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The Southern and Central part of the American continents are fantastic breeding grounds for badass underground sounds and beautiful music off charts. This is once more proven by the recently released Split EP "Hispanodelia" which features six amazing bands from Latin America. Without further ado, let's have a look at the songs by: La Iglesia Atomica (Puerto Rico), Laura La Sangrienta (Peru), Yaatra (Argentina), Hoja Madre (Peru), La Sustancia Divina (Mexico) and Múcaro (Dominican Republic). 1. La Iglesia Atomica - The Art of Levitation (08:28) Puerto Rican band La Iglesia Atomica ("atomic church") was founded in 1990 and re-founded in 2016. On their Bandcamp site you'll find a ton of releases by the trio from San Juan. The pioneers of the Latin American Psychedelic and Stoner Rock scene open the split with a beautiful psychedelic jam called 'The Art of Levitation'. The song is a fuzzy and mesmerizing journey through space and t...

Recently I received a message from Enrique, drummer of Lima's Laura La Sangrienta, presenting me their newest Singles "El Andar del Ogro" and "Terror en la Quinta Milagros". Laura La Sangrienta means "Bloody Laura" or "Laura covered in Blood", and is the name of a Lima-based three-piece Instrumental Rock band. Laura La Sangrienta play powerful, rough and dirty Rock'n'Roll with a lot of Stoner Rock and even some Sludge input. They are the fast forward amongst Stoner Rockers, same as they are the Sabbath Stoners amongst Rock'n'Rollers. Laura La Sangrienta's music is heavy, intense, raw, and brachially beautiful. Heavy distorted Blues Rock riffs are paired massive beats on the drums. Bridges featuring screechy overtones directly lead into fastly galopping attacks that exist in a beautiful no man's land somewhere between Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Dozer, and Kylesa. Laura La Sangrienta surprise the audience with the...