I'm finally listening to SAVATAGE!
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- I listen to Savatage for the first time ever!
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This song SLAPS!
You should listen to the earlier album Sirens that album really kicks very raw sound you'll like it
They still are rocking it out today with dream theater members as Trans Siberian Light Orchestra
If you like Transiberian orchestra, that was Jon Oliva and savatage. You're welcome
One of the most underrated bands ever! They are such an amazing band.
How can a band be considered so underrated when nearly everyone who leaves comments about them says they're underrated??? It doesn't make sense! I've never read one negative comment regarding savatage! I friggin love them, but they are in no way underated! If anything they're overrated! Fans think the whole world should bow to them. It's ridiculous.
underrated as in they are never mentioned when people talk about top metal bands although they are pioneers. You'll never see Savatage mentioned in a top metal list in the 80s for example@@Jaysin31
@@Jaysin31 Because they are never on any "greatest metal band" lists. The comments on a Savatage reaction is not the best sample pool to pull from. Criss Oliva is the most underrated guitarist ever. Of course Savatage fans will always bring him up, but he is consistently overlooked on every "greatest guitarists" list.
Well, make a list then. You can't tell someone else that their list is "wrong". There are thousands of guitarists left off any one list. And everyone has their own. I know you know that. He's on mine. He's on a lot of other people's. Not just die hards. And his peers certainly held him on a pedestal. Anyway, long live Oliva! Peace brutha!
Hall of mountain King was kind of the turning point.
They were going more towards the Trans-Siberian orchestra sound.
My favorite albums are Sirens ,Dungeons are calling and Power of the night!
Bands like Metallica ain't got nothing on Savatage especially those albums!
I saw Savatage open up for Metallica Metallica ended up throwing them off the tour because they were blowing their s*** away every night!
Reason why they had such a hard time because nobody wanted them to open for them.
Savatage are fantastic. Probably one of the most under-rated bands ever.
Including Fates Warning. Criminally under rated
"when the crowds are gone" is my personal savatage fave
I wasted my time, 'til time wasted me...
I also like the double that ist "Somewhere In Time/Believe"
I will never stop missing Criss Oliva.....he was one of the most amazing guitar players at that time...and he was lost to us in his prime...never got the recognition he deserved....Savatage is one amazing band...thankfully the band still kind of exists today with TSO....and thankfully Savatagehas one more album coming out next year...cant wait for that. Queensryche and Metal Church were bands from the same time frame
Criss was called “The Ghost” with good reason.
The intro to this song is a 3-minute "Prelude To Madness", the band's rendition of Edvard Grieg's own Hall Of The Mountain King.
I have yet to find a reactor who manages to get the memo in time and react to BOTH tracks as a whole, uninterrupted piece, as it should be.
It’s meant to be one piece! I’m still trying to figure out how to get my system to play them properly on random!
The Daily Doug actually did both songs together a year ago... The beginning of the prelude is from Gustav Holst's Mars from The Planets... Then going over to Grieg's Peer Gint Suite No.1 - Hall of the Mountain King...
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Yes! I always forget about that first "Gustav" part!
Thanks for the correction/amendment!
Helloween also used a brief excerpt of Grieg's HOTMK in their song Gorgar, just before the guitar solo. I always found that curious, as the song is about a (possessed?) video/pinball arcade machine, lol.
@@BlackieNuff Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow also made an adaption of Grieg's HOTMK on their Stranger in us all album with Doogie White on vocals...
You need to do the whole album, it's fire!
Jon Oliva is the best metal singer of all time. Love love love his voice.
Maybe not the best, but definitely most unique voice of them all.
He is one of my faves also.
Dio and Dickinson can't be matched as metal singers in my opinion, but Jon Oliva's right behind them.
@@ronan82
And don't forget the Metal God Halford!
#1a- Rob Halford
#1b- Jon Oliva
Great reaction. So much great stuff to choose from with Savatage. Jon and Chris Caffery have promised a new (and final) Savatage album around April of ‘24. Can’t wait.
This is peak Savatage for me, what an album.
I Agree. They have many great albums but this is the best.
