Brujeria "Matando Güeros (2004 Reissue, USA, Roadrunner Records, 168 619 061-2)"

Brujeria is an American extreme metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989. The band has Spanish lyrics with topics such as Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, and politics. Brujeria portrays Mexican imagery, with several members being Hispanic and Latino Americans, while the band's name stands for brujería (Spanish for "witchcraft").

Brujeria alumni include Raymond Herrera, as well as Billy Gould, Nick Barker, Jeff Walker and Shane Embury. They perform under pseudonyms and portray themselves as a Latino band consisting of drug lords, concealing their identities due to being wanted by the FBI. In videos and photographs of the band, they are shown wearing bandanas, balaclavas, serapes, and are often shown wielding machetes.

Matando Güeros (Killing Whites) is the debut album by the band Brujeria. "Güero" is a Mexican-Spanish slang term for a blonde or light skinned/haired person. The album talks mostly about controversial topics in Mexico like drug trafficking, satanic rituals, sexuality, migration, illegal border crossing, and Anti-Americanism (like the title song, that talks about a revenge killing-spree against the White Americans that mistreated the indigenous Mexican narrator).

The front cover depicts a person out of shot holding up a severed head, which was taken from Mexican Shocking and Sensationalistic/Yellow journalistic newspaper ¡Peligro! The album was banned in many places due to its cover and content. This head, nicknamed "Coco Loco", has been taken by the band as a mascot and logo. Track 16 to 19 are taken from the Machetazos single; "Matando Güeros" was on the Gummo soundtrack.

Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture placed the album on its "100 Definitive Metal Albums" list.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Brujeria. 

1. "Pura de Venta" – 0:42 ("Pure for Sale")
2. "Leyes Narcos" – 1:10 ("Narco Laws")
3. "Sacrificio" – 1:16 ("Sacrifice")
4. "Santa Lucía" – 0:43 ("Saint Lucia")
5. "Matando Güeros" – 2:25 ("Killing Whites")
6. "Seis Seis Seis" – 1:19 ("Six Six Six")
7. "Cruza la Frontera" – 1:44 ("Cross the Border")
8. "Greñudos Locos" – 1:28 ("Long-Haired Maniacs")
9. "Chingo de Mecos" – 1:16 ("Fuckload of Cum")
10. "Narcos Satánicos" – 1:50 ("Satanic Narcos")
11. "Desperado" – 2:42 ("Desperado")
12. "Culeros" – 0:52 ("Assholes")
13. "Misas Negras (Sacrificio III)" – 1:21 ("Black Masses [Sacrifice III]")
14. "Chinga Tu Madre" – 3:11 ("Go Fuck Yourself")
15. "Verga del Brujo / Están Chingados" – 3:43 ("Warlock's Cock / You Are Fucked")
16. "Molestando Niños Muertos" – 2:57 ("Molesting Dead Children")
17. "Machetazos (Sacrificio II)" – 1:27 ("Machete Attack [Sacrifice II]")
18. "Castigo del Brujo" – 1:44 ("Punishment of the Warlock")
19. "Cristo de la Roca" – 1:14 ("Christ of the Stone")

Time: 32:55