Metal Colombiano

Radikalez Librez is a Pereira band of hard core punk, born in 2008 by its current leader Jeansh Zamora (electric guitar) and other friends Julián, San Pedro, Magda, emerging as a symbol of protest and response to the situation that was experienced at that time in the country.

They began their musical journey in June 2008 in the city of Pereira, Jeansh Zamora together with the musicians met with the idea of moving the local scene in the hard core punk genre, he started with a guitar, doing covers of bands from Mexico, Brazil, Spain and with the band their own songs emerged until 2014 when they dissolved. From 2015 to 2017 the group resumed with new members: Mauricio Pulgarin El diablo (drums and vocals), Ximena Henao joined as bassist and the leader Jeansh Zamora (electric guitar).

In 2017, the Pereira band Radikalez Librez resurfaces as Fénix, as they themselves say in their presentation: from the mountains of central Colombia, with the incursion of a member Santiago Cardona HellFox (multi-instrumentalist) who has a long and successful musical career, being the Former leader of emblematic Pereira bands such as Germen, Toxico or La Pleve, he joins as drummer and main voice of the group, contributing his ingenuity, creativity, high degree of excellence, bringing with him his own, eccentric sound, characteristic of his experience and musical wisdom.

Ximena Henao continues as bassist, secondary voice in Radikalez Librez and drummer of Mordaza Legal, she is the female quota that represents empowered women with a rock soul, nobility, with libertarian thinking, enormous strength and seriousness on stage worthy of admiration.

Jhonny Sánchez chino hardcore in 2021 made his entry as a drummer, coming from important bands in the city such as Milicia and Tendencia H.C, thus contributing with discipline, genius, seriousness, providing a brutally fast and aggressive sound in the battery worthy of its style.

The leader Jeansh Zamora continues with the electric guitar and secondary voice, learning every day as he himself says, persevering with his band, action-reaction, a student of his instrument, with his plucks and the lines of his guitar executed quickly, he gives his verses of struggle against oppression, a poet of the marginal in the purest punk style of the old guard.

Santiago Cardona HellFox, who due to an accident in his right hand goes from playing the drums in 2021 to playing the electric guitar, delights this time with dark, distorted sounds, fast, frenetic tempos and bars, Full of energy like that of a quasar, like their almost shouted songs, torn like their lyrics, they continue to be the main voice of the group that is currently performing.

The band Radikalez Librez presents themes or music as a means of expression in a country with a hostile environment where silence prevails, in its lyrics lie verses of poetry I would reply, its guitars delight us with distorted sounds and frenetic peaks of redemptive salvation, a battery that It sounds as fast as the flapping of a hummingbirds wings and makes the heart vibrate at a thousand revolutions per second, the bass played by a woman who is the added value of the band, with a heavy, serious sound, with the force of a volcano , with the power that only an empowered woman like her can give her, perhaps thats where her name comes from: Radikalez Librez, each person a protagonist in their own style in a hysterically globalized world ? empty, excluding the richness of the prismatic and all the attempts of thought, free souls that came together to make musical utopia possible, a dream versed in the most hard core punk style.

It is important to remember that all the members of this group are empirical, self-taught musicians who achieve brilliance and essential recognition for their musical career of years, dedication, perseverance, perseverance and the greatest of disciplines, feverish beings who make their dreams respected. forming this musical-verbal-intellectual magma, timely for this turbulent time and thus giving continuity with RESISTANCE-RESISTANCE in all the scenarios of the imaginary.

Radikalez Librez represents the vitality and dedication of musician-workers, visionary beings who struggle against an existence that never ceases to be adverse to the class struggle, but who on stage, in their show-presentation, leave a trail of humanism and light that manages to colonize and perpetuate the moment. Musician-poets who attempt dialogues with death, investigating the silence, a circulation of the spirit, of thought, of feelings, ideas: sounds and lyrics written with austerity, simplicity, where a way of life emerges, of acting in accordance with what that they want to transmit and the brutal, typical and underlying energy of the genre to which they belong, vibrant, exciting, sensational.