drums
- Hongo: Guitars
- Hongo Jr.: Drums
- Cristo de Pisto (R.I.P. 2006): Guitars
- Marijuano Machete: Electronics, samples, vocals.

Label: Beat Generation.

 Nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2001 Latin Grammy Awards.
Released under license of Koolarrow Records.
Marketed and distributed by Munster Records.

Recorded & Mixed at Cuarto de Control & Studio Dee.

 Engineer: El Chronlitos, Huey Dee, John Anonymous.

 

Jesse Pintado (July 12, 1969 - August 27, 2006) was a guitarist born in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico, but at an early age he moved to the United States. His career began in the band Terrorizer, who recorded the grindcore album "World Downfall".

 Jesse was the first to coin the term "grindcore" in 1983 to describe a musical mixture of "noise and chaos" he was developing at the time.

He later replaced guitarist Bill Steer immediately joining the Napalm Death band to start recording the album "Harmony Corruption." In 2004 officially leaves Napalm Death and revives Terrorizer. At the same time, he plays with his former Napalm Death (Shane Embury) bassist in the band called Lock Up. With Terrorizer he made the album "Darker Days Ahead" in 2006. He was part of the recording of the album "Brujerizmo" by the band Brujería under the pseudonym "Cristo de Pisto".

Jesse Pintado lived in Ridderkerk, the Netherlands. He died on August 27, 2006 in a Dutch hospital due to health complications (diabetic coma).

 

Brujería - Raza Odiada (1995)

Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989, the band name derives from the black magic used by some Mexican drug dealers to inspire fear in religious locals.

Raza Odiada (which translates in English as "Hated Race") is a song critical of Pete Wilson and his opposition to illegal immigration and to racial preferences. The song features ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra as the voice of Pete Wilson. "La Migra" is a song about illegal immigration and corruption. "Revolución" is a pro-Zapatista song. A music video was released for the song "La Ley De Plomo", which received rotation on MTV.
It features three tracks originally appearing on the 7" singles El Patrón ("El Patrón" and "Hermanos Menéndez"), and ¡Machetazos! ("Padre Nuestro") on Alternative Tentacles. The cover features a photograph of Subcomandante Marcos, then-spokesperson and one of the leaders of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

-Tracklist:

1. Raza odiada (Pito Wilson)     03:31
2. Colas de rata     01:32
3. Hechando chingasos (Greñudos locos II)     03:35
4. La migra (Cruza la frontera II)     01:42
5. Revolución     03:19
6. Consejos narcos     02:38
7. Almas de venta     02:12
8. La ley de plomo     02:45
9. Los tengo colgando (Chingo de mecos II)     01:49
10. Sesos humanos (Sacrificio IV)     01:15
11. Primer meco     01:15
12. El patrón     03:42
13. Hermanos Menéndez     02:06
14. Padre nuestro     02:07
15. Ritmos satánicos     06:50

-Line up:

• Greñudo: Drums
• Juan Brujo: Vocals
• Asesino: Guitars, bass
• Hongo: Guitars, bass, drums
• Güero Sin Fe: Bass, guitars
• Fantasma: Bass, vocals
• Pinche Peach: Vocals

 

Label: Roadrunner Records.

The cover features a photograph of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, the spokesperson and one of its main leaders for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

In the intro of "Raza Odiada (Pito Wilson)" Jello Biafra (ex-vocalist of the seminal punk band Dead Kennedys) can be heard performing the spoken word role of Pito Wilson. By the way, he is not credited.

Music videos were made for songs "La Migra" & "La Ley de Plomo".

Brujeria - Marijuana [EP] (1997)

Brujeria was formed at a party in 1989 in the spirit of creating a grindcore and death metal band representative of the Latino/Chicano community. Its members, the guitarist Dino Cazares, Jello Biafra, drummer Pat Hoed, bass guitarist Billy Gould and vocalist Juan Brujo, used pseudonyms as most were in other known bands.

Their first single, "¡Demoniaco!", was released in 1990. In 1992 "Machetazos" was released and with it came the band's first line-up change. Jello Biafra departed the group, Pinche Peach was introduced as an additional vocalist and Raymond Herrera took on the drums; Pat Hoed, the band's former drummer became a second vocalist. "Machetazos" and "El Patrón (song)" (1994) were produced and distributed through Jello Biafra's record label Alternative Tentacles.

