Interview with Horacio Heredia of Ícaro |

There Is Something Unfinished With Ícaro To Close

Icaro is an Argentine band that has left an indelible mark on the Heavy Metal scene. Its trajectory has gone through different states, with some ups and downs and glorious moments that make its history one of the most worthy and sacrificed. After some years of separation, Icarus decided to return to the stage. Its first appearance was made with its founder Horacio Heredia, who accompanied by musicians from the band Parko (Río Negro), reignited the fire in a performance in Patagonia Argentina (2022). Then, at the beginning of 2023 they returned to the stages of Burzaco, Buenos Aires, the place where they grew up. In 2023 continued with a lot of activity for the band, taking them touring again stages of Buenos Aires, Isidro Casanova, Burzaco and an schedule that reached La Rioja, Cordoba, Santa Fe and again to Patagonia Argentina.
The band continues in this 2025 playing in Buenos Aires, Santiago del Estero, Mar Del Plata and is preparing to release what will be their third album, besides re-releasing their first two albums, with certain peculiarities in their current line-up, so we thought it was the best moment to ask Horacio Heredia, leader and founder of Ícaro, and old warrior of the Argentine metal scene, some questions.

The truth is that it was a surprise to find out that Ícaro is back in activity again, which makes us very happy, so first of all we would like you to tell us in summary what happened for the band to dissolve and what motivated you to return to the stages again…

“Icaro was active until 2019, although we were like in recent times, since the release of “Tiempo Pérdido?” until 2007 or 2008, the band was undergoing many changes until 2019. Never in the history of the band was a definitive separation announced. There were several silences and several formations, even on two occasions I, as a founding member of the band, was not there but I always allowed my colleagues to continue, especially because we know how the world of music is, especially Heavy Metal in Argentina, which is very hard, especially when there is family or situations that do not allow one to continue, and that’s when I understood what it is to put myself in the place of the other, that if I can not do something, I would not like it to stop. That’s how we even played with a line-up without any original member, but it was fine, I always liked to support my bandmates. In 2019 we celebrated the anniversary of the band, and then in 2020, we made a silence of almost 4 years. There the band was already preparing what is this album, or part of it, because we had almost reached the halfway point. At that time, due to personal and health issues that I had to go through, I decided not to continue, and it was the first time that I told my bandmates that given the situation, I preferred to end it all there. The reality is that I didn’t know if I was going to be able to play again. The band asked me to try to continue since we were at the door of a studio to record what is this album that will soon be released, and I said no, and that is the reason for the dissolution. After two years, and much better in my health, I receive an invitation from some guys from the south to participate in a music festival, I explained to them that the band was dissolved, so they invite me to do a handful of songs with some guys from the south, among them who is the singer of Parko, Lucas Sotelo. We did about 8 or 9 songs of Icaro and we presented ourselves with the name VIVE, at the suggestion of Guillermo from Parko, since he had no intention of returning with Icaro. For me it was a very big backpack, for many things, many years, many beautiful memories and many things that I could not understand, and I did not want that continuity. I did want to record this album, which is the one we are going to release now, with many guest musicians from all over the country. I had no intention of playing, I just wanted to record it and it was not going to be released under the name of Icaro. Let’s agree that in Ícaro I always had to compose most of the songs, the lyrics, music, etc. I always say that I’m a frustrated singer and then I pick up the guitar, and everything else comes jeje. The guys from Parko, invite me to play at the Conesa Fest, in Rio Negro. I said that I was very interested in putting together a band and playing the new songs I was working on, but as something personal, and I didn’t know what name the band was going to have, but it was going to be just one date and nothing else. I accepted the invitation and that meant that in 2023, to repay Parko’s guys, we invited them to play at the Amparo in Burzaco. That generated that ten days before, we went out to play under the name VIVE, which was a kind of tribute to Ícaro, something very crazy because I was playing there. Talking with friends, with a former colleague, the bass player asked me why I was going to play under the name VIVE if I was the founding member of Ícaro, so on January 7, 2023, I went back to play under the name Ícaro. Something very crazy because exactly 23 years before, on January 7th, 2000, the band debuted. We were planning to do only 3 dates. Burzaco, Ezeiza and Puerto Madryn, with this line-up, although some musicians were changing. In Puerto Madryn, it is like the spark was lit, with all that we lived, with the affection of the people, that motivated the resurgence of the band. Expectations were generated and a tour was being planned. That gave me the strength to come back, to release a new album, the one that never came out, with some changes, especially in the lyrics, although some others were already ready and we left them as they were. I didn’t want to have anything to do with Icaro, with Heavy Metal, for personal reasons, not because of anger. Although I am still Heavy Metal, I thought I needed time for other things, that I was in another stage of my life. During all the time I was away, I studied lutherie, which was very nice because God gave me the opportunity to be able to play with two instruments that I could create in the middle of the pandemic. All this is what generated the return with Ícaro, especially the affection of the people, who do not care who is in the band but they want to listen to the songs. So we are planning this album, the one that never came out and that was planned to be done with guest musicians but as an Ícaro album. After all, in Ícaro I was the one who composed the music and the lyrics. There was always the recognition that Ícaro was always in force and there is an expectation with the new things to come. There is something unfinished with Ícaro to close, and the closing of stages is going to be this third album.”