Gutter Ballet is a very respectable follow-up.
@@scottgalvin8864 Absolutely. Can't go wrong with either album.
I found Savatage a few years ago, and while I''ve not done a deep dive into their albums, I really love what I've heard. I'm a huge fan of Beyond the Doors of the Dark, which is the second song on this album. The way he slides his way through each word, the calls back and forth, I love it.
Hall of the Mountain King was their last album of "era 1" their next album "Gutter Ballet" (many consider their best) they continued to evolve into a more operatic rock band after that. Some didn't care for it, for me I love all the Savatage albums. If you like Mountain King, you'll probably love Gutter Ballet : )
Song writing was great, check out 'Sirens' about the the mythological creatures that lured sailors off the seas to their deaths. 'The Fountain of Youth' about "Ponce de Leon, in the search for the gold, Indian tales never growing old, by the walls and the springs, hear a voice of yesterday sing, it's just a mystery to the mind, YEAH".
Madness reigns! So happy to see you cover Savatage, one of my long time favorites. Looks like they might finally put out a new album next year.
Hall of the Mountain king is my favourite album of all-time. An absolute masterpiece.
and much better than anything else they've done
I just don't understand the trajectory of this band, they get this new producer and produce this absolute masterpiece, they didn't sound like this before this album, and they don't sound like this afterwards, I really expected this to be my next favourite band, it promised so much, but they didn't seem to match what this album promised.
It's my absolute favourite Metal album.
You make me cry when I saw you love to listen SAVATAGE - HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING, baby!!! Thanks for love the true POWER METAL!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Savatage is one of the most underrated bands of all time, and they have not one bad album or songs as well
Good catch on the Queensryche and Metal Church similarities. Yeah, Savatage is classified as Progressive Metal and US Power Metal, which both Queensryche and Metal Church fit respectively. And yeah I can see where you heard a bit of Metal Church in there. David Wayne-era Metal Church for sure.
A lot of Savarage's members went on to form Trans-Siberian Orchestra which mainly does those Metal Christmas albums and concerts. They even used a slightly modified version of one of Savatage's songs in one of their albums. Christmas in Sarajevo. Which is used quite often in those automated Christmas Light displays. You've probably heard if you've ever watched any of those things.
I actually don't own any Savatage CDs, but came close to buying them several years ago. They haven't put out an album since 2001, but it looks like they may put one out next year called Curtain Call, which signals that it's probably their last and just a final farewell ordeal.
I was blessed to watch them in 87 at a small club in San Pedro CA on a Tuesday night. There were only a few people there that night and I was headbanging hard at the stage. In the second section of the song John lowered the mic towards me and let me sing the chorus. I didn't have the voice for it but was still awesome. And I got to see Chris play. I got in big trouble from my mom because she didn't allow me to go but didn't care. Gen X right?
Wow, it's nice to see a genuine metal listener who's listening to Savatage for the first time.
Savatage's music evolved a lot through the years after these earlier albums. They've became more and more melodic and operatic and partially progressive in their style. You'll find a lot of different type of music. Some suggestions in slightly or quite different styles, including some ballads:
- Morphine Child (my favorite and quite a different and unique metal experience)
- Gutter Ballet
- The Edge Of Thorns
- Turns To Me
- Hounds
- Legions
- He Carves His Stone
- Sirens
- Chance
- Handful Of Rain
- Summer's Rain
- Alone You Breathe
- Believe
Chance and Morphine Child are the two songs I wish every reactor that discovers Savatage would listen to. These guys are the Queen of Heavy Metal.
Fantastic band. Both singers are exquisite and deliver some incredible songs.
Criss Oliva, we miss you, but your guitar/music lives on forever.
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of his untimely death in a tragic car accident at the age of only 30.
He could have given us many other masterpieces.
R.I.P. Christopher Michael Oliva
Kaiya, for the next Savatage reaction I recommend the song "Gutter Ballet".
Savatage are the prime movers of the symphonic metal. They've started to mix heavy metal with the symphonic dynamics on the "Hall of the Mountain King" album due to the new producer Paul O'Neill.
