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.

Sepulcration - Undead Rising [EP] (2019)

Formed in the mind 2015.

The project is mainly focused on the death metal music genre, but inspired as well on Black Metal with some obscure and dark passages and cruel atmospheres.

 Lyrical themes: Terror, Death, Occultism, Blasphemy.

 

 

-Tracklist:

 1. Intro   01:05
2. Coffin Land     03:44
3. Undead Rising   03:13
4. Boneworms   04:59
5. The Tall Man   05:02

 

-Line up:

• David Vaquero ''Daviti'': Bass, drum prog.
• Oscar Calvo ''NecronoiD'': Guitars
• Eduarth Coprorator: Vocalas.

 

 

 

Label: Independent.

Recorded & mixed at NetherRealm Productions in spring 2019 by David Vaquero ''Davith''.

Mastered at Moontower Studios by Javier Felez.

Cover artwork by Igor Mugerza.

Desing by Oscar Calvo ''NecrovoiD''

Band photo by Daniela Paz.

Al music & lyricswritten by Sepulcration.

 

 

 

 

Belphegor - The Last Supper / Blutsabbath [Compilation] (2004)

Belphegor was founded in 1993 and spread like a virus within the underground. Meanwhile, their ''Bloodbath In Paradise'' demo has become legendary and paved the baleful path into the souls of thousands of listeners. Anti-religious with nihilistic tendencies as well as provocative topics, Belphegor moved on. The debut album ''The Last Supper'' (1995) let the community of followers and opponents grow. Inexorably, the band pushes their destructive ways forward in the following years. Belphegor become louder, more obsessed and more dynamic, and their albums now have cult status. To think about the scene doesn't work without thinking of Belphegor. In 2008, the band sent their followers to the edge of hell with ''Bondage Goat Zombie'' and sparked an all-consuming Death Metal fire with blasting black metal influences. This masterpiece, inspired by the Marquis de Sade, is one of the most demanding works the genre has offered to this day. Belphegor showed themselves equally brutal and baleful on the successors ''Walpurgis Rites-Hexenwahn'' (2009) and ''Blood Magick Necromance'' (1011)

-Tracklist:

CD 1: The Last Supper

1-1 The Last Supper     3:57
1-2 A Funeral Without A Cry     4:53
1-3 Impalement Without Mercy     3:44
1-4 March Of The Dead     4:57
1-5 The Rapture Of Cremation     3:55
1-6 Engulfed In Eternal Frost     3:39
1-7 D.I.E.     3:34
1-8 In Remembrance Of Hate And Sorrow     4:59
1-9 Bloodbath In Paradise (Part II)     3:01
1-10 Kruzifixion     4:09

    Bonustrax: Obscure & Deep / 7-inch Vinyl, 1994
1-11 Obscure And Deep     4:30
1-12 Bloodstained Ritual     2:59

CD 2: Blutsabbath
2-1 Abschwörung     3:40
2-2 Blackest Ecstasy     4:07
2-3 Purity Through Fire     3:07
2-4 Behind The Black Moon     3:03
2-5 Blutsabbath     5:58
2-6 No Resurrection     3:48
2-7 The Requiem Of Hell     4:14
2-8 U.D.G.     3:03
2-9 Path Of Sin     4:57

Bonustrax:
2-10 Purity Through Fire (Live Version)     3:02
2-11 Swarm Of Rats     4:53

-Line up:

The Last Supper:

- Helmuth: Guitars
- Maxx: Bass, vocals
- Chris: Drums
- Sigurd: Guitars (lead)

Blutsabbath:

- Helmuth: Vocals, guitars
- Sigurd: Guitars (lead)
- Mario "Marius" Klausner: Bass

Label: Twilight Vertrieb.

 

 Compiles "The Last Supper" & "Blutsabbath" with the "Obscure and Deep" EP and two extra tracks.
The song "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath" (Black Sabbath cover) follows "Bloodstained Ritual" and 1:15 of silence.

2-11 is a newly recorded "pre-production" track from Goatreich Fleshcult.

