Machetazo
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| Machetazo | |
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| Origin | La Coruña, España |
| Genre(s) | Deathgrind |
| Years active | 1994 - present |
| Label(s) | Razorback Records Throne Records Living Dead Society Al Pacino Records Escorbuto Records First Blood Family Frigidity Records Goryfied Productions Hells Headbangers Ironía Records Last House on the Right Records Relapse Records Sterilized Decay Records Upground Records |
| Website | machetazo.org |
| Members | |
| Dopi Carlos "Cadaver" Rober |
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Machetazo is a deathgrind band from La Coruña, (Spain) formed in 1994. They are one of the few surviving bands in the Spanish underground extreme music scene.
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[edit] History
Machetazo were formed in La Coruña, Spain in 1994 as a side project of two other death metal bands from the area. Initially, they were more noisecore-oriented than grindcore. They recorded two demos, "46 cabezas aplastadas por un yunque oxidado" in 1995, and "Realmente disfruto comiendo cadáveres" in 1997. The latter was an international underground success, and in 1999 was remastered by the American label Fudgeworthy Records.
At this point Machetazo stopped being a side project and became a band in its own right, although line-up problems forced them to conntinue with only two members. They recorded their first album "Carne de cementerio" in 1999, which was released by Razorback Records. After this they released numerous split singles. With Dopi as the sole surviving original member together with the new guitarist Rober, Machetazo recorded their second full length, "Trono de Huesos" (2002). In this work the band gives tribute to the seminal grind sound in a work in the vein of bands like Carcass or Repulsion. After the recording of "Trono de Huesos" Machetazo created a more stable line-up, that still exists today: Dopi (drums and vocals); Carlos "Cadaver" (bass and vocals); and Rober (guitar).
After testing this line-up with two singles, Machetazo released their third full length in 2005, "Sinfonías del Terror Ciego", a concept album about the Spanish film maker Amando de Ossorio. This record brought them to a wider audience than ever before and 2006 was a year of intense touring and projects. They released a split single with Total Fucking Destruction on the American label Relapse Records in 2006.
[edit] Members
- Dopi: Drums and Vocals
- Carlos "Cadáver": Bass and Vocals
- Rober: Guitar
[edit] Labels
Machetazo have released material mainly on two labels: Razorback Records has released its three albums on CD, while the Asturian label Throne Records has released them in a vinyl format.
But Machetazo has also had its material released on many small underground international labels, like Al Pacino Records, Scurvy Records, First Blood Family, Frigidity Records, Goryfied Productions, Hells Headbangers, Irony Records, Last House On The Right Records, Relapse, Sterilized Decay Records and Upground Records.
[edit] Discography
- "46 cabezas aplastadas por un yunque oxidado" demotape 1994 (translation: "46 Heads Crushed by an Oxidized Anvil")
- "Realmente disfruto comiendo cadáveres" demotape 1997 (translation: "I Really Enjoy Eating Corpses")
- "Carne de cementerio" CD (Razorback Records - USA) 2000 (translation: "Cemetery Meat")
- Split 7" w/ Corrupted (Frigidity Records - Japón) 2000
- Split 7" w/ Rise Above (Sterilized Decay Records - UK) 2000
- Split 7" w/ Bodies Lay Broken (Al Pacino Records - USA) 2001
- Split MCD w/ Abscess (Upground Records / Ironía Records) 2001
- "Trono de Huesos" CD (Razorback Records - USA) 2002 (translation: "Throne of Bones")
- "The maggot sessions" 7" (First Blood Family - USA) 2003
- "Horror Grind" MCD (Last House On The Right Records - USA) 2004
- Split 7" w/ General Surgery (Escorbuto Records / Goryfied Productions - Suecia) 2004
- "Dead...in the raw!" demo (?) 2004
- "Sinfonías del terror ciego" CD (Records - USA) 2005 (translation: "Symphonies of Blind Terror")
- Split 7" w/ Cianide (Hells Headbangers - USA) 2005
- Split 7" w/ Total Fucking Destruction (Relapse - USA) 2006
- "Ultratumba" CD (Living Dead Society -Spain) 2007 (translation: "Life After Death")