Their evolution went on in the following albums:
1) Gutter Ballet, when they added a piano, giving it a huge part in their music (Jon Oliva is a piano player and he usually compose his music on piano in the first take)
2) Handful of Rain, by inserting a 4 voices canon inside the song "Chance" (in every album since that one, there is always at least one song with a 3 or 4 voices canon in it) Chance is also the song that made Jon Oliva have the idea of creating the project "Trans-Siberian Orchestra"
3) Dead Winter Dead, when they made the symphonic metal be at his best, adding even a cello in their music.
4) The Wake of Magellan. I called Dead Winter Dead a masterpiece of symphonic metal, because of the equilibrium between metal instruments and classical instruments; The Wake of Magellan is a metal symphony, because they used metal music instruments and created a music with the typical dynamic of the symphonic music.
There are also the albums: "Streets: A Rock Opera" and "Edge of Thorns" that were made between Gutter Ballet and Handful of Rain; "Poets and Madmen" that is the last Savatage album and has been created after "The Wake of Magellan".
All these albums are absolute masterpieces from the first note to the last but, if you want a song selection to react, I strongly recommend:
From the Gutter Ballet album: "Gutter Ballet"; "Temptation Revelation"; "When the Crowds are Gone"; "Mentally Yours"; "Summer's Rain"
From the Streets album: the 30'17" of music starting from "Tonight He Grins Again / Strange Reality" and ending with "New York City don't Mean Nothing"; the story finale starting from "Agony and Ecstasy / Heal my Soul" and ending with "Somewhere in Time / Believe"
From the Edge of Thorns album: "Edge of Thorns"; "He Carves his Stone"; "Follow Me"; "Conversation Piece"; "All That I Bleed"; "Damien"
From the Handful of Rain album: "Chance"; "Alone you Breathe (Criss' Song)" this one is a really emotional tribute from Jon to Criss (his brother that had died the year before Handful of Rain was published)
From the Dead Winter Dead album: the first three tracks of the album (Overture / Sarajevo / This is The Time); "This Isn't What We Meant"; the last three songs (One Child / Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24); "Not What You See"
From "The Wake of Magellan": "Turns to Me"; "Another Way"; "Paragons of Innocence"; and the story finale starting from "Underture" and ending with "The Hourglass"
From the Poets and Madmen album: "There in the Silence"; "Commissar"; "Morphine Child"; "The Rumor"; "Man in the Mirror"; "Surrender"
Have fun! :)
Some of us older Gen X metalheads have a mental connection with that heavy reverb on those melodic metal records from the mid 80s to early 90s. It created that "spacy and ethereal" atmosphere; the ambience of which never left us ;)
So glad you got into peak Savatage. HOTMK is magical. For me, that and Gutter Ballet are their finest!
Have you delved into Crimson Glory, Virgin Steele, and Fates Warning? :) Whenever you're up for it, I'd recommend a reaction to these three tracks:
Crimson Glory - Lady Of Winter
Virgin Steele - Mind, Body, Spirit
Fates Warning - Guardian
I don't care how old I am. Actual "heavy metal" is Savatage, Accept, Priest, Saxon, lol. Great choice on Crimson Glory, but I think that qualifies as prog metal though.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 Crimson plays heavy metal with hints of progressive metal. Prog elements are definitely sprinkled in there but they're overall too straightforward and going for hooks to be considered full prog metal. Their third album was a full hybrid of heavy metal and hard rock/glam metal with a couple power ballads etched into place lol.
@@dreamstorm3297 Maybe so, but in that case, I don't like Dream Theater-style prog metal at all. "Transcendence", and especially the other one you mentioned, Fates Warning's "Awaken The Guardian" are the best exemples of prog metal that works. They don't lose sight of what a song should be, it's not a bunch of stuff stitched together into a 20 min. format.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I like it more that way too. Notice how without the 20 min. formats with heavy focus on odd time signatures and abrupt changes, Transcendence and Awaken The Guardian were able to hone in on fantasy concepts like dragons & such and paint that in the mind's eye with their sound.
