Brujeria To Tour With Powerflo and Pinata Protests

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Extreme metallers BRUJERIA have announced another leg of headlining tour dates in support of their recently released fourth full-length album, Pocho Aztlan. Joining them are POWERFLO (feat. members of CYPRESS HILLFEAR FACTORYBIOHAZARD and DOWNSET) and San Antonio-based punkers PIÑATA PROTEST. Confirmed dates are as follows:

BRUJERIA, POWERFLO, PIÑATA PROTEST

10/20/17 – Riverside, CA @ Riverside Municipal Auditorium

10/21/17 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades

10/23/17 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

10/24/17 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater

10/26/17 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex

10/27/17 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater

10/28/17 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater

10/29/17 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge

10/30/17 – Cleveland, OH @ Cambridge Room House of Blues

10/31/17 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall

11/02/17 – Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage

11/03/17 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza

11/04/17 – Boston, MA @ Once Ballroom

11/05/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry

11/08/17 – Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry

11/09/17 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground

11/10/17 – Nashville, TN @ Exit In

11/11/17 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall

11/12/17 – Tulsa, OK @ Vanguard

11/14/17 – Corpus Christi, TX @ Ayers Event Center

11/15/17 – San Antonio, TX @ Rock Box

11/16/17 – El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls

11/17/17 – Mesa, AZ @ Club Red

11/18/17 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

11/19/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ Mayan Theater

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 DEATHTHE EXPLOITED).

Check out the visualizer for the song “Viva Presidente Trump!” here. The track comes from their recent 7′ release by the same name, which is now available for purchase digitally on iTunes, Amazon and GooglePlay.

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 BRUJERIAcaptured 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 BrujoBRUJERIA 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.”

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