Rescue

Rescue is the fifth album, on which Shaman re-presented Brazilian power metal's intensity and symphonic brilliance. The original lineup reunited in 2018 and toured with Avantasia, but the following year Andre Matos died suddenly. Afterward, bringing in Alírio Netto as the new singer, the lineup of Hugo Mariutti, Luis Mariutti, Ricardo Confessori and Fábio Ribeiro completed a new record after twelve years. Recorded in São Paulo and Germany, it was produced by Sascha Paeth, as the debut had been. Marcus Viana again takes part on violin. In lyrics themed on loss and the process of recovering from it, the band's will to keep moving is inscribed. From the instrumental intro “Tribute” into “Time Is Running Out,” there is weight not only in the lift of the fast songs but in the grand choruses and lyrical passages. Through the urgency of “Where Are You Now?” and “Brand New Me” — the first song recorded after Matos's death — to the closing “The Final Rescue,” it conveys a real force moving toward renewal, just as the title suggests.