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Interview Sean de Boer (Ravenous Feast): “We’ve Got to Stick Together”
With their modern hard rock and heavy metal style, as well as a professional, rock-solid band sound, Ravenous Feast is one of the most promising relative newcomers in the Venezuelan scene. Fronting the band is Sean de Boer, who traded Western Canada for Margarita Island around 25 years ago and…
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Interview Infestus: Flying the Venezuelan Gothic Metal Flag
Some metal styles are more common than others in Venezuela. Gothic metal is hard to come by, but Infestus from Acarigua has dedicated itself to the gloomy themes and the darkly romantic atmosphere that are synonymous with the style for the better part of three decades now. Founding guitarist Felipe…
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Album of the Week 02-2026: Landsemk – Vence Tus Miedos
One of the handful of Venezuelan bands whose work I enjoyed before starting my research into Venezuelan Metal Season is Landsemk. Their blend of traditional heavy metal, pronounced melodic touches that owe as much to eighties hard rock as they do to power metal, and subtle progressive leanings is catchy,…
Latest Interviews
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Interview Sean de Boer (Ravenous Feast): “We’ve Got to Stick Together”
With their modern hard rock and heavy metal style, as well as a professional, rock-solid band sound, Ravenous Feast is one of the most promising relative newcomers in the Venezuelan scene. Fronting the band is Sean de Boer, who traded Western Canada for Margarita Island around 25 years ago and…
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Interview Infestus: Flying the Venezuelan Gothic Metal Flag
Some metal styles are more common than others in Venezuela. Gothic metal is hard to come by, but Infestus from Acarigua has dedicated itself to the gloomy themes and the darkly romantic atmosphere that are synonymous with the style for the better part of three decades now. Founding guitarist Felipe…
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Interview Gabriel Pelusso (Collateral Detriment): Open to Everything
With the industrial melodic death metal sound on their 2025 album ‘Into the Detriment’, Collateral Detriment has delivered quite a unique work within the Venezuelan extreme metal movement. Moreover, their live shows and visuals are clearly there to enhance the dystopian themes covered in their lyrics. Bassist Gabriel Pelusso tells…
Latest Reviews
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Album of the Week 02-2026: Landsemk – Vence Tus Miedos
One of the handful of Venezuelan bands whose work I enjoyed before starting my research into Venezuelan Metal Season is Landsemk. Their blend of traditional heavy metal, pronounced melodic touches that owe as much to eighties hard rock as they do to power metal, and subtle progressive leanings is catchy,…
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Album of the Week 01-2026: Guerra Santa – Éxodo: Un Nuevo Comienzo
By the time ‘Éxodo: Un Nuevo Comienzo’ was recorded, Guerra Santa had already left their provincial Venezuelan hometown of San Cristóbal for the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, and that relocation is the thread that runs through the album. To write the music for the album, singer and sole remaining…
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Best of 2025: The Albums
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Venezuelan Metal Season for what I think are the twenty best new studio albums of 2025. Like last year, it was quite difficult to limit the list to only twenty titles. Great albums were relesased consistently throughout the year. While I briefly considered expanding the…
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