Born in the murky swamplands of Louisiana and comprised of members from the India to the backwoods of the Deep South, Santeria was birth in 1994. They somehow retooled the basics of “southern rock” and modified it into a new and inspired form—relatively free of Confederate clichés and beer guzzling drunkenness - concentrating their creative energies on expressing the isolation and loneliness of the modern south - at times loud and overbearing and alternately quiet, subdued, and withdrawn.