A particularity that we noticed is the double formation, why is this happening? Are there any plans for a continuity of the band or are you just going to play occasional gigs?

“In pandemic times, I’d see musicians locked up managing to record a song or work on something. We had to be busy. In that process, as a carpenter myself, I had the possibility to be working in homes, restoring furniture, etc., and I saw how the bands managed to continue with the work to be able to play, to somehow show something new. That brought me in my thoughts, before returning with Icaro, what to do with these things that were left unfinished, and I felt that I had to do or say something. I made many friends all over the country, very good musicians, who are and are not so well known. We talked about guitarists, singers. I had that personal project, not like Icaro, to take those songs that I had composed in that period of silence and what I was going through in my personal life, and I said, I’m going to try to record with some friends, in this case Hernan Zaldivar, bass player from Puerto Madryn, and invite musicians from all over the country. That made me see, and it was like a dream, and why not play again with Ícaro? It was always hard for the band, like all bands, it was hard to schedule trips, and there were work and family problems. And we don’t live from music, we live from each one’s work. The musician’s life is very hard. Then it had occurred to me, based on what I had seen, that Ícaro could have a line-up in Buenos Aires and another line-up in the inland, with guys who can travel without any inconvenience, as long as we schedule the dates in advance, right? And that way we could try in the last stage of the band, to get from the south to the north. And thank God we were able to achieve it because that project of recording an album with musicians from all over the country will be reflected in this third album of Ícaro. And at the same time, I didn’t think we were going to be able to put it into practice. Today, three years after a thought, in 2023 it started to take shape. We started touring, thinking that they were three concerts and nothing more. Now we are talking about the return of Ícaro with two formations. It is currently composed of It is currently composed of Eduardo Turu Paredes on vocals (who was previously a long-time member of Ícaro, having been part of the band’s 15th anniversary DVD), although Maxi Torres was also a member until May of this year, Gustavo Retamozo on drums, Ricardo Cuello on bass and Marcelo Migueliz on guitar, that formation in Buenos Aires. The second formation is formed by Lucas Sotelo on vocals, from Gral. Conesa, Rio Negro, as guitarist Marcelo Migueliz, who is a guitarist that we knew since our beginnings in the south and plays in both formations, Bernardo Saldivia on bass and Pepe Guagliarello as drummer and also as guitarist, as well as being the producer of the recording of the new album, and me, Horacio Heredia on guitar in both formations. In this way, Ícaro can plan to travel all over the country, even merging the formations, since it is not only that the formation of Bs As plays only in Bs As, but when we can, we play everywhere, depending on how we are going to get there, the costs, whatever it implies. If it is the case of a production company that takes us or that we decide to work in the production, because we are also somehow self-managing all this new time of Ícaro, from the album to the dates. And in that way, we decided to continue. It worked, people liked it. In 2023, we toured with the guys from the south, we played in Córdoba, La Rioja, Puerto San Julian and with the guys from Buenos Aires we went around here, in the southern area, in Buenos Aires, we went to Santa Fe. This year we were in Santiago del Estero, a few days ago. The idea is to go everywhere, wherever the opportunity arises, and if we can’t, we rotate, merging the musicians. Both formations sound very good. I am very happy with that. We work as a team, which is what we have in mind. It is the only way to be able to reach everywhere, otherwise it would be impossible, the band would be frustrated. It already happened to us in previous years and I think it could be happening to all the bands that are in the underground and have to manage everything. A production company can take you but if a member can’t, we look for a way to get there and the truth is that this way, it gives us good results. It is clear to us that this is the way we are going to get to the end of the band. The idea is to release this album, and in a way the band is saying goodbye. We will present this album as far as we can. I don’t know if we’re going to make it to 30 years of the band, but the idea is that we can enjoy the band as much as we can and take the band as many places as we can. That’s the main goal.”

