From the city of La Plata to the seal Laptraof the Pure Life from Diagonal 78 to the Luna Park from Corrientes and Alem, He Killed a Motor Police Officer He charted his own route and wrote a new epic to give other winds to Argentine rock culture. On Sunday, in Movistar Arenathe quintet added another medal, filling the largest covered venue in the entire AMBA area, a true unit of measurement to measure its authentic standard of convocation.
And he did it after debuting last year at El Palacio de los Deportes, where in November he had scored a double with the purpose of presenting super horror, their latest album. Thereafter, tours in the United States and Europe, two awards Gardel (for “Best Rock Album” of 2023 and also for “Best Rock Song” 2023 for “Gold Medal”) and the opportunity to continue showing their new releases and not so much in the complex in the Villa Crespo neighborhood.
Minutes after 9 p.m., and before a capacity packed with around 15 thousand people, He killed came out to give another level of popularity to a scene indie which they themselves lead as an advance in times in which rock—at least in Argentina—continues to lodge in the hearts of large audiences. Because there will always be room for good songs and beautiful poems.
The very brief “Magnetism” (from The Scorpio Dynasty2012) served as the beginning to give rise to the first review of super horror from the hand of “A second plan”. Then came the turn of “The Eternal Night”, one of the most endearing passages of The O’Konor Synthesis (2017). Between those three albums, almost the entire repertoire of the evening was concentrated in the Movistar Arena.
“Are you having a good time?” asked Santiago Motorizado in one of his few brief speeches. It was after making “More or less well,” a song that serves well as a summary of the band’s journey if it is complemented with the title “So many good things,” from the recent super horror. The boys are doing well after 21 years of an unchanged lineup with guitarists Manuel Sánchez Viamonte (Pantro Putö) and Gustavo Monsalvo (Elephant Child), drummer Guillermo Ruiz Diaz (Doctora Muerte) and keyboardist Agustín Spassoff (Afloyd). “Now we are new creators of rock and roll, calm down, everything is going to be more or less fine,” had been the admonition of the singer and bassist in that 2012 composition.
In between, his audience tried on various occasions to spread songs about the political situation. First it was with “he who doesn’t jump voted for Milei”, which was short-lived, as the band gave rein almost instantly to “Coronado”, from their latest album. Closer to the end, and when the singer had returned to the stage alone to do the first of the encores (“El Universo”, also from the brand new album), what was heard was a more thunderous “la patria no se vende” followed by of “Milei, trash, you are the dictatorship”, in the background while Santiago Motorizado began to sing. In the middle, yes, the only relatively sustained and uninterrupted chant. Without public declamations, the band had enabled the collective The Powerful Throat so that it could receive donations for soup kitchens.
“The treasure” recovered in the Movistar the hitero pulse of He killed, which incubated in it perhaps the last great popular song of Argentine rock in the past twelve years (or is there another since then that has reached more mass?). Something similar happened with “Golden Girl”, the ode inspired by Jenny from the trilogy Back to the Future.
For the end, “My next move”, from the EP Day of the Dead from 2008, a rescue of the band’s early years like “Christmas of the Saints” and “Saturday”. “Thank you for this unforgettable night,” Santiago closed, letting the songs speak for them.
