Venezuelan rock

Venezuelan rock is rock music from Venezuela, the most common being based on Rock en español.

First steps for rock music in Venezuela started by the oil industry jump in the late 1950s and can be traced to the band Los Flipper, The Thunderbirds and Los Dangers, where after , it would be part with Henry Stephen of Los Impala, a band from the prominent crude oil city Maracaibo and the first South American group with a high reputation and considerable impact in other continents (pretty much of his career in Spain).

Subsequently, some bands in the 1970s, such as Una Luz, People Pie, El Zigui, La Cuarta Calle, and the progressive rock trio Ficción (Sobre el Abismo). Ficción became emblematic in the Venezuelan Prog Rock scene and is still very active, they released (May 2013) their third album: Ficción III-Sobre La Ira de Dios. Then also came a heavy metal, hard rock movement with Sacrifice, Power Age that later would become founded by and Freddy Marshall, Uzi, Spectro and José Arevalo Rock Band, Resistencia, Fahrenheit, Grand Bite and Alta Frecuencia. As for the blues music, while a few artists did occasionally perform some classic blues in English since the late '60's, the first band recording blues music with Spanish lyrics was Pastel de Gente that released two albums in the mid 1980s. Some of the most prominent artists in the 1980s were the band Aditus and the soloists Melissa and also Jorge Aguilar, who mixed rock with pop and other trends, such as the new wave, synth pop and funk respectively, making the genre more digestible to the larger audience.

While efforts were mostly oriented to the commercial pop/rock scene, from the underground-punk scene of the 1980s emerged several bands with international promotion, such as and Desorden Público, whose first production was launched in 1987, despite the blockade in the media of some of their music due to their strong political views and mildly offensive language. However, both bands' first recordings achieved a huge success, which led to the record companies change of attitude towards them, both allowing them to record additional records, and opening the doors for other emerging bands of the late 80's, such as Zapato 3, and Sentimiento Muerto, among others. La Misma Gente and Seguridad Nacional are considered cult bands of that decade.