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I had a good surprise this afternoon figuring out that 2 ‘new’ albums of Soziedad Alkoholika have been added on Spotify.

Intoxikazion Etilika their first album (1990) and Ratas (1995), my 2 favorite albums.

Intoxikazion Etilika is a very dark punky hadcore album, the guitar riffs are just complex and powerful enough. The sound is not the top of the pop, yeah it was 1990, color tvs were almost everywhere, but something was missing, the drum/guitar sync is not always fine but all this crap bring something authentic, warm and un forgetable.

Ratas is for me one of the best albums, more modern than the one above, i can tell that they started to listen to some other californian and radio punk at this time. All the somgs are happy, major tuned, fast paced full of energy. Some funny samples in between song have been added.

So many souvenirs are rushing into my mind when I’m listening to those Basques from Gasteiz.

They have been quite lazy lately, in a way they always been lazy.

Can’t count how many concert the cancelled in the last minute for some obscure reasons. Of course I’m not talking of the censorship they have been through preventing them to play in heaps of places in Spain.

Indeed, the Spanish government alleged the band to be too close from ETA. For them every Basque and friends of Basques are terrorists. Ah, I forgot to say that Spain still use torture in their prisons, especially with Basques.

Anyway, the last 2 albums were too easy for me, not many work put in song strutures and riffs. Couldn’t find this pseudo-easy songs that used to be so recognisable.

They very last album is not even a new album, they just took all songs, and replayed again slightly re-arranged with modern recording techniques, what a shame!

Even though they mostly sing in Spanish some of the songs are in Euskara (Basque language).

They usually  spell the names of their song in the Basque way avoiding the non-Basque letters such as q, c, w, v.

As an Euskaldun (Someone who knows Basque language), I always welcomed bands form Basque Country singing French, Spanish or even English.
Unfortunately in Iparralde (northern Basque Country) when you are an Euskaldun and you are cocky enough to sing French or English you might get yourself a one-way ticket out of the Basque speaking community.

I think this is very sad to be that close minded. But, for some reason I will explain someday here, I can understand since Euskara is still in danger of vanishing.