TZOMPANTLI
Metal / Metal / Metal
Biography:
Tzompantli was created to maintain and keep alive the music project of the old band Incest, the new forms of musical fusion had came to give new format to the most powerful band in Aztec lands. Tzompantli was born to develop the style of this musicians forged during more than 12 years in underground Mexican Heavy Metal scene, making sound again the drums in signal of war.
Their achievements stand out for their two early records The Call of the Land and El Rostro del Sol, under the name of Incest but in same style of actual Tzompantli. Many promotional visits to Mexican radio stations and in Berkley California radio Illegal in 1995 where music was transmitted in a special band show, also the record The call of the land was mentioned in demo section of MTV Latino Headbangers-ball by the Chilenian Dj.
Important gigs of the band took place in famous Mexico City flea market El Chopo in 1997, in the city of Xalapa in 2003 and their most important gig in February 2006 Metal Mixes Guadalajara Fest sharing stage with important bands of Guadalajara and Leon.
Tzompantli plays Metal, could be modern Power-Thrash, it mixes folk and pre-Hispanic Mexican music elements and influenced for an endless number of international bands. Some purist consider Tzompantli music as power metal, we call ourselves pre-Hispanic metal so it is a combination of Thrash, Classic and European Metal.
Influencies:
We starting play in the thrash era so we consider have influence mainly of Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Slayer, Sodom the old Sacred Reich, Testament. We never stop learning of new bands and rediscover the old ones.
Biografia:
Tzompantli toca Heavy metal moderno incorpora elementos de musica mexicana folk y prehispnica influida por un sin fin de bandas y elementos musicales. Algunos lo consideran Power, otros le llamamos prehispanic metal pero se mezclan elementos Thrash, Metal Clasico y Metal Europeo.
Tzompantli nace como producto de la sucesion y continuacion del proyecto musical del antiguo Incest, las nuevas opciones de fusion musical le han venido a dar un nuevo formato a la banda ms poderosa de tierras aztecas. Tzompantli nace para desarrollar el estilo de estos msicos que se ha venido forjando desde hace 12 aos, haciendo sonar de nueva cuenta los tambores en son de guerra. Su palmares destaca por las 2 grabaciones anteriores The call of the land y El rostro del sol, bajo el nombre de Incest pero con el concepto y estilo que los definen hasta el momento, adems de diversas presentaciones de su msica en Radio Mexiquense, en 105.7 con Jorge Rugeiro, banda rockera y en la estacin Radio ilegal de Berkley California, la presentacin de la grabacin The call of the land en MTV Latino Headbangers ball en el ao 95 hasta los conciertos en el Chopo en el 97 y en Xalapa en 2003 alternando a lo largo de estos aos con un sinfn de bandas muchas de ellas ya desaparecidas en diversos conciertos en foros de la ciudad de Mxico y Edo. Mex.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Members: Carlos G.T., David Ramirez, Victor Trujillo
Vennificus
Good stuff, I can see you guys going places, the style
needs some tuning in my opinion though, you use your
vocals simple voices, but in many popular cases (in my
experience and in the opinions of many) the vocals are
meshed into the music, more as an instrument. The
vocals DO take the top layering but they should still
be leveled a bit with the main melodic instrumental.
The Very way you use it at around 5:19 in "warrior's
Path" or at 0:50 in El Nacimiento del colibri (actually
that song is pretty good for the leveling at the
beginning) Also the keyboard doesn't seem to get much
emphasis at all. Maybe it's your preference, I dunno,
but having a keyboard for ambient background sounds
helps with sucking people into the song. On another
note, I absolutely love the voice tremolo and waver,
It's a relatively new sound, and goes well with the
instrumental style. That's my rant. I found out
about you guys through "the metal observer" in the
second part of their january podcast for 2008. And
finally, I hope you guys start selling in Canada,
specifically Newfoundland. We have a good metal scene
but not enough diversity on it (a person can only take
so much black and dark metal).
posted Jul 08
BLAZZPHEMOUS
Declarome fan!!!
posted Jun 19