Zat/Avitación 101 Split [2011]

Bazinga, I'm back in the U.S. and for real this time I'm gonna be posting consistently again. This one's a twofer I guess, it's a split between two radical Latin American screamo bands that's sure to rock yer socks off.

Avitación 101 is from Uruguay (I assume Montevideo but I haven't found anything that actually says) and define themselves on their facebook as neoscreamocrust, which is definitely accurate as heck. Bass heavy, driving and riffy is how I'd describe it. The first riff of every song is always so damn catchy. The vocals stand out quite a bit, they seem to have a nice mix of sass, screamo and hardcore influence. It's one of my biggest regrets that I didn't go see this band when they played in Buenos Aires while I was there.

Genres: Screamo, Crust, Hardcore

Zat is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and plays a sort of punk/screamo. The guitars are a bit angular and can even get reminiscent of Fugazi in their discordance and the way they play off each other. For the most part they walk with a sort of dark, catchy melody that can be a little off-putting or make you ask where they were going with it, and it's like chunky and doesn't necesarily make sense and it comes off pretty well actually. Like, pretty stripped down, but not 3 chord punk but somewhat reminscent of it.

Genres: Punk, Screamo, Post-hardcore

Zat/Avitación 101 Split [2011]

Zat

1. Levanta tus palmas y sacude tus balas

2. Sabor a Troya

3. Bosques

4. Arma calibrada

5. Charlas, descontentos, universos

6. Tribunales

7. Camino al juzgado

8. Estallido

Avitación 101

9. Intro 

10. Iglesias

11. Oxido

12. Pesadilla

13. Tengo miedo

14. Trazada

http://institucionzat.wordpress.com/

https://loszats.bandcamp.com/
https://myspace.com/havitacion101

Human Plague - Y la muerte vendrá con el tiempo [2011]

This band is devastating. I think I'd describe them as a hardcore band with heavy influences from crust and a taste of screamo. It's pretty crusty, there's no doubt about that, but they take vocal styles and song structures from elsewhere. "Entre palabras olvidadas," for instance begins with a pretty screamo-esque cleaner jangle from the guitar, and the opening vocals also are reminiscent of the genre. Pretty quickly however, it becomes much more hardcore, d-beat and all, and even later we find ourselves in a really tense exchange of heavy rhythms and softer melodies that feels more crusty. Band members like to call it gordito trincado, which I think means something like "drunk fatty," but a bit more coloquial/vulgar I think. However you define the band, it's definitely really heavy. This is unfortunately the only full length these tapatíos left behind (they have a short EP that came out in 2010), but members did go on to form Bocanegra (on hiatus), and Malastare, both of which I will post about later. Human Plague is from Guadalajara, México.

Genres: Neo Crust, Hardcore, Punk, Gordito Trincado

Human Plague - Y la muerte vendrá con el tiempo [2011]

1. Y la muerte vendrá con el tiempo...

2. Al final del camino

3. ¿En busca de nada?

4. Entre palabras olvidadas

5. Cólera