Translated to thieves, Ladrones is easily my best recent discovery. Their combo of modern rap and modern metal is on fire. It’s Bad Bunny. It’s Volumes. It’s $UICIDEBOY$. It’s Polyphia. It’s perfect.
Mexican Pesado, their 14-track full-length record, dropped this year, overflowing with hip-hop mosh-mosh pit bops including “Así Cambió La Cosa” and “Pa’ Unos Un Loco Pa’ Otros Un Rey.”
The most recent Ladrones music video to drop is “Ando En Lo Mío,” created by Omar Amaro, Jose Macario, Daniel Takenaga, Aldo Alvarez, and Cynthia Flores. With smooth Spanish rap flow and barrio metal riffs blending together, the vocal hooks and headbanging urge is infectious, alike much of the material off Mexican Pesado.
A handful of other tracks off the new album has racked in over a million views on YouTube, however my personal favorite would be “Veneno.”
Showing off the Latina goth baddies and tatted up homies, “Veneno” is alike San Antonio metalcore act Upon a Burning Body, yet far more genuine.
Ladrones recently popped into the US to play some shows with Bloodywood, but are now touring through Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argnetina, and Chile.