Description

Gloria Perpetua, was created in Brazil back in 2023 with the aim to bring a fresh breeze to the metal genre with the goal to provide a platform for new talents who wouldn’t have had a chance twenty years ago. Gloria Perpetua’s debut album, The Darkside We Wanna Hide, was released in 2024. The album, consists of ten tracks composed by the team and performed by seven talented singers, Raphael Dantas (Ego Absence), Vitor Veiga (Aquaria), Christian Passos (Wizards), Joao Noleto (Vocifer), Marcelo Kalunga (solo), and Vitor Rodrigues (Native Blood/Torture Squad). Their music is a blend of heavy and power metal influences, metal enthusiasts who enjoy rediscovering old 80s and 90s records will find much to appreciate in their music. Gloria Perpetua’s lyrics draw inspiration from themes of goodness and personal responsibility, rejecting war and bloodshed evolving for a better world. The band’s main influences include groups like Blind Guardian (old works), Iced Earth, Helloween (90s), Stratovarius and Accept. The metal genres that most influence Gloria Perpetua are Power Metal and Classic Heavy Metal of the German school. The Darkside We Wanna Hide represents a journey of personal responsibility and the fight for a better world with a soundtrack that offers the finest heavy and power metal, enriched by contributions from top-notch artists like Timo Tolkki (ex-Stratovarius), Vitor Rodrigues (Native Blood, Tribal Scream, Torture Squad), Luis Mariutti (Sinistra, Shaman, Angra, Firebox), the aforementioned Joao Noleto, Vitor Veiga (Aquaria, Endless ), Guilherme Hirose (NorthTale, Traumer), Marcelo Kalunga (solo) and Oruam (Deadly Fate).

Track list:
1. Let There Be Darkness
2. Beyond The Darkness Portal
3. Have You Forsaken The Cross
4. Mothers Of Jerusalem
5. The Angels Are Calling
6. The Rape Of Gaia
7. The Architect
8. The Key Of Life
9. The Way Of A Warrior
10. The Sick Cycle To The Death