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| Angra: Ranking from Worst to Best
I really like Angra, they're the perfect mix between power and progressive metal with a bit of brasilian folk.
Angra's discography is very unique in power metal, as their style changed from album to album (and their band members too).
So here's my album rankings with my personal opinions and favourite tracks.
First list, every advice is appreciated.
Shoutouts to Sabrutin~ | | 8 |  | Angra
Aqua
In this album, as in Aurora Consurgens, they focused too much on the "progressive" side, ignoring their power/folk roots, resulting in a not so fun listen.
In addiction, Edu's vocals finally hit bottom.
2.5 / 5.0
Favourite track: Arising Thunder | | 7 |  | Angra
Aurora Consurgens
For some reason, after the huge Temple of Shadows they decided that making power metal wasn't fun anymore and that they needed to make complex and unmemorable progressive songs insted of catchy choruses and riffs, while Edu's vocals get worse and worse.
Don't get me wrong, this album is good, but it doesn't have any outstanding tracks.
Overall I found this album a bit boring, but it definitely has its moments, for example solo in "Salvation: Suicide" or chorus in "Breaking Ties", while "Course of Nature" nicely recalls the progressive style in Holy Land.
3.0 / 5.0
Favourite track: Breaking Ties | | 6 |  | Angra
Fireworks
I really like this album, it feels like it could last way less but it has some excellent songs, "Gentle Change" is superb.
This is the last album with Matos as a vocalist, which is really sad even though he didn't give me the chills here like he did in Holy Land or Angels Cry.
3.0 / 5.0
Favourite track: Gentle Change | | 5 |  | Angra
Secret Garden
This is their last release dated 2015, with Fabio Lione as a vocalist (k then).
After the two hit-or-miss albums that are Aqua and Aurora (mainly miss) they took the "safe way" and managed to release a great and fun record: many catchy songs with the right amount of proggy elements.
Hearing Fabio singing in Angra is weird, i mean Matos and Edu had similar voices, Fabio's is completely different, but it's fine he's awesome.
Title track featuring Simone Simons from Epica!
3.5 / 5.0
Favourite track: Black Hearted Soul | | 4 |  | Angra
Rebirth
Rebirth has literally been a rebirth for the band, as three of the band's members changed between Fireworks and this album.
Not only Rebirth contains many of the best power metal songs the band has ever played, but it also has the same progressive brazilian folk style that the band admirably used to record Holy Land.
You can sum up this album in two songs to understand the band's ideas here: "Nova Era", a nearly perfect power metal song and "Unholy Wars" which could easily fit in Holy Land tracklist. This album has no fillers.
In this album we first meet Eduardo Falaschi aka Edu, at his best performance.
4.0 / 5.0
Favourite track: Unholy Wars | | 3 |  | Angra
Angels Cry
And here come the big boys.
This is one of the best debut albums i've ever heard, guitars are fantastic, Matos' vocals are awesome, every track's chorus will get stuck in your head for a long time after you hear them.
While still searching for their real identity (which they would eventually found in the next album chronologically), Angra managed to release a very solid album, and should be in every power metal fan's collection.
Angels Cry flows really well, and it's the perfect start for an awesome discography as Angra's.
4.5 / 5.0
Favourite track: Streets of Tomorrow | | 2 |  | Angra
Temple of Shadows
Considered by many one of the best power metal albums ever, and the band's best, here's Temple of Shadows!
This album has so many killer tracks that i don't even know where to start.
Riffs, solos and choruses are mindblowing, you won't easily find many power metal songs better than these. "Temple of Hate" and "Spread Your Fire" are classics.
I often wonder how this album would sounds like with Matos at vocals, but then i realize that Edu's raw voice fits perfectly in tracks like "Waiting Silence", and he somehow made them more memorable.
4.5 / 5.0
Favourite track: Waiting Silence | | 1 |  | Angra
Holy Land
This is the band's most experimental album: a concept album about the discovery of America which perfectly mixes power/progressive metal with brazilian folk, it feels like the band put their heart and traditions in this album, i love it.
Holy Land is not simply one of the best power metal albums ever released, but it is also unique, there are no other albums that mix so well two genres apparently incompatible.
In Holy Land we hear the band's best instrumental performances, Matos' best vocals and their best progressive and creative songs.
Tracks like "Nothing to Say", or "Z.I.T.O." will fill you with adrenaline while others like "Carolina IV" or "The Shaman" will lead you through this sea of progressive folk music.
I love every minute of this album, but my favourites tracks are "Silence and Distance" and "Holy Land".
5.0 / 5.0
Favourite track: Holy Land | |
Rik VII
03.04.16 | good job!
top 3 is top 3, the order of those is quite interchangable imo. | Sabrutin
03.04.16 | Can't really say anything useful but I'll give you a bump. | Rikkukun
03.04.16 | Thank you guys.
@RikRoach7 I sometimes considered giving Angels Cry a 4.0 but damn that would be brutal. | Rik VII
03.04.16 | I think Angel's Cry is my favorite, that album is just so much fun. But like I said, it's all a matter of taste with the top 3, since they are all top-notch power metal. | DungeonBoy
03.04.16 | Dude! I've been on such a revisted Angra kick lately. Sadly the only songs I really enjoy are:
Carry On
Nothing to Say
Nova Era
Silence and Distance
Metal Icarus
Heroes of Sand
Mystery Machine
I gave Aqua a spin and wow, no bueno. | DungeonBoy
03.04.16 | Oh yeah, also I like your list. | Rikkukun
03.05.16 | Thank you man! |
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