Give these albums a go someday if you haven't heard them already:
Angra - Angels Cry
Labÿrinth - Return To Heaven Denied
They strike that middle ground too where the prog is weaved in but the songs are not lost sight of. Just keep in mind they're Power Metal with heavier focus on double kick pedal drumming, operatic vocals and guitar movements that are distinctly more mainland European. So it may be a gamble for those who are more accustomed to or just prefer US and British heavy metal.
@@dreamstorm3297 Odd time signatures and mindless shredding don't impress me. Fates Warning, among others, was so good because their music was so harmonically complex and uncommon. DT's brand of prog however is more about a cluster of common, radio-friendly songs but done with a million unnecessary notes and time changes.
Anyway, you lost me at "power metal" lol Can't stand it, as much as bands that I like, Crimson, Queensryche, kind of share a few similarities with it. Can't stand Angra's vocals either.
Savatage is amazing! I like all songs of them! Nice shirt😍Greetings from Frankfurt germany 🙋
Should you delve into more Savatage, you may encounter the 90s era material which featured a new singer which a stark contrast to the original vocalist's gritty, gravelly, "gargling broken glass" style.
Jon Oliva is the voice you hear on this one, and he did vocals from the beginning (1982) until 1992 (1983 - Sirens, 1984 - The Dungeons Are Calling, 1985 - Power Of The Night, 1986 - Fight For The Rock, 1987 - Hall Of The Mountain King, 1989 - Gutter Ballet, 1991 - Streets).
In 1993, new vocalist Zak Stevens brought a new progressive sound with his smooth velvet voice (which is capable of belting of a few screams as needed). During this time, Jon Oliva remained as primary songwriter (with producer-since-1987, Paul O'Neill) and pianist/keyboardist. Zak remained the frontman for the next two album (1993 - Edge of Thorns, 1994 - Handful of Rain), but slowly, Jon began a return to vocals on a song or two on the next two concept albums (1995 - Dead Winter Dead, 1998 - Wake Of Magellan).
Trans-Siberian Orchestra was also conceived during this time, by producer Paul O'Neill - the TSO was basically a means to an end when he pitched the single, Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) from Dead Winter Dead to the radio stations, and they flat-out refused to play it, unheard, cos "no one listens to metal anymore". Not to be defeated, O'Neill crafted another concept album around the song, and included it on the TSO album Christmas Eve & Other Stories in 1996. The subterfuge worked, and the radio stations were "tricked" into playing the same Savatage song - which they previous refused. The song remained unaltered in any way, other than now being released a second time on another album under a different name. Members of Savatage participated in the TSO and continue to do so to this day.
O'Neill's tactic worked SO well, that more albums seemed warranted, so CE&OS was followed by The Christmas Attic (1998), Beethoven's Last Night (2000), and The Lost Christmas Eve (2004), all concept albums. The 3 holiday albums were connected to each other, forming what has come to be known as the "Christmas Trilogy". Future TSO releases - Night Castle (2009), the EP Dreams Of Fireflies On A Christmas Night (2010), and Letters From The Labyrinth (2015) - would no longer be holiday-themed, but feature a couple of holiday-themed tracks on the EP (as the title might suggest). The EP strikes me as the leftover material from the Night Castle sessions, which yielded the album as a double-LP. LFTL is not officially a concept album, per se, but a story appeared in the liner notes which does tie all the songs together, albeit loosely.
But I digress... back to Savatage...
The band almost ended after Edge Of Thorns, as tragically, lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the band, Jon's brother Criss Oliva, was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver, shortly after the next album was released in 1993. The band struggled over whether to continue or not. Handful Of Rain was released and became the unofficial "tribute" to Criss, particularly with the closing song, Alone You Breathe. An actual "tribute" album was released, a live compilation featuring Criss' best live performances. It is known by two titles, Ghost In The Ruins (a title borrowed from a track on the Streets album), and Final Bell. Some refer these titles separately, some use both.
Following Wake Of Magellan, when the next album, Poets & Madmen (2001) was announced to be released, I got excited, cos I had read in many interviews, how the contrast of the two vocalists were described as "the poet and the madman" (Zak and Jon, respectively). I figured this was going to showcase the two in equal measure providing vocals playing up on that comparison. The album was even said to be another concept album, too.
