Iron Maiden/Judas Priest type metal, with a Queensryche type singer; Overly dramatic orchestration and mass dual lead guitars; This is barely worth reviewing. Being from Brazil, as with a lot of European bands, metal like this is still very accepted. But unlike a lot of newer, or maybe not so much newer, but newer to these ears and shores, bands of this genre, "Angra" make zero attempt at giving up anything I haven't heard before. And worse, that I haven't heard better. I mean, to say they technically suck would be unfair. All bands like this have an excellent technical command of their respective instruments, with the drummer coming in as the weakest link of this band using straight uninteresting beats and too much ride cymbal. It's like how the guy who teaches guitar in the local music shop can technically rip, but he can't create a meaningful musical idea without stealing it from somewhere else.

There is definitely line between being influenced and just plagiarism. "Angra" not only cross this line, they set up camp deep within the land of stolen ideas. And then to drop another notch or two is the sickening (my god am I only 3 songs into this?) "Lisbon," which is a sappy sappy power ballad without the power. "Progressive Power Metal" is what their fabulous press write-up on the back of this release boasts. Hardly. It is barely metal, definitely not powerful and it's a decade and growing past "progressive".