A Band After the Band

Rage of Fénix was a real band.

It began in Donostia–San Sebastián around 2005. The lineup rotated. I was the constant, writing the songs and playing guitar. Julen Iturain on drums and Miguel Tellería on vocals became the closest thing the band had to a stable core alongside me. Other musicians passed through on bass, guitar, and keyboard.

That history should not be erased simply because the project now has a different form.

It should not be stretched either.

Historical performers

The old recordings document musicians playing together. Those performances belong to the history of Rage of Fénix and deserve to be described as such.

They are not the same thing as the released masters.

The 2026 phonograms are new productions directed by me using Suno AI from original compositions and recordings. Former members are not presented in the release metadata as performers on those new recordings. When this site acknowledges them, it does so in relation to the historical rehearsal and live recordings.

That wording is not an attempt to make the band disappear. It is an attempt to keep two moments from collapsing into one.

What stayed continuous

A band can be understood through its lineup. It can also be understood through its songs.

For Rage of Fénix, the durable centre was the catalog I composed: twelve songs written across the band’s original life, carried into every version of the lineup, documented in my working files, and eventually preserved in recordings.

The continuity of the present project comes from:

• the same compositions;
• the same archive;
• the same name;
• the same composer;
• the same unfinished ambition to hear the songs as a record.

The discontinuity is equally clear:

• the former lineup did not reconvene;
• the 2026 recordings are not historical masters;
• the production method is new;
• responsibility for the present releases sits with me.

Both sides are true. The new project does not need to pretend that nothing changed in order to remain connected to what came before.

The name

I did not invent a new artist identity for the release.

Calling the music something other than Rage of Fénix would have hidden its history. Calling it a reunion would have invented one. Keeping the name was the more precise choice: the songs were written for Rage of Fénix, rehearsed by Rage of Fénix, and preserved under that name.

The name also became more accurate with time.

When I chose it, fénix was simply the Spanish word for phoenix and “rage” gave the band the force I wanted. Years later, the project returned through exactly the material that had survived its disappearance.

Not from nothing. From remains.

The band after the band is therefore not a simulation of the old lineup. It is a project built from the compositions, evidence, and unfinished work the band left behind.

The phoenix does not erase the ashes. It makes them part of the form.