However, this was not the case. The album was released, as a concept album, even though it technically was not. As with TSO's final studio album in 2015, a loose conceptual story was formed which could theoretically tie the songs together.. but this was not the disappointing part ; by the time the album had been recorded and released, Zak left the band, and Jon was back to full-time frontman vocal duties. This would be the final Savatage album.
As TSO continued to write/record/release new albums, and tour... and tour, and tour, and tour, and tour... Jon had formed a new solo project called Jon Oliva's Pain (or, "JOP").
I consider this "Savatage 2.0", since Jon used this band as an opportunity to record and release ALL of the unfinished musical ideas of his late brother. JOP released 4 albums - `Tage Mahal (2004), Maniacal Renderings (2006), Global Warning (2008), and Festival (2010), with a fifth an final album released in 2013, simply under the name "Oliva" - no more "Jon" and no more "Pain".
Unofficially, a 6th JOP volume, which I compiled myself and call "Savacoustic", showcases ALL the acoustic versions of various Savatage songs that were recorded during 2007-2012 and released in a scattered, disorganized format as bonus tracks on the multiple re-issues of the entire Savatage catalog.
Some of those acoustic tracks featured Zak doing old Savatage songs that were originally recorded with Jon's vocals, and vice versa, Jon covered a few songs that were originally recorded with Zak's vocals. However, there were not many Zak tracks (maybe 3 in total), and I did not include them on Savacoustic, putting them instead on the "Zak albums"from 1995 and 1998 (DWD and WOM)..
All the acoustic recordings with Jon (17 in total) formed the 79-minute compilation, which fills a CD perfectly. It's almost as if it were planned that way.
If you're real nice to me, maybe we can figure out a way for me to send you a copy (haha)... I would prefer to send a physical copy, if only to show off my own labors in designing the cover and liner notes (a passion that became a hobby) ; but if snail mail proves to cumbersome/costly, maybe we can explore options to send it virtually in digital format (Audio tracks and image files or a PDF of the printed material, which features complete lyrics).
But let's wait on that one, until you decide if Savatage (and TSO and JOP) is even going to become "your jam" or not, lol.
Oh, and if I already told you that long story of Savatage bio (in a previous comment on another thread on one of your other reaction videos), forgive me for regurgitating it all again here.
Curtain Call is coming in Criss' birthday, but you probably already knew, I enjoyed your band history, very concise.
@@normanparrish4482
Ugh, yeah, I just heard about Curtain Call the other day. I'm NOT excited. I am hoping it's just one last compilation or live collection (another Criss tribute like GITR/FB) or something simple like that, cos new material just seems unlikely and unnecessary at this point.
Besides, I thought Jon used up all of Criss' demos, unfinished, unrecorded, and unreleased music ideas during the JOP era - so I don't know what the purpose of this is, other that another money grab and lame effort to capture lightning in a bottle again, or relive the height of their success (the 80s/90s). His last effort which dropped the "Jon" and possessive tense of "Pain" leaving simply "Oliva" was a nice finish, despite the ironic title of "Raise" The Curtain... so I can only hope that Curtain Call is intended to put a final closure on it all.
I love Savatage, but I love them enough to say LET THEM REST with Criss. It's over. They had their time, even more than any of us could have expected or deserved, especially after losing Criss. This includes all the spin-off projects like JOP and TSO to boot. We've been spoiled as it is. And I guess it pisses me off to see fans be so selfish and greedy as ti keep demanding and clamoring for more "new albums". Chances are many fans will want to hear some great return to the heyday of the 80s and 90s anyway, so just go back and enjoy those albums, and stop expecting some rehash, or worse, some "new innovative direction" crap.
Savatage left a fantastic legacy, which even includes TSO, JOP, maybe even Dr Butcher and Circle II Circle (depending how far out you wanna radiate), so let it be what it is and was. To keep trying to capitalize on it and resuscitate this dead warhorse is a pathetic and insulting endeavor.
