I was working in a Heavy Metal CD store in Rio De Janeiro called On Stage. My Boss, Vitor was the manager of the band I had at the time, “Horizon”. We were a prog metal band, probably the first prog metal band in the city. At that time I studied in the evenings and worked from 9.00 till 19.00 in the shop. It was a difficult period, but very positive for what I planned for my future. Vitor decided that he would throw a kind of "party-show" to commemorate the anniversary of the store. At that time, everybody was talking about a new upcoming band called “Angra”. Vitor got in contact with them if they would like... read more


I finally arrived at AR Studios, with two days to record all vocals of an album that had consumed me a band and four years of total dedication, it was not an easy task. The material is sounding great, I’m sure we will have an amazing album in our hands, It was the least I could have done to sing these songs, I knew so well after all this time and effort. Yesterday I’ve spoke with Roy Z... read more


Chris Boltendhal, Grave Digger’s singer sent me a message telling that he was going to play in São Paulo, and would like to speak with me about releasing the Execution CD in Germany through his record company. I took a shower, slept few hours and went back to the Bus station. Two trips to São Paulo in 10 hours kills any one, but it was an excellent chance I couldn't miss, because the album hadn’t been signed in Germany yet. Before going I check my e-mails one more time... read more


I spent my first day back in Brazil sleeping. I was feeling an excellent sensation of victory, and it made me have the best day of sleep since I started the Execution idea. But I was also feeling that I had to use my rest day very well, because with the concert I had in mind and without having the lesser idea of how I would make it, I would have soke sleepless months coming. As soon as I woke up, I was contacted by hellion records, they told me some news about my album and said ... read more


Once more in London, now without time for strolls. After some tiring meetings, I met Bruce. The chosen pub was next to the place where I was, that was at Chris’s house again. The marked hour was 18:00, I thought Bruce probably was tired and intended to go back early to his house, but was it different, he wanted to spend more time with us than he had before. Chris and I arrived around 18:12, Bruce arrived a few seconds later, and got the first round, he looked at me and said ... read more


I woke up in the morning with a call; I believe to be about 8:00am. On the other end of the line was Flavio, saying that the bus wasn’t there to pick them up. I only could go to São Paulo 08/11, my band arrived there 07/11. I gave a call to the guy responsible for the production there, and he said to me that the bus certainly was there in the bus station waiting for them. Then I called back to Flavio, I had already lost hope of sleeping again. While I took a bath my cell phone started to ring ... read more


I slept like a rock that night. I came down for the breakfast; all guys were there already. Ralf, Bruce and I spoke for hours about cars, Ralf’s passion, and airplanes, Bruce’s passion .The conversation started, because I told Bruce that had suffered a small accident in an airplane coming back from London the second time, nothing serious, but very intriguing. He started to tell me what might be able to have caused that, and then this crazy chat started. This day we would have a full schedule, many interviews for magazines and MTV. I decided that before going to my media commitments, I would be with my band, after all, I hadn’t had much ... read more