The Depressick - "Carcinoma" (2017)

THE DEPRESSICK - "Carcinoma"

Year: 2017

Genre: Post-Black Metal / Depressive Black Metal
Country: México

Track List:

1. Lifeless
2. Deceiver
3. Nowhere
4. Filth
5. Black Scars
6. Misdeeds
7. Abyssmal
8. Depression Anxiety
9. Spleen Cancer
10. Drowned
11. Aqueduct Gpe

Bandcamp / Facebook

The Depressick was founded in winter of 2012-2013 by Old Skull and Detestas with the aim to express inner struggles, deep selfhate and melancolic feelings powered by oppressive, hopeless and misable landscapes from the daily life in Mexico City. Carcinoma is their new album were they continue exploring the miserable life in a big city as México where people seem to be so selfish, so unconcerned about others and their environment.

The artwork in this one (as in the last EP) was made by me. 
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Loukaniko y lxs perrxs - "Viajo con mis perros" (2016)

LOUKANIKO Y LXS PERRXS - "Viajo con mis perrxs" (I travel with my dogs)

Year: 2016

Genre: Folk-punk
Country: México

Track List:

1. Salvate, escapate (Save yourself, get away)
2. Viajo con mis perrxs (I travel with my dogs)
3. Caminata fugitiva (Runaway walk)
4. Complicidad (Complicity)
5. Dime si estamos locos (Tell me if we are not crazy)
   (live tracks)
6. Mancha de sangre (Bloodstain)
7. Regresa (Come back)
8. Una mañana (One mourning)
9. Aquella batalla (That battle)
10. Peter Young / animinimalista (animinimalist)

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"Loukaniko y lxs perrxs" is a side project from members of Contra//Historia, openly Anarchist, with very beautiful and politic lyrics. In fact, this is one of my favorite projects ever.
Some of the tracks were written to the comrades that are right now hidden and escaping as a result of state oppression, also it's an album dedicated to all the comrades resisting... we can have better times.

Listen also to their first release here.

Contra//Historia - "Caminando sobre las ruinas de la naturaleza" (2016)

CONTRA//HISTORIA "Caminando sobre las ruinas de la naturaleza" (Walking above the ruins of nature)

Year: 2016

Genre: Punk
Country: México

Track List:

1. Progreso (Progress)
2. El sombrio cobijo de la ciudad (The somber shelter of the city)
3. Escapa al desierto (Escape to the desert)
4. Derribando las murallas (Tearing down the walls)
5. El conformismo es una prisión para tu mente (Conformism is a prison for your mind)
6. Muerte (Death)
7. Yo no quiero ser una calavera (I don't want to be a skull)
8. Cenizas (Ashes)
9. Intenta contrarrestarlo (Try counter it)
10. Ataca (Attack)

 Bandcamp

Contra//Historia is a Mexican Anarcopunk band, this is their first album.
You can listen the full streaming on Youtube

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Discum / Inerte "Split" (2016)

DISCUM/INERTE "Split"

Year: 2016

Genre: Crust Punk
Country: México

Track List:

1. Why I must die?
2. New world disorder
3. Legal Annihilation

Facebook / Bandcamp

Discum is a one man band from México that has been featured here before. This is a new split with the band "Inerte". Listen and download in the bandcamp site. 

The Depressick - "1962" (2016)

THE DEPRESSICK "1962"

Year: 2016

Genre: Post-Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal
Country: México

Track List:

1. Perception
2. Inferiority Complex
3. Farewell
4. Gray Ocean
5. Commiseration

bandcamp / facebook

The Depressick is a Mexican band that has been featured here before. I reviewed their second demo, and now I want to show you their new EP. The main theme of this album is the daily life in the big cities, the routine, the gray landscapes, the insensibility. This is not pure black metal, their music incorporates elements from DSBM, post-punk and even rock elements that makes a really amazing work.

