“I wrote a lot of this album at a very dark time in my life,” explains Marcellus Rodríguez-López when asked about ¡EUREKA!, his new album under the name Eureka the Butcher. “I’d lost some very important people in my life and I was at my most insecure, personally and musically speaking. I had to remember where I come from, who I’d learned from.”
That’s easy; Rodriguez-Lopez’s older brother Omar is the wildly prolific guitarist best known for his work in At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta. The pair actually played together in the latter for nearly a decade, and Rodríguez-López also logged countless hours keeping time in the psych band Zechs Marquise. Eureka the Butcher is his baby, however, so there’s more to it than manic rock music, including a collaboration with local MC Sahtyre. The album is set to drop on Alpha Pup next month….