The Funerals

From the noisy, chaotic, depths of the Mexico City
underground— there is no other band on the scene that
represents the antithesis and emboldens the decay of
rock-n-roll like The Funerals.

Their sound has been described as raw, uncompromising, and lyrically iconoclastic.
Espousing anarchist ethos and a disregard for the hollow, disposable trends of
modern times— they have been compared to the likes of early Iggy and the Stooges,
“except dirtier and harder.”

They came onto the scene in early 2010 with their first single,
“Everything makes me remind you.” The name of the band was inspired by vocalist, Chris Gasca’s family business— who
remembers writing his earliest material between corpses laying’ on the coolin’
board ready to be embalmed or cremated.

He recalls fondly: “Those memories (...) Mehr anzeigenplaying the first guitar chords amongst coffins….”
After years of frustration with the status quo as well as internal conflicts— the
band took a two-year hiatus in 2012.

They rose again from the ashes in 2015— this time masked up in balaclavas as an
anti-establishment statement— for their first European tour. After that they went
on to play several significant festivals in Mexico such as the Marvin Gateway
Festival, and MonkeyBee Fest. They were featured at the Freakout festival in
Seattle, Washington in the fall of 2023.

Clearly influenced by the brutal, primitive Lo-fi sounds of bands such as Black
Flag, The Sonics, and The Mummies —They have released 2 EPs, “WAR” & "Moldy Bacon"
And, most recently— their debut album, “OINK!”, in 2023.

The newly released album— lyrically inspired by George Orwell's “Animal Farm” where
the ruling classes and elitists are satirically portrayed as pigs; as well as
aesthetically by the vandal and anti-establishment "street art" of Blek le Rat and
Banksy— features 11 tracks of heavy-hitting, shameless, iconoclastic punk rock.

Described by one critic as, “An album that will give the new generation crystal
goosebumps.”

The Band is currently residing in Germany playing ocassionally gigs in different cities around Europe.
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