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A friend of mine recently went on a trip to Mexico and was thoughtful enough to bring me back a couple bags of Barcel Chip's (thanks Top). I had considered blending them into one post, but uh uh, I'm keeping it single bag today and I'm going to let you know what my initial thoughts are on Barcel Chip's (the largest text on the bag reads "Chip's") sabor Fuego Limon, Papas fritas sabor chile y Limon Aridente. El Arte de hacer papas. Now I don't speak or read spanish, so I'm going with these are chile and lime flavoured chips..not sure what Ardiente means (I just googled it before cracking the bag..it apparently translates to burning). The back of the bag reads, estan hechas de papa 100% natural (100% natural chips?), I believe it also says a good source of carbohydrates/energy, and no trans fats. They smell like fried potatoes. Not much of a scent when I cracked open the bag, very red seasoning. I was really surprised when I tried the first chip, the crunch was kettle cooked adjacent but not quite kettle cooked. They're a thin but very crunchy chip. The seasoning is a hot pepper heat (stronger than jalapeno, maybe closer to cayenne or habanero?) followed by a very present lime flavour. I believe there's a bit of tomato in the mix as well. They're a hot chip, but flavourful, and the crunch to them is quite intriguing. I'm looking foward to trying the other bag that Top brought back, I believe they're jalap.

I've been listening to a lot of ska in the last few weeks, but sabor Fuego didn't say ska to me..I guess I could have went with Mephiskapheles..so I pulled up a recommendation that a buddy gave me at the end of 2019, Gatecreeper's 2019 banger Deserted. For me the music bounces back and fourth between sludgy metal and thrash with death metal vocals. Some nice riffidge with shredding interspersed throughout. Songs are typically in the 3-4 minute range with a few topping out just over 5. When Ryan first recommended the album that looked promising to me and my assumptions proved to be correct. It's heavy but still with enough of a foot in thrash to hold my attention span. There's some real bright riffs throughout the album which was somewhat unexpected..and some dark as hell sludgy breakdowns. To quote Ryan when I first noted the short song length, "It's just catchy ass pounding death metal..They were trying to write "arena death metal" ". I could have probably just written that quote and saved you my layman metal description above, but as a great book once said, "you get what you get"

Stay hydrated,
marc

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