Escupemetralla – Tres Trillizos Trotskistas (Album – Nøvak)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electronic, Experimental.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Escumetralla is back with new material –previous releases were often re-releases. This album was composed between 2018 and 2021 and meant as a kind of documentary to show comparisons.
Content: Escupemetralla doesn’t sound that different from the past; the album remains driven by Industrial sounds and early Industrial spirit. But at the other side there’s always space for new experimentation, which touches ground with Psychedelic- and Ambient music.
+ + + : I like the Industrial side of the work, which is clearly reminding the early years of this movement; great rhythms going crescendo. The debut part of this album sounds terrific. But there’s also something to say about the rather Psychdelic sounding “Marnië Utulië”.
– – – : Some tracks are a bit too long while the work is also a bit versatile.
Conclusion: From this album I especially remember the great Industrial component.
Best songs: “S3S es 3 3”, “Gestión De Residuos”, “EDificio Putrefacto”.
Rate: 6½.
Label: www.novak.es / www.facebook.com/novakrecs
About Escupemetralla
Escupemetralla is an electronic and industrial project from Barcelona, Spain, active since the late 1980s. Discogs lists the cassette albums “Sublimado Corrosivo” in 1988, “Burros De Dios – Asses Of God” in 1990, “Vida Y Color” in 1991 and “Multimierda” in 1995, all on Clonaciones Petunio.
The project moved to the Spanish label Nøvak with the CDr “Poison Of Dead Sun In Your Brain Slowly Fading” in 2017, reviewed on Side-Line as Escupemetralla – Poison Of Dead Sun In Your Brain Slowly Fading (CD Album – Novak), followed by Escupemetralla – Fe, Esperanza Y Caridad (CD Album – Novak) in 2019 and the double set Escupemetralla – Quiero Ser Guitarra De Esplendor Geometrico 1994 / 25 Años De Paz Remezclas 2019 (2 Albums – Novak) in 2020.
“Tres Trillizos Trotskistas”, subtitled “Three Trotskyist Triplets”, was released on 20 September 2021 by Nøvak as catalogue NVK123, on CD and as a digital download. The twelve tracks were composed, recorded and mixed between 2018 and 2021. JA Alvarez designed the cover from a photograph by Jimmy Hoffman. The label dedicates the record to Víctor Nubla Huba, who died in 2020. The album Escupemetralla – In Cold Grey Void Electrically Operated By Mantis-Eyed Humans (Album – Nøvak) followed in 2023, and Clonaciones Petunio issued the compilation “Materia Exótica Del Universo 1988-1995” in 2025.
Support Side-Line
More people read Side-Line than ever, and there is still no paywall and no advertising. Readers pay for it instead - from $5 a month.
Why we ask
Advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news organisations we have not put up a paywall, and we refuse to add annoying advertising, so we need to ask for your help. Side-Line’s independent journalism takes time, money and hard work to produce, and we do it to push the artists we like, who are equally fighting to survive.
Handled by PayPal.
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
