Music starts hiatus after show, despite the high levels, from SP in SP

Music starts hiatus after show, despite the high levels, from SP in SP

Band ended tour celebrating 20 years of the album ‘Temple of Shadows’ with technically blameless performance, but with Fabio Lione as a fish out of water

From 2026, the public will not have Gravedefinitively, and Angratemporarily. They are two of the largest heavy metal bands in Brazil – and perhaps the only ones who have collected gold albums and still snatch significant crowds for their shows.

The situations, of course, are distinct. The first group quoted will end activities after the completion of a farewell tour, which began in 2024. The second, also last year, confirmed that he would enter a hiatus indefinite after promoting a tour that celebrates the 20 years of Temple of Shadows (2004), his fifth studio album and one of his most emblematic works.

There are similarities in these trajectories. Both Sepultura and Angra gained international success, but suffered from training changes, received contestation from part of the public for this and today preserve only an original member. Still, they resisted and continued their activities as far as it was, pressing the “stop” or “pausing” buttons when they claim to be in their best moments.

Angra during a show in São Paulo, 2025

Rafael Bittencourtguitarist and only founding member still present at Angra, is a little more direct and sincere in justifying the interruption actions. THE Rolling Stone Brazilthe musician, who guaranteed the maintenance of the current formation, declared in an enigmatic tone: “I see that to change the level – and I would like Angra to change the level, because we have a lot of prestige and respect from many layers within music, journalists and other musicians – I think we need to stop us. Thinking about a strategy and getting even more strengthening.”.

What will it take to change a band with a band with more than three decades of career? We will not have the answer now. But the audience who went to watch the final performance before the hiatus last Sunday, 3, at Tokio Marine Hall, in São Paulo, seemed to approve the current stage of the complete quintet by Fabio Lione (voice), Marcelo Barbosa (guitar), Felipe Andreoli (low) and Bruno Valverde (battery).

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Opening attraction that made sense

Before Angra took the stage, the public that gradually filled the event house in the south of São Paulo Azeroth and Viper. It was not possible to give the performance of the first group, the strong name of the Argentine Power Metal, but the one that writes you and many others have arrived in time to honor the second, one of the most iconic names of national heavy metal.

Viper

Have lost the bassist and vocalist Pit Passarell Last year for cancer would be a convincing reason to make Viper at least reduce their activities. Fortunately, the replacement piece fitted well both musically and the history of the group: Dani Matosbrother of ANDRE MATOSlate first vocalist of both the opening band and the main attraction.

Viper

In a set of approximately an hour, he and his colleagues LEANDRO CAÇALO (voice), Felipe Machado (guitar), Kiko Shred (guitar) and Guilherme Martin (drums) mixed classics of their repertoire with less popular songs from the past and Timeless (2023), your latest album. One of them, the energetic “Under the Sun”opened the repertoire in an energetic way. They stood out:

  • “To Live Again”thorough proof that the group had different composers since forever;
  • “Soldiers of Sunrise”title track of the typically Power Metal vein album with Martin’s private show and there is a long time for the shows;
  • “Dead Light”album representative Evolution (1992) that highlights the great merit of curl in also flowing well by interpreting songs originally sung by PIT;
  • “The Spreading Soul”having Dani sharing vocals with Leandro and, in the background, a beautiful photo of Andre and Pit to honor them;
  • The irrefutably classic “A Cry From The Edge”, “Rebel Maniac” and “Living for the Night”this featured by Rafael Bittencourt.
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Sunday’s performance, 3, was recorded for later release as a live album. Even with losses, life continues – and Viper too.

Viper

Setlist – Viper

1.
2. To live again
3. Dead light
4. Cry from the edge
5. Soldiers of Sunrise
6.
7. The Spreading Soul (dedicated to Pit Passarell and Andre Matos)
8. Timeless
9. PRELUDE TO OBLIVION
10. Living for the Night (with Rafael Bittencourt)
11. Rebel Maniac

Angra’s farewell (temporary)

About 20 minutes after the scheduled time – probably the result of the delays of the opening attractions – Angra took the stage of Tokio Marine Hall for the last time in a long time. Besides executing Temple of Shadows In full, the quintet selected three songs from different albums to open and another five to close. It was approximately two hours and 20 minutes of a technically impeccable performance, even though the high and low -defined sound and the low microphones have sometimes disturbed a little.

