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PUNK IS SHAKING DOWN COLOMBIA WAY: An Interview With ALKOHOLEMIA

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With Jane Pistol NEW ALBUM: 'Buscando Provocar Jane Pistol: ​Is Alkoholemia more of a punk band or metal or a combination? ALKOHOLEMIA: That’s tough to accurately answer, some might say one thing or the other….we feel we’re not just simply plain punk since we include the whole variety of our different influences...we’re brutally different, actually….so there goes the “recipe”....we don’t necessarily need a genre tag, we know we have punk vibe, though….and when it comes to metal, in our case it’s a bit more precise to refer to hard rock, rather than metal itself... JP: Lyrically your songs seem to convey a message at times. How much of the song-writing is based on personal experiences and social and political things? ALKOHOLEMIA: Since the lyrics writing process is really spontaneous and not methodically established as a series of steps, there’s plenty of issues to deal with in the lyrics...some refer to our local, national everyday reality, one or two deal with polit