HIBRIA Trivia — 18 Entries
18 sourced facts about HIBRIA.
Trivia
They formed in 1996 in Porto Alegre, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. By their Japanese label's account they made two demos before releasing the debut, Defying the Rules, with a line-up of Iuri Sanson on vocals, Abel Camargo and Diego Kasper on guitars, Marco Panichi on bass and Sávio Soldi on drums.
The song their label singles out as the one that settled their popularity is "Tiger Punch." Carried on the second album, The Skull Collectors, in 2008, it is described as their biggest hit — and with it they took a position as the leading name of the next generation of Brazilian power metal.
Their Japanese record has firm dates on it. The first headline visit was in 2009 — early, as the label puts it — and they were back in 2012 for Loud Park. By the biography the band themselves published in 2026 they have toured Japan six times, alongside runs through Canada, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and the Czech Republic.
The band's own biography is direct about where they stand in Japan: their releases have repeatedly gone to the top of the sales charts there, drawing wide press attention and filling large venues. They have a live album recorded in Tokyo and a DVD also shot in Japan. They have played festivals including Rock in Rio and Loud Park, and shared stages with Metallica, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne and Megadeth.
Abel Camargo, left alone at the end of 2017, did assemble new people. Me7amorphosis, in 2022, was made by him with Victor Emeka on vocals, Bruno Godinho on guitar, Thiago Baumgarten on bass and Otávio Quiroga on drums. The label presented Emeka as a find whose high register was a match for Iuri Sanson's and who could handle the old songs without trouble, and noted that Quiroga, then twenty, had been picked for a reason.
Me7amorphosis has one track where the old and the new meet: "Tribal Mark," on which three former members — Iuri Sanson, Diego Kasper and Renato Osorio — appear as guests. The label described it as the piece where past and present line-ups come together.
The eighth album, On the Shortness of Life, was released on 5 August 2026 — the year the band turns thirty. The Japanese edition comes from Marquee/Avalon with one bonus track and liner notes written by every member. The label states the record's theme: that a life is measured not by its length but by how passionately it is lived. Playing on it are Angelo Parisotto on vocals, Abel Camargo and Velles on guitars, Benhur Lima on bass and William Schuck on drums.
Where the new album was made, and who ran it, both come back to people already in this story. Recording took place in Porto Alegre at Black Stork Studio, owned by Thiago Caurio. Production was by Renato Osorio — the guitarist who left the band in 2017, and one of the two returning for FULL METAL JAPAN in October 2026. Mixing and mastering were done by the bassist, Benhur Lima, at Angry Pick Studio.
HIBRIA are a Brazilian band, formed in 1996. Interviewed in 2015, guitarist Abel Camargo said they had been going without a break for close to twenty years: the debut album Defying The Rules was reaching its tenth anniversary, while the band itself would turn twenty in 2016.
Roughly eight years separate the band's formation from its first full album. By Abel Camargo's account that was not delay but choice: they wanted to make something they could genuinely be proud of. And the experience gathered in that pre-recording stretch — playing live above all — is what he credits for the band's success from the first album onward.
Since Defying The Rules in 2004 they have built a record in two countries. Gekirock notes appearances at Rock In Rio, the large Brazilian festival, and repeated visits to Japan — LOUD PARK foremost among them.
For the tenth anniversary of the debut, in 2014, the band re-recorded Defying The Rules in its entirety — and the result came out as a Japan-only release.
On 8 December 2017 the band announced that the current line-up was ending. Iuri Sanson on vocals, Eduardo Baldo on drums, Renato Osorio on guitar and Ivan Beck on bass were all leaving; the leader, guitarist Abel Camargo, would stay and rebuild. The reason given was that each was taking a separate road for the sake of his own career.
Moving Ground was the last record that line-up made, and the Japanese edition came out ahead of the rest on 14 February 2018. Gekirock presented it as a summation, a return to the band's own power and origins; writing again the following year they described attack and straight-ahead metal joined by groove and by an element drawn from Buddhist thought. The Japanese edition carried a bonus track, "Reset My Brain."
The upheaval left Abel Camargo as the band's only original member. In a message to listeners in Japan issued with the announcement, he said the four departing musicians had supported the band since the first album, Defying the Rules, and had helped it grow not only in Japan but everywhere. He would, he wrote, keep going with the dream that is HIBRIA — and when the time came he intended to choose new members, begin a new chapter and carry the legend on.
Then in 2026 some of those who had left were to return, on a stage in Japan. At FULL METAL JAPAN 2026, on 25 October at Pia Arena MM in Kanagawa, HIBRIA appear with Iuri Sanson and Renato Osorio in the line-up. Gekirock describes it as early members coming back for that day alone to play early material. ANGRA and POWERWOLF play the same day.
The fifth album, released on 22 July 2015, took the band's own name: Hibria. Gekirock described it as a record where the modern heaviness of their recent work and the fast, thrash-leaning element they had always had worked well together. The Japanese edition added two bonus tracks, one of them a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke."
Behind that fifth album came a Japanese tour in September 2015, the Metal Maniac Inside Tour, taking in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. It opened at Club Quattro in Umeda on 1 September and played the Bottom Line in Nagoya on the 2nd.