Dare to step into the underworld of ancient Mexico? “Lugar De Los Descarnados” invites you on a dramatic trek through Mictlán, the Aztec realm of the dead. The narrator, stripped of his earthly body, wanders a pitch-black landscape until he meets Mictlantecuhtli, the fearsome death-god who offers to guide him. As obsidian skies glow with “black suns,” conch shells echo and jade tributes shimmer, the song paints a vivid picture of a muddy, bone-littered paradise where darkness and death reign—but without regret or fear, only awe.
Cemican blend thrashing guitars with pre-Hispanic instruments to retell this mythic journey, reminding us that in Aztec belief light and darkness take turns. By the end, the repeated question “¿Acaso estoy en el lugar de los descarnados?” (“Am I in the place of the fleshless?”) leaves us pondering our own mortality while head-banging to a soundtrack that feels both ancient and electrifying.