Tijuana, Mexico death metal/grind core warriors BRUJERIA (featuring
members of NAPALM DEATH and more) have announced a FALL 2016 U.S. tour with California death/grind warriors CATTLE DECAPITATION.
BRUJERIA are set to release the bands anticipated new offering "POCHO AZTLAN", due to be unleashed 9/16/2016 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
BRUJERIA posted a video teaser for "VIVA
PRISIDENTE TRUMP", the bands new single, unleashed 4/16/2016 via NUCLEAR
BLAST RECORDS.
BRUJERIA unleashed "BRUJERIMO", 11/7/2000 via ROADRUNNER RECORDS.
CATTLE DECAPITATION unleashed "The Anthropocene Extinction", 8/7/2015 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.
FROM BRUJERIA:
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 U.S. tour this October alongside Cattle Decapitation and Pinata Protest.
BRUJERIA, CATTLE DECAPITATION, PIÑATA PROTEST
10/01/2016 Baltimore, MD - Soundstage
10/02/2016 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
10/03/2016 New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre
10/04/2016 Philadelphia, PA - Voltage
10/06/2016 Cleveland, OH - Agora Ballroom
10/07/2016 Chicago, IL - Reggie's
10/08/2016 Minneapolis, MN - Cabooze
10/09/2016 Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
10/10/2016 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
10/12/2016 Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
10/13/2016 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
10/14/2016 Oakland, CA - CA Deathfest (Brujeria ONLY)
10/17/2016 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy
10/18/2016 San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick
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, lay 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 is:
Juan Brujo - Vocals
Fantasma - Vocals, Bass
Hongo - Guitar, Drum Programming
El Cynico - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Hongo Jr. - Drums
Pinche Peach - Vocals, Samples
Pititis - Female Vocals
A Kuerno - Guitar
Sangron - Backup Vocals
Guero III - Backup Vocals
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-