Cause all of our fans demanded it here´s EL DIABLO's bio.
You'll spread it among your broes and sistas
for then could have a million friends to sing along with the black gospel.
Aside from getting supporters for our World Domination Plan.
Enjoy.
EL DIABLO ANTI BIO
We are
EL DIABLO
and that should be enough saying!.
But before you think we're a satanic cult,
a black metal band,
the resurrection of
Anton La Vey,
a bad B-movie
or any other nonsense you think of, well you're wong.
Broes and sistas:
¡¡EL DIABLO IS A ROCK BAND!!!!!!!
We came up from the ashes of
34-D,
a pretty forgettable hardcore band by the way.
Iván
(guitar,
ex/Obliteration, Trauma, Una Realidad Aparte,
Bloodsoaked),
Fernando
(drums,
ex/Raxas, Death Arise, Acrostic, The Sweet Leaf),
and
Gerardo
(vocals,
ex/Suicidio Juvenil)
left the
Warpig
(bass and fascism
ex/Attoxxxico, Suicidio Juvenil)
and wondered what to do.
EL DIABLO
started playing a psychedelic riff- rock induced by loads of pot
and mushrooms, after realizing that hardcore was no longer fun
("you know, you grow older and the body no longer works as it should,
aside doing illegal subtances MAKES YOU have to play slow like hell!!).
Get rid of that stupid moniker
34-D
("well, what with it, dammit?!.
At that time we thought it was a cool name, give us a break!!.
Hey, are we talking to ourselves here?!") was the first step.
Then our lord
EL DIABLO
did the rest: sent us after millions of failures
and countless losers the right bass player: El
Shaggy
(bass,
ex/Semefo, Esperpento),
("¡at least a fucker on the same trip like us!").
We started jamming
some songs, played live a few times, then entered Estudios
Tequila in México ("Oh yeah, that's where we're from!"). And recorded
a couple of songs.
The tunes included on that, now classic, first recording were:
Piss and Love, Mirror Love, Price to pay, Dragonfly,
Space Butterfly Blues, Dance with the devil,
Grand Finale
and our "piece d' resistance"
(Hats Off To) Edgar Broughton.
With a little help from our friends, added cowbell, congas, sitar, maracas
and flute, getting a wider spectrum to our riff-rock trio line up.
The lyrics were about
Iván 's problems with his then
girlfriend (" you really don't want to know about it do ya?. OK good,
Iván
soon will open
'Sgt. Nieblas Lonely Heart´s Club Site'
on the net"),
and the rest were
about
Fernando
and
Gerardo's
drug bad tripping.
So, the record was on and we just needed someone to
release it.
We tried some of the local record labels but they told us:
"I'ts too slow",
"Sounds so old",
"Bring us some ska or hip hop and we sign right now",
"We'll call you".
Then all hell's broke loose:
Shaggy
got married and left the band,
Gerardo's
interest on the band decreased due to his lack of good singing,
among many other reasons.
So we stayed bassless until
Jesús
(bass,
ex/QV7) showed up
("not the uncomprehended hippie commy, you fools!"),
and played a while with us.
Shaggy
got back, so
Jesús
("who by the way
resembles more to
Glenn Danzig
than to that guy
on the cross") took on second guitar
but that didn'd last long thanks to
Shaggy
who went off again
to take care of a little child coming from París.
And
Jesús
took off trying
to get together his
Van Halen-Marilyn Manson
project ("you really don't wanna hear it, trust us, you really don't!.
OK the guy is still looking for a drummer, but be forwarned:
your hair's gotta look like ¡
Stryper!.
hell no!").
We played a last gig with
Shaggy
and there we met
Vic
(bass,
ex/The Crush)
our actual bass player.
He came to our rehearsal space, jammed a little, didn't talk at all; he didn't
even drank water, and well, he was in the band!!.
Later
Gerardo
left to get married too
("what the hell is wrong with this people anyway?!").
Iván
took on the vocal duties
("and play guitar at the same time,
wich is a pain in the ass!
Iván's note").
New and better songs were created and rehearsed. The trio line up
was the better way to work. Now we had bigger amplifiers, better
drums set and a shitload of weird effect pedals!.
