Savatage's best album?

You tripping over words like "o forwward" and " thinkning", Marcel.

Are you drinking Heineken again?!

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 01.05.2017 at 07:29

Written by Ganondox on 19.04.2017 at 04:30

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 18.04.2017 at 11:16

Written by Ganondox on 18.04.2017 at 09:12

Oh common, Hall of the Mountain King is FAR from their best album. It's mainly just overrated due to the popularity of the music video.

Hall Of The Mountain King is their best, closely followed by Sirens and Gutter Ballet, although quite a few people will argue that those two are better. Those three are far removed from the quality of their other albums. Even though Streets and Power Of The Night are also very good.

No it is not, but it's not like I ever cared for your tastes anyway. While it's a solid album, it lacks Gutter Ballet's symphonic innovations, or the emotional depth of Streets and onward. Doesn't even have the unique stuff about Sirens. It's really just another early power metal metal album. Sure, it's far from their worst album as well, but focusing on it overshadows what is actually significant about Savatage.

The video wasn't popular at the time at all. But of course you wouldn't know that. Their music at the time was o forwward thinking in the power metal scene kids like you can't even imagine that nowadays. Hall Of The Mountain King was much more forward thinkning than most of their stuff afterwards (except Guttaer Ballet).

Apparently it was "In 1987, Savatage released their first commercially successful album, Hall of the Mountain King, which became the base for the band rising into a more mainstream arena. The band recorded their first music video for the album's title song, which received extensive air play on MTV's Headbangers Ball and was followed up by a video for the song "24 Hours Ago". "

Unfortunately Wikipedia has no source for that particular claim, but you can probably look through the log of Headbanger's Ball to confirm it. I don't need to be around then to do research. I don't care if it's "forwward thinking", whatever dafuq that's supposed to mean, I care if stands the test of time as something unique, and it doesn't.

1. Gutter Ballet
2. A tie for Hall of the Mountain King and Handful of Rain

I voted for Hall of the Mountain King.

I don't understand this band, are they progressive metal or heavy or power metal influence

Written by User 6041 on 17.01.2025 at 11:56

I don't understand this band, are they progressive metal or heavy or power metal influence

What is it that you don't understand? The music? You don't know how to classify their sound? Does it matter if you already like their music?

Let's see...
Are they progressive metal? Yes, they are, especially starting with their 1987 album IMO.
Are they USPM? Yes, they can be tagged like that, it would not be wrong.
Are they heavy metal? Yes, their 80s albums can be tagged like that, it would not be wrong.

@John: I do like their music. Though their variety in their music confused me. They even has project Trans Siberian orchestra, sounds very quite closed to You raise me up classical music. But I don't remember much of their song in my head, but I think they are better than Dream Theater.

For me, the only two albums I still regularly revisit are Gutter Ballet and Streets. Criss Oliva's guitar work on both of these is very noteworthy for me. But respect to a lot of their work, Odd songs from most of their albums still hit my Spotify list occasionally.