Impure Faith - Interview 2026

 Impure Faith is a band that has that very specific sound of Colombian Brutal Death.  Relentless.  Oh, and THEY ARE BACK!!!

Catch up with the band below:

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Yo! how are you????

I'm doing great, thanks so much for the space in Cerebral Reviewment!

Who are you????

We are a Brutal Death Metal band from Armenia, Colombia, formed in 2006.

Who are all the members of the band?

We are four musicians from different parts of the country. We've all played in other bands, accumulating experience and history, and we came together in this project to build an incredible lineup:

Andres Zapata / Guitars (Impure Faith, Eternal Chaos, Infernaeum, Ex Inbreeding Sick)

Mario Franco / Bass (Impure Faith, Ex Decarabion)

Gerson Puello / Drums (Impure Faith, Cercenatory, Infernaeum, Amputated Genitals)

Ricardo Medina / Vocals (Impure Faith, Amputated Genitals, Ex Cercenatory)

It has been 8 years or so since "Revelation of Exodus". What has been going on since then and what has changed for Impure Faith?

Having a metal band in South America is quite complex, it's not comparable to Europe or the USA. Here people have to work twice as hard just to survive and still find the little time left to make music - and we do make fucking good music.

Andres Zapata, the founder of the band, has fought hard to keep the flame of Impure Faith alive.
With our first album, "Revelation of Exodus," we finally materialized songs we had been working on for many years. We had incredible musicians on that record and did an extensive tour across the country. Then the pandemic hit and everything stopped. Unfortunately, our drummer Mauro Mazuera, who was also the drummer for Goretrade, emigrated to Canada permanently, and vocalist Gerardo D' Paublus had to leave the band due to work commitments - the band was demanding more time for upcoming tours.

In the following years, drummer Gerson Puello and vocalist Ricardo Medina joined the band, while bassist Mario Franco and guitarist Andres Zapata remained from the previous lineup. With them, the band forged an even more compact and crushing sound, with killer performances at the most important underground festivals in the country, including our second tour in Ecuador with Unmerciful in 2022 and a tour in Mexico with Putrid Pile in 2024.

I know the new single is on New Standard Elite youtube page, and a full length is on the way!!! How did working with NSE happen?

Right after finishing our first album, we started working on our second. In 2019 we contacted NSE by email asking for a spot on the label. It wasn't easy to get a response - they needed new material to consider signing us, but then things got complicated worldwide with the pandemic and the departure of former members.

In 2024 we recorded the single "Infected by Evil Manifestations," which is the video on NSE's YouTube channel. With high expectations for our new sound, we emailed the label again. Daniel, the former owner of NSE, replied - he really liked the proposal for its organic sound and put us in contact with Ryan, the new owner. We continued talks with him until we reached an agreement and signed with the label. We are extremely proud to be part of one of the most brutal extreme metal labels.

I remember seeing teasers and recording footage in early 2024 of material for the new album. So has this been completely done for a while and just has taken longer than you'd like to get released?

As we mentioned before, we had only recorded a single in 2024. The initial plan was to have the album ready by 2025, but we had a lot of difficulties recording due to the distance between members - we live in different cities: Armenia, Bogotá, and Barranquilla. We were able to finish the recordings by the end of 2025, however, the mastering took us quite a long time until we found a sound we were truly satisfied with.

We finally delivered everything at the end of June 2026. Everything is absolutely ready. The official release will be on September 18th of this year. The album is titled "Infected by Evil Manifestation" - 8 sick tracks of pure Brutal Death Metal, with influences from Disgorge, Gorgasm, Putridity, Devourment, Defeated Sanity, and Internal Suffering.

Well we are very excited for September 18th!  New Standard Elite always does a good line of merch with their releases too so I will be ordering a shirt!   The album cover is beautiful!  Is that Jon Zig artwork?  Seems like you are sticking with the anti-religion, evil, impure themes that we are used to!  Crazy question, but are any of the band members religious in any way?

Excellent, and thanks for your support! Yes, the cover art was created by Jon Zig. We wanted to work with him because he captures ideas in such a brutal and visceral way. Having our art in his portfolio means a lot to us — he has created some of the most iconic covers in Brutal Death Metal history.

The concept was created by our guitarist Andrés Zapata. This album, "Infected by Evil Manifestation," is the direct continuation of our first album, "Revelation of Exodus."To give you some context: in "Revelation of Exodus," nothing was placed by chance. Every character and scene has a meaning. The central figure depicts the physical death of the being — flesh and bones decaying — while its essence transcends through the activation of the pineal gland chakra. The red planet in the background is Hercolubus, in its esoteric representation; its gravitational approach to Earth triggers an apocalypse, destroying the land and its structures. It also shows the fall of the Catholic Church — nothing but empty statues and temples that offer no real salvation for humanity. We see four nuns kneeling and weeping before the chaos, clinging to a failed faith even as they watch their own death approach. Finally, at the top, a few luminous people levitate — they represent those who have reached a higher state of consciousness and will be abducted at the end of times. That's why the title: Exodus is both the end and the beginning.

