Angra - Best Reached Horizons |
Published October 11 2012
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| Genre | Prog. Power Metal |
André Matos/Eduardo Falaschi
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 20 |
Kiko Loureiro
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Guitar
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| Running time | 118 Min. |
Rafael Bittencourt
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Guitar
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| Label | SPV |
Luís Mariutti/Felipe Andreoli
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Bass
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| Release | 24 October 2012 |
R. Confessori/Aquiles Priester
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Drums
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| Country | Brazil |
See review
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Keyboard
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| Producer | See review | ||
| Similar artists | --- | ||
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
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5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe |
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Related links: www.angra.net |
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