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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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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…
Latest Interviews
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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 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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