The band was criticized from its inception for its lyrics about drugs, sex and Satanism. These topics, while the subjects of many other death metal acts, were inspired by the actions of Adolfo Constanzo, Cuban-American born Mexican drug smuggler, practitioner of Palo (religion) Mayombe, and serial killer.

The group started to become increasingly popular, but nevertheless, decided to remain anonymous and declined all offers to organize concerts (except on rare occasions), confounding supporters, who were eager to see them live. In 1997 came the EP Marijuana, featuring a cover-parody of the popular song "The Macarena" and four live songs from its first official concert.

TRCD 071

-Tracklist:

01. Marijuana          3:11
02. Matando Güeros '97       3:13
03. Pito Wilson (Live)       3:12
04. Hechando Chingazos (Live)     3:41
05. Matando Güeros (Live)     4:09
06. Untitled            0:35

-Line up:

• Fantasma: Bass, vocals
• Pinche Peach: Vocals
• Greñudo: Drums
• Hongo: Guitars
• Juan Brujo: Vocals.

Label: Tralla Records.

The song "Marijuana" is a death-metal parody of the "Macarena" (Los del Río).

Tracks 3-5 live at the Whiskey A-Go-Go January 11 1997
Track 6 (Untitled) is a radio advertisement. 

Brujeria - Matando Güeros (1993)

Brujeria is a Mexican extreme metal band formed in Tijuana, Mexico in 1989. Their name comes from the Spanish word for "witchcraft". Their songs, which are sung in Spanish, are focused on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, and politics. Portraying a Mexican image and with a heavy anti-American stance, the majority of the band's members are Mexican-born, with some being American, Swedish or British.

Brujeria alumni include Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera, as well as Billy Gould, Nicholas Barker, Jeff Walker and Shane Embury. They perform under pseudonyms and portray themselves as a Latino band consisting of drug lords, concealing their identities due to being wanted by the FBI. In videos and photographs of the band, they are shown wearing bandanas, balaclavas, serapes, and are often shown wielding machetes.

-Tracklist:

1. Pura de venta     00:41
2. Leyes narcos     01:09    
3. Sacrificio     01:16
4. Santa Lucía     00:43
5. Matando güeros     02:24
6. Seis seis seis     01:19
7. Cruza la frontera     01:44
8. Greñudos locos     01:27
9. Chingo de mecos     01:16
10. Narcos-satánicos     01:50    
11. Desperado     02:41
12. Culeros     00:51    
13. Misas negras (Sacrificio III)     01:20
14. Chinga tu madre     03:11
15. Verga del brujo / Están chingados     03:43
16. Molestando niños muertos     02:57
17. Machetazos (Sacrificio II)     01:27
18. Castigo del brujo     01:44
19. Cristo de la roca     01:12

-Line up:

- Juan Brujo: Vocals
- Pinche Peach: Samples, Vocals (additional)
- Asesino: Guitars
- Hongo: Guitars, bass
- Güero sin Fe: Bass
- Fantasma: Bass, vocals
- Greñudo: Drums
- Jr. Hocicon: "Director diabólico".

 Label: Roadrunner Records.

This is the only pure grindcore full-length album released by Brujeria, as later albums show a more death/groove sound.
"Güero" is a Mexican slang term for a pale-skinned or blonde-haired person, specifically used as a slur for US citizens of white/caucasian race.
Track 16 to 19 are remastered tracks off the "Machetazos" single.
The official line-up for the album credits Jr. Hocicon (Jello Biafra) as "Director diabolico" which means "Diabolic director"; it is implied that he was either the producer or exectutive producer for the album.
"Matando Güeros" is one of the songs to the "Gummo" soundtrack.
Upon the album's release there were many censoring issues with some stores in the U.S. and Europe due to its shocking content and graphic front cover. Roadrunner released a censored version with the cover showing just the name of the band and album title on a black background, although the original cover can be found in the inside booklet.
The decapitated head shown on the album cover became a well-known gimmick for the band, which they used as a mascot named "Coco Loco" (meaning "Crazy Head") and was widely featured in t-shirts, flyers and mech associated with Brujeria.

