''ØMNI'' is the ninth full-length studio album by Brazilian progressive/

power metal Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in co ...

band Angra and the first album by the band with guitarist

Marcelo Barbosa Marcelo Silva Barbosa (; born April 7, 1975) is a Brazilian guitarist and music teacher. He is a founder or member of other Brazilian bands like progressive metal act Khallice and former Angra (band), Angra vocalist Edu Falaschi's band Almah (ban ...

(known for his work with

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) replacing

Kiko Loureiro Pedro Henrique "Kiko" Loureiro (; born 16 June 1972) is a Brazilian guitarist. He has been a member of several heavy metal bands, including Angra and Megadeth. Career Loureiro began studying music and playing acoustic guitar at age 11. He stud ...

, who left the band to join

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. It was elected the 2nd best metal album of 2018 by the traditional Japanese heavy metal magazine

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Track listing

All lyrics are written by

Rafael Bittencourt Angra is a Brazilian power metal and progressive 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 a ...

Personnel

Angra *

Fabio Lione Fabio Tordiglione (born 9 October 1973), known professionally as Fabio Lione, is an Italian singer who has worked with many bands in the heavy metal music, heavy metal genre. He was known for being the singer of Italian symphonic power metal ba ...

– vocals * Rafael Bittencourt – guitars, vocals on "The Bottom of My Soul" *

– guitars *

Felipe Andreoli Felipe Andreoli (born March 7, 1980) is a Brazilian musician best known as the bassist for the power metal band Angra. He also acted as a fill in bassist for progressive metal supergroup Sons of Apollo in August 2022. Andreoli first started p ...

– bass * Bruno Valverde – drums Guest appearances * Sandy Lima – vocals on "Black Widow's Web" *

Alissa White-Gluz Alissa White-Gluz (; born 31 July 1985) is a Canadian singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, and former lead vocalist and founding member of the Canadian metalcore band The Agonist. Her vocal ...

– vocals on "Black Widow's Web" *

– guitar solo on "War Horns" Production *

Jens Bogren Jens Peter Daniel Bogren (born 13 November 1979) is a Swedish record producer, mixer and recording engineer specializing in heavy metal music. He has worked on albums by Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Sepultura, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Katatonia, Bab ...

– production,

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Charts

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Omni Angra (band) albums 2018 albums Albums produced by Jens Bogren