The aftermath begins with this new album, "Infected by Evil Manifestation." After the planet's destruction, evil takes over the Earth. We once again see a central figure, half-human and half-beast, representing duality as a universal principle. He sits upon his throne of thorns, his body fused with a serpent — metaphorically representing hidden wisdom, ascension, and the transformation into enlightenment — holding the symbol of the Hermetic principle in his hand. At his feet, four fallen demons levitate over piles of bodies — humanity — representing the four corrupted elements. In the upper left corner, there is an energy portal, the same portal the occultist enters at the end of our music video for "Morbid Creed." In short, the Earth no longer belongs to humans. It is completely possessed by evil.

This is its latent hell. As you can see, our lyrics and concepts are quite far from the standard in BDM and even more so from Goregrind / Grindcore. However, we still keep some classic imagery of the genre. Lyrical content is fundamental for us.

What is something, OTHER than music, that inspires Impure Faith?

Nothing. Only music gives us a reason to keep existing in this putrid world.

What other releases are you excited for this year?

We have another music video ready with live footage that will premiere on the album release date. Later on, we will release the sequel to the "Morbid Creed" video, this time set in hell — we need to continue the storyline. In October, we will get together again to start the creative process for the next album. We will take the necessary time to produce even more powerful and sick music.

I love how seriously you guys take the music!  Does Impure Faith practice a lot?

Not as much as we would like, really. As we mentioned before, all the members live in different cities. What we do is rehearse hard individually at home. When we finally meet, we just put everything together, and it sounds really tight because everyone has already done their homework.

Do you guys all have families? kids?  

Yes. Our drummer Gerson has a wife and a young daughter. Our guitarist Andrés has a wife and an 18-year-old son. Mario, the bassist, has a girlfriend and a teenage daughter. As for Ricardo, the vocalist, he has no partner or kids, so he can still enjoy the crazy life, haha.

What about jobs?  What do you guys do to make your livings?

Mario is a graphic designer and also works in his family's restaurant chain. He is the one who gives the band its entire visual identity, which is a huge help. Andrés is a Social Communicator - Journalist and audiovisual producer. He is in charge of the music videos and handles the band's digital marketing. He owns his own company, Century Productions, which is an event promotion company and music studio. Ricardo is a cybersecurity expert working for a US company, and Gerson works in sales, also for a foreign company. Both are bilingual.

Well, thank you so much for answering some questions!!!  Any last words?

Once again, thank you for your interest in the band. We hope you enjoy our new album. It was several years of tenacity and dedication to deliver the best of Colombian Brutal Death Metal to the world.

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Exhaurity - Interview 2026

Yoyoyo!!!  hope you are doing well!!! Whoo is this?

Hey! Thanks for the interest! I am Daniel Lara, founder of Exhaurity.

Can you tell us the history of Exhaurity?

Sure. Exhaurity started as a One Man Band by myself. It was born from a creative necessity. I also play in Decarabion but I think I do something different in that band. Exhaurity was born with the purpose of doing something more raw, less technical, more impulsive and even flirting with improvisation. I did some releases as a one man band and then I decided to add a drummer to the  band. We then started playing some shows and we recorded what will be our next EP. 

3 releases in 2024, 3 releases in 2025, what are the plans for 2026?

Well, in this 2026 we will be releasing our first EP recorded with real drums. It will be released by New Standard Elite. I think we will also record a full album. It may be ready by the end of the year or starting the next one.

Did everything before Sarkothenta feel like it was just building up to that full length?  Or is everything a very separate work of art?

Yeah. The demos and the EP I made before releasing Sarkothenta were parts of an experimentation that somehow culminated in the full album. All those releases (first demos, first EP, split and full album) were made the same way: as an experimentation from a one man band format.

I am always interested in the artwork chosen for albums or demos or whatever, can you talk a little about how you go about choosing artwork and artists?

Sure! I have worked with Ropiggore, Ardha Lepa and Jon Zig. I like to give freedom to the artist to express their own vision. I just try to communicate what I would like the artwork to manifest. In all those cases I was searching for a representation of carnality, embodiment and the idea of reality as pure carnal unfolding. 

How would you describe Exhaurity to someone who has never heard it?

It's an experimentation. It's the attempt to empty extreme music from the saturation of extreme technicality, of sophisticated production techniques and other additions that end up erasing what extreme music is about: intensity, impulses, carnality and more. Improvisation comes to have a roll in this process as a mark of carnality, of spontaneous material existence in the now and here. 

How do you come up with the wonderful song titles?

I know song titles are a bit odd. I have an undergrad and a masters in philosophy (I also work as a professor in a Colombian University). So everything about Exhaurity is heavily influenced by philosophical texts and insights. The song titles could be titles of philosophical essays. In fact, every song and every release is something like a philosophical essay. And even the band as a whole is a philosophical essay. If you or anyone is interested in the concepts I address in Exhaurity you can check out the texts of Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc Nancy, Julia Kristeva and obviously Friedrich Nietzsche.

How did you come up with the name Exhaurity?

The name Exhaurity comes from the latin "exhaurire" which means to empty, to drain, to consume, to draw out the resources, elements or energies of something. In the end it relates to the method of "exhaurition", of draining, emptying out the extreme brutal genre and leaving only the most primitive, pristine or basic elements: the mere instruments and their friction. To make it a true corpse, a carcass, and reveal the abjection in musicality.

