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Interview Keny Godoy (Blackstone, Demise, Imitheos): “Everything Is Possible with Practice”
Singing drummers are hard to come by, especially playing drum parts as intricate as those Keny Godoy plays. And yet, his drums and vocals have been the backbone of melodic death metal band Blackstone for over 25 years. His drum skills are also put to good use in other extreme…
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Album of the Week 03-2026: Maskhera – Nemesis
Modern metal doesn’t get much more creative than on Maskhera’s sophomore album ‘Nemesis‘. And I don’t just mean in Venezuela. Although the band is mostly known for its groovy post-thrash metal sound, that style doesn’t come with the amount of ambition Maskhera shows here. The songs on the album are…
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Interview Roxana Herrera (Arastral, Gillman, Darktemis): Continuously Improving Through Enriching Experiences
Ever since relocating to Spain, bassist Roxana Herrera has become an increasingly familiar name within the European metal scene. Back in her native of Venezuela, however, she was already involved with highly influential bands like Gillman and Arastral from a very young age. Herrera gives us a glimpse into her…
Latest Interviews
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Interview Gerónimo Egea (Stratuz): Understanding the Journey
Stratuz is one of the oldest extreme metal bands in Venezuela, evolving from a fairly traditional death metal sound to an increasingly atmospheric doom/death style. Guitarist Gerónimo Egea joined the band in 2005, and was an important part of the songwriting team of the band’s 2022 ‘Osculum Pacis’ album, which…
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Interview Marcos Rodríguez (Torre de Marfil, Soundchaser, ex-Rage): Never Afraid of the Stage
Internationally, Marcos Rodríguez is best known as the former guitarist and occasional singer of German metal legends Rage. However, his first proper band was the Venezuelan power metal band Torre de Marfil. Rodríguez looks back on his early days as a musician, and the effect they have had on his…
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Interview Rubén Limas (Tetrarch): “Practice Is Everything to Me”
“He’s a beast”, says just about anybody I interviewed for Venezuelan Metal Season once Rubén Limas is brought up. They are right: Limás’ playing with Sifting showed a degree of technical mastery that was nearly unheard of prior to that in the Venezuelan metal scene. And ever since he joined…
Latest Reviews
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Album of the Week 38-2025: Amorphis – Borderland
The line between having a clearly defined style and going through the motions is a very fine one. While Amorphis has sporadically found itself on the wrong side of that line – 2011’s ‘The Beginning of Times’ comes to mind – it is genuinely amazing how they have a sound…
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Album of the Week 37-2025: Sölicitör – Enemy in Mirrors
Out of all the American old school heavy metal bands that popped up over the last decade or so, Sölicitör is probably the one that appeals to me most. This is at least in part due to the fact that they don’t quite present themselves as a period piece as…
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EP of the Week 36.5: Traversus – Navigate
Few young bands excite me quite as much as Traversus does. There is something about the way the Dutch quartet mixes the complexity of progressive metal with the accessibility of melodic rock music that simply works. Traversus manages to avoid the pitfalls of both styles in a way even veterans…
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