Hocico – Unseen Horror Tour 2026 Live
Hocico – Unseen Horror Tour 2026 Live in São Paulo/Brazil (04/10/2026) – Madame Satã
Review by The Metalphycisist
The iconic aggrotech duo Hocico performed in São Paulo their last show of the Latin American leg of the band’s “Unseen Horror Tour 2026”, in support of Hocico’s latest atomic buster album, Unseen Horror Scenes (2026).
The venue where the show took place is named Madame Satã, which, since the 90s, has become a definitive venue for Electro Goth, Post-punk, and Industrial music conducted by master DJs from Brazil. The Goth art is everywhere in the house. The venue is huge and very warm. Indeed.
I must confess that I was incredulous that Hocico would play in Brazil this time, because Industrial Metal and Harsh Industrial aren’t the most famous musical styles in Brazil. But here they are!!
Meanwhile, the Argentina-based band Civil Hate took over the stage to play their hallucinated German-like Harsh Electro songs, which warmed up the audience for what was about to come. During that show, I was sitting next to the bar and I was able to watch the set from there. But I realized that the PA sound wasn’t that good.
So, I moved to a place which was like 3 metres from the stage. I was aware that I would miss the show’s full lighting work and LED screen interaction. But decisions had to be made quickly, and tonight I decided to experience how cool it would be listening to the songs right from the stage’s paraphernalia. Man, the drum sequencers were hitting hard down under the dancefloor, I tell you.
I would say that the show was i-n-s-a-n-e from the beginning with the song “The Screen” — a cinematic aggrotech musical ambience that dictates the pace of the show — until the end, with the song “Traitors”, which was a statement of Erk’s anarcho-punk attitude, screaming hate and ferocious lyrics relentlessly.
Riding the barrier at a Hocico gig morphs the whole set into a raw, chaotic ritual locked onto Erk Aicrag’s manic performance and the sheer violent dancing in the pit. Racso Agroyam is another kind of demon, and he looks like an entity in perfect alignment with the synth frequencies and punishing drum programming that he is well known for.
Back to Erk’s mayhem performance: in the song “Brainrot”, he vociferates the lyrics to awaken people from the scroll-trance hallucination provided by social media and AI manipulating each one of our lives, as follows:
“Plug me in, I’m a slave to the screen / Scroll through the filth, dopamine machine / A thousand voices, none of them are mine / I’m rotting inside, but I’m doing fine”.
Too bad that most of the fans didn’t get it and were filming the full set with their damn mobiles. Yeah, I did a little camera capture for my Instagram profile too. Hey, don’t judge me, I am only human, so to speak.
The show was all about a cathartic experience for me, while the audience around went nuts when the band played the hits from Hocico’s respectable discography, such as “Bite Me!”, “Psychonaut”, “Poltergeist”, “Ecos” and “Bienvenido a la maldad”. There was also room to play a cover of Industrial Metal’s finest, Ministry, with their song “N.W.O.”.
Of course, I love most of the Dark Industrial bands from Germany, but Hocico holds a powerful darker secret behind them that no German band could have — Erk and Racso are from Mexico City and right now they are possessed by ancient Amerindian beliefs and rituals, such as “Día de los Muertos”. Which — quoting Gemini — “It’s a joyful and colorful celebration. Popular belief has it that, on these dates, portals open up and the souls of deceased loved ones are given divine permission to return to the living world to visit their families.”
I am sure that “Día de los Muertos” must be a unique and rare moment to be part of. And what we witnessed tonight was a piece of Latin American culture — at full Harsh Industrial speed.
SET LIST:
Intro
The Screen
Bite Me! (Clássico confirmado)
Psychonaut
Tales From the Third World
Poltergeist (Clássico confirmado)
Dead Trust
Bienvenido a la maldad
Ecos
Fed Up
N.W.O.
Brainrot
Forgotten Tears (Clássico confirmado)
Tiempos de Furia
Sexo bajo testosterona
Traitors
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