Ahpuch Oztoc - Nemiliztli In Coatl

Arist: Ahpuch Oztoc

Album - Nemiliztli In Coatl

Label: Eternal Producciones XOCOC

Year: 2006

Country: Mexico

Genre: Black Metal

Ahpuch Oztoc are black metal band from Culiacán, Sinaloa. Their name roughly translate to "In the cave of Ah Puch", Ah Puch being one of the Mayan death gods found in Xibalba. The album title translates roughly to "The Way Of The Serpent" in Nahuatl and all the band's lyrics are also written in Nahuatl. In addition to pre-hispanic themes and a veneration for their ancestors, the band also fits under the banner of RABM, with lyrics in support for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Musically, this is old school black metal filled with ice cold, hateful riffing that will make you want to behead capitalists with a macuahuitl. 

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Yaotl Mictlan - Guerreros De La Tierra De Los Muertos

Artist: Yaotl Mictlan

Album: Guerreros De La Tierra De Los Muertos

Label: American Line Productions
Year: 2006
Country: Mexico
Genre: Black Metal

Yaotl Mictlan are a black metal band originally from Mexico, but now based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. The band's name roughly translates to "warriors from the land of the dead" in English, which is also. Guerreros De La Tierra De Los Muertos mtheir debut album, a Spanish translation of the same phrase. Throughout the hour long listen, Yaotl Mictlan conjure fierce black metal that invokes the fires of Mictlan, the Aztec underworld. The band writes war hymns dedicated to indigenous history and liberation.

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Hacavitz - Venganza

Band: Hacavitz

Album: Venganza

Label: Moribund Records

Year: 2005

Country: Mexico

Genre: Black Metal

Hacavitz are a black metal trio out of the state of Querétaro, Mexico. Their debut album is a savage display of dark and unforgiving black/death metal influenced with lyrics focusing on death, anti-christianity, and pre-hispanic mythology of Mexico. This album contains lyrics in English, Spanish, Nahuatl, and P'urépecha. The album cover is a painting by Mexican artist Francisco Moreno Capdevila, titled "The Conquest and Destruction of Tenochtitlan". That paired with an album title that translates to vengeance, it is clear the path that Hacavitz are taking with this initial statement.

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Xibalba Itzaes - In Lucescitae Tristis Hiei

Artist: Xibalba Itazes

Album: In Lucescitae

Label: Self-Released

Year: 1992

Country: Mexico

Genre: Black Metal

Xibalba Itazes are black metal band based out of Mexico City. Xibalba are the first black metal band to incorporate Ancient Mexican imagery and narratives to their music. Their name is adopted from the name of underworld in Kiche Mayan mythology. This debut demo is 1st wave black metal perfection, complete with primitive and blood-hungry riffing and Mayan inspired blasphemies screamed in Latin. This is mandatory listening.

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