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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…
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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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Interview Andrés Guzmán (Grand Bite): Sharing Passions and Ideals
While Grand Bite isn’t commonly named among the first generation of Venezuelan heavy metal bands, the band were actually established before Resistencia and Arkangel had debuted. They have since become one of the more prolific Venezuelan metal bands of their era, delivering six albums full of solid traditional heavy metal…
Latest Interviews
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Interview Arjen Lucassen: “It’s Nice to Have Limitations”
When Arjen Lucassen takes a break from his massive rock operas in Ayreon, his heavier work with Star One and working for other people, he writes solo albums. ‘Songs No One Will Hear’ is his first one in thirteen years. And like 2012’s ‘Lost in the New Real’, it is…
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Interview Mary Halvorson: “Separating Improvisation and Composition Is Hard for Me”
Mary Halvorson may just be one of the most versatile guitarists of our time. She is known and beloved for her free improvisations, but she has a keen sense of melody as well. Her Amaryllis Sextet, which she has been recording and touring with extensively over the last few years,…
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Interview Joey Wessels (Traversus): A Much Clearer Direction
While their 2023 debut EP ‘The Only Way Is Through’ introduced Traversus as one of the most promising young bands in the European hard rock and metal scene, their new EP ‘Navigate’ really sees them branching out and exploring the extremes of their sound, simultaneously becoming more complex and more…
Latest Reviews
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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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Album of the Week 30-2025: Alice Cooper – The Revenge of Alice Cooper
While I enjoy nearly everything Alice Cooper – the singer – has done through the years, there is just something special about the recordings he has made with the original Alice Cooper band. Now, this could be a simple matter of youth, but ‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper’ proves beyond…
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Album of the Week 29-2025: Styx – Circling from Above
Enjoying Styx is apparently frowned upon by many American rock aficionados. Fortunately, I am European, and I don’t give a damn. In fact, the band deserves a fair amount of respect in my book for not just being a nostalgia-driven legacy act as they could have done – and as…
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