Memorias Atras

Hocico | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 13, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cop International
• ASIN: B0017M8YZI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,769 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Fatal Desire

2. The Shape of Things to Come

3. Stop My Madness

4. About a Dead

5. Fed Up

6. Metamorphous

7. Spirals of Time

8. Doomed to Perish

9. Blindfold

10. Tasste the Waste

11. Drowning

12. Escapando de Los Recuerdos

Editorial Reviews

"Is there any doubt left in anyone's mind that Hocico is the best harsh EBM act in the world? They've got the aggression, the tortured vocals, the starkly modern programming, the beautifully creepy introductions, and to top everything else off, they don't even resort to Hellraiser, Alien, or Full Metal Jacket samples ... If you haven't heard Hocico and you're even remotely into bands like Suicide Commando, Psyclon 9, or yelworC, you should be ashamed of yourself. Put down whatever it is you're doing right now and go buy this album." -- Grave Concerns

"For those familiar with the Mexican duo's brutal electro sledgehammer sound, this latest material continues the successful formula founded by the last few releases ... dark trance merges with relentless electro to overtake the atmosphere." -- Sideline.com

"An album as incendiary and as decrepit as the city from which this band originates, making for a harsh yet honest effort ... The beats are blistering, the vocals are venomous, and the subject matter is as uncomfortably honest and real as ever." -- ReGen Magazine

Memorias Atrás is a sonic trip to Hell ... and, like two horsemen of the Apocalypse, Erk and Racso are riding high on thudding beats, solid bass, and sounds straight out of purgatory, unleashing an electronic earthquake at maximum power. The Mexican electro-maniacs have returned to the raw, in-your-face sound of their early days--only darker, more massive, and way more intense!

Memorias Atrás consists of 12 striking club burners straight out of the abyss of human existence. The album is jam-packed with tracks that have the words "club hit" written all over then.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HOCICO's Best!!, May 10, 2008

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Lou Rusconi (El Cajon, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memorias Atrás (North American Edition) (MP3 Download)

I bought this here, you cannot beat $7.99 for a download!! This , in my opinion is one of Hocico's best in a while. I love all their music though! I will still buy the cd in real form though as well, I am waiting for Amazon to carry THIS edition, not the $38.00 import version. If you love a group be sure to buy the real cd too! This helps support them. If you like harsh electro, rough vocals, and evil sounding church music you gotta check out this album! Fans of heavy metal take note, it doesn't get mush darker than this!! Highly enjoyable!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Break out the meat tenderizer and salt, Hocico have a new record to bludgeon your ears with., October 3, 2009

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nybe Dswordfish "Cyber-Nis" (Reno, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memorias Atrás (North American Edition) (MP3 Download)

Has the overall sound of the band changed much since their debut back in 1997? No, it has become more refined but remains focused on the dancefloor. They continue to use those classic progressions to denote their home country of Mexico but they remain very simplistic in their compositional style.

Take the opening track "A Fatal Desire"; it has all those Hocico touches, the high key lines... the snarled heavily processed vocals, galloping bassline and steady 4/4 beat. Here's the deal, my fine fellows: Yelworc have returned so you'd best change this style up right now. This really is tired, very worn out dark "electro" music. If one is under the age of 25 or so, they'll eat this up but for those of us who know what devotees of Mr. Devin these two are, it's pretty revolting to have to slog through more thinly veiled theft. Why oh why do they continue to beat this dead horse with the same damned plodding sound.

Hocico have their audience, there can be no question of this, and they give the fans what they want: big fat analogue bass lines, scattershot syncopated staccato melody lines very reminiscent of a Canadian outfit who saw the world through the eyes of a mongrel dog, and nice solid unsurprising rhythms. When these guys first exploded onto the scene there was some novelty for a lot of people due to where they came from. Unlike Artefakto (RIP) however, they have chosen to stay where it's nice and safe. There is no intention from this camp to ever transcend either their sound or their image. If it ain't broke, don't fix it may well be their mantra.

I can't really say much more about this album besides the obvious: they will always be as they are, so rejoice you devotees. These boys are not going anywhere!!!