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Proto-doom metal / stoner / hard rock from Medusa, a Mexican band born in 1972—featuring their ultra-rare early ’70s singles alongside later recordings that keep the same gritty, no-frills edge.
Formed on Día de los Muertos in 1972, Medusa rose out of Mexico City determined to create heavy Spanish-language rock charged with social conscience and poetic intensity. Guitarist Luis Antonio “Toño” Urquiza, drummer Víctor Moreno, and bassist/vocalist Javier Plascencia forged a sound shaped by Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath, and fueled by the era’s upheaval—the 1968 Student Movement, the 1971 Halconazo, and the cultural shockwave of the Avándaro Festival.
Peers of acts such as Peace & Love, the Dug Dug’s, and El Ritual, Medusa quickly gained a reputation for thunderous live shows and unapologetically political fire. They issued their first (now near-impossible-to-find) single in 1973, followed by an EP in 1974. But their refusal to soften their vision got them dropped before finishing a full-length album, sending them underground for decades of self-produced recordings.
Even with scant media support, Medusa stayed active into the mid-’80s, performing everywhere from stadiums and television to prisons and “hoyos fonkis.” After roughly ten years away, they returned in 1994 to a new generation that embraced them as Mexican trailblazers of heavy metal and early stoner rock. With Jaime García Mares later joining the lineup, they cemented that legacy with a major national TV appearance in 2006.
By 2015—after occasional gigs and demos—Medusa were celebrated by Tianguis del Chopo and acknowledged by the National Sound Archive as the founders of stoner rock in Mexico, inspiring books and a Rolling Stone feature on Mexican rock. Not long after, the band brought a 43-year run to a close as the members shifted to personal projects.
Now, drawing from recordings recovered from Víctor Moreno’s personal archive, Medusa’s earliest material—four essential ’70s tracks—appears at last in LP form, expanded with additional raw, unfiltered sessions from the ’80s and ’90s.
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