We heard that a new edition of “Tiempo Perdido?” is planned, could you tell us some details about it?

“In 2023, when we knew that we were going to continue as a band with the two formations, we thought about how we were going to work with those two formations. There are several musicians either from Buenos Aires or from the inland. Coordinate in such a way that everything goes well. Thank God we can do it very calmly because everyone involved in this stage of Ícaro is in agreement and we are enjoying it a lot. That is noticeable. At that time also, I had the idea of creating a label in which we could somehow recover the band’s records. Recently in 2013, through the label “Metal Command” the first album was re-released with some bonus tracks. In the case of “Tiempo Pérdido?”, it was already out of print and the label that released it was Hurling Metal. The contract ended in 2015 and since that time, we always said hopefully someday we could realize the fact of editing the albums ourselves. That time came, it was in 2023, we created a label, “Tharseo Records”, in which we are going to focus for now, everything that is the discography of the band. Clearly the first thing is to re-release “Tiempo Pérdido? Last week, before traveling to Santiago Del Estero, we were putting it on Megadisc but well, with some inconveniences. Today few bands physically release the material, it’s all through digital platforms. We were able to create the label on the one hand, and the re-release on the other. We believe that within a month, before arriving in Mar del Plata, this album has to be on the street. In the re-release of “Tiempo Pérdido?”, it was decided not to play absolutely nothing. It is just a mastering. Yes, in the inside graphics, to put current photos of the band, of when we got together to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album, etc. We added three bonus tracks to the re-release of “Tiempo Perdido? Two songs, two demo rehearsals and a current version of “Mi Fiel Verdad”, which we are doing with the current line-up of the band. We are going to plan the same next year when we re-release the first album, looking for vintage stuff and a current recording of some of those songs with the current line-up. The label will also release our third album. It is our own label and that way we will be able to gather all the band’s discography. We have the project and the desire in the future, when everything improves in the economy of the country, to see the complete discography in vinyl format. God willing we will be able to achieve it”.

What did “Tiempo Perdido?” represent for Ícaro and what repercussions did the release of this album bring?

“Today, twenty years later, I think it is an album that for those of us who were part of playing it, of being in the recording, it means a lot, and that was reflected in the date of March 9th, even though it was made in our city, Burzaco, where we started. It was clear that Icaro, that formation was only for that time. It represents us very much, it gave us a lot of joy through time. It is the last album released by the band, released in 2005, and people remember it as if it were yesterday. Time passed, new generations passed. In 2023, when I was in Puerto Madryn, I could see the love that people have for the band and for those songs. There is a new generation of kids who know the band, apart from “Tiempo Perdido”, they know the first album. I think it is an album that, well, made us more massive, it became almost a cult album I would say. Because wherever we went, people had it, or had it from afar, and I think it was very well liked. People felt very identified with the lyrics, I think, with the subject matter. The music is very simple. It brought great satisfaction to those of us who recorded it, to those who were in the band and to those who are currently in it. It brings back very nice memories. In those years we played a lot in the interior of the country and the reception we had from the public was tremendous. There were many places that the band could not reach. It was difficult because of the production costs and the fact that we as a band, for some members, could not get there, because of work or personal issues. Today, working the way we do, Icaro can easily reach Jujuy, for example, or further south. We could do it quietly. This album gave us a lot of satisfaction. People know us from that album, that is to say, musicians who are in other projects know us from that album. I think the lyrics are still as valid as in those times because that feeling of ours towards music and what a heavy metal feels in the course of the days. Even the passion for this genre, that is still intact as it was back then. We have grown up, we have changed but the feeling towards heavy metal has not changed. We have been able to mature certain things, that was good and allowed us to get together and give the gift to the people who lived through those years, to see us together and commemorate that album. The message was also to say that we could share that time once again, knowing that, logically, it was already a stage of the band. Some of the guys who lived that concert on March 9th, asked why we didn’t continue as a band. It is very simple, it is a closed stage of the band, everyone is in their own projects, they are happy with what they are doing. It was that moment, that album, that place. Honestly I see it a little difficult for that formation of Ícaro to work with this third album, because we also changed in many aspects, but it was still good to enjoy the reunion”.

