Los Mundos slithers out of Monterrey, Mexico like a psychedelic serpent ready to draw blood. Undulating along riff-heavy guitar lines and fuzzed-out bass, Luis Angel Martinez and Alejandro Elizondo cut a path through psychedelia that pulls from sources as diverse as the Beach Boys, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and horror legend H.P. Lovecraft.
Layering driving guitar solos over hypnotic rhythms, the tracks on La Fortaleza del Sonido (“The Fortress of Sound” in English) evoke a hard-edged landscape that cuts across those things that could be used to divide us. From the hypnotic opening of “Esferas Protectoras” (“protective spheres”), to the slow and heavy energy tripped out “Círculos de Aves” (“bird circle”) to the mesmerizing Dead Mantra by Dead Skeletons tribute “Esqueletos Muertos,” La Fortaleza del Sonido reminds us that there is more to reality that what we can see.
La Fortaleza del Sonido, Los Mundos seventh full-length album, is the culmination of that journey: A tight collection of 11 tracks that reminds us what the world was like when guitar gods ruled with power equal to governments, uniting the worlds under the banner of rock. Take a trip with Los Mundos through La Fortaleza del Sonido to a strange, hypnotic world that is slowly reawakening.
Track 05. Prórroga del Fin, 06. Círculo de Aves, 07. Esqueletos Muertos and 11. Luz Perversa were recorded at and abandoned mine in the outskirts of Nuevo Leon.
credits:
Recorded at Las Dunas Studio (Monterrey, NL) 2019 - 2020 by Alejandro Elizondo
Mixed by Carlos Hernandez
Mastered by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Serivce
