Hocico expand ‘Hey Tú!’ collaboration with Prayers into full 4-track EP
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‘Mexican electro-industrial duo Hocico release the 4-track EP “Hey Tú!” via Out Of Line Music, expanding their collaboration with Mexican-American cholo goth project Prayers into a full single package with new remixes and limited physical editions.
The title track “Hey Tú!” first appeared as a standalone digital single on 10 October 2025 running just over four minutes. The new EP collects four versions: the original collaboration with Rafael Reyes (Prayers), Hocico’s own “Cómete tu Mierda H-RMX”, the club-oriented “Frank Spector Remix”, and the “90’s Ibiza Summer Mix by Feindflug”.
The EP appears digitally and in two physical configurations on Out Of Line Music. A limited Minimax picture CD collects all four versions, while a 7″ picture vinyl combines “Hey Tú!” on side A with “Hey Tú! (Cómete tu Mierda H-RMX)” on side B.
With "Hey Tú!", Hocico unleash one of their most ferocious collaborations to date: joining forces with Rafael Reyes of Prayers, the Industrial-Electro pioneers deliver a blistering, bilingual anthem of betrayal, rage and reclamation. It’s a meeting of two outspoken Mexican voices who’ve built careers on raw honesty and fearless self-expression - and together, they set the world on fire…
"Hey Tú!" is available on Limited 7” Picture Vinyl and Limited Minimax Picture CD.
Musically, "Hey Tú!" is fast-paced, aggressive, and impossible not to move to. Anchored by Hocico’s signature industrial venom and spiked with jagged Electronic Body Music-infused beats, the track channels a violent energy that’s both physical and emotional. But it’s the fusion of Erk Aicrag’s relentless fury and Rafael Reyes’ snarling defiance that takes the song to another level.
The lyrics are unapologetically confrontational. In English and Spanish, "Hey Tú!" tears into betrayal and false mysticism with venomous clarity. From lines like “You’re a poser, you’re a loser, you’re a fucking fake” to “Soy el infierno que viene por más,” the song leaves no room for ambiguity, this is war poetry for a digital generation, seething with personal truth and unfiltered rage. It calls out hypocrisy, mocks victimhood as a weapon, and reclaims power with every screamed verse.
The song’s chorus, “Hey tú! come mierda,” becomes a scorched-earth chant, embodying the kind of cathartic release only music this raw can offer. And as Reyes declares, “Without me, your name carries no fucking weight,” the message is clear: this is about legacy, betrayal, and the unshakable confidence of those who have earned their scars.
"Hey Tú!" is a sonic middle finger to imposters, opportunists and spiritual pretenders. It’s Hocico and Prayers at their most visceral, united in rage and rhythm, and undeniably powerful.
Hocico is a Mexico City electro-industrial and aggrotech duo formed in 1993 by cousins Erik García (Erk Aicrag) on vocals and lyrics and Oscar Mayorga (Racso Agroyam) on programming and synthesizers. Before adopting the name Hocico, they worked together in projects such as Niñera Degenerada and Hocico de Perro and issued several cassette releases in the first half of the 1990s.
The duo released its debut album “Odio Bajo El Alma” in 1997 on Mexican label Opción Sónica, with European distribution handled by Out Of Line Music.
During the 2000s and early 2010s, Hocico released a sequence of full-lengths including “Signos de Aberración” (2002), “Wrack and Ruin” (2004), “Memorias Atrás” (2008), “Tiempos de Furia” (2010) and “El Último Minuto (Antes de que Tu Mundo Caiga)” (2012). A 2013 retrospective followed “Los Días Caminando En El Fuego” marking two decades of activity.
The mid-2010s saw the EP “In The Name Of Violence” and the album “Ofensor”, alongside the EP “Forgotten Tears”.
In 2019, Hocico issued the album “Artificial Extinction”, again via Out Of Line followed by the 2022 full-length “HyperViolent”.
From 2023 onward, the duo released new singles and EPs including “A Symphony Of Rage”, the 2025 four-track EP “The Screen”, and the digital single “Brainrot”, integrating these into an ongoing touring schedule. Erk Aicrag also parallelly worked as Rabia Sorda and collaborations such as the joint single “Obscured” with Blutengel and remix and guest roles with other acts.
In 2025, Hocico’s activities concluded with the “The Screen” EP, the single “Hey Tú!” with Prayers, a remix contribution to Till Lindemann’s “Und die Engel singen”, and now an extended “Hey Tú!” EP.
