Three cracked plugins, one rehearsal room, and a Patagonian goregrind debut

Genre: Goregrind / D-beat / Doom / Punk · Origin: Neuquén, Argentina · Released: June 23, 2026 · Price: Name your price (free)

The album notes read: "Todo 100% DIY. 100% Reaper. 100% Plugins crackeados (gracias Petris)." 1 That translates to: 100% DIY, 100% REAPER, 100% cracked plugins (thanks, Petris). It's a thank-you note and a confession at once, and it tells you everything you need to know about what you're about to hear before a single track plays.

SÏN-TURÖNGA is a three-piece from Neuquén, a city of around 400,000 people in the Argentine Patagonia region, pressed between the Andes foothills and the Patagonian steppe. 2 The band — Facundo Torino on vocals, Tobias Rodríguez on drums and backing vocals, Ignacio Seibt on guitar — dropped their debut demo today, June 23, 2026. No label. No prior releases. Name your price. 1

The Argentine extreme metal underground tends to concentrate in Buenos Aires and Córdoba, where there's a denser live circuit and more cross-pollination with neighboring scenes. Neuquén is a provincial capital with a history tied to oil extraction and hydroelectric infrastructure — not a city that usually surfaces in conversations about goregrind. That geographic remove from the country's main cultural poles doesn't show up in the music as provincialism. It shows up as no-compromise isolation.

The band describes themselves as "un power trio de Goregrind, D-Beat, Doom y Punk formado en Neuquén, Argentina." 2 They list their primary influences as Discharge (British hardcore punk architects), Brujería (Mexican-American goregrind, widely respected across Latin America), Regurgitate (Swedish goregrind), and Last Days of Humanity (Dutch goregrind, explicitly called out as the primary reference). 1 That's a lineage that runs from UK anarcho-punk through the most extreme end of death metal-adjacent grindcore. Covering that ground in 15 minutes across 12 tracks is exactly the goregrind way.

The production approach was dictated by what was available: three microphones placed on the drum kit (overhead, kick, and a shared snare/hi-hat mic), single takes on guitar and vocals, mixed entirely in REAPER with cracked plugins. 1 Recording and mixing credit goes to Tobias Rodríguez, who also played drums. The cover art is by Facundo Torino; the logo by someone credited only as Anti Cache.

This is worth sitting with, because the single-take approach for guitar and vocals is not a budget shortcut — or not only that. In goregrind and D-beat, a single raw take is often a deliberate aesthetic choice. The technical vocabulary of the genre was built on rehearsal recordings and cheap studio time, and bands like Last Days of Humanity released material that sounded intentionally hostile to hi-fi production. When SÏN-TURÖNGA documents their method this explicitly, they're positioning the demo within that tradition rather than apologizing for it.

The 12 tracks range from 0:44 to 2:07 in length. 1 Total runtime sits around 15 minutes. Titles lean into the genre's characteristic mix of body horror, nihilism, and black humor — and the liner notes include a disclaimer that none of the lyrics should be taken seriously ("NO TOMAR EN SERIO NINGUNA DE ESTAS LETRAS"). 1 The band also drops this: "NO HAY OBRA MAS MACABRA QUE LA REPRIMIDA." That translates to "There is no work more macabre than the repressed one." Whether that's philosophy or a throwaway line is up to you.

REAPER is a digital audio workstation with a reputation in exactly this context: it's cheap, lean enough to run on modest hardware, and widely used in underground recording scenes across Latin America and Eastern Europe where the major DAWs are out of financial reach. The cracked plugins acknowledgment is honest to a production reality that most DIY bands quietly share but rarely document in the liner notes. 1

Tobias Rodríguez handling both drums and the mixing desk is a common arrangement in resource-constrained bands — the drummer knows the drum sound best, and having the same person track and mix keeps the workflow from fragmenting. The result in goregrind is typically a record where the drums have more character than the guitars, because the guitars are distorted into texture anyway.

Listen if: You follow the Last Days of Humanity / Regurgitate / Discharge lineage, or you're curious about what the goregrind underground looks like outside of its European strongholds. The explicit production documentation makes this a rare artifact in a genre where most bands just let the recording speak for itself without explaining how it was made.

Skip if: 15 minutes of sub-two-minute tracks with blown-out DIY audio is not a thing you have use for right now. The record commits fully to the form with no concessions toward accessibility.

The detail that matters: There's a second note buried in the credits: "Gracias Petris" — a thank-you to whoever Petris is, the person who presumably shared the plugin library. That acknowledgment of a specific human in the underground support network is more interesting than most band thank-you pages. 1 Someone in Neuquén passed along a folder, and this demo exists because of it.

→ Stream or download demo by SÏN-TURÖNGA on Bandcamp — name your price (free), 24-bit/44.1kHz digital download. Released June 23, 2026.