Tierra Krieg’s Operation Condor is a chronological, heavy-metal concept album tracing U.S. political and economic intervention across Latin America—from early “banana republic” gunboat diplomacy and Cold War coups to the transnational terror of the 1970s and the IMF-era shock doctrines that followed. Across the journey you’ll hear echoes of Guatemala ’54, Cuba’s long standoff, Brazil ’64, Chile ’73, Argentina ’76 (and the wider Condor network), Nicaragua and El Salvador in the ’80s, and the early-2000s street uprisings—told as a people’s history of resistance and survival.

The sound is a new hybrid we call Spy Metal: haunting, tense, and covert. Every country is presented in paired tracks—first from the U.S. government perspective (cold, mechanical, industrial-leaning riffs reflecting the military-industrial complex), then from the local perspective (melodic, haunting arrangements with regional instruments and Spanish refrains). Expect spoken-word radio snippets, protest chants, and intimate voices of civilians caught between juntas and proxy wars—all set against thunderous drums, razor guitars, and cinematic atmospheres.