NEWS: Cemican pray to the thunder God?

Guadalajara-based Aztec folk metal group Cemican, whose name means “the duality of life and death” in the Aztecan language of Nahuatl (spoken by 2 million people in Central Mexico) and are known to incorporate elements of the legends, mysticism and ideologies of ancient Mexican culture in their sound, have a new album in the works. Ahead of a pair of festival appearances this summer the seven piece have unleased the thundering “Taan ti le Xibalba” as the second single.

Drummer Tlipoca comments: “About the song, it speaks of the god of dead in the Mayan culture. It’s about the God Ah-Puch who goes up to Earth to visit the sick, or the miserable, who are going to die in order to guide them to Xibalba, or the Underworld, in which they are eternally condemned and lamenting forever in the place of the fleshless.”

You can catch Cemican live this summer:

6/21 – Rock Al Parque – Bogota, Colombia w/ Dismember, Hirax, Belphegor
8/9 – Leyendas Del Rock Festival – Villena, Alicante, Spain w/ Beast In Black, Angelus Apatrida, Dark Angel