SEPULTURA And ANGRA Become First Metal Bands To Play During Brazil's Carnival Festivities

February 9, 2016

SEPULTURA and ANGRA performed together on Saturday, February 6 during Carnival festivities in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador. The two bands played 50 songs in all, including cover versions of classic tracks from AC/DC, QUEEN and TWISTED SISTER, in addition to their own hits. It was the first time any metal band had performed during Carnival festivities.

The stage was set on a fancy truck which drove 4.5 kilometers on the roads connecting Barra beach to Ondina beach in Salvador, Brazil's third-largest city and country's cultural heart.

ANGRA manager and Toplink music director Paulo Baron and Carlinhos Brown, one of the most important drummer/percussionists and songwriters in modern Brazilian music, came up with the idea for the concert when they met at Rock In Rio last year.

Locals and visitors spent the day in the summer heat by the paradise beach of Barra to reserve their place by the truck to get a close view of the stage. Some of the people that packed the streets of Salvador were not previously familiar with heavy metal.

Fans throughout Brazil enjoyed the seven hours of live classic rock and metal as it was broadcast on TV and Internet.

Saturday's audience went down in history as the biggest ever for a metal concert in Brazil headlined by national acts.

According to Baron, the idea behind the concert was to eliminate any type of prejudice against rock and metal by having Brazil's two biggest metal bands play at such a popular event and prove that rock and metal are universal styles of music that can excite an audience in any setting.

Find more on Sepultura

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).