 The Last Supper:
Recorded and mixed as Stage One studio, Bassel / Germany Sept. '94 except 'Kruzifixion', (first appeared on their Demo Feb. '91), new arranged and recorded at Studio 5/ Austria
Blutsabbath:
Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered at Big Apple Studios, Salzburg in April '97
Re-mastered at Mastersoundstudio, Stuttgart, Nov. 04 by Alex Krull.

 

SWR Barroselas Metalfest 26.04.2013 (Por)

Suffocation - Pinnacle Of Bedlam (2013)

Suffocation are widely recognized major innovators of death metal. They had a massive influence on the genre and pioneered the balance between brutal and technical sounds commonly heard in modern death metal. Frank Mullen is considered as one of the most emblematic death metal vocalists as well as one of the first to use a very deep "death growl" vocal style.

There was an earlier "incarnation" of Suffocation existing from 1988 to around 1990 which featured vocalist Frank Mullen, bassist Josh Barohn, guitarists Guy Marchais and Todd German and Barohn's friend on drums. By 1990, the band had hired guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Doug Cerrito along with drummer Mike Smith, members of the local band Mortuary which had already disbanded.

The band split-up after Despise the Sun and reformed in 2002 with some line-up changes. Doug Cerrito was asked to join when the band reformed, but apparently he wasn't interested. Mike Smith left the band again in 2012 due to personal differences with other members and was replaced by Dave Culross (who had previously played with the band on Despise the Sun). Culross was later replaced by Kevin Talley.

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Cycles of Suffering     03:56
2. Purgatorial Punishment    02:45
3. Eminent Wrath     03:40
4. As Grace Descends     03:05
5. Sullen Days     04:57

Side B:
6. Pinnacle of Bedlam     03:43
7. My Demise     04:04
8. Inversion     03:50
9. Rapture of Revocation   03:49
10. Beginning of Sorrow   04:33

 

-Line up:

 • Guy Marchais: Guitars, songwriting (tracks 2, 7, 9)

• Derek Boyer: Songwriting (tracks 8, 9), lyrics (tracks 1-8), bass

• Frank Mullen: Vocals, lyrics (track 9)
• Terrance Hobbs: Guitars, Lyrics (tracks 5, 6), songwriting (tracks 1-6, 8, 9)
• Dave Culross: Drums.

 

 

 

Label: Nuclear Blast.

 

 Recorded at Full Force Studio .

Artwork by Raymond Swanland.

Mixed & mastered by Zeuss.

"Beginning of Sorrow" is a re-recorded song from the Breeding the Spawn album.
This is not a full concept album but is inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the cycles of life and death.

 Produced by Joe Cincotta and Suffocation at Full Force Studios in New York.

Limited to 1000 orange with black splatter vinyl (Nuclear Blast mailorder exclusive).

 

 

Entombed - Clandestine (1991) Reissue [1999]

 

Clandestine is the second studio album by Swedish death metal band Entombed. It was released on November 12, 1991, in Europe, and on February 11, 1992, in North America. It helped establish a distinctively Swedish sound in the death metal genre. This is the only Entombed album on which original vocalist L.G. Petrov does not appear.
Prior to the recording of Clandestine, Petrov was fired from the band due to personal disputes. The vocals on the album were recorded by Andersson instead, and for the tour following the album's release in 1991, the band hired vocalist Johnny Dordevic, previously a member of the band Carnage.

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-Tracklist:

1. Living Dead     04:26
2. Sinners Bleed     05:11
3. Evilyn     05:05
4. Blessed Be     04:47
5. Stranger Aeons     03:25
6. Chaos Breed     04:53
7. Crawl     06:14
8. Severe Burns     04:01
9. Through the Collonades     05:38

 

-Line up:

• Nicke Andersson: Drums, vocals, songwriting, lyrics
• Alex Hellid: Guitars (lead), lyrics
• Ulf "Uffe" Cederlund: Guitars, vocals (backing), songwriting
• Lars Rosenberg: Bass, songwriting.

 

 

 

Label: Earache Records.

Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden, 1991.
Co-produced/engineered by Entombed.

Photo by Lundberg Photographic Studio.
Ddrums were used for parts of the drum set.
Even though the booklet says that Johnny Đorđević was the singer on this album, it was Nicke Andersson who recorded the vocals.
A music video was made for the song "Stranger Aeons".
Only the American versions and the vinyl versions have the red logo, the LP has the logo, skull and album title embossed. The CD was originally only with the black logo shown here but later this CD was reissued with the yellow logo. A limited edition was released with an embossed cover.

