Thirty years and no vinyl: Angra's Holy Land has never been pressed, and the anniversary edition out on 19 October finally does it. The album has been remastered for the occasion and comes as a double LP and a CD.
Holy Land was the record that separated the band from the European power metal they had grown out of. Where the 1993 debut Angels Cry showed the intention, the 1996 album carried it: the colonial history of Brazil in the fifteen hundreds set to guitar riffs, native and Afro-Brazilian rhythms, choirs and orchestration, made with the producers Sascha Paeth and Charlie Bauerfeind. The band formed in Sao Paulo in 1991 around the guitarist Rafael Bittencourt and the singer Andre Matos.
The CD is a six panel digipak with a booklet of previously unreleased photographs and a poster of thirty by sixty centimetres. The double vinyl is a deluxe gatefold with printed colour innersleeves and a foldout poster, on standard black and on a white pressing limited to three hundred, with further colour variants through European retailers. It ships worldwide apart from Japan and Brazil.