Don’t have a cow.
A metal band with alleged ties to neo-Nazis splattered the exterior of a New York City bar with cow’s blood at a performance last week after duping the venue into allowing them to perform, according to the establishment’s management.
“I exit[ed] the place from the back door and I see like the blood on the floor — a lot of blood on the floor,” recalled Roger Torres, a manager at Tulum Night Club in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where black metal band Volahn played Jan. 26.
“So I say, ‘what happened? Somebody fighting?’ I asked the security guys and they tell me, ‘No, nobody fight,’” Torres, 54, added. “Later, we see a gallon of [beef] blood.”
Volahn – helmed by controversial Southern California-based musician Eduardo Ramirez – managed to snag a last-minute booking at the Sunset Park venue, Torres recalled, after online backlash led to Ramirez’s other Big Apple shows at Juan Bar in Corona and Trans-Pecos in Ridgewood being cancelled just weeks before.
Ramirez has opened for the Nazi-affiliated band Inquisition and previously led other groups with swastika-like logos, such as Blue Hummingbird on the Left, according to reports.
“On that day, we didn’t have anything,” Bravo said of the booking. “A day before [the show] they call us … And, you know, they were looking for a spot. They offered us a deal.”
The Tulum show was not advertised online, and flyers for the show told fans the venue was “TBA.”
Flyers say the performance was hosted by Metal Kingdom Records, a record store in Corona.
Ramirez has been pictured with the co-founder of Wolves of Vineland, dubbed a “Neo-Volkisch hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The musician was also spotted sporting band tees of the “infamous Nazi band Graveland,” per a compendium of hate bands by German metal fest Hellseatic.
Ramirez also played Oakland’s Never Surrender festival, which local activists dubbed a “Nazi fest” during protests to shut the event down in 2019, according to KQED.
“It really upsets me,” Bravo said of the band’s alleged hateful ties. “I mean, if I did know that they were doing that kind of threats, that kind of lyrics, we definitely would cancel that last minute, too.”
Requests for comment from Volahn and Ramirez were not returned.
The managers of the 600-person capacity Tulum, which opened last year, told The Post Volahn’s show was attended by less than 100 people, and ran from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Social media photos of the show – which also featured performances from Blue Hummingbird on the Left and Nexul – show musicians who appeared to be drenched in blood, ostensibly matching the liquid found in a gallon container of “edible beef blood” management found in the venue’s green room the next day.
“So one guy with the red face, I was thinking maybe he used that blood to cover his face,” Bravo said.
“One guy was on the stage … I see his body with a lot of blood,” Torres added. “Right now, [I feel] something like scared. Because I don’t know — what is the purpose? Some bands believe in bad things. It’s not normal.”
Outside the band room’s side entrance, which opens to the corner of Second Avenue and 42nd Street, two separate large pools of coagulated dark-red blood remained on Thursday evening, frozen to the sidewalk.
“We don’t have any information on this specific incident, but we hope that anyone who is appalled by this will think about it when they sit down to eat and will choose a vegan meal,” a rep for PETA told The Post.
Beef blood is used in cooking and sold as a byproduct – including at some local Brooklyn butchers. But the venue’s managers say they would’ve opposed the gory display whether it was real animal blood or not.
“It’s like when you went to a different house and you leave garbage, or [other] things, in the house you were invited to,” Bravo said.
Tulum’s managers told The Post they intend to be more vigilant with bookings in the future, including for shows featuring bands they’re unfamiliar with.
“We will try to be more organized from now on. And it was a very slow month for our venue,” Bravo added.
“We want to be more careful on what kind of promoters we let come into our establishment.”