Especie Fallida - "Fosas" (2016)

ESPECIE FALLIDA "Fosas"

Year: 2016

Genre: powerviolence, hardcore punk

Country: México

Track List:

1. Insensatez (Senselessness)
2. Bolsa de huesos (Bag of bones)
3. Enfermedad colectiva (Collective disease)
4. Cuerpos sumisos (Submissive bodies)
5. Perro (Dog)
6. Forajida (Outlaw)

Especie Fallida (Failed Species) is a mexican band that has been featured on our blog before. They have released their new material with strong political lyrics and you can download for free in their bandcamp.

It's a pleasure to show this to you because besides this is a very good material, the photos were taken by me. So, enjoy. 

Discum - "5 track Demo" (2015)

DISCUM "5 Track Demo"

Year: 2015

Genre: Death Metal, Crust Punk

Country: México

Track List:

1. Genocidal terrorist state
2. Police brutality
3. Believe in the democracy
4. The price of war
5. Conquest (Disclose cover)

bandcamp / facebook

Discum is a one man band from Mexico City created on December 2011 in Nezahualcoyotl, one of the places that has the highest crime rates in Mexico city. Among gray landscapes, insecurity and overpopulation, Old Skull, the man behind this band criticize the world around him with strong lyrics and a very good sound. 

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The Depressick - "Sub-Urban II" (2015)

THE DEPRESSICK "Sub-Urban II"

Year: 2015

Genre: Atmospheric, Depressive Black Metal

Country: México

Track List:

1. Sub Urban...
2. Nowhere
3. Inferiority Complex
4. Misdeeds

bandcamp / facebook

Sorrow, hate, urban life, melancholy... all of this involves the second demo of this Mexican band. (You can also listen and download for free their first demo here). 

The band was formed on 2013 in Mexico city, having as an inspiration bands as Lifelover. According to them there are a lot of things that inspires the band, first of all the place they come from and the asphyxiating life in a city like that, also alcohol and the effects it causes on feelings, inner struggles... basically it's all about the personal members experiences living in an oppressive city and how they pass through the concrete jungle. 

Right now the band is working on new material that will come out this year. 

Especie Fallida - “Especie Fallida” (2015)

ESPECIE FALLIDA - "ESPECIE FALLIDA" (2015)

Year: 2015
Genre: powerviolence, hardcore punk
Country: México
Label: Grabaciones Pinche Engendro

Tracklist:

1. Las llamas del futuro
2.  Descompuesto
3.  Lapidación
4.  Sólo una palabra
5.  Ausencia
6.  Detrás de la misma reja

My first post on this blog will be about this energic band from México. Even though this is not Black Metal, many of you will be interested. The lyrics are about the human race being a failure, this is also where their name (“Failed Species”) comes from. 

Let’s think for a minute: What are we in the middle of misery? the progress is just an illusion and we are just living deads walking in a gray big city. Someone who points out these themes definitely worth the time of listening, you will not be disappointed. 

Download for free on their bandcamp

KHÖI - s/t (2013)

KHÖI "Khöi"

Year: 2013

Genre: Blackened Crust/Sludge

Country: Mexico 

Track List:

1. Reticula Aurea
2. Mors Hominum
3. Disturbio
4. El Nacimiento de la Oscuridad

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An EP from my readers in Mexico, which is a kind of instrumental blackened stoner/post-rock. There's more info on their bandcamp page, but it's mostly in Spanish. Anyway, the stuff presented on this EP is quite good, hope for more releases from them in the future.

AVE - "Control" (2014)

AVE "Control"

Year: 2014

Genre: Blackened Crust/Sludge

Country: Mexico

Track List:

1. Lejos del declive
2. GOD$
3. Chemtrails

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AVE (from a Spanish word meaning "Bird") are a Mexican band which recently released their 1st official recording titled "Control" (same meaning in Spanish and English), consisting of 3 long tracks. Their lyrics are mostly about the decadence of the human being and civilization. Their guitarist/vocalist has asked me to post it ASAP, but the MEGA link provided by him doesn't work for me. However, you can try your luck, or simply listen to the whole album on their bandcamp page.

bandcamp / facebook

Sadomasochistic - "Grindustrial Rip-off" (2014)

SADOMASOCHISTIC "Grindustrial Rip-off"

Year: 2014
Genre: Grindcore/D-Beat
Country: Mexico

Track List:

