Mexican-American dying grinders BRUJERIA kicked off the “Europa Rigor Mortis Half I” 2025 European tour final evening (Wednesday, January 15) at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium. The trek launched 4 months after the band’s frontman, lyricist, chief and co-founder John Lepe, a.ok.a. Juan Brujo, died on the age of 61 and 6 months after longtime BRUJERIA vocalist and samplist Ciriaco “Pinche Peach” Quezada handed away on the age of 57.
Billed as a “tribute to Juan Brujo and Pinche Peach“, “Europa Rigor Mortis Half I” sees Henry “El Sangrón” Sanchez dealing with lead vocals for BRUJERIA and options CARCASS as headliner and help from ROTTEN SOUND.
Fan-filmed video of the Antwerp live performance could be seen beneath.
In September, BRUJERIA introduced that Juan Brujo died after struggling a coronary heart assault throughout the “Mexorcista” tour in Saint Clairsville, Ohio.
BRUJERIA launched its fifth full-length album, “Esto Es Brujeria”, in September 2023 by way of Nuclear Blast Data.
In a 2015 interview with The Moshville Occasions, Brujo mentioned that BRUJERIA was by no means meant to be a touring band. “We solely ever meant to make some data. What it was, was again in L.A. in 1989, there was a metallic scene which included grind and hardcore stuff. There was a band known as TERRORIZER, they usually would not allow them to play within the regular golf equipment so that they’d play in backyards within the Mexican components of city. We’d go — within the yard of somebody’s home — and not one of the followers there watching the present spoke English. All these Mexicans — there are loads of Mexicans in L.A., so we simply thought, ‘Now we have to begin a band that sings in Spanish. Give them what they need.’
“There have been points with a few of the guys — ‘I’ve obtained a contract with my different band,’ ‘I could be on the highway’ — however we have been solely ever going to make music; we have been by no means going to tour it. Simply make music in Spanish and see the way it went. We did the primary file in a day on the studio. We had nothing written; we had no drummer… we simply confirmed up. Somebody who’d by no means performed drums of their lives was enjoying drums. We recorded 4 songs and once we left, we gave a duplicate to a Mexican child and a white man — a type of hardcore dudes, simply somebody who did not communicate Spanish. The following day we met the hardcore man once more and he had a patch on his arm. He’d obtained a BRUJERIA tattoo. He wished to be the primary man with a BRUJERIA tattoo. The day after we recorded the songs. The Mexican man — he did not communicate any English — we noticed him a few days later and he’d memorized all of the phrases. I imply, they’re actually [makes harsh vocal noises] however he’d listened to them a couple of thousand instances and labored all of them out. He was singing them to us there and that is once we thought, ‘This factor is gonna work.'”
BRUJERIA‘s most up-to-date lineup additionally included Jessica Pimentel, the American actress finest recognized for her function as Maria Ruiz on the Netflix unique sequence “Orange Is The New Black”.