“Home reflects on distance, guilt, and memory – on the ghosts that follow long after leaving. It confronts the ache of belonging to a place you can’t fully return to, and carrying that absence forward.” – Alfredo Ovalles (Keyboards)
This single is taken from their debut self-tilted album, out 24th July via Wild Thing Records [Australia]. The band have previously released singles ‘The Epiphany Tree‘, ‘A Reason to Fall‘ and ‘The Fury and the Sound‘.
Formed by five Venezuelan musicians – Daz Medrano (vocals), Alfredo Ovalles (keyboards), Javier Landaeta (guitar), Antonio Silva (guitar), and Miguel Ángel Moliné (drums), all of whom are now scattered across Europe and South America. The band is steeped in the emotional and political realities of migration.
Musically, the group sit somewhere between post-metal and prog rock, blending the emotional sweep of Dredg, the heaviness of Deftones, the layered expansiveness of Oceansize, and the moody introspection of Porcupine Tree.
Exile-born, Venezuelan prog-rock/post-metal act Changing Places In The Fire announce their self-titled album, out 24th July 2026 via Wild Thing Records.
Changing Places In The Fire is the sound of the zeitgeist, a dreamlike journey into the labyrinths of the human condition. A flame burning through the past and places that can only exist in the longing of the imagined.
The self-titled debut album integrates post-metal, progressive and alternative elements in ten songs that resist genre conventions and channel the melancholy and violence of the present.
“This album has lived with us for years. Announcing it now feels less like a launch and more like finally letting it breathe. These songs were written in a period of upheaval, and somehow they feel even more urgent today.” – Alfredo Ovalles (Keyboards)
Formed by five Venezuelan musicians – Daz Medrano (vocals), Alfredo Ovalles (keyboards), Javier Landaeta (guitar), Antonio Silva (guitar), and Miguel Ángel Moliné (drums), all of whom are now scattered across Europe and South America, out of the ashes of the Caracas scene. The band is steeped in the emotional and political realities of migration.
Musically, the group sit somewhere between post-metal and prog rock, blending the emotional sweep of Dredg, the heaviness of Deftones, the layered expansiveness of Oceansize, and the moody introspection of Porcupine Tree. It’s a sound built on contrasts: aggression and fragility, density and space, closeness and distance. Their unique blend of fervour and circumstances caught the interest of Wild Thing Records, an independent label from Australia, which will support the worldwide release of the album on CD and digital platforms in 2026.
The project grew out of their earlier bands Echoes (ProgRock Records, USA) and Triad back in Venezuela, taking shape remotely as each member moved countries, rebuilt their lives, and dealt with the ongoing collapse of their homeland. That fragmentation drives the tension and atmosphere of their self-titled debut. Singles like ‘The Fury and the Sound’, ‘A Reason To Fall’, ‘The Epiphany Tree’, and ‘Home’ grapple with estrangement, fractured identity, and the lingering pull of memory.
Changing Places in the Fire is a long-distance collaboration born out of necessity and shared history – a record of survival, displacement, and transformation.
Band members:
Daz Medrano – Vocals
Alfredo Ovalles – Keyboards
Antonio Silva – Guitars
Javier Landaeta – Guitars
Miguel Ángel Moliné – Drums
Track listing:
1. The Epiphany Tree
2. Home
3. A Reason to Fall
4. The Fury and the Sound
5. Black Oceans
6. Learn to Die
7. A Case Against the World
8. Into the Unknown
9. As If You Were Free
10. The Door Left Behind