Hello, we’re here with Locomuerte, how are you?
Good, we’re super happy to be here.

So, we’re at the Motocultor Festival. You were booked a bit last minute. Were there any constraints regarding preparation and timing?
Nico Loco – Not really, because we’re in the middle of festival season, so we’re always at extreme fest mode. We work our show intensively and we know how to adapt it. On that front, there weren’t many constraints. It was more about logistics, because we were replacing Dropout Kings – whom we salute, and we send them lots of support – so it was mainly about accommodation, organization, and transport. El Mitcho was supposed to be on vacation. There was a whole reshuffling to do, but we couldn’t miss such an amazing opportunity to have fun on a big stage like the Motocultor. It’s a legendary festival, and we absolutely wanted to play if we got the chance.
El Termito – Anyway, I think we would have managed, no matter what, even with constraints, to make it happen.

You’re here today, but you play tomorrow. Are there any bands you want to see? I heard about Loudblast.
Nico Loco – Yes, of course.
El Mitcho – Ah, it’s the friends!
Nico Loco – Stéphane Buriez has supported us a lot from the beginning. Hervé, the drummer of Loudblast, even gave us drum tips. He came over one weekend to play drums with our first drummer to show him some parts and everything. So there’s a strong connection. The lineup is amazing, with many completely legendary bands. Yesterday, there was Kerry King and Forbidden. Today, there’s Dark Angel. There’s also Sloth.
El Termito – Envy, I saw the other day.
El Mitcho – There’s Fear Factory!
Nico Loco – There’s Fear Factory too, Machine Head, plenty of big bands, old and new. In the new school, there’s Landmvrks and all that. So it’s a superb lineup. It’s going to be amazing to both see old favorites and discover new bands.

I think on stage tomorrow we’ll get to hear tracks from Parano Booster, right ?
El Termito – Of course!

It’s an album that received very good reviews and seems to truly represent the essence of Locomuerte, but in a deeper way. Do you agree?
El Termito – Absolutely!
Nico Loco – It’s the extension of the work we’ve been doing, of the whole composition process from the start. The creation of the style, and then we found what we really liked as a style. It’s a pretty broad style because it’s thrash crossover with reggaeton, so we can allow ourselves a lot while staying true to our original salsa.

And how do you balance experimenting with all these styles in the studio while keeping a harmonious sound?
El Floco – It’s completely natural. We don’t overthink it, it comes naturally.
El Mitcho – We come up with riffs, and it’s done from the heart.
Nico Loco – It’s also the result of real experience. We’re mostly self-taught musicians, except Flo, who went to a real music school. We’ve spent millions of hours in rehearsal rooms composing. Mitch had his first thrash band in ’89 called Damage. We never did covers, we always composed. So you practice, practice, learn… you make songs, some good, some less good. And that’s how you acquire experience, which you can only get by doing it. Even if you’re the best musician in the world, if you never create, you don’t know how to create. And when you create, you make mistakes. It’s very similar to cooking: sometimes, as an apprentice chef, you add too much of this, not enough of that, then you taste and adjust. It’s exactly the same when learning to compose. Over time, we found our way, and it comes naturally. And El Termito really got the reggaeton vibe. He’s fully into it. We worked hard and studied it, so it comes naturally. It’s awesome.

I saw that there are some features on the album. How did that influence the creation?
Nico Loco – It didn’t influence the creation at all.
El Floco – These are people we wanted to work with, like Arno and Poun from Black Bomb A, whom we’ve known for a while…
Nico Loco – You’re a huge fan of Black Bomb A.
El Floco – Yeah, I’ve been a fan since I was a kid, so it was amazing to have them with us and share stages sometimes. It’s a pleasure, it’s awesome.
El Termito – And also Auré from Akiavel, who does backing vocals on Demonios. With whom we did the music video for…
Nico Loco – La Vide Loca. They came to help us for a concert because we shot a clip with Bruno, who is here. They came to a wrestling gym to have extras around the ring. We organized a concert quickly and needed a local band. Akiavel came to help, even though we didn’t know them well. They’re super nice people, and we really connected with Auré and all the band members. So we asked her because she has a huge voice, and we wanted some slightly “demonic” backing. And then for Fumamota – the clip will release on August 20, next Wednesday, with the Black Bomb A feature – we thought for festivals we needed a song about weed, so everyone would say, “yeah, it’s about weed.” Just kidding. We decided to make a song for people who love smoking weed.
El Termito – We wanted a song about weed even though we don’t smoke, so we had to do something on that. [laughs]
Nico Loco – Actually, it was a tribute to Black Bomb A’s song Mary, which we all loved live, so we invited Arno and Poun to do the feature. And this time, it was a real feature; they actually created their parts on our music.

Do you have a message for your fans?
Yes, first of all, thank you so much, mega moustache gracias. And above all, ahuevo, that’s la vida loca: do what you want, don’t listen to others’ judgments, be free, have fun. We only have one life, it can end very quickly, so go all out.