Profecías

In La Biblia —second album by Vox Dei— there is a song that cuts like a knife: Profecías. At just two minutes and seventeen seconds, the track stands in the middle of the album like a moment of pure tension, where the guitar and drums intertwine in a rhythm that seems to breathe backward. It is not the longest or most celebrated song on the album, but it has something that makes it unforgettable: that air of warning that lingers from the first chord, as if each note were forewarning something that is about to happen.

The project was born in the autumn of 1970, when Vox Dei was still searching for its sound in the circuits of Buenos Aires. La Biblia was recorded in less time than a typical summer in Argentina, and it was released on March 15, 1971, under the Disc Jockey label. The album was produced by Jorge Álvarez, a man who at the time understood better than anyone how to sound raw without losing depth. Profecías was not the star single —that role belonged to Génesis or Libros Sapienciales— but over the years it became a key fragment of Argentine rock, to the point that in 2007 Rolling Stone magazine included it among the 100 best albums of the genre in the country. The album debuted with four performances at the Teatro Presidente Alvear and then went on to tour Argentina in a journey that, unintentionally, ended up defining part of the future of national rock.