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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…
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Interview Vettor n’ The Insurrectos: One Band, Multiple Vibes
Vettor n’ The Insurrectos is a relative newcomer in the Venezuelan scene, releasing their debut album ‘For Everyone But Not’ in late 2024. Make no mistake, however, the members of the band are all veterans of the scene. Singer/guitarist Giancarlo Vettor, guitarist César Barrios and keyboard player Angel Paredes introduce…
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Interview Giancarlo Picozzi (Arkangel): Expressive and Rebellious Hard Rock
Along with his drumming brother Giorgio, Arkangel guitarist Giancarlo Picozzi was part of the first generation of Venezuelan heavy metal musicians, establishing the band under the name Power Age as early as 1978. These days, the Picozzi brothers are still the core of Arkangel. Giancarlo looks back on nearly forty…
Latest Interviews
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Interview StarForce: Putting the Dream Team Together
Very few bands play eighties-style speed metal with the energy and the conviction that Mexico’s young quintet StarForce does. After storming the scene with their already impressive 2022 debut EP ‘The Universe Is Mine’, the international release of their first full-length album ‘Beyond the Eternal Night’ introduces an even larger…
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Interview Exometry: Not Limited to Regular Forms
On their debut EP ‘Descent’, British-Belgian trio Exometry explores the possibilities of progressive rock and metal without losing itself in virtuosic stunts or impenetrable song structures. The result is a highly dynamic album with some great rhythmic variety. But why do the introductions if drummer Anna Mylee and guitarist Alen…
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Interview Tommy Vetterli (Coroner): Modern Sound, Old School Approach
Thirty-two years is a long time to not release a studio album. Some bands are forgotten in that amount of time, but not Swiss thrash pioneers Coroner. To this day, they are consistently mentioned among the biggest innovators in thrash metal history. This has made ‘Dissonance Theory’ one of the…
Latest Reviews
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Album of the Week 33-2025: Burning Witches – Inquisition
Burning Witches is at its best when they go one of two specific directions: either leaning fully into the more theatrical aspects of their sound, which is what made ‘The Witch of the North‘ their best album so far, or focusing on all-out aggression. The latter is exactly what makes…
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Album of the Week 32-2025: Onmyo-za – Ginrei Gozen
Onmyo-za has a clearly defined style, to the point where even bands that try to imitate them end up not sounding all that much like them. The exact balance between their traditional heavy metal and seventies hard rock riffs, their very accessible melodic sensibilities, their subtle folky touches, and the…
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Album of the Week 31-2025: Martyr – Dark Believer
Martyr will always be one of my favorite heavy metal bands from my own country. Back when nearly every Dutch metal band was taking their inspiration from various corners of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, Martyr adopted an approach that was notably more ambitious, melodically rich, and…
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