It is more than obvious that the music, the black metal by this Peruvian band, has nothing surprising, nothing out of the ordinary and it is plagued with common, repetitive formulas that don’t really allow you to listen to the record more than one time; but it’s the topics that the band focuses on the real interesting, attention grabber here; the topics are Inca mythology, and thanks to that interesting approach, the record saves face, but it fails miserably to deliver some compelling music that might make you search on Peru for black metal.

Ancient demons, powerful brave warriors and the importance and transcendental idea of the division of the planet according to the Incas, forces you to “Google” for all the terms, names and stories told in this record; a great service to those of us that are slowly but firmly forgetting where we come from, and that we don’t need Nordic mythology to find mysticism in our metal, we just have to look at our forefathers.

Sadly after the great service to our indigenous pride, Kay Pacha (quechua word for the world humans inhabit, been other two parallel “dimensions” were spirits and gods live) just plays your standard local black metal band that is extremely influenced by atmospheric, black metal bands that don’t really manage to display or infused more interest other than the stories been told. Yes the record is raw, the drums sound really bad, and the constant use of unnecessary blast beats to communicate “heaviness” just gets really old, really fast, making Kay Pacha fall in the category of “common garage Latin black metal”.

If you are looking for interesting folk based black, don’t look in here, because just by listening to one track in “Herederos de la Sangre Antigua” you have listen to the entire record; perhaps the album could be used to bring to light some of the “cool” aspects of Inca and Latin American mythology, a part of history that for some reason has been completely neglected in our schools… no wonder we have no real identity!