When I hit play I didn’t know anything about this EP except I liked it, I liked it very much.
‘Ven Aqui’ that opens this 5 track release has a wonderful muscle-car fueled drive to it but sonically its coming from everywhere from Grand Funk and MC5 to Motorhead and Monster Magnet. There’s a certain Stoner groove, proto Heavy Metal thrust and Motorhead-like grind to the track and being sung in Spanish I have no idea at all what it’s about except that the title means ‘Come Here.’
If anything there’s more of a dirty dark biker ZZ Top roll to second track ‘Umbiligo Del Diablo,’ (‘Belly of the Devil’) well that and a Circus of Power meets ‘Electric-era’ Cult groove. It suits them and it’s probably my pick of the bunch here. In all honesty I’m quite taken by the Spanish language vocals in that they sound great, though of curse not being able to sing along or understand more than a smattering of what is said does have its drawbacks.
‘Electricidad’ (‘Electricity’) that follows treads similar ground and has the band recalling late eighties hard rockers ‘The Almighty’ and in honesty that’s not a bad musical analogy overall. There’s certainly that dirty biker rock groove that I guess is pretty universal wherever you hail from.
The EP is rounded out by ‘Idolos’ (‘Idols’ I’m guessing?) and ‘Carretera’ (‘Highway’) more music built in the same mould, probably equally as car-fixated but certainly equally as adept. As it happens Canibales are a 4 piece based in Guadalajara, Mexico.and if this 5-track Spanish language EP is anything to go by we’ll be hearing plenty more from them in the future.