Consequence of Energy
Diego Sagredo
By: Lori Smerilson Carson
What do you get when you combine five experienced, exceptionally talented musicians to form a band? Chilean rock band CONSEQUENCE OF ENERGY, and Florida music lovers can look forward to their debut album We Are One which will be released in January 2026.
Catching up with Guitarist Diego Sagredo, he revealed some details about the debut album that he and bandmates Vocalist Michael Bianchi, Guitarist Roli Cortes, Bassist Pedro Javier and Drummer Amaru López Campbell will be releasing on Los Lobos Records. He also divulged some particulars regarding the band’s outlook on their music, as well as what fans can look forward to.
SFL Music Magazine: I was listening to your single “Freedom”. It’s an awesome song! What would you say inspired it? In your bio, the band states that it’s a mirror of society, about global issues?
Diego Sagredo: Right. We as Consequence of Energy, we are from Chile. So, even though I’m from Ecuador and the singer is from State, we all gathered there and when we started writing this song, we had all these weird feeling about it. Like how society is. Even though you have resources and stuff, you don’t have resources. We live in a society, and we are kind of stuck. Freedom is kind of not real even though what happens, will this affect you? It’s a reflection of even though we’re inspired to have freedom, we are not getting there yet. So, it talks about that. It’s our inner reflection of what are we doing to change our realities or societies and all this kind of stuff.
SFL Music Magazine: The vocals and the hard rock riffs are great! What made you decide to become a musician? A guitarist?
Sagredo: Well, I’ve been playing for many years. This is my, I don’t know, fifth band I have. So, I’ve been playing forever. When I was young, my family always was surrounded by music. My mother had a guitar. My dad teach me how to play. Since I’m a kid, I’ve been playing all my life. I had another project before this that I used to extensively tour the States and Europe, and that band was going well, but we had problems with our management and label, so we didn’t continue with that project. So, that created this idea to create this new project where we can express completely with our whole vision. We built this cool studio in Chile near a beach called Pichilemu that’s a surfer beach where we started the project and we hang out there.
SFL Music Magazine: So, that is basically how Consequence of Energy started?
Sagredo: Yeah.
SFL Music Magazine: Will you all be touring?
Sagredo: Right now, we are promoting the album. So, we are releasing the first two singles “Freedom” and “Into the Void”. We also released a track called “We Are One”. We are releasing different singles this year, and they will release the whole album in January. It’s a twelve-track album called We Are One produced by Garth Richardson who also worked with Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers. All the engineering by Dean Maher who worked with AC/DC and Bryan Adams. Like, all the cool people. Mixed by Dave Schiffman who worked with System of a Down and Audioslave and stuff like that and mastered by Howie Weinberg who was the master for Garbage, Nirvana, Slayer, Beastie Boys and others. So, yeah, it’s a great sounding album that we are trying to promote right now from Chile to the world (he laughed). It’s raw. We have a lot of influences from North American music, European music. I love Tool. I love Def Tones and older stuff like Faith No More, System of a Down, Led Zeppelin. All that stuff. What we are trying to add is to bring that vibe from the nineties and the two thousands but incorporate all the ancestral knowledge from South America. I’m a conservationist. I work in environmental action, so I work with a lot of clients in Ecuador, that’s my home country, and Colombia. There’s a lot of problems with environmental agents with the Amazon, so we are trying to save as much as we can. We have a little corporation where we have different reserves where we work with the different ancestral groups. In those trips and in that time, I’ve been able to learn about the flutes that they use, the tribal drumming, the chanting. So, we incorporate a lot of that in the album too like the sounds of the rain, of the frogs, stuff like that. I think that’s what we are adding even though we work with a lot of hard-core influence or new metal stuff. We have like all this deepness edge and reflection in the lyrics, and in the spirit of the band.
SFL Music Magazine: Would you say that is what inspired the album?
Sagredo: Yeah. That’s why it’s called We Are One because it’s like we are one. Like a species, ourselves as the lyric says, “we all need the sun. We all bleed.” It’s simple but deep. This album is like a central album, so we talk about the duality and all the opposites of your life. It’s a journey of your life.
ScreenshotSFL Music Magazine: You said you’re a conservationist. Is there an organization that you all promote for fans to know about?
Sagredo: Well, in Colombia, we work in a reserve called Auka-Wasi. It’s a hundred and fifty thousand acres of Amazon Jungle. We’ve been trying to raise awareness. It wasn’t working with our organization. So, the year 2021, it was one of the producers of environmental march in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP26. We gathered around two hundred and fifty thousand people. So, we had been putting all those subjects in the table. At that time, we were working with Greta Thunberg, all these people. Even though they are not my friends, we have some ambitions in common, some differences too. We invited one of our Chilean friends Anita Tijoux to do some concert there. So, we did a big concert with her. We were doing all these bands, and march and protesting, but not protesting because yes, we have hypothesis to how we’re going to take care of our world, like our nature. That’s the thing.
SFL Music Magazine: Are there any new videos coming out besides “Freedom”?
Sagredo: We just released our first single. Even though we are in the band, we are all trained musicians. We have all been playing around for twenty years, something like that from the South American scene. I was touring the States the year 2015. I did sixty-three concerts in the States, stuff like that. We all did stuff like that. Right now, what we are doing is releasing our first single “Freedom” with the video that’s out there, and we have two lyric videos and two live videos where you can see our shows live. Also, we just released our second single called “Into the Void” and we are releasing the new video next week. It’s a really cool video. They have a lot of realistic and dark stuff in the backfill you’ll see in the forest which is kind of cool. The third is called “We Are One”. That’s more like an intro for the album. After that, we are releasing the fourth single called “Searching for Life”. That one also comes with a video. So, we are preparing everything to release the album, January 2026. We are doing some shows down here in South America first. We are playing Lollapalooza Chile with Deftones, Turnstile and other cool names. We are super excited about that, Also, we are doing the surf festival. We are doing two of those and we are booking other festivals for the summer here, that’s your winter (he laughed). So, when we finish our summer here, our idea is to do some in our winter, your summer, we are expecting to go to Germany and England and hopefully Canada. I love Canada. I used to live in Vancouver.
SFL Music Magazine: Any plans on coming to the States or Florida in particular?
Sagredo: We want to. I would love to go. Our last tour in the States was awesome. We did from Los Angeles to New York. I played the new Webster Hall in New York. It was cool. I really hope to go to the States soon though.
SFL Music Magazine: Was there anything else you want to add?
Sagredo: Yeah, go hear our songs in Spotify. They’re cool (he laughed). I love this album. I think for me, it’s a really good thing and I’m super proud about it.
