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“Where metal and thunder clash in ecstasy…”
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"From eons we have been dwelling in this world,
we the ones called cursed, the defenders of what the vast majority considers
unorthodox. We, the loyal followers of the Sword and Thunder" How I started it is pretty much a
mystery... So many years have passed... I was a happy little boy until that
day... There was an age when I just didn’t give a damn about music, but then
I found this tape... It was FULL of pop and disco music... How stupid it
sounded, like music for the retarded... I was looking for something stronger...
I bought a weird compilation in early 1984, I think it was called something
like the rock hits of the year, and then the horror... I found there some
bands which were to my ears like a wall of power... It was a music style I
had heard somewhere but when I didn’t give a damn about music... It was
mighty HEAVY METAL!!! From there on, I started buying vinyl of those “creepy”
bands... BLACK SABBATH, SAXON, RATT, IRON MAIDEN and more... Suddenly one day
a friend told me about a VERY heavy metal band... That name back then caused
horror... It was METALLICA... Shit it was so heavy... At first they were TOO
much for my poor ears.... But like two days later I was banging all around
with that band... Then came high school, were I met two mothefuckers that
changed my life... I was thrown out of class for being talking with one of
them... So we both went out of the classroom... He had around his neck a
weird symbol... It read something like SLAYER... “What’s that?” I asked... “A
band. A really heavy band.”... “Hmmm, can I borrow a tape?” I asked... “It is
way too much for anyone.” he replied... “Too much for anyone? Then I’ll BUY
it...just tell me where?”... “Humm....well, I’ll lend you some, you seem to
be like a weird guy”... And that’s how I got into UNDERGROUND... I still
remember the two vinyls that the fucker brought... RUNNING WILD “Gates to
purgatory” and HELLOWEEN “Walls of Jericho”...Back then it was all fucking
great... The new sounds, more and more aggressive.... More POWERFUL... The
people actually whispered things like “those kids are like... Satanic.” Then
let the hair grow... At that time it was not a fashion... Until your parents
find out that under that cap there was that horrible hair... Then the first
t-shirt... A METALLICA “Ride the lightning” shirt... The first show... My
first vinyl of REAL underground music... That was a pirate SLAYER “Reign in
blood” vinyl... The other of the fuckers told things about forming a band...
I wanted to be involved, but I guess it was not something I wanted too
much... The band formed some years after that... It was called SACRAMENT... It
later changed to RIPPING FLESH... And the era started... I told them “Hey, I
want to be your manager”... They all look horrified “You?”... “Manager?” the
others... “Yeah, I’ll help out to promote the band at shows and shit like
that”… “Are you going to charge like a fee or something?”... “Nah, I’ll set
for a couple of beers.”… “Hmmm…OK you’re in, let’s celebrate. Let’s bring
some beer and play some tapes!”…and then it all continues…and that same
energy is still flowing for something like 14 years…and it doesn’t seem to
stop… Mail us at: P.O. Box 3-58, c.p. 36517, Irapuato,
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