Hocico is a Mexican dark electro band, commonly placed in the aggrotech sub… Read Full Bio ↴Hocico is a Mexican dark electro band, commonly placed in the aggrotech subgenre. The band was officially formed in Mexico City, Mexico in 1993 by Erk Aicrag (lyrics & vocals) and Racso Agroyam (programming), but both cousins had been making electronic music since they were fifteen years old. The names are anagrams of the real names Erik Garcia and Oscar Mayorga.

Their music can be described as dark and aggressive electronica or more specifically as aggrotech. The lyrics are commonly in English, however, they are sometimes in Spanish.

Their logo is a six legged spider with an H on its back.

The Spanish word Hocico (pronounced "Oseeko") means snout and is a derogatory term that indicates ugliness (i.e., ugly as a dog's snout).

Racso Agroyam has a side project called Dulce Liquido.
Erk Aicrag's solo project is called Rabia Sorda.

Face To Face
Hocico Lyrics

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Accelerated dream
that deafens me
when it crashes in my ear
it's an incessant calling
screaming out the way I
should be living.

Live thoughts are exploding

in my brain, I see inside a great hollow
if I could ever end that life

I would do it, it's not a lie.

Hypocrisy is the beast that is hunting you
when you're gonna realize
it drives you finally to feel
aversion of the skin.

Distorting my mind
they hate me for my skin
though they want me to stop
I'll keep on being.

I can't change my instincts,
I create my faith
I defy your intentions face to face
my existence offends your trivial hate
I defy your intentions face to face.

Face to face, I have no fear

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Hocico's song Face to Face describe a person who is feeling overwhelmed and deafened by the constant calling to live a certain way. The accelerated dream is incessantly calling out the way they should be living, and this constant pressure is causing the person to have exploding thoughts in their brain. They can see inside a great hollow and if they could ever end that life, they would do it.

The song talks about the hypocrisy of society and how it is hunting the person. The constant pressure is driving the person to feel aversion to their skin. The person feels like they are being hated for their skin, but they are not going to stop being who they are. They can't change their instincts, and they create their own faith. The person defies the intentions of society face to face, and their existence offends the trivial hate present in society.

The song highlights the struggles some individuals go through when they feel like they don't fit into society's expectations of them. The person in the song is determined to continue being who they are, despite the pressure to conform. They decry the superficiality of society's expectations and choose to defy those expectations.

Line by Line Meaning

Accelerated dream
A dream that comes on too strong.

that deafens me
It's too intense and overwhelming.

when it crashes in my ear
It hits me too hard, too fast.

it's an incessant calling
A constant pressure to conform and live a certain way.

screaming out the way I should be living.
Telling me how I should behave and exist.

Live thoughts are exploding
My thoughts are so intense they feel like they're exploding.

in my brain, I see inside a great hollow
I'm able to see into the emptiness of my own mind.

if I could ever end that life
If I could end the pressure and expectations that come with living.

I would do it, it's not a lie.
I would do it, I'm not just saying it for effect.

Hypocrisy is the beast that is hunting you
Hypocrisy is stalking and attacking you.

when you're gonna realize
When will you finally come to understand?