Interviews About Albums: Lacabra - Lacabra (2025)

In this new interview, we sat down with the American Blackened Death Metal band Lacabra to ask questions about their album, "Lacabra".

1. What can you say about Lacabra?

LACABRA is a Metal group based out of Seattle, USA. It’s always difficult to describe our music except that it’s heavy and we are very energetic live. Twin lead guitar attacks with harsh vocals and sometimes melodic melodies. It’s a very dynamic band.

2. What is the meaning of the album name?

The album is self-titled. There is no real theme to this album, as it is our first effort, and we just pulled all of our influences together to write this music for the first album. I will say this, we do have a title and a theme for the second album already.

3. Which one is the composer of the Lacabra?

We all put our own stamp on the music, Michael Anthony or Eric Snyder write the main riffs, and then we all get together and add or take away from parts of the songs, and everybody writes their own parts. It’s very cool how this band operates that way. I’ve never been in a band like that before, so this band’s writing process is really special.

4. If you had to pick one song, which one would you pick?

For myself, it would be the song NOTHING. Eric Snyder wrote the music with Killing Joke in mind, and our friend Didier Almouzni (Dragonforce, Razor of Occam, Destroyer 666, Locistellar) wrote the lyrics for this song, and I think they’re brilliant! Very, very dark and unforgiving. Since I didn’t write them, I think it’s probably my favorite.

5. Is there a special message in Lacabra? If there is what it is?

The message is always very dark and bleak. And with that being said, it gives the listener a reason to hope for better things in the end, or capture a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel through their own eyes and ears.

6. Are there some lyrics that you'd love to share?

Sure, Human Quilt is a pretty nasty song, inspired by my father, who is running a church and I consider a bit of a cult leader down in the hills in Mexico. Another inspiration for the song was the Jonestown documentary. Very bleak and dark.

Anyway, enough about that, here is the first verse….

1st verse/

Congregation gathers

cutting all ties with the world tonight

Sending a message to the world with lust in their eyes

Not today Jesus, Satan’s got the wheel tonight

Drink The blood, close your eyes, take the fucking ride

Turn around /

Tonight they die

Blind Leading the blind

7. Which inspirations have been important for this album? Like musically or friends, family, someone you'd love to thank especially?

We have many musical inspirations. Eric Snyder and I are huge Killing Joke fans, plus we love black metal. Michael loves melodic Death Metal, Richie loves Metallica, and a lot of traditional heavy metal. And Eric Weber loves a lot of everything as well. Motörhead is probably one of his favorites. And our thanks would definitely go to our significant others, who really support us pushing hard as artists, being we are not the youngest band, and I have a family and jobs. This is what we know how to do best, and they support that. For this, we are very grateful.

8. Something to add? 

Yes, we will be touring Europe (Germany, Netherlands, and France) this October 2025 and completing writing our sophomore album that will be out on MTheory Audio in 2026. Hope to see you all out there.