I am just so done and over with all the resurrected reunions and all the rehashed, re-recorded, remastered, reissued, re-released, re-imagined, recycled, regurgitated efforts, trying to get lighting to strike twice, or thrice, or whatever it is at this point. There's been no new stuff under Savatage since P&M in 2001, save for a few reissued selections (Dungeons/Sirens Silver Anniversary reissue, 2004) , back catalogs (2007), and a complete box set in 2011 which came out album by album (completely mixed up and out of order ,which bugs the hell out of me - so stupid), and that's more than enough. Plus there was Jon Oliva's Pain (JOP) which as far as I am concerned was "Savatage 2.0", since Jon said much of the material was Criss' many unfinished and unreleased demos and other works. So that was all "new Savatage" stuff that was a massive bonus for the aughts.
It's one thing if a band can keep chugging along with a new releases at least once every 2-4 years, and maintain some continuity or consistency, but to go dormant for over a decade (or longer) and then try to be relevant and start releasing albums again? That was cool in the 90s with bands who burned out and broke up too soon in the 70s/80s, but now it's become like a hollow money-grab trend. Mercyful Fate started out strong in the 90s after a decade away, but the material soon began to wane a bit - still good, but not Don't Break The Oath and Melissa, or even In The Shadows and Time good. Even King's solo stuff has been a little wobbly after Voodoo (1998) - still very good, but something seemed missing.
If CC is intended to be a one-off, official and definitive FINAL release under the Savatage name to close out the catalog and the legacy, then fine. I'll gladly add it to my collection. But It better not suck, lol, and it better not be the misleading start of a "new era" of metal music masquerading as Savatage which will ultimately sound nothing like Savatage, other than maybe having past members like Jon or JLM involved for all of one or two albums before they drop out for other ventures anyway.
Not sure if all that makes sense or if you can understand where I'm coming from, but that's my sentiment about it - and that goes for ALL the bands I grew up with and love : King Diamond / Mercyful Fate, Type O Negative, and anyone else who hasn't released anything since before 2010.
Let the sleeping Devil Dogs lie.
Oh, and thanks for appreciating my little mini-bio, lol.
@@BlackieNuff I completely understand your total outlook, even at 60 I was late to the party of Savatage, till several years ago. I remember HOTMK, but didn't investigate, when TSO came out I became hooked having found out the history. I was able to listen and soak it all in album by album and fell in love. One of the greatest bands and Criss is definitely one a GOAT. I am excited for the new record being a fan of Chris and Al, also the surviving originals which all are supposed to make an appearance. Hope it doesn't suck, don't think it will, I guess my only hope is not lightning striking twice just maybe exposure to people that would want to hear the previous albums. And the one thing that's rubbed me raw all these years is all the big name rock guitarists and bands that have ignored Criss and the band. Been playing for years and still can't master much of Criss' solos. They're supposed to go on tour after CC. I'll be looking for your comments when the album is released, Rock brother Rock 🎸.
Yeah do a deep dive! There is so much more to explore. Listen to "Gutter Ballet" (best album) and "Chance" (most Epic song). Also "Of Rage and War" nasty and powerful. Chriss Oliva was one of the most talented metal guitarrists ever. His riffs were bombastic and his solos are technically insane and very unique. It's one of my fav guitar players of all time. His brother Jon Oliva is the singer. love his voice and that you liked the high yeah's at the end. there is more of this...
great song, album and their official video is cool too. Sirens is my favorite of theirs, but they have many greats.
First time I ever heard Savatage was on their own concert, in a small venue, touring for The Wake of Magellan. Unforgetable experience. Still one of my favorite metal bands ever and the Magellan album definitely on my top 5.
I could quote every lyric on that album start to finish. I won't, but I could...lol
I had this album in vinyl. Bought it in the early 90s probably. Nice to hear it some 30 years after. Awesome rifs and great singing. The best is to see Imakaiya reaction to old metal..all music.
Nice song, This is one of my favorite band too also my favorite Album from Them, Heavy/Power Metal From Florida surely did influence a lot of Death-Metal bands from the 80's and hell bent they did it struckingly Even Mr. Chuck Shuldenier were influenced by them R.I.P also the.musician of this band who died sadly Great Music🔥🤘💀.