Also, we know that Ícaro is going to release a new album this year, called “Siendo Libre”, what can you tell us about this new work? Approximately is there a date for its release? When will we be able to listen to a preview?

“We plan to have the album physically ready by September or October of this year, so that it will be on the streets, “Siendo Libre” should be on the streets by that time. There are still some songs to be recorded, only two, and that is being done mostly on drums, half of them were recorded by Gustavo Retamozo here in Buenos Aires, at Jorge Moreno’s studios, “Quincho Records”, and the other half was recorded by Pepe Guagliarello, in Puerto Madryn, at “Cartucho Records”, where we are doing the base of the recording. The bass was completely recorded by Bernado Saldivia, the bass player who is in Rio Negro. We are working with him on the rhythm guitars and bass. The recording is being distributed throughout the country, according to the singer or guitarist who will be on each song. Physically we want to have it edited in September or October. In a matter of days we’ll have the first cut of the album. It will be a lyric video, in which we decided to show the three singers who will be on the album. Two of them are part of the current line-up of Ícaro, and we have a guest singer that we really liked the work she has done so far on the songs we had in mind. It is an opportunity for musicians from all over the country, from the north, from the south, to be in this final stage of the band”.

Were the new songs that will be included in “Siendo Libre” recently composed or have they been in the works for a long time?

“Half of the album are already songs that we had, as in those years, “Heavy Metal”, which went ahead and came out in the re-release of the first album with Ariel Gomez on vocals and Mario Ian as a guest. At the same time we had made the version that Mario Ian, asked us for permission and uploaded it to his channel, we had already recorded that version in 2013. Those are songs that belonged to this album. In fact half of the album was already done a long time ago. There is one more part that was finished now. There are three songs that are from the last stage of the band’s comeback, from 2023 to here. We started recording on June 20, 2024 in Puerto Madryn, guitars and bass. Part of the drums were done here, with Gustavo Retamozo, at Jorge de Serpentor’s studio, and another part with Pepe Guagliarello at “Cartucho Records.”

Musically speaking, are you going to follow the same line as always, embodied in traditional Heavy Metal? What are you currently listening to? Is there any of the new bands that have emerged in the last few years that have made an impact on you?

