ANGRA Celebrate 15th Anniversary, Begin Recording New Album

June 9, 2006

2006 is a very special year in the career of Brazilian heavy metal band ANGRA: the group is celebrating its 15th year of existence. Tours, all sorts of promo events and a brand new studio album shall definitely make it a remarkable year for the band. After all, very few Brazilian acts managed to survive this far.

ANGRA spent the first semester of 2006 resuming the touring for its latest album, "Temple of Shadows". The tour began back in mid-2004 and results of such intense work couldn't be different: as usual, ANGRA won several prizes in the annual readers' polls of Brazilian magazines. Rock Brigade, Comando Rock and Roadie Crew are the most important mags in the country and ANGRA won in several 2005 categories, both as a band ("Best Show" and "Best of all Time" in Comando Rock and "Best Show" in Rock Brigade) and as individual musicians (Kiko Loureiro was "Best Guitarist" and Aquiles Priester was "Best Drummer" in the opinion of Rock Brigade and Roadie Crew readers; Felipe Andreoli was "Best Bassist" in Roadie Crew).

The band has recently done the very last shows of the winning tour — it encompassed all Brazilian states and practically every continent in the world (ANGRA played all of them with the exception of Africa). Amongst these last appearances, highlights were the headlining spot at the traditional Abril Pro Rock festival in Recife and the first trip to Venezuela, where a gig in Caracas was held in early May. The tour finally came to an end with ANGRA's participation of the Gods Of Metal festival in Italy (June 3). It was the tenth edition of the fest and the band played most of its classics during the hour-long set.

However, the best is yet to come. ANGRA celebrates its 15th anniversary with a new studio record. Songwriting process started towards the end of the "Temple of Shadows" tour and the band is currently pre-producing the album with producer Dennis Ward at House Of Audio Studios in Germany. Drums recording will follow, also in Germany. Then, the band heads back to Brazil where all the remaining stuff shall be recorded. Mixing will be done in Germany again.

The band's decided it's not gonna be a conceptual album this time, even though it's still unnamed. Prior to its release, though, there's a single coming out in August. The record itself should be out in October with touring beginning right away.

Also in October, ANGRA is taking part of another big event: the band's been invited to play in the Loud Park Festival. It will happen in Japan in October 14-15. Besides ANGRA, several other important bands are playing there, such as SLAYER, MEGADETH, NAPALM DEATH, BACKYARD BABIES, MINISTRY and many more.

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