Artist: Maulén
Title: El Miedo De Amar Pero Igual Lo Hago
Format: 2×12″ vinyl in gatefold
Label: Icons Create Evil Art
Cat nr: ICEALP386
Genre: Post rock/post-metal/Experimental rock
tracklist:
| A1 | Rostro | 9:46 | |
| B1 | Sirjatan | 4:27 | |
| B2 | Friskväderstorget | 5:22 | |
| C1 | Lo Siento | 5:58 | |
| C2 | El Miedo De Amar Pero Igual Lo Hago | 3:10 | |
| D1 | Cadávres | 6:30 | |
| D2 | El Templo Mayor | 4:01 |
Pressing of 2 x 12″ standard weight black virgin vinyl
2 x 4/0-col printed inner sleeves with one hole, offset paper
6mm spined Gatefold, 4/0-col reverse board printed, and holes on front and back
Limited to 500 copies
Carlos Ibarra began his career as a guitarist and songwriter in various local bands before reaching infamy and notoriety across the metal and punk scene in Europe as a guitarist/songwriter/producer of the death metal act Age Of Woe. With them, he recorded two albums and two EPs: Inhumanform (Suicide Records, 2013) and An Ill Wind Blowing (War-Anthem, 2016). He has also released music with Terrorstat, a band featuring members of Walk Through Fire and Serpent Omega as well as Wefring featuring members of The Leather Nun, Exhale, and Psycore, amongst others.
In 2019, after spending a year composing material, Ibarra began work on a solo record. He recorded the music in a subterranean water cistern that has been abandoned for almost one-hundred years and is located 20 meters under a small hill in Gothenburg, Sweden. This water cistern just happened to have magical natural reverbs that are up to eighteen seconds long. Working in this was a true challenge: electricity was limited, it was wet, cold, and full of rats and spiders. Not many recording engineers would do it, but Carlos Sepulveda (Psycore, Leather Nun) was up to the task. For four magical days, Sepulveda and drummer Stefan Johansson (Abrovinch, Jimmy Ågren), worked in this enchanting setting.
The following year, Ibarra went to the Thar desert in India to find the peace and serenity necessary to write the lyrics to these songs only to get stuck there during the outbreak of Covid-19. This served as a huge inspiration for the lyrics of his upcoming album: El miedo de amar pero igual lo hago. The 2xEP record touches the subjects of loss, heritage, and the feeling of belonging or not belonging with lyrics sung in Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Persian, and French.
