ANDREAS KISSER Wants To Jam With 'SEPULTURA' Kids In Argentina

Marcela Valente of IPS News has published a lengthy article on the three Argentinian brothers whose rendition of the SEPULTURA classic "Refuse/Resist" was used by BLABBERMOUTH.NET in a spoof news story about a SEPULTURA reunion. An excerpt from the article follows:

Three brothers in the north of Argentina who are into heavy metal decided to upload on the Internet some music videos filmed in their bedroom — never imagining that only 15 days later their music would be in demand by millions of people, and they would be showered with proposals.

"They never studied music," Miriam Fernández, mother of Emilio, 15, Agustín, 11, and Martín, 10, who live in the northwestern province of Salta, told IPS.

They "learned to play on a Spanish guitar, which they finally broke in pieces because they would drop it, and they'd use it to hit each other when they were fighting," the woman said, stunned by the reception of the videos.

Now they have a drum set their father obtained in exchange for a computer, a second-hand electric guitar and a bass guitar lent to them by a friend. With these instruments, and a passion for music no doubt nurtured by their parents, the lads hopped on to the Internet and caused a sensation.

Their instant success was made possible thanks to the portal YouTube, the largest video distributor over the worldwide web, bought up by Google this month for 1.6 billion dollars.

YouTube allows anybody, all over the world, to broadcast their animation, music, and sports videos for free, or films of political discussions or groups of friends, and it also registers the number of visits and publishes the comments received.

In just two weeks, one of the videos of the band playing a song by the Brazilian group SEPULTURA was watched by more than 1.4 million people, and on Oct. 24 it was the most downloaded video of any category.

Another of their videos came in third place on the net, a third came in fourth place, and others took eighth, twelfth, fourteenth and sixteenth places. Total visits added up to four million.

Now Andreas Kisser, the lead guitarist of SEPULTURA, says he wants to come to Argentina to play with the boys from Salta, whose band doesn't even have a name. This week Jorge tried to register it as "GAUCHOS SALTA", which is how it was identified on Internet, but someone had got there before him and he was unable to do so.

Read the rest of the article at www.ipsnews.net.