3 Rock bands from my city

I make this post inspired by the #TTT made yesterday by @edwardstobia, I know it's not the right day for this topic, but I felt inspired to share 3 bands from my city because I lived quite intensely the golden years of rock in my city, Maracay and Venezuela in general. Until about 10 years ago there was still a very active rock scene, but the economic and political situation of the country was gradually deflating those who dared (despite how unprofitable it is) to form a band, but that is something that does not come to place, what matters here are the bands that I want to share with you.

I have been going to concerts since I was about 13 years old, the first one was a pretty big one in which the Colombians Aterciopelados performed along with other local bands and from there my interest in rock and concerts grew. Little by little I got to know bands from my city and I must say with great pride that many bands of a good level emerged, they were even able to record some good videos and quality albums, but what made me most proud was to have shared the stage with some of them. There are many bands that I know of Maracay, but for the moment I will present 3 of them, in the future I will share many more.

I am going to start with one of the first Progressive Metal bands I heard in this country, this genre is usually complex in terms of technique and musical timing, but despite that these guys managed to put together a good proposal and although many thought that the inspiration that Sexto Sonar had was very close to the music of Dream Theater, they still managed to make a respectable space for themselves in the local scene. I saw them live on several occasions and I must say that they did it quite well, without a doubt their musicians knew what they were doing and with a very good technical level. The song “Visiones” is the one I like the most of them, I hope you enjoy it.

The next band could receive the title of legendary in my city and even in Venezuela, EPITAFIO emerged in the early 90's with a very well elaborated Death Metal and with a unique style, their musicians have always been very good technically and in addition to that they had the opportunity to record songs with good quality. Rodnie's voice (whom I knew personally since my band rehearsed in a studio that belonged to him) is very powerful and ideal for the style they practice, he always led this band with very good esteem and has little to envy to many international bands.

Finally, I present to you Torkhe, a band that I could rarely see live, but I could see the great potential they had with their Industrial Metal and unique style, I think no other local band was similar to them in terms of style and that's why they had a small success that was enough to perform in important events in the city. Although they had a short presence in the scene, they managed to make an important place in the history of local rock, many of us still remember them and thanks to YouTube we can listen to some of their most iconic songs.

There are still many more bands to present, so in the coming weeks I will be sharing more local bands that managed to make at least a small name in a scene that was constantly growing until one day everything began to decline, but still the good experiences and memories remain.