NEWS: BRUJERIA Release “Americon Czar” & Announce UK Tour
Extreme metallers BRUJERIA have released a brand new track as a follow up to their infamous Viva Presidente Trump! single. “Americon Czar” is out now.
In addition, BRUJERIA are pleased to announce a four date UK tour this May, as part of a larger European run. The entire tour is due to kick off at Netherlands Deathfest, Tilburg on May 3rd. Special guests on the tour will be Venomous Concept (US/UK). The opening support will come from Aggression (CA) as well as Sangre (US). All dates can be found below.
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+ VENOMOUS CONCEPT (US/UK).
+ AGGRESSION (CA)
+ SANGRE (US)
20.05. UK London – The Underworld Camden
21.05. UK Manchester – Rebellion
22.05. UK Glasgow – Cathouse Rock Club
23.05. UK Birmingham – Mama Roux’s
BRUJERIA‘s most recent album, Pocho Aztlan, was the band’s first release since Brujerizmo was released in 2000 via Roadrunner. The album 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 sun-baked 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 storm troopers 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 mastermindJuan 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: Pocho Aztlan was BRUJERIA‘s first album in 16 years. The title translates as “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 a 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 front-lines 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.”
