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Podcast: Dreams of Consciousness
Episode: 229: Las Cruces
Description: Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 229 features an interview with Mando Tovar of Las Cruces.
Hailing from San Antonio, TX, Las Cruces are metal lifers who have weathered line-up shuffles and music industry tumult since they emerged in the mid-Nineties. Since their inception, they've represented a style of "true doom" that has one foot in early Black Sabbath and another in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
I spoke with guitarist Mando Tovar about why the early Las Cruces albums made him decide he had to join the band, and how their late drummer Paul Deleon took over vocal duties...