EL MACABRO ORIGEN DEL COCO LOCO

 1993. La historia que siempre se manejó de la macabra fotografía de este personaje y lo que se empezaba a comentar entre la gente, apuntaba a que un pobre desconocido había sido secuestrado, asesinado, quemado y descuartizado por una enigmática banda que radicaba en la frontera (de la que no se sabía casi nada. Eran los 90's y el acceso a internet para conocer algo era bastante limitado, no como hoy día) que tocaban Deathgrind Metal mientras hacían rituales de santería negra y que decidieron tomarle fotos a su cabeza decapitada y ponerla como trofeo para la portada de su disco larga duración, lo cual se pasaba de boca en boca alimentando la leyenda día a día.

 Todo esto no era tan conocido más que en el mundo metalero underground aunque ya había alarmado a algunas gentes y autoridades hasta que un día, fue lanzado un reportaje dentro del noticiero "Ocurrió Así", donde se investigaba la desaparición de un tal Mario Ríos y de su mujer, Alma Ruíz y dónde se menciona que la cabeza que aparecía en la portada "del disco de un grupo llamado Brujería" podría ser la del Mario Ríos que andaban buscando, vinculando a la banda a su desaparición, y esto hizo que se detonara más lo oscuro detrás de la misteriosa banda y su portada, y por ende, se regara como pólvora por todo el mundo.
 En fin, habían creado con éxito un monstruo bastante oscuro que se iba alimentando más y más. Una verdadera Creepypasta noventera con wevos y chingona, que si llegó a hacer que la gente se cagara, no como lo que se presenta hoy día...

 Todo eso fue una leyenda creada de muchos elementos. La verdadera historia de cómo esa foto llegó a ser la portada del Matando Güeros, emitida por el mismo Juan Brujo, dicta que un día, entró a una liquor store y lo primero que vio fue una Revista Alarma (DATO: siempre se ha pensado que fue una ''Alarma'', pero en realidad era otra publicación amarillista similar de nombre "Revista Peligro!" donde originalmente la historia era acerca de un tipo borracho que cayó en las vías de tren y murió decapitado) en dónde venía la foto que todos conocemos, y al quedar impactado también con la brutal imagen, el Brujo se comunicó con la editorial para que le vendieran el original, lo cual al principio se negaron, hasta que negoció ofreciendo U$300 satánicos y de inmediato se la enviaron vía FedEx y de ahí para la legendaria portada de uno de los discos más icónicos, crudos, brutales y únicos de Deathgrind Metal que han existido en la historia de la humanidad.

Dato extra: De ahí Juan Brujo aprendió más español, de leer Alarmas.
 MATANDO GÜEROS POR VIDA. NO VA A HABER OTRO, NO ACEPTAN IMITACIONES.

Brujería - Marijuana [EP 1997]

Brujería se formó en una fiesta en el año 1990. Sus integrantes, liderados por Juan Brujo, utilizaron nombres supuestos, ya que la mayoría de ellos eran miembros de otros conocidos grupos de metal. El mismo año editaron su primer single, "Demoníaco", y dos años más tarde otro titulado "Machetazos".
Fue polémica la portada de su primer disco de larga duración, Matando Güeros (1993), en la que se veía una cabeza medio quemada y una mano sosteniéndola del pelo. Posteriormente, la imagen de esta cabeza se convertiría en un emblema de la banda, transfigurándola en su mascota conocida como Coco Loco (idea similar al Eddie de Iron Maiden). Gracias a este disco y a los rumores que generó, Brujería se hizo más popular. En 1994 tras la muerte de Pablo Escobar, publicaron un nuevo single: "El Patrón", en referencia al apodo del famoso narcotraficante.
En 1995 editaron su segundo larga duración, Raza Odiada, con la temática habitual pero con importantes cambios en su música. Dos años después apareció el single "Marijuana", con el tema homónimo (cover-parodia de " La Macarena" de Los del Río) y otras cuatro canciones en vivo. En 1999 vio la luz "Spanglish lol" , protestando contra el predominio del inglés.

Embalada en una bolsa de plástico con fósforos y una pegatina Brujería.

 -Listado:

 Side A:

1. Marijuana        03:11

Side B:

 2. Matando Güeros '97     03:13

 -Alineación:

• Juan Brujo:  Vocals

• Fantasma:  Bass, Vocals

• Pinche Peach: Vocals 

• Greñudo: Drums

• Hongo:  Guitars

Sello: Tee Pee Records 

El tema ''Marijuana'' es una parodia Death Metal de ''Macarena'' (Los del Río).