Helena Kotina is the new guitarist Nervosa. She will pair up on six strings with Prika Amaral and will soon enter the studio to record the fifth album by the Brazilian band. Kotina was born in Greece, has played with Daffodil and along with Paul Di’Anno (ex Iron Maiden) and Gus G. (Firewindex Ozzy Osbourne), in addition to having released a solo Ep: One Of Those Days (2022). Likewise, he has already acted as temporary live bassist for the bands themselves. Nervosa.
Nanu Villalba
In December it was learned that the union of Nervosa with the battery Nanu Villalba. The Brazilian band had presented Nanu at the beginning of September. The young 23-year-old Argentine drummer (Artemisia, Meraxes, Nohva…) is no longer part of Nervosa. The reason is that they did not find “a common agreement”.
NERVOSA:
NERVOSA ANNOUNCES A SECOND GUITARIST
“The position will be filled by guitarist Helena Kotina. In its beginnings Nervosa was made up of two guitarists, but following the departure of Karen Ramos the band decided to stay as a trio for logistical reasons.
After the complete line-up change in 2020, Prika thought regarding adding a second guitarist, but decided to do it later, there were too many new members in the band to manage alone and the line-up had already gone from 3-piece to 4-piece, increasing the costs of band tour in general, so the addition of a second guitarist had to be postponed.
A few months following the release of “Perpetual Chaos”, in March 2021, Prika called Helena to join Nervosa, they have since started composing a new album together.
At the end of 2022, Mia might not come on tour in Latin America, so Prika thought of asking Helena to come play bass and have the first experience of touring with Nervosa.
Helena Kotina is a young guitarist born and raised in Greece. She picked up the guitar at the age of 14, her main influences being bands like Scorpions, Rainbow, Deep Purple… Her professional career began with the release of the first EP by the Greek band Daffodil called ‘A hope for things that never come’. In the summer of 2022 she released her first personal work called ‘One of those days’ and later toured with Nervosa as bassist on their Latin American tour. Also later in the year, Ella Helena played alongside Paul Di’Anno and Gus G on their Greek tour.
Nervosa is finishing the new songs now and very soon they are going into the studio to record the 5th album in Nervosa’s career.
Welcome Helen.”
