Matando güeros

Brujeria's debut full-length album, and in my opinion, the rawest, heaviest, nastiest of the three they've released so far. Also less "commercial" than the next two, I would say.

The production is good, not as clean as in their future releases, but you can easily hear every instrument and the lyrics. I'd also say it adds to the "raw" feel of this album.

Musically, it's almost entirely oriented towards death metal and especially grindcore, with pretty standard (in those genres, anyway) but well-performed instrumentation. The guitars have a down-tuned somewhat thick and murky sound, and the bass is quite prominent. I believe the booklet reveals that indeed many band members provided bass duties, so it's likely that songs often feature more than one bass playing.
Most of the songs are mid-paced and perhaps leaning towards the fast, but not that much if you consider other acts in the genre. There are also some slower songs, like "Molestando Niños Muertos" or "Culeros", which are often more dissonant than the faster songs.
Some of the riffs are pretty tight, and they can be catchy in a way. There's also parts with a certain groove to them.

The lyrics are sicker, more explicit and politically incorrect compared to the other albums, with topics covering drug trafficking, Satan worship and sex, in various forms. Most of the songs are lyrically influenced by the 1988-89 media-influenced Satanic mass hysteria in Mexico, when it was found that a drug cartel and Palo Mayombe cult (though the media attributed it to Satanism, something the band exploited to cause a stronger impact in a mostly Catholic country) butchered rival cartel members and innocent people in rituals of torture, human sacrifice and cannibalism. Other specific topics covered by the lyrics in this album are the abuse of prostitutes, necropedophilia, illegal immigration, stealing this album, etc...
The lyrics are also notably discriminatory about pretty much everything, including homosexuals, rockers, jews, overweight people, christians, atheists, junkies, prostitutes, asians, caucasians, blacks, indigenous Mexicans and more.
Fluent (or otherwise native) Spanish-speakers who are not turned-off by the lyrical topics will likely be amused by the slightly broken Spanish. Strangely, it also features several slang terms exclusive to Mexico that are hardly known to foreigners.

If you're the kind of person who doesn't like to listen to music in languages you can't understand, despite the vocals making it difficult to make out the lyrics (which I wouldn't say is the case with this band, for the most part), then you might be turned off by the band's attitude, refusing to sing in English, but you'd definitely be missing out not checking this out for such a superficial reason.

This is quite simply a classic album. Even if you're not a huge fan of death/grind, this is pretty memorable.