9 - What does Sarkothenta mean?

Sarkothenta means "made flesh" or "incarnate". It comes from that biblical idea of Jesus being made flesh, or the idea of angels gaining physical and material existence. It's written as an extremely painful process and it's also related to the beginning of suffering, the beginning of evil in the existence. And it is, in the end, the only existence we truly have: this material, fleshy, painful and horrid existence. You can relate this to some satanic or even esoteric traditions which merge in some way the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the material. I try to play with the contradiction and hierarchy that we have constructed between the spiritual and the material. 

What would you like to say to your fans?

I would like to thank to everyone interested in this project. I hope you can enjoy what will be our first release with NSE. There will be more to come! 

EXHAURITY

NEW STANDARD ELITE

Morgues - Interview 2026

Morgues, one of the heaviest BDM trios out of Colombia, had one of my favorite albums of the last few years with 2023's "Dismembering Corpses".  They took a brief break but are now back to rehearsing, writing, and playing shows.  Get to know this band!!!

Thanks so much for taking some questions! Who are we chatting with and how is it going?

Hi, thanks for having us. This is Eder Thomas, guitarist of Morgues. I also handle the band’s production since we’re fully independent. I take care of recording, mixing, mastering, and managing our social media and everything related to the band’s movement.

Everything’s going well. We’re in a good moment right now, working hard and pushing the band forward.

Who are all the members in Morgues?

Morgues is made up of three members: Álvaro Sarmiento on drums, Grayson Pereira on vocals, and myself, Eder Thomas, on guitar.

We don’t have a bassist, so we work as a three-piece. That has been a challenge when it comes to recording and mixing because we have to make the guitars fill all the space that a bass would normally cover. But in the end, we’re really happy with how the album turned out. Even without bass, the sound is heavy, full, and powerful.

How and when did the band start?

The band started around mid-2008. Back then, we were just four friends who loved playing music and listening to extreme metal — death metal, thrash, black metal, everything.

The original lineup was Álvaro Sarmiento, Fabián López, Jan Montalvo, and myself. At first, the band was called Cerberus. Like most bands, it started just for fun — jamming, hanging out, and enjoying the music together — but we quickly realized we actually sounded pretty good.

We didn’t have much gear, so we used to rent drums and sound equipment and rehearse in my bedroom while writing our first songs. Back then, our sound was more old-school death metal.

Around 2010–2011, we changed the name to Morgues and moved toward a more extreme, heavier, and more modern sound, while still keeping that old-school spirit. Later, Fabián and Jan left the band, and since then we’ve continued as a trio.

Can you tell us what it was like recording "Dismembering Corpses"? Things that went smoothly? Things that didn’t?

Recording Dismembering Corpses was honestly a unique experience for us. We learned a lot about recording, mixing, and dealing with all the problems that come with doing everything yourself. It was a long road full of trial and error and constant learning.

The best part is that the album sounds exactly how we wanted. The kicks, guitars, drums, and vocals hit hard and feel just the way we imagined. That’s the main reason we recorded everything ourselves — to have full control and keep the sound 100% Morgues.

What didn’t go perfectly was mostly because it was a home recording. Some drum and guitar takes aren’t 100% perfect. But considering the DIY process, we’re very proud of the result. It sounds raw, aggressive, and honest — exactly how Morgues should sound.

Who are some of the band's biggest influences?

In the beginning, our biggest influences came from old-school death metal. Here in Colombia, Massacre was one of our main inspirations — we honestly consider them one of the greatest metal bands in the country’s history. Bands like Sepultura, Death, and Obituary also shaped our early sound.  Later, we moved toward a more brutal and modern style, influenced by bands like Lividity, Cannibal Corpse, and Suffocation, which pushed us to be heavier, faster, and more technical.    

On the Colombian side, bands like Carnivore Diprosopus, Purulent, Goretrade, and Sadistic Mutilation had a huge impact on our modern sound. They really helped shape the brutality and darkness that defines Morgues today.

Well, we absolutely love "Dismembering Corpses" and a lot of people do!  Where you guys at all surprised by the reaction the that album?

Yes, we were definitely surprised, and it honestly made us very happy. We received a lot of great comments from people on the YouTube video that was uploaded on the Brutal Music channel. Seeing the reaction from listeners and the support from the community was amazing. We are very happy with the reception the album had and how well it connected with the brutal death metal community.

Is there new music being worked on?  Please say yes!  What can you tell us about it?

Unfortunately, the new music has been a bit delayed because our drummer had some health issues. Nothing too serious, but it did slow things down in terms of rehearsals, keeping the band practice schedule, and playing shows. However, we are back to working again and pushing forward. Hopefully, we will have a new album or an EP ready as soon as possible.

We will patiently wait for your next release!  Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions!  Anything you'd like to say to your fans?!

What we would like to say to the fans is that Morgues is a band that will always try to create the most brutal music possible without losing the old-school spirit that defines brutal death metal. A big salute to everyone who supports the band.

MORGUES