Chance and Morphine Child are two awesome songs that few people highlight. You would do yourself a favor reacting to those two.
Yep, this is the Tage tune to start with. But quite a rabbit hole to dive into. "24 Hours Ago" from this same album is pure "kick down the doors" METAL!
Savatage is awesome! Their earlier albums are so dirty. Listen to Sirens and The Dungeons Are Calling... and of course this entire album!
This is actually a "soft" song on this album!
'Devastation' perhaps the best "last track" of any metal album, soooo heavy.
I was 18 and seen them in Cleveland back in 1987 for this tour. It was awesome.
This concert is so good (early Savatage). Beyond the doors of the dark, Strange Wings, 24 Hours Ago....
I didn't know it but the radio station *Z-ROCK* had recorded that show and here is the audio of that concert. Enjoy! - ruclips.net/video/XxKKsVTO9yU/видео.html
best songs from this album - 24 hours ago and Strange Wings. best albums - Streets, Wake of Magellan, Poets&Madmen
hahahaha my band in high school used to cover 24 Hours Ago as an opener, the old heads used to lose their shit lol
Savatage was a great band. Hall of the mountain King and Gutter Ballet are great albums... Also check out their side project TSO (Trans Siberian Orchestra)🤘👍🎸🎤🥢R.I.P. Criss Oliva...
You say that as if TSO is just some small project they did on the side lol. It's far and away their main project, it completely supplanted Savatage. It's literally one of the largest touring projects in the USA. It made them rich, which Savatage unfortunately never could.
@@JanneBernardsI agree. TSO have become their main project, since Savatage no longer exists... So you can call Dr. Butcher as a small side project from Jon Oliva, although it never exists anymore...
I saw them live in Hollywood CA in 1990. Just amazing. Hi from the UK❤
I might copy you and catch up on some Savatage!
oh I'd definitly LOVE seeing you break down a song or two... Criss Oliva was a very surprising, unpredictable player.
🔥more Savatage, please!
Unfortunately the guitarist of this band Criss Oliva (also the brother of Jon Olivia: Savatage’s vocalist) passed in 1993 due to an idiotic drunk driver hitting him head on. He left behind a truly great legacy. RIP🎸
Listen to Contol Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence. Basically the last line up Death with Tim Mayer on lead vocals instead of Chuck.
Wormhole worth going down. Phenomenal melodic metal band
It probably was the other way around, with Death being influenced by Savatage. Even though they didn't blow up as big as other bands from that era they were well known by up and coming musicians who were in their own bands.
That fade leads directly into "The Price You Pay" on the album. Watch the video of this song too. :) As of similarities to Queensryche, Metal Church and Death they came after Savatage's 1979 formation. There first album was 1983's "Sirens." And while I love the Jon Oliva fronted Savatage, but Zak Stevens is where Savatage made it's true mark, eventually leading to Trans-Siberian Orchestra's triumphant creation after the 'Dead Winter Dead' album.
Still remember buying this on cassette and wearing it out until the printing on the case wore off lol.
Actually Tarpon Springs FL. About 30 miles from Tampa.
Thanks for being cool. I hadn't heard it, and a friend was like, "you haven't heard that?" He seemed to imply, "are you HUMAN?" I listened and I said to myself, "self, WHY HAVEN'T YOU ALREADY HEARD THIS?"
Streets. And you never let them go.
a perfect song. utterly without flaw.
That is old savatage. Check out the song "Chance"
I also have a suggestion do a reaction for Krokus screaming in the night and our love. ❤
If you want to satisfy that "tease" of the ending/outro, Kaiya, follow this song with the short instrumental track from the same album called (The) Last Dawn.
I am rather surprised they did not appear in that sequence on the album in the first place.
"Gutter Ballet" or "Chance" has to be next! No doubt!
Line up on hall of the mountain king jon oliva vocals keyboards criss oliva rip 1993 guitar johnny middleton bass steve wacholz drums former members of savatage keith collins steve wacholz alex skolnick testament jack frost damond jiniya
RIP Chris Olivia
Oliva
Savatage strangers in the dark. Amazing solo or no more Saturday nights. These songs are unreleased songs of Savatage and really amazing songs. Thanks your effort. 🙏
Thank you.. So glad to see you listening to the mighty Savatage!!!