1. Punk Slut a Variation of Chaos U.K
2. D-Beat suite of Anti-Cimex with Radio Signal
3. Be My Fuckin' Whore from GG Allin
4. Sado and all MetalThrashBlackDeathCore is the same bored shit except Motörhead
5. Bathory Shit and grand finale of Doom Rock

bandcamp

"The simply fact to do our own noise is democratic anarchy, to do that we want and as we like us,our free will, most of mexican bands are playing the same covers of the same bands that every knows only to be accepted by the crowd. First two tracks as a tribute and three last as a joke. we promote the term DO IT YOURSELF! We are two: mkrieg on guitar and programming and axel playing bass and voices, the drums are programmed on a computer it shows that there is no limits to create, so it explains the album title. The name of the band are about how humanity like the pain, we dont earn any money recording and playing this...

Ripping riffs from some D-Beat bands and a track of the amazing shit of GG Allin covered in five simple words "suck suck suck my dick"... Included a final instrumental jam in the vein of the early Bathory the return...

All drums are programmed, bass voice and guitars are recorded live a la Godflesh style. 
There aren't lyrics, only are words spoken spontaneously..."

Disterror - "Live Create Destroy" (2013)

DISTERROR "Live Create Destroy"


Year:  2013
Genre:  Crust
Country:  Mexico

Track List:

1. Condemned to Survive
2. Insurrection

As I said in the prior post, I don't know too much about this band.  They say their later stuff is more in opposition to social violence and repression.  This is a better release, though I wish it was more than two songs.  The production quality is better and the band is more aggressive.  They have more metal elements musically as well.

bandcamp

Disterror - "Upcoming Warfare (Demo)" (2010)

DISTERROR "Upcoming Warfare (Demo)"


Year:  2010
Genre:  Crust
Country:  Mexico

Track List:

1. Fearless
2. Upcoming Warfare
3. Human Garbage
4. Pray for Death
5. D Beat Roll

I don't know too much about this band.  In their email, they said their earlier stuff (this release) is antiwar.  They are from Cancun, Mexico.  The release sounds like a demo.  It is worth a listen if you like d-beat, crust, and similar music.

bandcamp

Arsonist - demo (2012)

ARSONIST "demo"

Year: 2012

Genre: Thrash Metal / Crust'n'Roll

Country: Mexico 

Track List:

1. Setting Fire
2. Mentally Rejected
3. Damage Structure
4. Muerto En Las Vias
5. Ambitions Of Death
6. False Unity

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Mexico City-based crust/thrash metal band with misanthropic lyrics, formed in August 2012 and released their first 6-track demo by November'12. The band themselves claim their style to be "blackened punk/metal", but I think it's rather crust/thrash metal, somewhat similar to Motörized (another Mexican band whose debut album I posted here not so long ago).

facebook / bandcamp

Motörized - "El Motor" (2012)

MOTORIZED "El Motor"

Year: 2012

Genre: D-Beat, Crust'n'Roll

Country: Mexico 

Track List:

1. Patria o Muerte
2. América Respira
3. Pactando Carreras
4. Bienvenido a mi Miseria
5. Los Coleguitas
6. Señales en el Camino
7. Asalto al City Bank
8. Bastardos del D-Beat
9. Victimas de Guerra
10.  Cuarto de Milla

Motörized are a band from Ciudad Obregon (Sonora, Mexico), active since 2009. Musically and aesthetically they can be categorized as "motorcharged crust/d-beat" along with such bands as Children of Technology, Bhopal, and Hellcrawler. The archive includes all the album covers and lyrics (which are all in Spanish, and as far as I can understand, generally resemble the lyrics of other "biker punk" bands which I mentioned above).

official site

Abyssal - "Landscapes" (2010)

ABYSSAL "Landscapes"

Year: 2010
Genre: Crust/Doom/Sludge
Country: Mexico

bandcamp

Detesta Records have pointed me to this release from Tijuana-based band Abyssal(don't confuse them with the UK-based death metal band under the same name!), consisting of only one long track. Personally I didn't really understand this album, but if you're a fan of minimalistic doom/sludge, and you liked Abyssal's side of this 4-way split, you might enjoy this one too.