Angra

Of the eight tracks that are not on the 2004 album, five are uncontested classics of the Brazilian band: the opening “Nothing to Say”, “Rebirth” (with one of the two participation of the talented MPB singer Vanessa Moreno at night), “Angels Cry”, “Carry on” (closed after soils) and “New Age”. From the album Rebirth (2001), “Millennium Sun” It seemed to have entered by simply fitting to Fabio Lione’s voice than the most famous options, while “Tide of Changes” It is possibly the best song of the most recent unpublished work, Cycles of Pain (2023). There was also space for a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne – whose name was also stamped on the Bittencourt T -shirt – with an execution of “No More Tears”responsible for showing how difficult it is to interpret the compositions of the late singer.

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But the biggest highlights resided in the full performance of Temple of Shadows. His refined repertoire of eleven songs (in addition to two vignettes) gather, in turbo mode, all kinds of sound that made Angra known: power metal, progressive metal, classical music, Brazilian music and huge technical rigor. With the aid of pre-recorded materials for orchestras and other distinct instruments, the instrumental quartet was able to reproduce everything very faithfully.

Angra

The variable was Fabio Lione, sometimes a fish out of water in the artistic context of this group. Even with its undeniable technical baggage, the Italian vocalist from Rhapsody (of fire) did not always do well when performing the complicated lines of Edu Falaschiresponsible for the main microphone on the 2004 album. Pudera: Your record is very different from the singer to whom she replaced at the beginning of the past decade. Perhaps the biggest trouble is to put it to play songs-and complete albums-of its predecessors, with four 2-year-old record-making tours.

Angra

In songs that do not require as much delicacy, as in the opening of the album “Spread Your Fire”in the incredibly virtuous “Angels and Demons”in the fierce “The Temple of Hate” and in the typically power metal “Winds of Destination”the Italian does well. Where there is a greater requirement for sensitivity in interpretation, as in the complex “The Shadow Hunter”in the Brazilian “Sprouts of Time”in the underestimated “Morning Star” and in “Late Redemption” (with Bittencourt in the microphone for the parts of Milton Nascimento), sincerely, it is difficult to hear it. Whether in the good or bad moments of the set, most of the time misses the vocalist who made the original album-and, say, no Falaschi can perform today the 2004 lines with such similar quality, due to the effects caused by long problems with reflux.

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Critical daydreams aside, the reaction of the audience is unquestionable. And both Lione and his colleagues had approved by the nearly 4,000 present at Tokio Marine Hall from start to finish. Few heavy sound bands in Brazil have managed to develop such synergy with the public like Angra – to the point of each member, when introduced to fans, being hailed and hearing his name shouted in choir. Even the Italian singer, who is not and does not need to be unanimous.

Angra

This strong connection to those who are willing to leave home to watch them is what should keep Angra alive after this hiatus. May, upon return, the group keep this indispensable bond and also preserve the good internal climate among the members, something visible on the stage. As highlighted by Rafael Bittencourt himself in a speech in the middle of the show: “From the beginning, it has never been so nice to be in the band, so tasty to work together. This was very difficult to conquer and very important”.

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Setlist – Angra

Part 1:

1. Nothing to Say
2. Millennium Sun
3. Tide of Changes – Part I
4. Tide of Changes – Part II

Part 2 – Temple of Shadows:

5. God Le Volt! + Spread Your Fire
6. Angels and Demon
7. Waiting Silence
8. WISHING WELL
9. The Temple of Hate
10. The Shadow Hunter
11. no pain for the dead
12. Winds of Destination
13. Sprouts of Time
14. Morning Star
15. Late Redemption

Part 3:

16. Rebirth
17. Angels Cry
18. No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne’s cover)

Bis:

19. Unfinished Allegro + Carry On (shortened)
20. New Age
Other: Gate XIII

See also:

+++ Read more: Angra tells RS everything you need to know about hiatus, final shows and ‘temple of shadows’
+++ Read more: Edu Falaschi talks to RS about tour, Temple of Shadows, Next Album and Guilherme Arantes
+++ Read more: the Brazilian drummer who changed the life of Achilles Priester
+++ Read more: the metal guitarist who can help Toninho Geraes beat Adele in court
+++ Read more:
Three Brazilians are elected best drummers in the world by Modern Drummer
+++ click here to follow Rolling Stone Brasil @rollingstonebrasil on Instagram
+++ Click here to follow journalist Igor Miranda @igormirandasite on Instagram


Source: Rollingstone

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