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Angra - Best Reached Horizons

Published October 11 2012


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=Staff's pick

CD 1:
Carry On*
Angels Cry
Wuthering Heights
Evil Warning
Nothing To Say
Holy Land
Carolina IV (Live)
Freedom Call
Lisbon
Metal Icarus

CD 2:
Nova Era*
Rebirth
Hunters And Prey
Spread Your Fire
Waiting Silence
The Course Of Nature
Salvation: Suicide
Arising Thunder
Lease Of Life
Kashmir

Genre Prog. Power Metal
André Matos/Eduardo Falaschi
Vocals
Tracks 20
Kiko Loureiro
Guitar
Running time 118 Min.
Rafael Bittencourt
Guitar
Label SPV
Luís Mariutti/Felipe Andreoli
Bass
Release 24 October 2012
R. Confessori/Aquiles Priester
Drums
Country Brazil
See review
Keyboard
Producer See review
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Additional musicians: Alex Holzwartz, Thomas Nack (drums), Günter Werno, Leck Filho, Miro Rodenberg, Fabrizio Di Sarno, Felipe Grytz (keyboard), Sascha Paeth (acoustic guitar, keyboard), Maria Ilmoniemi (piano, organ), Douglas Las Casas, Tuto Ferraz, Maurício Alves, Guga Machado (percussion), Roman Mekinulov, Yaniel Matos (cello), Sabine Edelsbacher (vocals), among others.

Producers: Charlie Bauerfeind, Sascha Paeth, Chris Tsangarides, Dennis Ward, Brendan Duffey, Adriano Daga and Angra.

With no lead vocalist in the band since the departure of Edu Falaschi earlier this year, the Brazilian outfit is probably out there looking for a new frontman, if they decide to continue with the band's activities. Meanwhile we are presented a best of double CD, including twenty songs from two decades of Angra music. Disc one is taken from the nineties with André Matos behind the mic and disc two shows parts of this century's work with Falaschi's vocal duties.

You can always question the choice of songs picked for a best of album and I won't list the songs I would have preferred to be included on this collection, but I think they pretty much did a good job to show what Angra is all about. This is power metal with progressive elements, or the other way around, progressive with power metal elements and as we all know, this type of music has, in the recent years, been going on a downward spiral, but retro and nostalgia are always powerful tools, so some kind of turning point will perhaps hit us in the somewhat near future.

See also review of: Secret Garden , Angels Cry 20th Anniversary Tour , Temple Of Shadows

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Summary



5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe


Related links:

www.angra.net
www.myspace.com/angraofficial
www.facebook.com/angraofficial