I still say that Criss Oliva was Randy Rhoads Jr. Criss also died similar to how Randy died, and his band was never the same without him.
Take a listen to Legions from that same album.
The album Streets is their masterpiece🔥
Hell yeah! That whole album kicks ass......\m/
Savatage was an inspiration to up and coming metal bands, and probably wouldn't have been inspired by Death, as they'd had this sound on their first EP "The Dungeons Are Calling" recorded in '83. You should check out the "Power metal" band Fifth Angel, starting with the song "Time will tell", but that whole album is a masterpiece.
thank you !
Hey Kaiya, I've been following you since the very beginning. I love your content.
I think it's due time you give a listen to Chastain. They have one of the most impressive female leads. Her voice is something else, and you need to check them. Either listen to Ruler of Wasteland or For Those Who Dare. I hope you see this
Another great one from the same period is Warlock with Doro singing “all we are” ruclips.net/video/RcMt6zI7VkM/видео.html
Do more! Do more! So much emotions 😭🤘
Savatage is one of the greatest bands ever, period, any album is great!
Death has cited Savatage as an early influence in an old interview. That's probably why you'd hear some similarities.
Savatage is a great band indeed
Also listen to Chance. Savatage was one of the first, if not the first metal band to use counterpoint
First time i've seen them was in '86. Chris was still here. ❤🤘
Always loved them. Songs are still on my playlist.
I always loved this song one of the best
This band morphed into what is now known as Trans Siberian Orchestra. Being a long time fan of them, I was always leary of TSO. Until i saw their live show. Life changing experience. After the show was over snd the lights came on, they played the following track from this record overhead
I prefer the studio version of Jesus Saves from ,"Streets; A Rock Opera"
Complete with the spoken opening.
A true underrated hidden gem this album is
The greatest band that will ever exist.
I did a show (provided audio) for them way back in the day, they are trans Siberian Orchestra now, drummer had a badass aluminum riser with 3 kick drums "crazy" late 80's I'm old now
My all-time favorite band.
Great band, great album, great song, great t shirt
Use to drive by these guys hometown near Tampa back in the day on my 300 mile route out of Orlando .
Rest in peace Chriss , taken way to early . 🤘🤘🤘
I am having flashbacks to the tour for this album. DIO, Megadeth and Savatage on tour together. Dio - Dream evil album tour, Megadeth - So far , So good.. so what. And Savatage for Hall of the Mountain King tour. It was such a great tour . Some of the Savatage tracks from the Philly show are on the Ghost in the Ruins live album.
Savatage, Metal Church & VICOIUS RUMOUS. The Top Powermetal Bands in the 80th. When Powermetal was Powermetal ;-) So I recomand Vicious Rumous - Digital Dictator !
Savatage still tours technically now a days they go by trans Siberian orchestra
So you liked Savatage... You like concept albums too... You got to check out their album "Streets"
and death was around in 83 their name was Mantas and they were savatage fans
Savatage !
Love Savatage
Savatage is great!
Best Band ever
Hell yes
Savatage fuckin rules!
Criss Oliva one of the best imo..RIP
Savatage forever. New and probably last album on it's way.
wow, seriously?? where did you read that? send me the link!!!!!!!
@@davidvanderhoeven8560Jon Oliva has mentioned it in quite a few interviews recently
Altamonte Springs is in Orlando not Tampa.
SAXON 🧯 WHEELS OF STEEL ⚔️ LIVE IN MUNICH 2015..
Awesome 👍😊
Their whole Jon/Criss Oliva catalog is great minus 'Fight for the Rock'. I think 'Gutter Ballet' was the best music and production. 'Streets - A Rock Opera' is a great concept album.
A new into! As you said :)
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Seen them Live, they opened for megadeath, and DIO in 88 i think. The crowd was so tight up front I could lift my legs and not fall !!! They were co creators of.... Trans Siberian Orchestra. I wouldn't consider them Death metal.. Metal for sure story telling