Artwork front cover by Dan Seagrave.

 

 

Burzum - Burzum / Aske [Comp] (1995) Reissue [2008]

Burzum is a music project that began in 1991 by the Norwegian musician and writer Varg Vikernes. It became a part of the early Norwegian black metal scene and is considered to be one of the most influential acts in black metal.

Vikernes began making music in 1988, but it was not until 1991 that he recorded his first demos as Burzum. The word "burzum" means "darkness" in the Black Speech, a fictional language crafted by Lord of the Rings writer J. R. R. Tolkien. Vikernes recorded the first four Burzum albums between January 1992 and March 1993. However, the releases were spread out, with many months between the recording and the release of each album.

In May 1994, Vikernes was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the murder of Mayhem guitarist Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth and the arson of three churches. While imprisoned, Vikernes recorded two dark ambient albums using only synthesizers, as he did not have access to drums, guitar or bass. Since his release from prison in 2009, he has recorded several more albums. Although Vikernes is known for his political views, he does not use Burzum to promote those views, and his lyrics are non-political.

Varg Vikernes began making music in 1988 with the band Kalashnikov. The following year, the name was changed to Uruk-Hai, after the creatures from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. In 1990 and 1991, Vikernes played guitar for the death metal band Old Funeral, which also consisted of members who would later form the band Immortal. He appears on the Old Funeral EP Devoured Carcass. Vikernes left Old Funeral in 1991 to concentrate on creating his own musical visions. He had a short lived project called Satanel, along Abbath Doom Occulta. He then began a solo project under the name Burzum. The word "burzum" means "darkness" in the Black Speech, a language crafted by Tolkien. Soon after recording two demo tapes, he became part of the Norwegian black metal scene. With his demo tapes, he had attracted attention from Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth of Mayhem, who had just recently formed Deathlike Silence Productions. Aarseth then signed Burzum to the label, and shortly after, Vikernes (under the pseudonym of Count Grishnackh), began to record Burzum’s self-titled debut album. According to Vikernes' autobiography on his website, he had intended to record the album in the worst recording quality possible (due to this being a typical trademark of the early Norwegian black metal scene), while still making it sound acceptable. Burzum's eponymous debut album was released in 1992, being the second album released on Deathlike Silence Productions. The song "War" from this album had a guest appearance from Euronymous, playing a guitar solo "just for fun", according to Vikernes.

Vikernes has stated that he had never played any live shows with Burzum, though at one point was interested in it, so Samoth of Emperor joined the band as their bassist, though only appearing on the Aske EP. Additionally, Erik Lancelot was hired to be the band's drummer, though did not record on any Burzum material, and along with Samoth did not play a live show. Vikernes had by then lost his interest in playing live concerts, and stated that he "didn't even need session musicians anymore". Therefore, Samoth and Lancelot had parted ways with Burzum. Det som engang var was released as Burzum's second album in 1993, recorded in 1992.

15 May 1994 saw the release of Hvis lyset tar oss, a new album of previously recorded material from 1992. Burzum remained as a solo project until 1994, when Vikernes was arrested for the murder of Euronymous and the burnings of several churches in Norway. During his time in prison, Vikernes released his next album, titled Filosofem, on 1 January 1996. Recorded in March 1993, Filosofem was the last recording Vikernes made before his imprisonment. Burzum / Aske, a compilation comprising the Burzum album and Aske EP, was released in 1995. While imprisoned, Vikernes managed to record two other albums in a dark ambient style. They were released as Dauði Baldrs (1997) and Hliðskjálf (1999).

In 1998, all Burzum albums released up to that point were re-released as vinyl picture discs in a special box set called 1992–1997; however the Filosofem album didn't contain "Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte" due to its length. The regular vinyl issue of Filosofem on Misanthropy had tracks 1–4 plus "Decrepitude II" on side 1 and "Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte" on side 2.

