CDMX Metalweekend
Pestilence, Cancer, Threshold End, Alonedark
True Faces of Death 2025 at Circo Volador pres. by Chamuco and Blast Beat 105 Metal Radio Show / Tianguis Cultural del El Chopo Mexico City, Mexico 20250913-14
Compared to more quiet audiences in e.g. Europe, Mexicans are known as very passionate music fans also coming to Extreme Metal. So spending the weekend in the capital, Saturday is the day to visit El Chopo – a big Metal market close to the monumento a la revolución, starting at the Biblioteca Vasconcelos with its whale sceleton.
In Mexico City, they basically have marekts for everything: from handcraft over fruits to witchery. A guitarist welcomes us at El Chopo with wild solos. In countless booths, everything is sold like clothes, records, action figures as well as snacks. At what feels like a main square, the band Alonedark convinces with fantastic Thrash, blast beats and energy.
After some hours, Porton invites with Pozole and Pambazo. On Sunday, we atttend a show at Circo Volador. In the former cinema and theater, neither cigarettes nor lighters are allowed to take inside at all. Passing the big hall with its stairs, Threshold End from Bogotá, Colombia begin punctually at the foyer. The brutal Death Metal power already starts the movement on the floor with songs like „Abode Of The Dead“.
Next up are Cancer originating from the UK. It is their last show in Latin America and the energy they give, they get directely back from the crowd. As the fans throw a Mexican flag with the band logo onto the stage, the pit suddenly expands and explodes and the earth is shaking.
In CDMX, people know earth quakes and so the pit continues for the headliners Pestilence from the Netherlands. They are ‚not about aggression but about love‘ and ‚a band who addresses stuff nobody cares about‘. With „Horror Detox“, they include one of their ‚most intense [songs] and hardest for us to play‘.
Right in the middle of all the action, Rojo is with his camera. And as Circo Volador is such a famous venue, upcoming concerts includie likes of Dark Tranquillity, Exodus and a X-mas special with local heroes Asesino playing Brujería.