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Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, the band WithoutMind launched themselves with a first demo in 2008 and followed it with a discography that includes two albums and a handful of splits and EPs. At a high level, their music has combined brutal death metal and grindcore, and their clever lyrics have tended toward the sarcastic and the satirical but with a wide range of themes that touch on more profound subjects as well.
The band’s second album (their latest one) was digitally released in October 2023, bearing the name Interstellar Immorality. It included a whopping 20 tracks, ranging in length from 5 seconds to slightly more than 2 minutes; at 2:04, the title track is the second longest. Lyrically, the band describe it as “a journey through conspiracies and inner reflections, where we ask: what if everything we believe is a farce?”
The album deserved a physical release, and now it will get it, through a June 18 CD co-release by GrimmDistribution and DirtyEar Records. The timing is good, because WithoutMind are gearing up for a series of live performances across Colombian cities in the second half of 2025, with plans to expand to Latin America. And to help spread the word about the album’s physical reissue, today we’re premiering an animated lyric video for its title song, “Interstellar Immorality“.
As you’ll see, the lyrics for this song are hilarious. They present a hidden history of human evolution, one in which godlike aliens send emissary slaves they created (not very smart ones) to Earth to populate the planet with new creatures in forms more suitable for the aliens’ planned habitation. This didn’t work out very well, until… until… well, we shouldn’t spoil the whole story.
The music is as quirky and as alien as the lyrical subject matter. Backed by magma-like and mercurial bass lines and constantly changing drum patterns (some of which are executed at hyper-speed), the guitars boil and squirm, snarl and scream, ecstatically pulsate and skitter like many-legged insects suddenly uncovered by light.
It’s an exhilarating but thoroughly demented experience, head-spinning in its intricacy and bizarre permutations. Thoughts of “sci-fi prog” come to mind, even with brutish and brazen vocals that range from gruff guttural bellowing to hair-on-fire screaming. (Thoughts of Wormed come to mind too.)
Interstellar Immorality (the album) was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Raíces Estudio by band leader Jorge Parra, and it features cover art by Alfredo Parra. It can be streamed on platforms like Spotify, Bandcamp, and Apple Music, and the CD editions are up for pre-order now.
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Representing the capital of Colombia, WithoutMind certainly has the most crass humor in the death metal / grindcore scene. The Bogotá-based act have been gutturally exploring topics of group sex and beastiality since the Myspace days.
Fast-forward to their latest full-length album… and well, members FingerBaxx, Uairiko, and Ernest Riff are still pushing limits. Although tracks like “Ginecomanía” and “Hostel Conspiracy” still peddle that initial sex mania, there’s a glimmer of politics and alien talk on their most recent 20-track record – Interstellar Immorality, where the title track tells history of an alien race who found the key to survival on Earth, but being unable to make the trip back home, they created, experimented with, and enslaved humans to do their bidding.
We’re honored to be exclusively unveiling a premiere of WithoutMind‘s track “Tus Kderas Me Emborrachan” – a dense onslaught of Napalm Death intensity that lyrically speaks on intoxication by another’s hips. You can snag a new CD copy of Interstellar Immorality, reissued by Georgian label Satanath Records via Ukrainian company GrimmDistribution and DirtyEar Records of Colombia.