Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Vital Chaos Return to Auditorio Zea Mays in Chía This April
Chía’s own progressive death metal voice returns on April 25, filling the Auditorio Zea Mays with a sound that belongs…
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Dead Silence Reign at Bogotá’s Relevent Music Hall in June
On June 13, Bogotá’s most enduring melodic death metal act brings eighteen years of underground defiance to the Relevent Music…
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‘Primal Repetition’ Has Argovia Holding Their Own Ground
With three advance singles tracing a cycle the record declines to break, Argovia from Bogotá press their claim within the…
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‘Corazón de Cristal’ Finds Perros de Reserva in New Jersey
On their third album, Medellín’s gothic underground crosses a continent — and the distance is the argument.
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Tears of Misery Hold Court at Bogotá’s Relevent Hall in May
On May 9, Bogotá’s own death metal voices gather at Relevent Music Hall for a night that belongs entirely to…
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Sagros Reclaims Cali’s Thrash Fire on ‘Sincarnation’
Twenty-nine years into its practice, Cali’s most enduring thrash act delivers a new full-length that refuses to look away from…
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Heavenwood Chart a Spiritual Fall in the Luminous ‘The Moon’
After a rupture that left Ricardo Dias dos Santos as the sole custodian of a 34-year name, Heavenwood return with…
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Eshtadur Carries the Mountains of Pereira to Tegucigalpa This October
Twenty years in, the Colombian melodic death metal quartet opens for Amorphis in Honduras with a reconfigured lineup, a symphonic…
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Old Man’s Child and Hecate Enthroned Claim Bogotá’s Teatro Royal Center in September
On September 20, two European black metal institutions arrive on Colombian soil for the first time, at the Teatro Royal…
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Beyond Creation at Bogotá’s Relevent Music Hall This April
The Montréal technical death metal quartet performs ‘The Aura’ in full at Relevent Music Hall, Bogotá, on April 20 for…
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Spiros Antoniou of Athens Made the Face of Dark Metal
A formally trained Athenian painter, Spiros Antoniou has made his art famous through metal and kept it hidden behind it.
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Marcela Bolívar Grows Colombia From the Inside Out
A digital artist raised in Cali and now based in Germany, Bolívar makes images where Colombian vegetation and gothic darkness…
