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The highly anticipated 12" follow up to the 2021 Muerte Preventiva 7". 12 Tracks of breakneck ultra hardcore MANIA! A brain melting display of raw power performed at inhuman speeds. Uncontrollable chaotic destruction!!!
Covers screen printed in Bogotá
Includes lyric insert and large foldout poster.
Our take: Ríos de Sangre, the debut LP from Bogotá, Colombia’s Alambrada, arrived earlier this summer in a small edition that disappeared instantly, and now that we have a restock in-house, I wanted to hip anyone who might have missed out on this monster record the first go-round. While displaying the trademark intensity we expect from the contemporary Bogotá hardcore scene, Ríos de Sangre fits with a particular strain of hardcore I’ve often championed at Sorry State. I don’t think there’s a name for this sub-scene, but I think of it as true psycho shit, bands that play at ridiculously fast tempos, cramming their songs to overflowing with musical ideas and whose unbalanced, evil-sounding vibe borrows from the outsider hardcore canon of Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, Spike in Vain, and Septic Death. Allergic to safety of convention, this is music that keeps the listener off-balance through a carpet-bomb deployment of odd rhythms and whiplash tempo changes. Incredibly, Alambrada keeps up the intensity across this record’s entire 20 minutes, not only abandoning hardcore’s genre-wide conventions, but rigorously avoiding repeating themselves or falling into their own patterns that might deaden the impact of their constant jump scares. It would take longer to catalog Alambrada’s seemingly endless bag of tricks than it would to actually listen to Ríos de Sangre, but even the final quarter of the album feels full of surprises, like the exceptional Buzzcocks-esque guitar solo in “Silencio Sepulcral” or when the drummer finally does a full-on blast on “Rabia.” It’s a wild ride, and like similarly over-the-top recent records from Psico Galera and Idiota Civilizzato, these twelve tracks will crank your heart up to hummingbird tempo and not let you rest until they hit the last note.