Data:
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Music label: Magma Music Label
Lineup:
Wilson Duvan Muñoz: Bass
Camilo Andrés Muñoz: Guitar and voice
Steve Láyton: Rhythm Guitar
Esteban Diaz: Drums
Session members:
Juan lopez: Growls on A.C.A.B (Total Hate)
Total duration: 39:10
Song-by-song review:
The album opens with the song "Hallucinations", a powerful and mysterious instrumental that welcomes us to this Thrasher journey. It is followed by the homonymous track of the album, "Earthliens", which starts with a low volume riffs and then goes up in power along with the beats. The lyrics talk about the human race as a destructive and decadent species. Then follows "Alieniación", with what for me is the best introduction of the album, as it has some sudden cuts that add tension, and then explodes with the lyrics, which show the fragility of the human being and how we live in a deception. The next song is "Sueño de un maniquí", which opens with a Wah-Wah guitar that reminds me a bit of Metallica. I notice that in the lyrics there is some inspiration from the novels "1984", "Brave New World" and other dystopias, by the verses: En las calles del futuro (In the streets of the future)
Un código de barras tu nombre será (A bar code your name will be).
The next song, "The megalodon" is one of my favorites on this album, with that start that is a roar as if the megalodon was stalking us, along with the drum beats that never stop and the lyrics, which I interpret as the megalodon is a metaphor for capitalism and conservative politics, which are always waiting to destroy us with their evil teeth. The following song "Las venas abiertas...", is for me the best of the band and one of my favorite songs of all times. It starts with an excellent guitar riff and then leaves only a few moments to the bass. Afterwards, all the instruments join in and Camilo starts singing about Latin pride and how they plundered America, with phrases that marked me like: ¡Con los puños en alto! No resistiremos en vano (With our fists up! We will not resist in vain) and many others, with choruses that make us feel as if we were in a stadium screaming with our metal brothers. I love the first solo of this song and it is, without a doubt, one of the best in the history of metal and the second one is not far behind. The next song is "Hum-Antz", which starts with a drum solo in the best Motörhead's "Overkill" style, followed by the band's characteristic ultra-technical guitar riffs and a lyric that expresses how we have become slaves of our own society. The song that follows is "Los hilos de la evolución", a song with a crushing groove that talks about how as humans evolve we have been decaying and becoming the puppets of the leaders of the world. In "The Return of Kalasasaya", the album gives us a "break", with mysterious and dark riffs reminiscent of Turkish and Oriental music. But the break doesn't last long, because the album ends with "A.C.A.B (Total Hate)" which is a song that hits you right in the face with a music that borders on Death Metal, added to the gutturals of John Lopez and the lyrics that speak without mincing words about the police brutality in Colombia, and that also has an excellent animated music video, full of humor, brutality and social criticism.
General review:
Without a doubt this is the best release so far from this band from Bogota and one of the best in Colombian Thrash, on par with albums like Ekhymosis' "Niño Gigante" or Darkness' "Espias Malignos" EP.
Each one of the songs feels necessary and the album lasts as long as it has to, hitting us in the face at every moment with the spicy riffs, the masterful guitar solos, the explosive drum beats, the powerful bass and the vocals screaming lyrics with social themes and metal and latin brotherhood; all executed with great technicality; and when it seems like they are going to give you a break, they come back with all the power to give you a wretched kick in the ass.
There are also the magnificent music videos, endowed with a characteristic humor or social criticism, of which the best is undoubtedly the one for A.C.A.B (Total Hate), showing crudely the abuses of the police with a brutal animation.
If you like powerful and socially critical Thrash (and the music to break your face in pogo), this album is definitely for you.
Rating: 10/10
Links:
Metallum: https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Perpetual_Warfare/Earthliens/705835
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5tyMcEgeoKK0USWlBAjg3l?si=V4lDF07xRkmpKbw9JnLS7A
Perpetual Warfare YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@PerpetualWarfare