When something comes from Mexico you can be sure of three
things at least. Either it will be pretty hot or it will be dangerous or it
will be a proper musical extreme. As for this squad it is for Satan's sake the
third option and we are very happy about that. The band has been tormenting the
fans with their activity since 2004 and it belongs to the prime musical extreme
Mexico can offer. It is a mix of death metal and gore grind.
If you imagine a clash of DEVOURMENT, MORTICIAN and LAST
DAYS OF HUMANITY you will approximately get what SEMEN produce. As SEMEN belong
to the first wave of the Mexican gore scene they have except for several split
recordings also two full-lenghth CDs under their belt. They have performed at
the Mexican version of OEF and the right time has come to arrive at our
battlefield!!!
Late 90´s in Mexico the underground music scene was taking a
loop of new genres; the death and black metal bands was the most and the need
for something fresh and mostly extreme was an urge into the crowd likeness. A
few bands was borning with a new message and a brand new sound mixing the escence of grindcore with hints of
gore and porn.
Bands like Oxidised Razor, Paracoccidioidomicosis…,
Hipermenorrea, Hol-a-Wit, were rising and the goregrind scene in Mexico began
calling atention into the extreme metalheads worldwide. Hol-a-Wit, was one of
the most brutal and raw goregrind of that time, and its members Saúl (vocals),
Joel (drums) and Luisa (guitars) were members of bands like Daemonum, Real
Animal and Gilgamesh. After some years playing, touring and recording Hol-a-wit
finally split in early 2002. Joel and Saúl decided to continue playing but now
in a new side proyect and they invited Koxynilla (ex Teratogeny) a new guitar
player to get the line up complete and create SEMEN.
The true sickness and extreme blasting noise in the sound
and lyrics of the band became to get into the like of the mexican grindfreak
crowd, and soon the first EP “Depósitos de Semen” was released by the american label Half Life
Recs. in 2004.
The path of SEMEN was
given and the band continue touring and playing at some mexican grind festivals
and finally release the first LP “An Intense Experience Molesting Corpses With
Fetid Stench” under the mexican label American Line.
That release was the band´s debut in the international audience
because of the distibution of it in so many countries worldwide; meanwhile the
band were suffering several line up changes such as the inclusion of Pandro
(Porno Infantil) as a bass player, and Israel (Cadaveric Internal Rot) in the
vocals, this very line up doesn´t took so long to split at the end of 2007, and
early 2008 the rest of the members decided to take a pause and finally the
drummer Joel decided to left SEMEN.
Saúl was temporary out of the band to grow some new proyects
like Putrescence, and a tour management agency Que Maniaco! Prods., and finally
in late 2008 returns to SEMEN; the band continue looking for a drummer, but it
was in early 2009 when an old friend of them Micke (ex Porno Infantil, Evil
Poetry) applied for an audition, and the results was 3 brand new songs in a two
hours rehearsal, keeping the brutal escence of the band but adding a new hints
of other extreme genres.
The band was back but unfortunately due to some different
opinions about the sound of the band Pandro decided to leave . The way of SEMEN
and the new line up wich was really similar than the one in the beginning
(vocals guitar, drums) continue playing and recording brand new songs with a
fresh new extreme style.
Soon they release a live recording split with mexican
goregrind band Fecalizer under the label
Gore Cannibal Recs. and the band continued playing shows very often with some
live collaborations with Iván (ex War Mind, Putrescence) and he decided to join
the band in early 2011.
Since then SEMEN began to participate in more important
festivals with international bands in 2013 they played at OEF America, in 2014
in some festivals in El Salvador and Honduras, but finally in 2015 the band
travel to give a tour over Europe to distribute and play ther last LP “Coprophilic
Infectious Process” released under the mexican label Helvete Recs (2014), and
also to make some recording sessions in Low B Recs. Germany for an upcoming
split release with S.R.O.M.
In the Europe tour, shows like Morbide Festspiele,
Arschcholio, Sere Pes, STP Metal Weekend, Brutologos the crowd was fucking sick
and the band leave the way for another future tour.
At this moment the band still on feet and active, recording
songs for some compilations, splits and making new songs for a new upcoming release
in 2016. Just as SEMEN says: it´s just sick noise to fuck nasty for insane
people, and it doesn´t matter if you are
a punk, a blacker, thrasher, grinder or whatever……everybody fucks!
