11/30/2022 21:32

Cultura Tres

Cultura Tres present new bass player and song

Venezuela's sludge metallers Cultura Tres have announced their new bassist:

"A new chapter 🇻🇪🇧🇷🇨🇴.

We've joined forces with Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. from the almighty Sepultura to create the most important album of our career.

For the last three years we've been composing a furious record.

This first single 'The World and Its Lies' reveals some of energy of what's coming. It will be released the 25th of November.

In this album we want to show you guys South American metal as raw and real as it should be in our vision... Metal made the same way we got to know it at a live show. No drum-samples, no robotic performances. Organic as it gets. 

'Camino de Brujos' will be released April 7th of 2023.

The album will be available digitally in the Americas through:

Outono Music / Universal Music Group  

In the rest of the world through:

AJM Sound / Bloodblast 

It will also be available on vinyl, CD & cassette tape through our official store and Bandcamp.

- Cultura Tres"

"Something we've learnt while listening to Andy Wallace's albums (he is God in our little world) is that if you can't imagine the band performing while you listen to a recording then you are just listening to a computer. And we are not interested in letting fans hear a computer... We'd rather invite them to hear 4 people playing their hearts out on a record. This record", comments the frontman Alejandro Londono Montoya.
 
"In 2019 after hearing about the plans for a new Cultura Tres, I offered Ale and Juanma to join the band. The music is very organic. There are a lot of influence from the 90's and a little bit of hardcore as well. Personally [in this album], I got inspired by the bass players who Iive loved the most back in the 70's”, enthuses Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr.

In the studio the band explored new ideas and found a musical common ground. The resulting style retained elements of the psychedelic-sludgy past, but incorporated the groove of a more metal oriented vibe that Paulo brought in with his Sepultura influence.
 
So, how should South American heavy music sound like nowadays? The answer is easy – just listen to 'Camino de Brujos', an album which explores both new and old musical textures. The power of thrash metal meets the eeriness of sludge and the melancholic feel of classic rock.
 
"The album title 'Camino de Brujos' can be roughly translated as ‘Trail of Witches’. Do you remember the little story about letting your subconscious make artistic choices? Well this is one of the best examples, 'Camino de Brujos' is the main line sang on top of a nasty slow riff, the song is filled with tribal ritual percussion, typical from South America's black magic practices. The phrase didn't only end up being the only lyrics sang on the song but it also gave the name and identity to the album", explains Alejandro Londono Montoya.

1. The World and Its Lies
2. Time Is Up
3. Signs
4. The Land
5. Proxy War
6. 19 Horas
7. Zombies
8. De Maracay
9. The Smell of Death
10. Camino de Brujos

'Camino De Brujos' was recorded by Juan M. De Ferrari Montoya & Alonso Milano Mendoza at AJM Sound Studios, Amsterdam (NL) and at Reborn Studios, Artesa de Segre (SP). Alejandro Londono Montoya took care of the missing and the mastering at AJM Sound Studios in Amsterdam. The artwork was made by Damian Michaels.

Cultura Tres are:
Alejandro Londono Montoya - guitar, vocals
Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr - bass
Juan M de Ferrari Montoya - guitar
Jerry Vergara Cevallos - drums

(source: Cultura Tres / Neecee Agency)