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This band should be HUGE!! The fact that it is not (they actually are not even currently signed to a record label) is a testament to both bad marketing and the general public's lack of imagination. This band single handedly created a new genre: "salsacore". They bring elements of tropical music, hip hop, jazz, and speed metal together to create what I consider a masterpiece. The variety and musicianship in this recording is impeccable. Some songs are so extreme that you don't know whether to dance or headbang. My advice: do both and buy this CD. You will not be dissapointed.

Puya have produced something amazing with this debut album on MCA. Coming out of Puerto Rico are the jazzy latino sounds of something like Buena Vista Social Club colliding with Santana. Wait there's more! On complete American turf, Pantera, Ultraspank, and Snot all crash together on a battlefield and begin making some really loud music. These two collide on a sonic freight train and the music that comes out is called Puya. With great bass lines, Spanglish vocals, and great beats, this album cannot be beaten. Except in the guitar area. While most of the time the guitarist can produce crushing riffs, songs like Oasis wind up with guitars fit for 80's metal, which is not my area. My favorite tracks here are Sal Pa' Fuera, Oasis, Fake, and Whatever. There is only one track here that I do not like, and that is Keep it Simple, a salsa track with nothing else in it. Some other unique Spanish rapcore bands to check out are Psycho Realm, Molotov, and Control Machete.

Puya...what a hell of a band!I saw these guys a couple years ago with Incubus and they rocked the house down. Much like Incubus, they have cool jazzy/funky rhythms that make you wanna shake yo' booty! But your booty will be moshing in a second because before you know it, these guys slam an all-out, Latino-spiced thrash assault right in your face. Muy bien! Mas!Mas!MAS! I'm tired of the overhyped Latin pop invasion, let's see a Latin metal invasion! Viva Puya!

This album marks a giant leap in quality for the puertorican rock n' roll scene. Puya lays down a merciless trash metal attack, with a solid latin groove via salsa rhythms and a rap delivery on the vocals. More amazing though, is their ability to mix all those influences in one song, without creatring a sonic mess! Thanks to Gustavo Santaolalla's production, we can enjoy a finely recorded album, without diminishing it's brutal assault. Ramón (guitar) Eduardo (drums) Harold (bass) and Sergio (vocals) display great musicianship and command of their instruments, all servicing the songs. Tired of the same old song and dance that alternative rock has become? Listen to Puya, and you'll find the true alternative for rock in the 21st century. There's plenty more to Puerto Rico than Ricky Martin, so don't believe the hype, Puya la hace! And check them out live this summer on the Ozzfest.

I first saw Puya's video "Oasis" on MTV's "1999: The Return of the Rock," and it totally blew me away. The beginning comes with a harcore beat, similar to "Rage Against the Machine's" "Guerilla Radio," then launches into a soft, salsa type Spanish singing section, then a LOUD explosion of guitars and screaming vocals, then back to the singing (except now in English). All the songs on this album ooze the prime in salsa/hardcore creativity, yet manage to keep an incredible variation. Keep it going, dudes!

I have friends into heavy music of most varieties, so the fact I didn't come across this band for half a decade shows you that they had some marketing problems. I only learned about these folks when I stumbled on an old sampler disc that Megadeth distributed. Puya's song on it grabbed me, but this CD was even better than I expected. As with Max Cavelera's tribal metal or Candiria's jazz metal -- fusions that, when described rather than heard, sound as though they won't work -- Puya's music offers an unlikely combination: Latin, metal, and rap/funk musical elements. The result is sometimes fun and sometimes intense but rarely boring. They'll go from sounding like a heavy-metal Santana on one song to sounding like what Incubus might have produced if their mothers had all been Puerto Rican. Good stuff.

Puya is an outstanding new band that is just starting to get noticed. They have a unique style of music, its heavy metal, but with some groovy latin beats. I first heard of them at the Ozzfest concert and again at locobazooka (WAAF event) and they absolutely rock in concert. I don't usually mosh, but I couldn't help myself with this band, they are absolutely amazing in concert!

i saw these guys play at ozzfest this year. never heard of them before. but they sure can play. in their first track oasis, they come at you nice and soft with a nice sounding spanish style music. then BOOM! it's a full attack from the vocals of the band. if you like stuff that you can headbang to, then give this album a try.

The first time I heard Puya was on the radio, then I went into the record store the next day and picked up their album, It's outstanding. I'm a Fan of music in general, and Puya has probably one of the most original sounds I've heard in a long time. I'll say this if you like the hardcore metal sounds of Rage Against the Machine and Sevendust, to the Latin rock sounds Of SANTANA, then this is the album for you, their lyrics are great, of course it helps if yu can speak spanish, but don't let that get in the way of you picking up this CD, it is completely worth it, specially if you like the type of music that is mixed, as in mixing different styles. give them a try, you won't be dissapointed no matter what anybody else in this review says.

On FUNDAMENTAL, PUYA brings us some hard rocking songs that have a latin feel to them also. The percussion and horns on this album show us something unique and different from what is being played today. OASIS, FAKE, FUNDAMENTAL,MONTATE, are good songs that start the album off and they rock. WHATEVER is an average song, it is mostly rap, but the music is still there with some good beat but I personally could have done without the rap. RETRO slows down abit, but as the song plays on, it picks up its tempo and turns into a hard rockin song. KEEP IT SIMPLE is another slower song, it has some positive lyrics, but I think it is just an average song SAL PA FUERA picks the tempo back up and is a good song to rock to. REMORA is a fast, furious song that kicks ... and should make all the hardcore fans happy. TRINIDAD is a tribute to the boxer Felix Trinidad. Even though I dont care for the fighter myself, I wont hold that against the song,, it rocks. SOLO is almost a totally salsa song that the listener will start to dance to when played. NO INVENTES is the last song on the album. It has a heavy bass to it and rocks but it leaves me wanting for more. All in all, FUNDAMENTAL is a good album for metal fans who want to hear alittle spice to their music