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The third 12" offering from Bogota, Colombia's MURO!!! Ten tracks of the blistering hardcore punk you know and love. Each record comes in a layout that was completely printed and assembled by the band at Casa Rat Trap featuring stunning screen printed and handmade jackets, three posters and a booklet.
More information on this release from the band:
Nuevo Dogma was recorded in Rat Trap studio, Bogotá. Colombia between March and May 2022. Captured by Sergio González, mixed by Carlos Velásquez and mastered by Marcus Ferreira at No master´s voice, København.
The edition is the first vinyl release from Fuerza Ingobernable discos (prior to 2018 known as Rat Trap Records). An international network of friends made this possible, with special thanks to Fischkopp, Adult Crash and Beach Impediment, among many others.
Finally, in distribution! The edition has 4 different covers, a Fanzine and 3 posters that vary from copy to copy. The circulation is 1000 copies, printed, drawn, folded and glued by hand by the band members, distributed mainly in Colombia and the EU at concerts and the US, Australia and Japan through distros (for releasing a tape version with your distro write to fuerzaingobernabledistro@riseup.net)
These 10 tracks are an evolution of the band's sound, with influences from worldwide punk of the 80s (guess in each song).
The suffocated mix that is both a feeling and a gesture, aims to portray the nature of power and coercion in our daily life and at the same time, to connect with that first moment that confronted many punks of the tropics with the sound of Hard Core through dubbed tapes and rehearsal recordings.
A future that suddenly became a present more terrifying than ever imagined. The argument of "state of emergency" or "crisis" used to commit all kinds of atrocities, a term constantly used in the countries that were the playing field during the cold war to establish dictatorships until today, has become global policy after the pandemic.
The human rights discourse that built a reputation for the US and the EU as defenders of democracy, civilization and peace in the eyes of the world has lost all relevance.
These dictators of freedom are crueler than ever, honest in their intentions to throw migrants overboard into the sea and barbwire the jungle to avoid looking into the eyes of the misery their violent influence has created.
People want blood! and there is no need to lie anymore, people praise cruelty, even in the northern countries, which were sold to the public by the media as advanced democracies, paradoxically, for their socialist vision of basic human needs. The right will dismantle any structure that ensures human survival without the need to compete for necessary livelihoods.
Any equity proposal will be replaced by the paradigm of devastation, everything that must be destroyed in the name of progress will be destroyed because we are in a "crisis" and Is an "Emergency"
Was Maggy right? Is there no alternative?
After the fall of all the great humanist narratives of the last century, superstition and conspiracy have made their grand comeback, people on the right and the left fill their heads with stories that make them feel like they can grasp the amount of coercion we live in day by day.
Propaganda of all kind builds today world; religión, new age, conspiration, economy and all sort of acts of faith that enable us the confort of believing that there is a bigger ruling force hidding, besides the -will of the masses- that decides about the future of the planet.
Democracy gave us the atomic bomb and the revolution gave us Gulag. Is there anything else to believe in?
Disappointment is the dominant feeling in our minds, and this lack of hope and meaning is the true pandemic; depression, confusion, addiction and apathy, a mental health crisis that responds to the failure of all human projects that have promised to cure hunger, disease, our need for shelter and social purpose, four true necessities to be able to defend the main Warfield, our psyche and body.
Punk was right, there is no future If we put our lives in the hands of politicians and business men.
With the return of superstition we do not need science to prove our xenophobic beliefs and we do not need philosophy to prove our intentions of supremacy, the economy reigns and only those who have the merit of not having been raised in a poor family will survive...
The belief in supremacy itself is enough to annihilate others in the fight to obtain what remains of this fertile Paradise that we used to call home, and now call a potential opportunity for economic progress through the exploitation of natural and human sources.
Nuevo Dogma is the assertion:
- that a change of power only guarantees new forms of misery
- that if social struggle focus on conquering power we will live in depression and frustration measuring our sense of "victory" in the scale of an undefetable system.
- that if we use our imagination to feed the automation platforms that make us Dependent on the system, those invisible chains will become so heavy that we will not be able to lift our arms and heads to fight!
- That if we get stuck in the old revolutionary language that even right-wing populists use to proclaim themselves anti-system, our rage will become reactionary
- that we must fight against the commodification of all human dimensions, the privatizing force that guarantees competition for that basic needs, services and human development.
- That power is not hidden in the Shadows and there is no conspiracy to be unveil, the power is right here, in front of our eyes, inside our heads and pockets, and it is addictive!
- that we are tools of power if we consent to it, we are weapons of fascism if we oppress our equals to feel better with our own life situation and this is what keeps hierarchies unremovable.
- No revolution is needed to appropriate the means of production, we can fight for autonomy and teach ourselves.
- Human existence has not been achieved through the survival of the fittest, but through communal work. We can fight all forms of propaganda that limit our minds with psysical and mental borders, the root of discrimination in our minds.
-Punk Hard Core en pie de lucha
- Repair! Analog attack against digital simulation
- Build! Crafts against automation
- Grow! Food sovereignity against human pollution
- Create! D.I.Y culture against allienation!
- Welcome! fight for equality not for the difference!
Our take: Bogota, Colombia’s Muro returns with their long-awaited 3rd album, Nueva Dogma. I think everyone who encounters Muro, whether it’s live or through their recordings, agrees they are a special band. The most striking aspect of their music for me remains the passion and intensity they capture on their recordings. As thousands of lackluster albums across the history of recorded music prove, even a great band can have trouble capturing their energy on tape, but that has never been an issue for Muro, whose electricity transmits even through the very raw recordings they favor. Nueva Dogma continues that pattern, but while the presentation is primitive, the songs themselves are anything but. Sure, there are plenty of short, frantic riffs that will tickle the fancy of anyone who knows the rewards of exploring the 80s international hardcore canon, but Nueva Dogma is also a notably musically progressive record, with Muro exploring a wide range of riffs, styles, grooves, and textures across its ten songs. In particular, the lead guitarist brings a lot to Nueva Dogma, which is spiced with a thrilling mix of catchy, sometimes quite melodic licks. While the grimy presentation and chaotic performance disguise it, some of these tracks would probably even qualify as melodic hardcore, at least on the level of the musical composition. That griminess of presentation is an important part of Muro’s trip they don’t want you to miss, though. As you may have noticed, Nueva Dogma’s music is nowhere to be found online. Instead, in order to hear this remarkable record, you need to access the punk DIY network that has propagated this self-made artifact across the world. With multiple inserts, a ton of cool illustrations, and packaging handmade in the band’s home country of Colombia, Muro’s effort to bring something of their world into the homes of everyone who buys Nueva Dogma makes for an engrossing experience that elevates what would have been, under any circumstances, a truly noteworthy hardcore punk record.