“Musically Icaro is still Icaro. From the first, second and third disc. From guitar sounds, from what is expressed in the lyrics. Each Icaro album were moments, very personal and there are songs where you will find that speak of the love of Heavy Metal, of situations that one has to go through and that anyone can identify with, and this album is exactly the same. As far as guitar sounds go, we’re in the traditional ’80s Heavy Metal sound because I can’t, I couldn’t do it any other way. I don’t see myself lowering the tuning and looking for current sounds, it’s not something I like. From the lyrics side, yes, the genuine feeling we always had, to express what we felt, what was happening to us and the present. A lot has to do with the present, and having been in charge of composing mostly in Icaro, it gives me the peace of mind to say that it is still Icaro. The essence of the band was to genuinely express what was happening to us, what we felt. The sound and the compositions are the same. You will find virtuosity now, maybe in different guitarists and that’s good, but keeping the simple essence of the band. The hook, the melody in the guitars and the vocals. The lyrics are very direct. “Siendo Libre” is going to tell you somehow, the same thing that Ícaro told you in the first album, what was happening, what was happening in the second album and what is happening in this time, in this third album, a long time later. In the cover there is a message, in the title there is a message, and that is what we want to express at some point, which is very important. To understand the purpose that God had for each one of us as a creation. In my case it happened 48 years later and the truth is that it was the happiest and most beautiful stage of my life. And to give me back the gift of being here making music is a reward for me and for all my companions. Nowadays, honestly, I’m not listening to anything. I’m from the vinyl record format, which I’m not listening to either. And if you ask me, and I’m honest, as I always was, I’m discovering what is Christian Metal as they say. Icaro is not a Christian Metal band. It’s telling a current feeling, of what’s going on in the band. Not in the whole band, because my bandmates are not Christians. In neither of the two formations, not even in the formation that recorded “Tiempo Pérdido”, but I can tell what God did in my life and always express everything that happened in Icaro. I don’t like the label of Christian Rock or Metal. Icaro is not going to be a Christian Metal band, but I can talk about God, in some way, maybe in “Siendo Libre”, and maybe in some other song. Still, in a way, I always believed in God. The lyrics of Icaro, at one point they can speak to you, but not as directed as perhaps in the song that gives its name to the album or the album cover itself, which is telling you something very important. Musically I’m not dedicated to music, that’s the reality. If I have the privilege of doing something that I always liked, with the order that the present requires, and happy with this time. If I have to say it is the same genuine feeling as when we started playing. The love of music and understanding it. It is clear to me that it is very important the message that now more than ever I can give through lyrics”.

While we’re on the subject of the new album, I imagine it will be released in physical format. In relation to this, what is your position on the dilemma between the physical format vs. digital platforms?

“The album will be physical, like in the old school. That’s why we decided to create a label, because there are few labels that support the movement itself. It has always been like that but now it is more difficult. You are left with two possibilities. Today it is very easy to record an album, but to edit it, they all go for the digital platforms. In fact, both of Icaro’s albums are on digital platforms. It is not something that is helping the band, not really any band, not even international bands. You have to have a lot of plays for you to be able to acquire something, and it’s like a business for those who created the digital platforms. We are in Argentina, in an always difficult situation. We have more possibilities to reach through social networks, more possibilities to record an album, but to edit it physically is an achievement today. Either there is an interested party or you have to do it yourself, and that is where we took the initiative to do it and in fact, in Icaro it was always like that, fighting from below, and I thank God for having that opportunity. Otherwise we would only have to release an album, upload it to a platform and put it on a youtube channel, and it is not a benefit for the band. It only benefits from the side that people can listen to it on a phone, at home, everywhere but I don’t see that audience reflected when you go to play live on the local scene. That’s the reality. Like all the friends you have on social networks, so many people on your facebook, but when you go to play, even though we are talking about the country. Only if in the Buenos Aires date had come 10 percent of the contacts of each member, we would have filled a place of 500 people. We are a bit complicated for this genre now. The digital platforms are very useful for the diffusion, but something is happening, it’s incredible. There are more tools but the audience for Heavy Metal is a bit difficult. We still have a loyal audience to which we will always be grateful, but we can’t talk about self-managing, moving, and generating a date or an event. We can’t even talk about releasing a physical album if there is no one to buy it. You are working in the most intelligent way to be able to do things in the best possible way. Imagine a band releasing a physical album, with all that a legal album implies, going through Megadisc and Sadaic, and not having a response, the truth is that it is something very hard, very difficult. We thank God we have an audience of many years, that follows the band, and that is very important and helps us a lot for every idea and project we have”.

In relation to that, while we’re on the subject, what do you think of the dissolution of Sadaic? Do you think it can help musicians and composers in any way?

