Saw Savatage open for DIO in Cleveland Ohio around 1987 at Music Hall. Still have the drumstick that stuck to my chest after being tossed from the Savatage drummer. Fantastic show.
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When someone asks me to recommend a Metal song so they can get a sense of the power and feel of the genre, I recommend this and Accept's "Balls to the Walls."
Fun Fact:Jon Oliva didn't want originally to include ''Prelude to Madness'',on the album.Paul O'Neil,Savatage's producer and manager,was the one who convinced him to put it on the record. Paul O'Neil passed away,today RIP.
Paul was the one who convinced them to stay together as a band and mixed prelude to madness. Otherwise criss was going to join Megadeth and Jon was going to join black Sabbath
This is the piece of music that corrupted me at age 18 into listening to heavy metal, and other forms of music that weren't strictly classical or pops/Broadway. Grieg, played on electric guitar, and then something inspired by Grieg... I will forever be in Savatage's debt.
Epic would be getting a response from someone who posted 7 years ago. Lol Many nights I danced with the devil listening to this album, and I loved every second of it. BTW, I think of Mr. Zakk Wylde when I see this album cover for some reason. Lol
I remember giving RIP Magazine holy hell because they had wall-to-wall columns about Kurt Cobain passing but couldn't take six seconds to even mention Criss Olivia's name. Gutter Ballet and Edge of Thorns will always be in my top ten albums of all time.
@@aubreystanley1124 The entire band did except Criss Oliva who did not survive to see His dream take form. Yet there are recordings made by Criss in TSO mixed into TSO even recently.
I'll never forget (re-)discovering Avatar in '87 when the local Z-Rock affiliate introduced them and the familiar riff of Devastation instantly brought back memories of Clearwater from '81 when they opened up for The Outlaws in the parking lot of a furniture store. Absolutely epic!
Mike Cronis Yes, there was not a name change. Please don't confuse the two bands. Chris and Jon Olivia were the Masterminds in Savatage. Paul O'Neil was involved with them as a producer and an obvious influence in their music. But he was not in the band. Paul O'Neil was the Mastermind behind Trans-Siberian Orchestra that is truth. Rest in peace Paul O'Neil....\m/
I love telling Trans Siberian Orchestra fans it is a heavy metal band started by the original singer before he died... his dream to see the two come together.... thank you for having this 👍
Jon Oliva (the original singer) is still alive. Paul O'Neill (producer for savatage and writer for lots of the lyrics) was the one who died. Both Jon and Paul were the masterminds behind Tso, though it was more Paul's baby
MADDDDDDDDDDDDDNEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.....IN THE HALL...OF THE MOUNTAIN KING!
This piece is what got me to expand my musical horizons, decades ago, from classical music to heavy metal and other forms of popular music. I was nineteen when a college friend of mine played it for me on her record player. I have since found out that a lot of metal and goth musicians have classical training; I think it might be the band Motorhead that has three members that studied at Juilliard, but I could be mistaking them for another band.
First Power Metal song written and recorded in Drop C! It was hard to capture the lows like the bands of today, but listen to the clean ending of the song with no distortion and you can hear that low C. I know Black Sabbath was C# in like 1971 (that’s also proto-Metal Classic rock) I’m talking 80’s Metal. Thanks Dean🤟🏻
Mad9977 nah, sauvage and savatage both exists^^ "savatage" is just slang, it comes from "savate" wich is both a type of shoes and the french name of french boxing.
+Charles .Clair I think it was originally supposed to be a portmanteau of the words "avatar" and "sabotage", because Savatage's original name was Avatar, but another band was already using that name
something i forgot about 80s metal no one does preludes anymore miss this album and edge of thorns ....sorry to say this style of metal is lost for ever
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Grieg wrote "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in 1867 and DIED before Holst even began on "The Planets". If they included parts of it, cool, but the classical piece the overwhelming majority of it was inspired by was written by Edvard Grieg.
As much as I love this song, the harsh reality is, Grieg wrote this song as a joke to show how bad music was....yeah, I love it, but it was kind of the, "I love rock and roll" of the early twentieth century....
+x1StapleGun Hey man I would have to say ur right about that ' back when I 1st. heard the album Hall of the Mountain King . I used to smoke a little back then ' not that I needed to for this band tosound any more bad ass !! ' But as the late great Robin Williams said if they ever made the shit leagle . One of the warning's on the pack should say Warning this shit will make the music u like AUSESOME !! Still think Savatage is a band that dident get the recognition they were due . & Dont smoke that stuff any more . Jimmie R
