By the time Los Pinochet Boys formed in Santiago, Chile, in 1984, the band’s teenage members had already spent a decade living under the brutal dictator-ship of Augusto Pinochet. You’d hear of their gigs only through word of mouth; their name alone meant they were under constant threat.
“Those were extremely dark times,” says Daniel Puente Encina, the band’s bassist and vocalist. “The fear of being detained or tortured to death was always present.”
He remembers their clandestine gigs as a “symphony of chaos and violence” – the band never finished a complete set as they were always interrupted by the police.