Soon after being released, Vikernes started writing new tracks (nine metal tracks and an ambient intro and outro) for an upcoming Burzum album. According to Vikernes' recounts, several record companies were interested in releasing his first album in eleven years. He stated about the new album, "I want to take my time, and make it the way I want it. It will be metal, and the fans can expect genuine Burzum."

The album was going to be originally titled Den hvite guden ("The White God"), but he later decided to change it to Belus, which was released by Byelobog Productions (byelobog is the transliteration of "белобог" in Slavic languages, meaning "white god") on 8 March 2010. It was also announced that a movie would be released in 2010, based on Varg Vikernes' life in the early 1990s. The movie would mainly draw inspiration from the book Lords of Chaos, with the film being of the same name. Vikernes expressed his contempt towards both the movie and the book upon which it is based.
A second new album of original Burzum material, Fallen, was released on 7 March 2011, followed by a compilation album, From the Depths of Darkness, containing re-recordings of tracks from Burzum's self-titled album and Det som engang var, on 28 November 2011. A third new studio album of original material, titled Umskiptar, was released in May 2012. Sôl austan, Mâni vestan ("East of the Sun, West of the Moon"), Burzum's first electronic album since 1999, was released in May 2013. On April 27, 2013, a song was posted on the official YouTube channel of Vikernes, titled "Back to the Shadows." In a blog post, Vikernes stated that "Back to the Shadows" will be the last metal track released by Burzum.
The album ''The Ways of Yore'' was released on June 2, 2014.

Burzum's music features characteristics common in black metal, including distorted, tremolo-picked guitar riffs, and harsh vocals. Earlier Burzum albums feature very low production quality, which has improved in albums created after Vikernes' release from prison. Burzum's early music shows heavy Tolkien influence; for example, Vikernes' early moniker "Count Grishnackh" is taken from an orc character called Grishnákh in Tolkien's works. The choice of the name for the project reflects both this influence and the desire for anonymity: Burzum is a word of the Black Speech of Mordor meaning "darkness" (though Vikernes views what Christians consider "darkness" as "light"), and is one of those found on the Ring-inscription of the One Ring (the final part of the Ring inscription being "...agh burzum-ishi krimpatul", or "...and in the darkness bind them").
Musically, Burzum has progressed from black metal to classical-influenced ambient music characterised by minimalist tendencies and dark atmospheres. Vikernes' music is characterised by hypnotic repetition and simple song structures; this trademark sound has been present on Burzum's black metal and electronic albums alike. Vikernes has described Burzum as a kind of "spell" or recreation of an imaginary world tied in with Pagan history. Each album, he claims, was designed as a kind of "spell" in itself, with each beginning song intending to make the listener more susceptible to "magic", the following songs to inspire a "trance-like state of mind", and the last song to carry the listener into a "world of fantasy" (dreams, for the listener would fall asleep-Burzum was supposed to have been evening music). Vikernes claims the intent to create this fantasy world came from dissatisfaction with the real world. He has stated the "message" of Burzum can be found in the lyrics of the first song of the first album ("Feeble Screams from Forests Unknown").

-Tracklist:

A1 Feeble Screams From Forests Unknown     7:28
A2 Ea, Lord Of The Depths     4:51
A3 Spell Of Destruction     5:39
B1 Channelling The Power Of Souls Into A New God  3:26
B2 War     2:30
B3 The Crying Orc     0:57
C1 My Journey To The Stars     8:10
C2 Dungeons Of Darkness     4:52
D1 Stemmen Fra Taarnet     6:09
D2 Dominus Sathanas     3:01
D3 A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit     11:09

-Line up:

  • Varg Vikernes:  All instruments, vocal.

Label: Back On Black.

Released in a gatefold jacket.
Recorded in Grieghallen Lydstudio, January (Burzum) and August (Aske) 1992 a.y.s.p.
Tracks 1-8: recorded in Grieghallen (Bergen, Norway), January 1992 during the full moon.
Track 10: recorded in Grieghallen, April 1992.
Tracks 9, 11: recorded in Grieghallen, September 1992.
All tracks published by Amazonian Music Publishing (UK).

Under license from Misanthropy Records. Cymophane Productions.

Back on Black is a division of Let Them Eat Vinyl Ltd.

Fantoft Stave Church, Norway.