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SROD is a progressive metal artist from Venezuela. The monicker is a play on the lead artist's real name, Santiago Rodriquez Almenara.
Since his childhood, Santiago had been taking lessons in and playing instruments, including the piano, drums, and cello. Santiago even joined an orchestra as a barritone at age 15. Eventually, he picked up the guitar. in 2003 he started recording under the moniker HARLAST, and by 2006 had built his own studio. In 2004 he took on guitar duties with the band SEXTO SONAR. Whilst playing with Sexto Sonar, SROD was also working on his solo debut album, ''Nature'' which was released through Unicorn Digital in 2012.
SROD's music shows influences from the likes of Vai, Satriani, Gilbert, Moore and Petrucci mixed with the likes of After Forever and Neal Morse.