So we combined our twisted mental trips ala:
Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Guru Guru, Amon Dull,
Blind Faith, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Miles Davis,
Can, Bloodrock, Decibel, Magma, Humus, Alexandro Jodorowsky, King Crimson,
Cream, Plastic People of the Universe, Iron Butterfly, Santana, Embryo,
Captain Beyond, The Corporation, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Gong, Gravy Train
with the groovy, bearded, thick and heavy rock of:
Black Sabbath,COC, Nebula, Monster Magnet,
Fu Manchu, Spiritual Beggars, Budgie, Ace Frehley, Kyuss, QOTSA, Down,
Firebird, Atomic Bitchwax.
All of a sudden we had a bunch of new songs (almost 20 and
still counting) to record. We decided doing it again at Estudios Tequila,
and record only ("not for lacking of will, but of money") the longest
songs we had, wich were almost absolutely instrumental, more
psychedelic and less heavier as a result of tripped out exahusting jams.
Those songs are:
Huautla, A Mind Bender (Liquid Skies II), Purusha,
Captain Obeatleration, Womoon
(the only one with vocals),
Equus, Rumanian Blues
and
Samelbaheson.
It was 1999 and we launched our first web site (shared with
The Sweet Leaf)
and at the same time
we contacted
Jose Luis Garnica
from the locally legendary label
Smogless Records.
We gave him a demo with the new songs and after we brainwash him
with the millionaire sales he would get, he naively accepted to release our
debut CD entitled just
"El Diablo" je, je, je.
At that time we released on our own
"The Devil Made Me Do It",
a vinyl picture-disc recorded
completely at Fixion club, in front of our 8 fans,
our girlfriends, a few friends and the place's waiters.
It has live versions of:
See men fall, Mastertrip, Mirror Love, Love Trust Kill Love and
Liquid Skies
and includes
Grand Finale
and
(Hats Off To) Edgar Broughton
from that first and still unreleased recording.
It was a 300 copies only edition and incredibly went sold out!.
Not bad for begginers huh?.
Later on 2001, we recorded two new records ( provisionally entitled
"Mastertrip" and "Paradise Mescaline")
, this time at Estudios Scooby,
under the wing of
Uncle Scooby himself
("pederastrian, junkie and sax
extraordinaire") wich we hope someone wants to launch
or lend us the money to do it.
"Mastertrip"
has our heavier songs like:
See men fall, Mastertrip, Mirror Love,
Liquid Skies, Love Trust,
Bad Rash, Star and Kill Love.
And
"Paradise Mescaline"
is a combination of both styles,
psychedelia and riff-rock, on songs like:
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Electric
Sex Messiah, Paradise Mescaline,
The Power of Denial y Hollow.
Wich include
new sounds like didgeridoo and sax among other mind benders.
In the meantime, our friends from Argentina,
Sin Ilusiones
re edited our debut cd on their label
Progreso Records.
Also we sent tracks to appear on compilations. We have
Huautla
from the debut CD,
on the
Luna Negra/Smogless Records
Sampler.
And
Star
from
"Mastertrip",
on
"New rays from a rising black sun",
the
Dirt Cult Magazine
double CD compilation.
It's 2003, and as our creativity is unstoppable we kept rehearsing,
and ended recording again.We asked our friend
Francisco Gatica
(keyboards
ex-Ramses)
to take the dust off his old Moog and jam with us.
This time it was just one song.
A 37 minute song!. It was intended to
record a 7 minutes one, for a soon to appear new
Smogless Records
compilation.
But you know, music possessed us and we jammed and jammed,
and couldn't stop but 30 minutes before!
This new record is intended to be called
"The secrets of the planet soul".
We want to gather again with
Smogless Records
staff and put something
on their drinks to get this one released this year.
Also we're preparing our World Dominaton Plan including subliminal
messages on our records
("the traditional El Diablo's way to work
with the restless youth"),
wich will lead you to demand legalization
and consumption of the proper power plants,
to open your minds to the separate reality
(located here in Mexico's Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca,
from where we'll have our operational headquarter)
so we can live toghether in harmony
with the music of
EL DIABLO
as the soundtrack of our new life.
So say a prayer for Saint Jimi Hendrix
and pray damn you!, pray! because:
WHEN YOU DANCE WITH EL DIABLO,
DON'T EXPECT THE SONG TO BE OVER.
