Since issuing their first full-length in 2004, Los Buitres de Culiacan built a massive following through their raw alterna movimiento take on norteño, blending pointed narcocorridos with candid, frequently racy ballads about romance. Formed in the early 2000s in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, the four-piece—singer and accordionist Eduardo Sánchez Reyes, guitarist Eulogio Jesus Sosa, bassist Juan Carlos Ochoa, and percussionist Luis Gerardo Sanchez—started performing for neighborhood peers before moving on to local events such as weddings and birthdays and eventually club stages. Culiacan’s crowded music circuit spreads news of promising acts quickly. Beginning with Que Role la Bolsita and Solo Para Mi in 2004, followed by Corazon Rebelde the next year, the group put out multiple recordings in quick succession. Producers Adolfo & Omar “Los Cuates” Valenzuela, known as the Twins, brought them to Universal Latino and oversaw Palabra de Acero. Packed with bold narcocorridos delivered in a confident norteño manner and offset by a pair of slower tracks, the album connected immediately. Steady road work translated into both chart traction and the live sets En Vivo Fiesta del Cachetes and En Vivo en Culiacan. In 2008 the band delivered El Rey los Vicios and No Tengas Miedo, the latter featuring the hit single “Las Ladies Mafia.”
Their appearances in Southern California ignited strong local and radio response, prompting the live collection Me Muero de Ganas drawn from earlier material. Cero Miedo appeared in 2009. The 2010 release Asociacion Antrax contained the popular track “Corazon Polito” alongside underground cuts like “Demonios Empecherados,” “Sexo en la Troca,” and the rallying “Los Nuevos Terroristas.” The group also joined El Komander (Alfredo Rios) for the successful single “Corrido Tamrindo” and issued the additional albums Corazón de Pollito and Los Buitres con Tololoche. Audience interest led to a 2011 reissue of Que Role la Bolsita alongside the fresh Armandos Hasta el Tronco. Breaking from their usual path, Los Buitres recorded a set of songs by the late narcocorrido artist and writer Chalino Sanchez titled Tributo al Mas Grande Chalino Sanches: Lo Mejor de Ayer, Hoy y Siempre, which featured the hit “Gallo de Sinaloa.”
They returned to original material in 2013. January saw the advance single “Borracho de Amor,” March brought the album Simplemente Buitres, August introduced the concert recording En Vivo Desde Culiacan, Vol. 2, and the strong-charting preview track “Mejor Soltero” (plus its accompanying video) paved the way for Territorio Buitres, which arrived in January 2014.
