Freedom! When Andragonia, the Brazilian band from São Paulo, went through internal changes two years ago, the goal was to enforce the liberty aspect. The order was changing focus and MO. Fearless of changing the musical direction and aiming to add its prog characteristics to Djent and Gothic, Thiago Larenttes (guitar and vocals), Ismael Omena (bass) and William Lopes (drums) present Oxygen, their new album, resulting from this label free mentality.

It’s a modern, dense, melancholic and full-bodied rock/metal. "Some people link our music to bands like Tesseract, Dream on Dreamer, Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Superior, Mudvayne and Darkseed. When we released the video of “By Your Side”, the second single which preceded the release of the new album, they even mentioned Korn. However, our goal is passing as much thrilling and positive energy as possible through our songs! Although they are kinda dense, we wanna pass love and good vibes through them," notes Thiago Larenttes.

Aiming for a more spatial, mathematic, dynamic, futuristic and modern sound, Oxygen comes enveloped by a theme that explores how excessive expectations surrounding people produce deceptions. "Even so, the lyrics show that most of the time it’s our own fault. We create expectancies over stuff. Relationships, work, and we will always get disappointed with someone," explains Thiago.

On this new album, all lyrics are aimed at a couple and link the deceptions and expectancies created. The story tells how they lived together in past lives and, at the end of each life, how they promised to do anything to find each other in the next one. One of the new tracks, "Smell Of January" has a video, streaming below.

"It’s about a lost love because the character fell in love for a person who was about to leave his world. Even knowing he had little time, he decided to do everything he could, because he knew that through her eyes he could see his own eyes," explains Larenttes. "Ideally, each person has its own interpretation. This is already happening with the ‘Smell of January” video. One fan commented on YouTube that the song helped him deal with the loss of his grandfather. Interesting that people listen to the songs as some kind of comfort and positive thinking," Thiago adds.
 
"Smell Of January" video:

Oxygen, the follow-up to Memories (2012) was recorded at Renaissance Studios (SP) and has release date set to the end of March when physical and digital pre-sale starts. The record has vocalist Bruno Paraguay (Eminence) guesting on "Good Enough".

More details to follow.

(Photo - Marcos Canoas)