Angra

Angra is a Brazilian power metal band formed in 1991. They have released ten regular studio albums, six EPs and seven live CD/DVDs to date. Led by Rafael Bittencourt, the band has gained a degree of popularity in Japan and Europe. Angra holds profound historical importance in the Brazilian heavy metal scene. Emerging in the early 1990s, the band spearheaded a major national movement for melodic, progressive and power metal. They demonstrated that Brazilian groups could achieve top‑tier technical mastery, paving the way for many other melodic metal bands in Latin America and expanding the country’s musical export. Musically, the band was revolutionary for its unique and highly ambitious compositional style. Angra broke new ground by seamlessly integrating fast‑paced European‑style power metal and intricate progressive metal with classical orchestration and indigenous Brazilian rhythms such as baião, frevo and maracatu. This innovative fusion — most notably showcased on their critically acclaimed early albums Angels Cry (1993) and Holy Land (1996) — established a completely new paradigm within the global melodic metal subgenre.
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