Delizioso... quest'album è il vero capolavoro firmato Angra, ne sono fermamente convinto... "Reaching Horizons" è quanto di meglio Andrè Matos, Rafael Bittencourt, Kiko Loureiro, Luis Mariutti e Ricardo Confessori abbiano mai prodotto. Fresco, originale, tecnico e mai noioso, "Reaching Horizons" presenta al suo interno molti dei capolavori contenuti nel clamoroso debut album "Angels Cry", qui presentati nelle loro versioni originali, questo è proprio il punto a favore dell' album che ci fa notare l'evoluzione compositiva e tecnica del gruppo: a proposito dell' evoluzione tecnica, bisogna dire che al fine di equilibrare meglio i suoni, in "Angels Cry" il bravissimo Mariutti (per chi non lo sapesse è il primo bassista della band) ha avuto meno spazio per esprimersi, cosa che su questo demo assolutamente non avviene, determinando così una sezione ritmica ancora più approfondita e curata.
Il disco è composto da otto tracce, delle quali ben cinque saranno presenti nel disco successivo, qui addirittura presentate con testi leggermente diversi che contribuiscono a modo loro ad abbellire il prodotto, già di per sè ottimo. L'album si apre con la bellissima "Evil Warning", che viene aperta dall'ugola preziosissima di un giovane Andre Matos che accompagnato da un bellissimo coro, ci introduce alla song: è proprio qui che il basso si fa sentire maggiormente che nella versione ufficiale ed è un vero peccato aver tagliato dei piccoli ma fantastici soli che Mariutti sfoderava al momento giusto. La song risulta un essere un piccolo gioiello di power/progressive metal, basato per lo più su tastiere e batteria (onnipresente), ricco di cambi di tempi ed assolo, facendoci subito capire l' intensione principale del gruppo, ossia comporre capolavori e almeno in questo caso ci riescono alla grande! Seconda song ed ancora un classico, sto parlando di "Time", track che si apre con un tanto dolcissimo quanto raffinato arpeggio di chitarra classica, che accompagna Matos, in un crescendo melodico che al minuto 1 e 21 secondi, esplode in una speed track dal forte impatto; la voce disegna melodie diverse dalla "Time" che tutti conosciamo, rendendo così più particolare la versione in questione. Ancora una volta eccellente il lavoro di tutti i componenti, con una lode particolare nuovamente al basso e questa volta anche alle chitarre, veramente sublimi. Si passa così a "Reaching Horizons", dolcissima ballad, di rara bellezza, una di quelle canzoni che raramente capita di essere ascoltate: la song è idealmente divisibile in due parti, una melodica ed acustica ed una seconda che mantiene sempre una delicatezza disarmante, alla quale ben si sposano però le chitarre elettriche: ennesimo capolavoro.
Ed ora... signore e signori... assisterete (o meglio ascolterete) AL CAPOLAVORO Angra... preparatevi, siamo arrivati alla maestosa "Carry On": classico intro dell'incompiuto di Schubert e via... chitarre distorte, devote alla velocità più pura; in questa canzone c'è tutto dai cambi di tempo agli assolo, dall' aggressività alla dolcezza, non manca nulla, inoltre la prova di Matos qui raggiunge punte sublimi e mai sentite. Splendida la sezione ritmica che svolge un lavoro unico nella precisione e nella velocità, ma un ottimo lavoro viene svolto anche dai cori. Fantastico risulta essere inoltre l'assolo del duo Bittencourt/Loureiro. STORICA, non ci sono altre parole per definirla. Le altre tracce, per quanto belle non brillano come le precedenti, ma due parole vanno spese per la versione rivista di "Wuthering Heights", che al posto della base in piano, si sviluppa tutta su chitarre ben distorte ed il ritornello che si muove tra tempi prima velocizzati e poi rallentati. In finale, pur non raggiungendo la bellezza di "Angels Cry" a causa di evidenti deficits in fase di produzione e per alcune pecche di giovinezza, l'album si eleva a capolavoro ed è secondo il sottoscritto da considerare come album fondamentale nella carriera di questi fantastici artisti. Da avere.
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Carry On (06:35)
Simple minded brain
For now you succumb
Nothing changes your way
This world insists to be the same
Based on our mistakes
The flowers fade along the road
Don't blindfold your eyes,
So loneliness becomes the law
Of a senseless life
Follow your steps and you will find
The unknown ways are on your mind
Need nothing else than just your pride
To get there... [Go!]
Now you have to face another day
You won't be alone
This life is forcing us to stay
- For how long?
Cold is the wind and thunder struck
On a stormy night
But can't you see, I'm by your side
We are marching on!
Follow your steps and you will find
The unknown ways are on your mind
Need nothing else than just your pride
To get there...
So, carry on,
There's a meaning to life
Which someday we may find...
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past, to carry on
Follow your steps and you will find
The unknown ways are on your mind
Need nothing else than just your pride
To get there...
So, carry on,
There's a meaning to life
Which someday we may find...
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past
So, carry on,
There's a meaning to life
Which someday we may find...
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past, to carry on
The remains from the past, to carry on
The remains from the past...
