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The Brujeria are a band with a rather original background: they emerged as a musical project of a group of Mexican drug traffickers, wanted and therefore incognito, performing in public strictly with their faces covered (although it is said that behind it all is actually a collaboration among the crème of the world's extreme scene of those years, from members of Fear Factory and Faith No More to Napalm Death and Dimmu Borgir). The various members are known only by pseudonyms and the line-up has changed several times over the years: among others, Juan Brujo (vocals), Asesino (guitar, bass), Güero Sin Fe (bass, vocals), Greñudo (drums), Hongo (bass, guitar), Hongo Jr. (drums), Pititis (vocals), Cristo de Pisto (guitar), Marijuano Machete (vocals).
Third by Brujeria, released by Roadrunner in 2000, "Brujerizmo" is a record not entirely atypical from a purely technical-musical standpoint, remaining quite steadily within the grindcore genre, yet sounding distinctly unique: an immediate impression is a strong influence of Fear Factory and Napalm Death post-Harmony Corruption, almost as if the two bands had arranged to meet in the studio for the occasion (...).
To the dark and heavily distorted guitars, the fast and chaotic rhythms, and the screamed vocals typical of grindcore, are indeed added slight industrial influences and a notable groove, with an alternation of accelerations, cadenced rhythms, and breakdowns, thanks to the good work of a powerful and precise rhythm section like a goldsmith and a massive and catchy "riffing" often working in unison creating a "wall" with a devastating effect.
Completely unique, however, is the "lyrical" side: the themes are varied and they characterize the entire discography of the band, namely Satanism, witchcraft, Zapatismo, drug trafficking, killing white people, and killing white people with a machete; the songs are often introduced by sinister samples and the lyrics are exclusively written in Spanish.
It essentially is a noisy, heavy, extremely violent and thoroughly enjoyable record, boasting also an excellent and clean production, another quite unusual fact in the genre.
Among the various individual songs, some of the most representative ones: the very cadenced opener "Brujerizmo", a true anthem to witchcraft as the answer to the spiritual needs of today, the martial "Marcha De Odio", with its belligerent theme and motif, and the compelling "Division Del Norte" and "Anti-Castro", the first an enthusiastic call to take up the Revoluciòn where the pioneers left it off, the latter an up-beat protest against today's Cuban government, always claiming Mexican supremacy.
Strongly recommended for those who love extreme and disturbing sounds and themes so wicked as to be almost absurd; a valid alternative to the murder of white individuals with a machete, and perhaps even more entertaining.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Brujerizmo (03:50)
Hoy BRUJERIZMO pa tí satanismo!
Fé en lo viejo te está chingando
Virus de cristo te está fallando
Infesta gente jodiendo mentes
El organismo del Anti-Cristo!
BRUJERIZMO oscuro hallo
Desde niño Satanismo!
Contra todo Hoy BRUJERIZMO pa tí satanismo!
BRUJERIZMO! Cura joto
Cristo fallo!
Satanismo desde niño
Hoy BRUJERIZMO pa tí satanismo!
Si no cambian las leyes que mandan
Ya esta listo para negativo
Maquinas de hoy son como gente
Programados contra todo
[English translation:]
Today brujerizmo for you satanism
Faith in the old ways are fucking you
The Christ virus is failing you
Infecting people destroying minds
The organism of the anti-Christ
Brujerizmo! Darkness found
Since childhood
Satanism! Against everything
Today brujerizmo for you satanism
Brujerizmo! Faggot priest
Christ failed
Satanism! Since childhood
Today brujerizmo for you satanism
If there's no change in the laws that rule
Everything is now ready for the negative
The machines of today are like most people
Programmed against everything
02 Vayan sin miedo (02:16)
Clavados! Con miedo de ir
Chingados! No te dejan salir
Podridos por fé de como vivir
Tienen huevos?
Quién va primero?
Pásence
Pa lo nuevo
Vayan sin miedo
Pásence
Pa lo nuevo
Vayan sin miedo
Cruzence
Esas fronteras
Vayan sin miedo
Córranle
Brinca primero
Vayan sin miedo
Yo voy primero!
Mojados - allá no son gente
Drogados - lo más potente
Fronteras de mente por ser diferente
"No seas pendejo, Quién va primero?"
Muertos - en esta vida
Listos - pa otra salida
Gritos de gente que temen la muerte
"Pa la otra vida, vayan sin miedo"
[English translation:]
Nailed! With fear of getting away
Fucked! They won't let you get out
Rotted for faith on how to live life
Got any balls! Who's going first!
Pass on through
To something new
Go without fear <i>[X2]
Crossover
Those borders
Go without fear
Go for it!
Be the first one
Go without fear
I'll go first!!
Wetbacks - over there you ain't human
Doped - the most potent
Mental borders because your difference
Don't be a fool, Who's going first?
Dead - in this life
Ready - for the other way out
Screams from the people scared of death
To the next life, go without fear
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