Cholos- Sudamérica Se Levanta (2016)

Cholos- Sudamérica Se Levanta (2016)

By: Ghost Writer

Think twice if you consider Brazil having the last word in Latin American extreme music, Perú's Cholos brought last year a brutal piece of music destined to cause real damage to the uninitiated.

In Sudamérica se Levanta the Peruvian band masterfully discharges a great mix of heavy artillery drumming, dissonant repulsive guitar lines and intensely rabid vocals.

No hay Dios starts the record for these Inca Empire heirs, massive walls of sound are quickly built, as the band creates dazzling rhythms with a talent for bringing order out of chaos, the inhuman drum work is quite amazing, lethal and performed with high precision and power.

On Monsanto the band again rises the intensity in a brutal cathartic way, is full attack of crazed drums, tense guitars and maniac fast discharged vocals, immediate followed by the equally devastating Lucha por Tu Identidad, featuring also red hot screeching guitar and an impressive drum arrangement into a truly devastating musical artifact with great grooves for head banging all along.

An Andean classic is displayed next in the form of El Condor Pasa, a beautiful acoustic timeless folk song perfectly played here by the guitarist of the band, making a powerful connection with the sonic roots of this dissonant Peruvian extreme band, a connection even more accentuated on the explosive self-explanatory Perú.

For Sobreviviente the band gracefully offers a much needed change of paced, with a dazzling song structure, a biting guitar work and a stellar work by the bass and the complex playing of the band's drummer.

Perhaps the weak sport in the whole record is their affinity for quickly shifting tempos, preventing the listener to get really hooked on a solid groove, and believe me this record has plenty of infectious grooves, but the band act like truly possessed souls avoiding at all cost to remain in a fixed groove for a long time.

The record ends with two wonderful concrete onslaughts named Repulsión and Disolución, where the band's killing precision is quite amazing, direct and to the head, a powerful show of stamina and sound brutality, this band coming from the former Inca Empire is not shy in displaying the greatness of their ancestors, Cholos is here to prove that extreme metal in South America does not end in Brazil.