Angra: Holy land

(1996, Rising sun)


    Tracklist:
  1. Crossing
  2. Nothing to say
  3. Silence and distance
  4. Carolina IV
  5. Holy land
  6. The shaman
  7. Make believe
  8. Z.I.T.O.
  9. Deep blue
  10. Lullaby for Lucifer
Band members:
Andre Matos - Vocals
Kiko Loureiro - Guitars
Rafael Bittencourt - Guitars
Luis Mariutti - Bass guitar
Ricardo Confessori - Drums

    Rating:
    Second album from brazilian metallers Angra, and the thing they do is progressive metal, perhaps even progressive POWER metal I dunno. And what is that then. Well put it this way: regular melodic metal, but with a lot of different influences for example acoustic or piano passages here and there. Very Dream Theater inspired stuff I can tell ya.
    The singer Andre Matos has this really great voice, clean all the way (of course), other singers in this genre tend to go too high sometimes but Matos doesn't. Anyway it's great great great. Also great lyrics, and for the guitar solos... these guys are really talented guitarists, remember that. Not one bad second on this album so it easily picks the 5 stars.





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