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Seattle metal band Tacos! functioned for nearly a decade as a two-piece band whose sonic MO is driving, in your face, thrumming wildness. Well-known for their boisterous live shows, played regularly all over town, members Lupe Flores and Donovan Stewart were often approached after shows by friends and audience members asking to join the band as their third member. Their answer was always the same: "Nah. We're good." During Covid isolation, however, is when Hozoji Matheson-Margullis (of Seattle heavyweights Helms Alee) asked to join. This time, the answer was a no-brainer: it was a logical, organic fit, slotting into the band like a blade into a sheath. They'd been good friends for many years, and their chemistry was already there. When Hozoji joined Tacos!, the tectonic shift that followed was massive: fuller and heavier, yet maintaining sincerity and a thundering sound. The band members all share in the lyric writing and vocal duties, blending their voices in an evocative aural tapestry. Loss, death, disconnection, and passion power this band's thematic fuel cells. Their new album 3, a roiling sonic departure from their previous works sees them grasping at - and seizing - big sounds, big meaning, and big feelings.

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Sales Points

• For fans of Red Fang, Melvins, Big Business, KARP, Helms Alee, Wild Powwers, Gold Sweats, Lozen

Press Quotes

Melding punk and metal is rarely attempted and even more rarely pulled off to success, but Tacos! are here to show us how it's done with their new offering, 3. This record was made strictly for the hunger, reward, and risk that comes with the process, and when you're doing it for the love of it, good things are usually going to come.

     —Aaron Willschick, v13.net

The drums lock into a grooving beat backed by a beefy bass, but the riff starts warping and slithering just in time for the wailing vocals to soar. The music sounds menacing and more than a little demented, and that voice sends shivers down the spine.

     —Islander, No Clean Singing

Not only tasty but insanely enjoyable. You cheer for them and you mosh for them.

     —Ruben Lira, Northwest Music Scene

Eight tracks of top-notch heavy, riff-centric stoner-metal-tinged rock 'n' roll fury

     —Kevin Diers, The Stranger

A record that shows its love to all things Pacific Northwest heavy fuzz, an obvious adoration of the melodic interplay and ripping rock of Heart, as well as some unexpected twists into the unknown.

     —Ryan Canavan, Hanging Hex Blog