Axidance & Rivers Run Dry & Doomsday & Abyssal - 4-way split (2011)

(A)XIDANC(E) / RIVERS RUN DRY / DOOMSDAY / ABYSSAL "4-way split"

Year: 2011
Genre: Blackened Post-Metal / Neocrust / Raw Crust
Country: Russia / Hungary / Colombia / Mexico

Track List:

Axidance

1. Beginning of the path
2. The last cry of nature (Part I)
3. I know the sky loves me
4. The sign
5. They died because of you

Rivers Run Dry

1. Rephrasing old dogmas
2. The clock's tyranny
3. Hearts urbanized
4. Failure/success

Doomsday

1. Asesino del estado
2. Degradacion
3. Falsos positivos

Abyssal

1. Blindness

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Not so much time has passed after Axidance/Gattaca split was released, and now they made another split - now with 3 other crust bands from all around the world. All the Axidance tracks on this split are new versions of their old songs (except for track #2), recorded with different lineup:

• Dionis (vocal, guitar)
• Sergiy (guitar)
• Ilya (bass)
• Sergiy (drums, synths)
• Ksenia (synths)

Rivers Run Dry are a neocrust band from Budapest with Dr.Slayer on bass, who also plays in Human Error. As for me, I like Human Error better, but nevertheless, it's good to see another crust band from a country which has loads of nationalist rock bands, but neither a big crust scene, nor anything like Cascadian BM scene.

Doomsday are a raw old-school crust band from Colombia whose lyrics are mostly about Colombian civil war (which isn't surprising at all, though - it's the main lyrical theme in both Colombian crust and thrash metal scenes; and while living in the country with an ongoing guerrilla conflict, I understand them quite well). To be honest, they're my least favourite on the whole split, but if you're into stuff like Hatross, you may like Doomsday as well.

As for Abyssal, I can say their music is relatively far from post-metal or crust, but I definitely like the acoustic parts of their track. BTW, there's one more RABM-sympathising band called Abyssal - atmospheric death metal from the UK - whose first album I'll post a little later.

Overall, a quite decent split, and Axidance's side is clearly the best. The physical release: 500 books with CD; 6 color pages with lyrics and photos; released as a benefit for the Anarchist Black Cross. Distributed by: They Live rec. | Иакх rec. | Black Cardinal rec. | Resist rec. | My Riot Inward rec. | Wasted Sky's rec.

Words - s/t (2012)

WORDS "Words EP"

Year: 2012
Genre: Metallic Crust/Sludge
Country: Mexico

Track List:

1. Red Fascism
2. Cannibal Feast
3. When Civilization is No Longer Enough
4. Burn Brightly
5. Ligeramente Enamorado del Diablo
6. Watching Me Breath
7. The Dust

bandcamp

Boring band name, but good music. Words were formed in 2010 and have played with many bands since then, including Antimaster and Inservibles (local Mexican bands), and also opened for Dave Phillips (ex Fear of God), Eskatologia (Sweden) and La URSS (Spain). Here's their debut release - 7 song EP which they recorded last year and released on cassette as well as in digital form in January 2012. They define their style as "crust/sludge/stenchcore/whatever" (all of which is good in my book).

Upd. 12th April: Initially, I was about to post this EP right after I received it (end of March), but then I decided to ask the band about the meaning of the lyrics for the song "Red Fascism", which I didn't fully understood. According to them, it's a song about totalitarianism in the animal kingdom - specifically about ants and their instinctual discipline.

blog / facebook / twitter

Bits-and-Herz - "Julieta I" (from "Tranzmetal" LP)

Bits-and-Herz is an one-man electro-industrial project from Mexico, started in 2006 by Angel "WasV" Fajardo (who I know reads my blog). The main lyrical theme of Bits-and-Herz are negative emotions and social conditions (alcoholism, rape, drugs, depression, frustration and hatred). He has released 3 albums so far. Unfortunately, the quality of production is far from perfect, and I don't really like the vocals (according to WasV, he doesn't use any voice effects, because he wants to differ from all these commercial dark electro bands that all have distorted vocals; but I personally think that his vocals would fit the music much better if distorted), but some of his tracks sound very promising:

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