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Album of the Week 09-2026: Triumpher – Piercing the Heart of the World
With a lot of the focus of the music industry shifting away from actually making albums, a band releasing high-quality albums at the pace Greece’s Triumpher does is quite the impressive feat. Their third album ‘Piercing the Heart of the World’ releases two days before Triumpher’s debut album ‘Storming the…
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Interview Sortilège: “We Add Ideas to What We Built Together”
Ever since moving on without the rest of the classic Sortilège line-up, singer Christian ‘Zouille’ Augustin has been releasing quality heavy metal albums, the latest of which being last year’s excellent ‘Le Poids de l’Âme’. Augustin and guitarist, fellow songwriter and producer Olivier Spitzer shine a light on the developments…
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Album of the Week 08-2026: Lovebites – Outstanding Power
And with the fifth full-length album in Lovebites’ alphabetical discography, we are already in the second half of the alphabet, in the year that the band celebrates its tenth anniversary, no less. In those years, the Japanese quintet released a lot of excellent European-styled power metal, though I don’t think…
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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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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…
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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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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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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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