“I was not able to find out much, I saw some things on the networks about the closure of Sadaic. I understand that it is not a closure, it is an opening so that the bands can work with whoever they want with respect to the work that Sadaic used to do before. I have to get to know more about it, but I am going to be honest with you, when we go through Sadaic’s roll call now, the system is not working well. If it is for the better, I think it is right that there are other work possibilities, but the reality is that it never responds to the musician himself. That’s good for big bands that draw huge crowds. Talking about Heavy Metal in Argentina, it doesn’t help much. There is a lot of bureaucracy and things that are not right, and no matter how much you want to play, there are some places where they are not authorized and you can’t pass a list through Sadaic. Not even when it worked, it could have benefited us. It is not well controlled, it is not well regularized, just like ADI, as an interpreter I am registered and the truth is that it is a shame. It’s Argentina! and I think that in other parts of the world it’s in order but here it’s like we are behind in every sense, but in terms of music. Because of the way bands have to manage themselves, we have to improvise a lot. In many other countries they are better than us. It’s a pity because there are many bands working over the years and some of them don’t even have their songs registered. You have to get a lot of information when you start with the music business, like registering the songs or the name, passing the list to Sadaic, seeing if you get paid, it’s a whole issue.”

How do you see the current Argentine Metal scene?

“I think that the national scene is good on the one hand, that is, today all bands can record an album, to disseminate it. Social networks are useful for that. You can reach from Burzaco, for example, to any other part of the world through a digital platform. What I can’t understand in my case, and I always wonder why it is not reflected in reality, when a band goes out to play. It doesn’t happen only to Icaro, it happens to all bands, even the renowned ones. They have to self-manage a tour, bands with a trajectory. Today the musician has to compose, rehearse, equip himself, produce his event, because at least when we started, we received calls from producers, and we went out to play. In some cases we had to self-manage. When I realized some time ago that we had to self-manage, that was the first thing we decided to do. Otherwise we don’t play, that’s the reality. That reflects that something is happening in the scene. Although there are a lot of bands, I find it hard to understand the public response. Iron Maiden comes, in two hours they sell all the tickets in Huracan’s stadium. The good thing is that someone in Jujuy or Santa Cruz, through a keyboard, buys the ticket, and is already inside the event, it is no longer a drama as before. It is very difficult for the under band. You have to sell the ticket very cheap, and sometimes I can not understand how the value of a beer or a drink, does not match the value of a ticket. Many bands have to lower the costs a lot and that makes that a band can’t have a good staging or sound, and those things. I see on the one hand a scene with many bands, that’s great, but I find it difficult to summon people to a concert. We play for the love of music, but the idea is not to lose! What it costs us to equip ourselves, guitar or bass strings… I give you the gift of being a drummer today with what a drumhead or a drumstick costs! A lot of internet public, but it is not reflected when the band goes out to play live!”

The last one is a question that is a bit of a hallmark of ours, and one that we really like to ask each of our interviewees. Outside of the religious context or religious institutions, what do you think of God?

