Changing Places in the Fire

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.

Changing Places in the Fire is a band shaped by upheaval, memory, and distance. Formed by five Venezuelan musicians now scattered across Europe and South America, out of the ashes of the Caracas scene—Daz Medrano (vocals), Alfredo Ovalles (keyboards), Javier Landaeta (guitar), Antonio Silva (guitar), and Miguel Ángel Moliné (drums)—the band makes music steeped in the emotional and political realities of migration.

The project grew out of their earlier bands Echoes 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.

Musically, the group sit somewhere between post-metal and art 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. Changing Places in the Fire is a long-distance collaboration born out of necessity and shared history—a record of survival, displacement, and transformation.