Chúpame El Dedo

Chúpame El Dedo is a project joining the Colombian groups Meridian Brothers and Romperayo, staged at Strongroom, a Shoreditch venue that mainly hosts pop, rock and indie concerts. The night is an electronic show.

Chúpame El Dedo is a collaboration between two Colombian groups, Meridian Brothers and Romperayo, with Eblis Alvarez and Pedro Ojeda taking part for each band. The project began in 2013 as a one-off performance commissioned by the House of World Cultures in Berlin for its Evil Music festival, with the aim of pairing death metal with tropical rhythms. The result is an electronic blend in which distorted vocals and metal textures sit alongside salsa, cumbia, currulao and reggaeton rhythm sections, with occasional gabberhouse-like passages.

The group continued after that first performance. Its debut album appeared in 2016 on Discrepant Records, and the second, No Te Metas Con Satan, followed in spring 2019 on Souk, a sublabel of Discrepant. A European tour that year included dates at Tremor in the Azores and Alice in Denmark. The single Mi Rehabilitacion/No Seas Malo came out on Bongo Joe Records in 2023, and the act has played Roskilde Festival, Bad Bonn Kilbi and KlikoFest.

The night takes place at Strongroom, a Shoreditch venue whose programme centres on concerts in pop, rock and indie. The project will appeal to listeners interested in crossovers between extreme metal and Latin rhythms.