“I remember that when I entered the world of Heavy Metal, the first thing that came to my mind was a song by Alakran which I think was “Alguien Nos Divide” and in a verse it said “soccer, politics and religion…no leader will cry for you” (Editor’s Note: Yes, that is indeed the one). I thank God that when I was 48 years old, in the midst of important things and situations I was going through, something very personal happened to me. In my life I never denied the existence of God but I had a great rejection towards the catholic church, towards a pastor, and actually today I can understand why that happened, but I did believe in God. I always knew that God existed, but I didn’t know how to get there. God is in everything, we are just not looking where we need to look. Today people talk to you about the universe and they believe in anything but the creator of all things. He is presented in society and the world as a punishing God, and if people could read our own manual, which is the bible, they would understand everything that is happening in the world and many issues. I can understand it from the pain of not knowing. I never questioned God because of what I saw, but it was hard for me to believe in man. Today I understood that it was because man fails, God does not fail. The reality is that. God gave me the opportunity to meet Him, to understand the purpose in my life and to understand that I could continue making music but with the order that would really bless my life, not as I lived before. In this way I can tell you that in the Heavy Metal world I thought I was free because I was going everywhere doing what I liked, I was happy with all those things, going with the little guitar from one place to another, doing everything that I thought makes us at a certain point special because we have a different life, but that the musician’s life is also very sacrificed. Until I had the opportunity to find myself in that relationship, not a religion, because people are tired and have that rejection (the same thing I felt) towards religion. When Jesus walked alongside people showing them true love, what is missing in humanity today. God exists, it is written, no one comes to the father but through the son. Jesus showed us the way. What we have to do is, not as a religion, to tell people that there is an eternity and that we have a possibility to walk with peace, until the end of our days, here on earth, which is going to be very difficult, in fact we are already seeing it, but I have children, friends, with whom I can talk, to the Heavy Metal people, about being free, and not the freedom that I had before but the freedom that I acquired through knowing Jesus and accepting him in my heart. From there I can say that I always believed in God, that now I can understand everything, that man is the one who fails when he presents God to you as a religion, when in reality it is enough that we can read his word in the Bible. It is an important decision to make, because as it is written, God is good, he does not force you to believe or not to believe, it is to take the path. In this final stage of Icaro, personally (because Icaro’s lyrics were always personal), I thank God for giving me the opportunity to be able to give a message through a song or on the cover of an album that I believe should awaken people. It is important to go through the last days that are left to each one of us until Jesus comes, hand in hand with Him, otherwise it would be impossible. We cannot do it alone, and seek God through a relationship, to know Him, how do you know Him? You have no choice but to read the bible, and it is by faith. Churches can fail, in fact it is happening. That is the true path, and how we are going to walk here, all the time we have and the most important thing we can leave to our friends and our children as an inheritance, is to show them the way to true freedom. And if Jesus on the third day, resurrected, he is telling you that when we close our eyes, that it would be very important for people to know that, I am not afraid of death, but where my soul goes when I leave this plane, and that is the second death. There is an eternity with God or an eternity as the world as it is based today. It is not something condemning, God lets you choose between good and bad. We have to understand that accepting Jesus is the direct connection with our Father who is the creator of all things, and it is an important factor that the world needs today, not only Argentina. On the cover of the album, you will see a sword, the meaning is in Hebrews 4:12, as is the word of God, and why nailed in Argentina? Because we live here, but we are really speaking to the world. When people understand that the world is not governed by God, they will understand the reason for all things. I thank God because in this final stage of my life, I was able to understand what was the purpose of each one of us, and today for today, it is a talk that I always have with my friends, with those who approach me, and those whom God puts on the road with a heart predisposed to listen, because it is not about imposing, as a religious. We are not here to condemn, we are here to show the way. After that it is a personal decision.”

We thank you Horacio for your time with us in this article, and as a last question, we would like you to tell us which are the next dates of Ícaro and finally a message for the fans of the band and the readers..

“I am very grateful for the interview, to you Gustavo and all the staff. We just came from playing in Santiago del Estero, where we had a great time and we are preparing to be in Mar Del Plata on April 5th. In May, it was recently confirmed, we were invited through the Icarus label, to play with Tim Ripper Owens. I think Patan, Indios and another band will also be playing. This is going to be on May 17, at El Teatrito. It will be Icaro’s first date in Buenos Aires, participating in this international event. On July 12 we will be in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, in a place called “El Trahuil”, with bands to be confirmed. On July 19, we will celebrate the friend’s day in Ingeniero Jacobacci, Rio Negro, and it will be a very emotional date because it has been a long time since we played there. We have many friends and fans of the band there. We still have to close one stage of the Icaro tour, which could be taking us to Entre Rios, Corrientes and Misiones, and another stage that would take us to Salta and Jujuy, which would be in the second four-month period of the year. The idea of the band is to go to places where we have never been, to present this album, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the band. We know that the official presentation of the album will be in July next year in Buenos Aires. We are working on that. We are trying to invite minimally all the vocalists and musicians that participate in the album. We will also be going through all the band’s discography in an event that will be very special. Greetings to everyone who took the time to read this interview, to all the people who have been following the band for years and to the new audience that has been added during this time. I send you a hug and thank you for always being there, for being there, as that song says, “thank you for being there”, and we are seeing each other in every place we can get to in this last stage of the band. With this album that is coming out, Icaro is somehow saying goodbye to the scene, they were many very nice years and everything also has an end, I think that what we are looking for in this final stage of the band, with this album, and as we are developing this final tour, is to meet with the public we already know and we do not know, and somehow also say Thank you!!! and close this stage. A hug for everyone and thank you very much!!!”