This Is Massacre

This Is Massacre

This Is Massacre is an Argentinian skate rock band active since 1985. The group is identified with massacre and massacre palestina, and it describes itself as a hard rock and metal act. Its line-up includes José Armetta, Walas, Pablo Mondello, Charly Carnota and José Matías Maharbiz.

Style and live approach

The band plays a mix of old-school and modern melodic riffs, with guitar harmonies, hard-edged drumming and lyrics that it presents as heartfelt. Its sound is described as combining hardcore energy and precise percussion with a form of metal intended to be easy to listen to. Live performance is treated as essential to the group’s work.

Festival and live activity

This Is Massacre appears at the 2009 Brighton Festival as part of Bangers and Mash, a specially commissioned event connected with choreographer Hofesh Shechter. After performing at the Brighton Dome to an audience of 900, it receives an invitation to stage its own fully sponsored night at the Pavilion Theatre in Brighton. That show is supported by coverage in The Argus and draws more than 240 people on a Sunday evening, before being repeated in June 2010 to near sell-out attendance.

Competitions and recordings

The band wins a number of battle-of-the-band competitions, including a WKD-sponsored contest at the King & Queen pub in 2010. It uses the prize money to fund professional recording with John Mitchell at Outhouse Studios in Reading in July 2010. This Is Massacre also reaches the Southern England area finals of Live and Unsigned 2010 at the Guildhall in Portsmouth, where it wins the Extreme Exposure Award after not advancing to the final. At that event, it receives positive feedback from Kerrang judge Christian Stevenson for its full sound, and the other judges praise its energetic performance and crowd interaction.

Selected track

The track “Waiting for Nothing” is chosen by a film company for use in a viral advertisement for Pretty Bad Things by CJ Skuse.