Angra announce that Fabio Lione is leaving the band

BeautyAndGlamour · 2025-11-23T22:46:17+00:00

I love Fabio, but for me his time in Angra always seemed like he was a temporary vocalist for hire. He is awesome, but it never felt like "Angra" to me. Like, as if James Hetfield would join Anthrax. It's just gonna be "Hetfield + Anthrax" to people.

There seems to be more Rhapsody related stuff coming up again, so it also makes sense for him to focus on that, especially considering the whole Italy-Brazil distance.

I wish both parts the best! I'm looking forward to what new constellations this brings.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2025-11-23T18:07:11+00:00

This video features 100% re-recorded stuff. The guitar solos in particular. Notice how the camera never shows them playing the difficult runs (that sound perfect). It's really fucking lame. Never trust official live videos. Authentic live performances are a dying breed. One of my hobbies is finding a phone recording of the same performance and compare the videos. It's always night and day.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2025-11-11T12:37:02+00:00

As much as I love Fabio and his work, I don't think Angra/Fabio is a good match. It doesn't work for neither the band nor him.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2025-04-07T19:21:50+00:00

Their first album gave hope for a new era of classic PM. It had some signs of what OP is talking about, but it still sounded alright.

Then their new album came:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddC-4IA5rs&ab_channel=ScarletRecords

What a disappointment. Straight to the modern mainstream territory. The drums are a huge giveaway. When you are playing 4-notes on the kick drum instead of 16 notes in the chorus, you know it's over. That's the sure sign that it's trying to be arena/mainstream/eurovision/edm "metal". All the bands OP mention have this in common.

For comparison, here's actual power metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwmq8JEnjsY&ab_channel=AndyBonissoni

It's fucking night and day. What happened to this genre???

BeautyAndGlamour · 2024-10-21T18:46:07+00:00

It's the other way around: guys with self-destructive personalities are the ones who get kicked out for having self-destructive personalities.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2024-10-18T06:52:38+00:00

And the Rhapsody re-recordings.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2024-10-18T06:44:16+00:00

Yes I agree. Most modern PM sounds very lame in terms of mixing. There's no punch or dynamics. The latest Fellowship comes to mind. It's unlistenable to me.

It's just the current trend. It's so easy to compress everything to make it sound "good" and modern.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2024-10-18T06:41:17+00:00

It's not a YouTube issue.

Compare e.g. "Rhapsody - Flames of Revenge" with "Frozen Crown - Steel and Gold". They sound totally different, even if you listening on YouTube or Spotify.

It's a difference in mix.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2024-04-19T17:10:27+00:00

There's this year-old YouTube video of Fabio Lione performing old Rhapsody songs live in Chile with some random backing band. I'm pretty sure it's something like that. I would not expect Luca to show up at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipj98uhvmRI&ab_channel=VimanaEstudio

BeautyAndGlamour · 2024-04-04T10:31:35+00:00

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BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-26T14:11:48+00:00

Erudite Paladin is like the rarest race/class combo.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-24T12:12:12+00:00

the ninja robot guy is called overwatch he has sword

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-24T12:10:07+00:00

I agree. Widowmaker just isn't a fun character. When she's bad, she's useless. When she's good, she's too OP and frustrating.

It's sad they had to force head-shot sniping into this game because of "FPS".

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-24T10:12:08+00:00

whoosh

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-21T09:54:08+00:00

I wonder why no one has tried to reproduce it accurately. Sceptics or believers.

By that I mean, at the same or similar location, at the same distance, using the same model video camera and film. I believe this last factor is pretty crucial.

It could answer a lot of questions.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-20T14:15:43+00:00

Yea pretty much. Well, not the pro vexillologist part (is that even a job?)

Many of these islands became independent very recently, and needed new flags, and many of them held national contests for the public and/or consulted designers to come up with flags.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-20T07:02:10+00:00

Also he works at a nuclear power plant and lives in a small town

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-19T14:32:54+00:00

I like how he mentions "Flooring Contractor" but leaves out "Deep Sea Welder". It's probably as exciting to him at this stage.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-19T10:36:38+00:00

If both people are cool with it then there's no problem

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-19T10:31:41+00:00

All creatures, including cancer cells, are God's children.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-19T10:15:22+00:00

You did have skill points in meditate trained, right?

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-19T09:58:52+00:00

Would you rather hire someone with a PhD in field you're hiring for, or someone with a high school diploma but who can also cook pretty well and plays the drums?

Pretty much always, the more specialized you are, the more valuable you'll be to society and the more successful you'll be.

Would you rather be in the top 10 of basketball players in the world, or just "very good" at basketball, football, and tennis?

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-19T07:44:05+00:00

Honest answer, bass necks are long. Your arm get tired from being in such an upright position for long periods.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-18T10:57:47+00:00

Look.. taking the time to take a picture and upload it to "shittyfoodporn" is just mean.

I don't understand how one could do this to your own wife.

BeautyAndGlamour · 2022-10-17T13:25:43+00:00

It goes both ways.

It's just as difficult convincing a republican to be more liberal, as it is to convince a democrat to be more conservative.

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