Monuments – Live in Brazil 2004–2017 never got an official pressing. But every few years, a remastered torrent appears. A Reddit thread. A lost YouTube playlist. Brazilian fans guard it like treasure.
Brazil never just listened to Edguy. It lived them. From the sweaty, cramped clubs of São Paulo in 2004 to the roaring festival fields of Rock in Rio 2017, the country carved itself into the band’s history as a wild, untamable beast of passion. And somewhere, in the hard drives of die-hard fans and bootleggers, existed the myth of Monuments —a fan-assembled audio-visual time capsule spanning thirteen years of chaos, capes, and cachaça. Edguy - Monuments- Live in Brazil 2004 -2017- -...
Backstage after, the band signed a thousand things—arms, T-shirts, a guy’s prosthetic leg. That fan, named Carlos, later donated the signed leg to a metal museum. The footage of the monkey incident went viral in Brazil before “viral” was a word. Monuments included it as a hidden bonus track: “Monkey Business (Live & Unhinged).” Monuments – Live in Brazil 2004–2017 never got
By 2017, Edguy was on indefinite hiatus (Tobi busy with Avantasia). They announced a final Brazilian show at the Audio Club in São Paulo. No costumes. No pyro. Just the five guys, amps, and 2,000 fans who had grown up with them. A lost YouTube playlist
Because monuments aren’t always made of stone. Sometimes, they’re made of screaming voices, stolen recordings, and a German power metal band who found their second home in a country that never stopped believing in the power of a silly, glorious riff.
The Space Police tour. Edguy had fully embraced their goofy, sci-fi theatrical side. Tobi wore a silver wig and a cape with LED lights. In Belo Horizonte, during “Robin Hood,” a fan threw a stuffed monkey onto the stage. Tobi caught it, declared it the “Minister of Chaos,” and wore it on his shoulder for the rest of the show.
The setlist was a fan-voted monster: “Vain Glory Opera,” “King of Fools,” “Superheroes,” “The Piper Never Dies.” During the last song, “Avantasia” (yes, the Avantasia song, but Edguy played it as a tribute to themselves), Tobi stopped singing. He just held the mic out. The crowd sang every word—in perfect English, with a Portuguese accent.