03 Angels Cry (07:16)
Cry in the night of angels
For that light that never shines
With their hearts so full of sorrow
Muddy waters all around
The curtain falls for helpless souls
How they suffer swept aside
And the raging streams are flowing
with so little hope inside
(It's like)
Angels crying
Can't take no more
Angels dying
Captured in the fall
Try to see this misery
your future is not what you wished it to be
So try to fly, the answer lies
in the angry darkened skies
(angry darkened skies)
You just keep on standing in these fields all your life
You sow the seeds that never grow
No harvest comes such a strain to feed the few
Still you're waiting, it's in vain...
The change must come right now!
Oh, see the sun in the sky
(From the dawn of destruction)
Free, free this chain from my heart...
(chain, chain, chain)
Hear the cry of angels
from that life you cannot hide
The change may come tomorrow
for the solemn weeping eyes
(Like)
Angels crying
Can't take no more
Angels dying
Captured in the fall
Try to see this misery
your future is not what you wished it to be
So try to fly, the answer lies
in the angry darkened skies
(angry darkened skies)
You just keep on standing in these fields all your life
You sow the seeds that never grow
No harvest comes such a strain to feed the few
Still you're waiting, it's in vain...
The change must come right now!
Angels are crying and dying
There must be some way
endless you stray, still you pray for a better life
Nobody sees when a glimpse
of your target lies behind you,
Like steps of the pilgrims unshined!
SOLO: Kiko
04 Time (05:39)
[Matos, Bittencourt]
This time I wanna know what life means...
... to live it again
I'm looking forward, feel the light shine in my eyes
And now I know, my instincts were not wrong
And many things can be done
I don't believe now
That I'm dreaming alone
Oh, we're searching for the love
that everyone's got, but can't see
Oh, beyond the flesh and blood
there's so much hidden behind
as so much more we've gotta give...
Sanity brings up the sadness
that keeps your illusions locked in a little box
Fright comes, you find yourself lonely
in a cage of conclusions crowding your mind
You sit back bowing your head
Every answer - yes
Why don't you trust me and shed out your fears,
Running over the tears you've contained
now cover up your eyes
- Is it good for you?
I will be here when fire burns!
Welcome on board
over here is the ship of your life
So rotten that will cast away
I'll be your sweet lullaby all the night
And if you get lost you can hold my hand...
And I'll be here when fire burns
(Inside your heart)
Climb up the hills and mountains,
don't forget what you've learned!
Life makes us feel the time we cannot hold
Time makes us live a tale already told
Time makes us heal a feeling inside
a feeling that lies in our heart
that we stole away...
And I'll be here when fire burns
(Inside your heart)
Climb up the hills and mountains,
don't forget what you've learned!
Life makes us feel (life makes us feel)
The time we cannot hold
Time makes us live (time makes us live)
A tale already told
Time makes us heal (time makes us heal)
A feeling inside
a feeling that lies in our heart
that we stole away...
05 Evil Warning (06:23)
Evil Warning
[Matos, Bittencourt]
[INTRO]
Miles away
You're heading for the unknown
and there's no way to get back
Time to complain
Nobody is telling the truth
To live in the crowd
sick of my own vanity
Dead scattered petals around
Hymns of betrayal
calling you back for attack
Evil warning
Grown fast, too high
so sorry
Ends up the time
To cry and feel the pain
In the morning
start up the fight
so lonely...
with no fore-sight
until another day!
Run, don't wait the sun,
ride down the hill
Don't look behind
the evil crimes are chained
Until the end!
[SOLO]
[INTRO]
Evil warning
Grow fast, too high,
so sorry
ends up the time
to cry and feel the pain
Run, don't wait for the sun,
ride down the hill
Don't look behind
the evil crimes are chained
Until the end!
Don't let your pride
make your blood flow in vain
Until the end...
06 Reaching Horizons (05:35)
Rainy clouds covered up the sunny sky
Now I know I'll sleep alone tonight
Tears and prayers will be taken by the rain
Fear and loneliness in my dreams
And I know I'll never be the same
Living this tragedy insane
All I wanna be is to be free with you, with me
I don't blame the fate but it's still hard to face
The truth
It was all just like paradise
Just like we wanted it to be
Far beyond the reason rest our lives
Eternity denies the guilt of reality senselessness
Fly high reaching skies
Two eagles flying to be free
Moments of madness will be left behind
The same horizons but in different lands
07 Carry On (06:36)
Simple minded brain
For now you succumb
Nothing changes your way
This world insists to be the same
Based on our mistakes
The flowers fade along the road
Don't blindfold your eyes,
So loneliness becomes the law
Of a senseless life
Follow your steps and you will find
The unknown ways are on your mind
Need nothing else than just your pride
To get there... [Go!]
Now you have to face another day
You won't be alone
This life is forcing us to stay
- For how long?
Cold is the wind and thunder struck
On a stormy night
But can't you see, I'm by your side
We are marching on!
Follow your steps and you will find
The unknown ways are on your mind
Need nothing else than just your pride
To get there...
So, carry on,
There's a meaning to life
Which someday we may find...
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past, to carry on
Follow your steps and you will find
The unknown ways are on your mind
Need nothing else than just your pride
To get there...
So, carry on,
There's a meaning to life
Which someday we may find...
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past
So, carry on,
There's a meaning to life
Which someday we may find...
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past
Carry on, it's time to forget
The remains from the past, to carry on
The remains from the past, to carry on
The remains from the past...
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