Year 2010, gothic rules MTV, the radio has also surrendered in front of the power of exuberant girls with sweet voices and prefabricated melancholy. Millions of youngsters dress in the whole world dress in black and think that Bauhaus is a DIY multinational.

Has everybody surrendered? Perhaps, but not. In the world there are still a couple of dropouts that do whatever they want whenever they want. They are what was called gothic in the past and that nowadays they are “those strange beings, of strange aesthetics, strange likings and strangely black humour”. Within these dropouts we find the Bolivian Alcoholika la Christo, a band that in 2006 surprised all the people with good taste with a disc full of fresh ideas and odd forms.

“Toxicnology Part 1 & 2” is a disc that mixes everything their compositors want to, both in language and sonority matters. Like this, under the emblem of gothic, they introduce English, French, German and who knows how many more languages in their lyrics, and in their compositions they neither fall short, with a range that goes from the most danceable gothic to things much more “industrial”. A good way of tasting something authentic in order to get away from so much copy and prefabrication.

Ivan Cateura
Translation: Verni