The winning group of 21st Music Award The winner from the University of La Laguna will be announced at the end of the festival ULL Rock, The competition will be held tomorrow, Friday, October 16th at 8:30 pm at the Espacio Aguere Cultural. The five finalist bands are: Now you're screwed., Gunpowder, Mutable, Revenge and Desire y Vergil Must Die, They will each have 20 minutes to present their live performance. While the jury deliberates, last year's winner will take the stage., Change. Entry will be free until capacity is reached.
These finalists have been selected from the works submitted to the competition, and it will be their live performance that determines the decision of the jury, which is chaired by the musicologist and professor of the Department of Art History and Philosophy Sara Arenillas Meléndez, and made up of Cristina Ruiz Hernández, singer of the group Las Ratas and music producer; David Álvarez, writing partner of Lagenda, musician and cultural manager; and, as secretary, Beatriz Martín de la Rosa, cultural manager of the Vice-Rectorate of Culture and University Extension.
The prize is €1,400 for the winning band and €600 for the runner-up. Groups or individual performers residing in the Canary Islands, working in any musical style (rock, pop, urban, folk, jazz, electronic, etc.), are eligible to participate, provided they have no affiliation with the organizing Vice-Rectorate or the jury. Performances will be judged on the quality of the performance, original and unpublished compositions, creativity and originality, and stage presence.
Participants
Ahora Te Jodes was born from friendship and the first songs in high school, and defines itself as an indie-rock group that combines sensitivity with anger, the everyday with the profound and the experiences of each one through music that seeks to connect, without filters, with those who feel the same.
Gunpowder is a hard rock/metal band inspired by groups like Poison, Jackyl, Warrant, and Airbourne, founded in 2023 by Rodrigo Labarra, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter, and his brother Mateo, drummer and backing vocalist. Later, second guitarist Carlos Gómez and bassist Bruno Sarli joined the band. They performed at the 2025 edition of ULL Rock.
Mutable is a duo formed by Iñaki Allende (guitar and bass) and Tiago Braúna (drums and percussion) born from the need to express concerns, and at the same time, explore music from an experimental perspective, focused on instrumentation, arrangements, irregular meters, rhythms from different cultural roots, and their own influences.
Revenge and Desire is a “groove metal” band originally from Tenerife and active since 2020 with performances at various festivals and venues in the islands, and in August they presented their latest single, “Faces”.
Vergil must die is a musical project from Tenerife that fuses industrial metal, dark trap and a dark visual aesthetic, combining the distortion and power of contemporary metal with electronic atmospheres.
For their part, Muda, last year's winning group, will take advantage of this evening to present their third album live, entitled "III".
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