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TESTAMENT DRUM COVER

Posted at July 11, 2023 by chusmaestro in Music ⋅ News ⋅ Videos

I wanted to pay tribute to this wonderfully and immaculately composed Testament song from an album that blew my mind back in 1994 “Low“. It features John Tempesta on drums, who also played in two other great albums I adore:…

GRINDCOLLAB

Posted at June 4, 2023 by chusmaestro in News ⋅ Videos

I wanted to pay tribute to one of my fetish genres: grindcore. And I do it playing along this masterpiece of the extreme music “The Inalienable Dreamless” (2000) with my battle partner Iván Durán (aka @GuitarParalympics) an exceptional and precise guitarist…

THE CURE: DRUMS + BASS COVER

Posted at June 3, 2023 by chusmaestro in Music ⋅ Videos

Although hackneyed and turned into a caricature of themselves because a popular over-exploitation, The Cure is a band that has always been with me from a very young age when I watched their videos on MTV in amazement and terror….

AEGRI SOMNIA

Posted at February 4, 2023 by chusmaestro in Music ⋅ Videos

Aegri Somnia is a neofolk band from Madrid made up of members of As Light Dies and Autumnal that adapts songs from the Iberian oral tradition in an avant-garde way with other modern music such as black metal or darkwave,…

KHAOSOK

Posted at January 20, 2023 by chusmaestro in Uncategorised

Muay Thai is a traditional martial art from Thailand that has survived over the years becoming the most complete contact sport of our days thanks to its number of techniques and variety of strikes. Its aesthetics and philosophy captivated me…

Pantera drum cover

Posted at January 18, 2023 by chusmaestro in Videos

As a celebration of Pantera’s “reunion” I decided to record my favorite track from their album “Far Beyond Driven” (1994). Pantera was a game changer and had influenced tons of metal and hardcore bands since then. Phil Aselmo’s outstanding vocal…

5 Essentials

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Some time ago, Mikel Primigenio -a truly underground cultural guru- asked me to collaborate in “The 5 essentials” section of his website Cosmic Tentacles, where a bunch of guest musicians chose and talked about 5 indispensable albums for them. I always…

TAXI DRIVER

Posted at September 23, 2022 by chusmaestro in Videos

Since I saw Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) I fell in love with the soundtrack of my beloved Bernard Herrmann, especially obsessed with this jazz/funk tune and the tasty sax solo. I wanted to give it a try and get…

Singing “A Strange Kind of Love” by Peter Murphy

Posted at September 11, 2022 by chusmaestro in News ⋅ Videos

Peter Murphy, singer of Bauhaus, is probably my favorite vocalist (in the podium along Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance and Michel Gira from Swans), bragging one of the most beautiful and expressive voices I’ve ever listened to. I’ve been “singing” this…

Another Kind of Death reunion show

Posted at August 23, 2022 by chusmaestro in News ⋅ Shows

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of “No Signal“, Another Kind of Death have reunited to play live the whole album next October 28th at Barracudas (Madrid). It will be a special event where our friends Teething will be playing their brand new album “Help”…