Pirana

PIRAÑA is the hellish spawn of Samuel Olvera (ex Disgorge, Genital Retroplasia, Domain, Ravager, Demonized and actual member of Undenied) and César Tarello (ex Antiqua and actually Devil´s Whiskey and session guitarist of Zombiefication), formed in 2003 with the only porpoise of playing raw thrash with any pretentions except to crush all tunes as possible.

After a year of work PIRAÑA recorded their first MCD with 6 songs entitled: PIRAÑA ATTACK coproduced with Onslaught Records in February 2004. With great surprise, in very short time the band started to grow with very good critics from zines & websites, and listened in all México thanks to songs.

In January of 2006 the band produced an Split CD called MECHANICAL JAWS INVASION were they played with a local band called The Pit (thrash death) and released two new songs with an intended demo raw mix (Guerrilla War and Broken Cross) and they also played a cover song from Exodus (Piranha).

Thanks to this two works and a lot of gigs, the band started to be recognized as one of the best metal acts in México.

In December of 2008 the young drummer Fernando Nieto started with the band and the first CD DESTRUCTIVE ANIMAL REVOLUTION is recorded under the label of American Line Prods. The songs got better acceptance and the album got sold out in few months, projecting the band as an icon of mexican thrash.

While still promoting the album, PIRAÑA worked as opener acts of many bands as Impaled Nazaren, Pungent Stench, Destruction, Nuclear Assault, Hirax, Onslaugth and also played at many international festivals as the two editions of Metal in the Forest with Vader, Evil Dead, Watain, and many more.

In 2011 PIRAÑA record an studio video from the song Godkiller and started their first international tour in CUBA as an unedited issue, they play in two massive concerts and many local gigs as the first mexican band touring all Cuba with local acts as Ancestor and Combat Noise.

By 2012 the band produces a new promotional video of the messenger of god song that came to light to promote their new album called CORRUPTION under the japanese label Red Rivet Records.

In 2013 the band reedited the first record PIRAÑA ATTACK with a new recording of the songs of the MCD and new art, and also started their first European tour to promote the CORRUPTION album along side of the mexican bloodshed act Zombiefication and had an excellent participation in the Barroselas metal festival in Portugal.

Since the departure of the bass player Juan Vargas in 2014 the band refreshed their logo and music starting a new era of a shoot in your face that will come to stage in 2015 with the second European tour alongside with Hirax, Desecrator and Past the Fall and with the presentation of the new mcd called RAW.

Line up:

Samuel “Samy thrash” Olvera (Guitars, Lead guitars and backing vocals)
Cesar “Tarellevil” Tarello (Guitars, lead guitars and main vocals)
Fernando “Hammerfer” Nieto (Drums)

CONTACT:

Mail:
piranhaattack@hotmail.com
cdtarello@hotmail.com

Address:
CÉSAR TARELLO LEAL C/O PIRAÑA
Ejercito Republicano #119-1 Int 8.
Carretas
C.P. 76050.
Querétaro, Qro.
México.






LINKS TO VIDEOS

PIRAÑA EN VIVO EN BARROSELAS 2013
http://youtu.be/bs_ASyb1zWo

PIRAÑA EN VIVO EN SAN LUIS POTOSÍ
http://youtu.be/SBsPtrW1KKA

PIRAÑA EN VIVO METAL IN THE FOREST 2011
http://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=pirana thrash metal review&source=web&cd=124&cad=rja&ved=0CDQQtwIwAzh4&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBsPtrW1KKA&ei=_C60ULzoKofQqwH294DYCg&usg=AFQjCNG8xv-vP6duXHxKblr8HvpT6lHZ2g

GODKILLER Video (2010)
http://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=youtube pirana godkiller&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CC4QtwIwAA&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMH41NQWcs&ei=bzC0ULb8HYuu8QSe0YCYBw&usg=AFQjCNF0pWalCocFwnbm7WfLxIZCFJzn6Q

























SOME REVIEWS

1.- “Seems like Mexico is ready to attack the Metal scene with hidden treasures like Pirana. The band offers furious and merciless Thrash Metal which reminds me of Legion Of The Damned or Kreator during their "Coma Of Souls" era... These guys know how to handle their instruments and how to materialize their ideas...” “...kicks your fat and spoilt asses right into a swamp of destructive forces and brilliant metallic warlust. If you´re a Thrash Metal lunatic you should check this great band out...”(review by Alex)
http://www.brutalism.com/wb/pages/reviews/reviews-p/pirana.php

2.- “Thrash Metal is dead by now? Metallica released St. Anger, Slayer became plain and now all we have left is “Carnal Forge” and maybe “The Haunted”? Not true, there is another band with Thrash riffs, Thrash beats and Thrash attitude wrapping their music, they are unknown to many, in fact this is the first time I ever hear this name…”Piraña” (Spanish word for Piranha), this is some strong Old School Thrash music with incredible surroundings and awesome execution…”

“…this is straight Thrash no strings attached, a lot of the old school riffs, many blast-beats, the traditional weird ballad, the shrieked/clean vocalizations, etc. This release has everything you could ask for in the genre…”

From the e.magazine METALSTORM
www.metalstorm.

3.- “Great Mexican Thrash!!! Superb production, cool riffing and best of all: professional vocals and good solos”
www.lostsoundrecords.com

4.- “Party Thrash Metal for extremely drunken people!!!...”
From the e.magazine METAL RULES
www.metal-rules.com

5.- “The music is traditional 80s Thrash, with a raging voice, which sounds a bit more modern”. From the page www.Metaleros.tk

6.- “...totally angry-punkish lyrics they put with guts at the tunes...” “Music is a complete homage to thrash metal they’ve clearly grown into...”, “Spanish language singing, frenetic rhythms, very sharp guitar riffs, bass guitar like dynamite and there you have it. An excellent track for a Mosh Pit destruction...”” It’s a must for every Mexican metal music collector...”
Victor Varas http://zombieritualzine.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/pirana-mexico-review

7.- Long time ago we did not listen mexican bands, and there has been a real joy to find PIRAÑA, a band from Querétaro, with balls, potential and a lot of future…http://www.jedbangers.com.ar/foro/viewtopic.php?p=1555716&sid=558e39fc43d318572430e53b1612a6d1
http://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=youtube%20pirana%20meseenger%20of%20god&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CC4QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2