Track By Tracks: Las Llagas - Cuanto tiempo nos queda para oler los eucaliptos? (2025)

1. 8000000000:

This is the first song that was written for the band instead of just jamming together, but stylistically it kind of embodied what was being played in those jams. All the songs on the album were finished composition-wise as instrumentals. We knew we didn't want clean vocals, but after the songs were finished, we didn't start screaming on top, and then after that, the lyrics came in. This song lyrically is a direct quote from Chris Kord, the founder of COE, for me(naz) it reflects the problem with overpopulation and the environmental crisis.

2. Peso Muerto:

After jamming around, just as we started putting these songs together, I (Hiram) got a cervical hernia, and couldn't rehearse for some months. When I came back, the band was already rehearsing the first 3 songs. I'm actually a guitar player and these were my first times messing around with bass, so i pretty much sticked to just playing the tonic on these songs, and didn't mess around with song structure that much, after some rehearsals, we didn't quite know how to go to the last part of this song, and this was the first time i kind of moved away from just playing the tonic and played around as i normally do on guitar and ended up with the first bass line i was really proud of jaja. lyrically the song talks about how we drag a dead weight from our families and their mistakes that define how we are and what we’re capable off. I (Naz) think this cycle can be broken with self work and awareness so there’s hope to change and be better for the next generation.  

Hiram: In that transition to the last part i shout "arden las llagas", that was a direct influence of me listing to alot of knocked loose one day before going to reherse and doing my own rendition of "knocked loose mother fucker"

3. Micelio:

There’s an intrinsic bond between us all and nature, I like the idea of the mycelium that takes over the dead and turns it to life (Naz). This is also the first song where 2 of us made different lyrics for the song, not directly linking the lyrics as just 1 piece of writing but as 2 different things for 1 same song. This time it was constructed upon one same concept, but on newer songs sometimes that isn't even the case.

4. Discordia:

This is an electronic piece nazareno put together, to trigger at shows between songs, we argued a bit about having it in the album or not, we decided at last minute to put it in, it gives the album a moment without distortion, the name is a reference to us disagreeing on whether it was making the album or not.

5. Eucaliptos:

Gonza brought the first part of this song and then we started improvising on what would come after that, until we arrived on that sludgy part. That song is one of the most cathartic moments live since it's simple and repetitive, we just repeat it as a mantra, over and over, and the length and intensity just depends on the energy of the moment. The noise at the end of the song was just that, when we were overdubbing guitars that just sort of happened and we kept recording.