Interviews: Distopxica

On this new occasion, we have had the opportunity to interview the Heavy Rock/Metal/Punk band, Distopxica, from Colombia. Check out the interview and follow the band on their FACEBOOK PAGE.

1. Where did you get the idea for the band name? Did you plan it or came out just like that?

We definitely planned it – it wasn’t random. After COVID-19 hit us hard in Colombia (economically, mentally, emotionally), we felt like we were living in a point of no return: dystopia jumped from the screen into real life. Staying alive already felt like a kind of responsibility, so we promised ourselves to be loyal to what hurts and to tell those stories honestly.

The name DISTOPXICA is also an equation with three vertices, one for each member of the band:

DIS – the uncomfortable, the confrontational (Sergio).

TOP – the map, the one who observes and guides (Gabriel).

XICA – the venom, the word turned into song, the visible stitches (Javier).

DISTOPXICA is about denunciation, confrontation, generating doubt, and keeping people uncomfortable over time.

2. Why did you want to play this genre?

We play heavy rock with layers of punk and metal, plus a strong Latin groove in the vocals and rhythms.

We chose this genre because it matches the intensity of what we’re talking about – corruption, inequality, protest, trauma – and because heavy rock feels timeless to us. It fits our idea of “perdurability”: music that doesn’t have an expiration date.

3. Did you know each other before the band was formed?

Some of us crossed paths in previous projects.

Sergio (DIS) played with Javier (XICA) in an earlier band called Domingoalas9. Gabriel (TOP) joined later, when we decided to rebuild the project after the pandemic – and he came to stay. Javier is the original founder and songwriter, and DISTOPXICA is where all those stories finally found their true shape.

4. Each band member’s favourite band?

Sergio (DIS): Green Day – especially the song “She”, for the raw energy and stage presence.

Gabriel (TOP): Megadeth – “Tornado of Souls”, because of the technical precision in the solo and the architecture of the arrangements.

Javier (XICA): Hypocrisy – songs like “Pleasure of Molestation” and “Obsculum Obscenum” for the way Peter Tägtgren builds sound and atmosphere, and the darkness in the lyrics. But our biggest influence is not musical, it’s sociological. We’re inspired by what’s happening out there, in the streets and in the human psyche.

5. Who or what inspires you to write songs?

A mix of things:

The Colombian and Latin American reality: corruption, inequality, education, migration, “the other” and how we see ourselves in them.

Personal experiences and mental health struggles.

Symbolic images: fire, territory, diverse bodies, animals, cities that feel like cages.

All of that ends up coded into lyrics and visuals that we hope will still make sense years from now.

6. Where was your last gig?

Our last show was a semi-private event for the release of the first album of a dear friend’s band called Big Black Box.

It felt special because it was basically Gabriel’s (TOP) live debut with DISTOPXICA, and everything clicked: the sound, the energy, and the connection with the people there.

7. Where would you like to act?

We have a few dreams:

Playing on the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise.

Stepping on a stage like Glastonbury someday.

And creating our own festival called “Sin Límites” (No Borders), playing on the borders of different Latin American countries as a statement against the way borders divide people.

8. Whom would you like to feature with?

We’d love to collaborate with artists who mix strong messages with deep roots in Latin music, for example:

Consulado Popular

Alfonso Espriella

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto

Malalma

In general, we feel close to any artist who stands against racism, classism, and hate speech, and who prefers honesty over plastic perfection.

9. Whom not?

We wouldn’t feel comfortable collaborating with any artist or project that openly promotes hate, discrimination, or war propaganda, or that is purely a tool of hegemonic power structures.

Our music is about questioning those systems, not decorating them.

10. Have any of you ever suffered from stage fright? Any tips for beginners on how to beat that?

Yes, of course. At some point, every musician in DISTOPXICA has felt anxiety or stage fright right before going on. It’s part of the job.

A couple of things that help us:

Code language inside the band.

We have little signals – a look, a gesture – to let each other know “I’m not OK” without stopping the show. That support lowers the pressure a lot.

Breathing and grounding.

Conscious breathing, a bit of stretching, and remembering why you’re doing this. You’re not there to be perfect; you’re there to connect.

11. What bands have inspired you the most?

Many, but some key ones would be:

Rage Against the Machine – for turning rage and politics into groove.

The Mars Volta – for their chaos, free, doom, and Latin spirit inside progressive rock.

Misfits – for the raw energy and the horror-punk aesthetics.

Colombian and Latin bands like Superlitio, who showed us you can mix rock with local sounds and still be yourself.

12. What’s the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you for?

Once someone asked us to start playing in full costumes and disguises on stage – like a twisted cartoon version of ourselves.

We’re not against theatricality, but DISTOPXICA is more about showing that we’re real people carrying this toxic world on our backs, so we kept the idea as a funny memory rather than a plan.

13. What do you think of your fans?

For us, our fans feel like a kind of inheritance from the land we stand on.

They are the people who listen to the same sirens, walk the same streets,and face the same political and economic madness we do. When they connect with a song, it feels less like “having fans” and more like finding relatives we didn’t know we had.

14. What do you think of our site?

We really appreciate that your site gives space to underground and international bands.

For a project like DISTOPXICA, it’s important that people in the US and other countries can discover bands from Latin America that don’t always fit into the mainstream playlist algorithms. Thank you for opening that window.

15. Something to add?

We’d love to meet you all face to face someday, on stage or off.

Until that happens, we invite you to dive into our music and our visuals. You can start with our latest singles “ARDE” and “Cumbia Raza”, and in January 2026 we’ll release our full album “Distopía Tóxica”.

You can find us here:

YouTube: @dtx-band

Instagram & TikTok: @Distopxica

Facebook: Distopxicarock / Distopxicaband

Streaming platforms: DISTOPXICA

Email: distopxica@gmail.com