I've been a lurker here for at least 5 years but had to sign up to say "thank you." Holy crap was this such an amazing album (and still is). Growing up on typical 80's fare of Duran Duran, Culture Club and the like and moving into Naked Raygun, 7 Seconds, Misfits and even Public Enemy, EPMD and the rest of the great Punk and Golden Era of Hip Hop, I always skipped out on metal. I thought Megadeth were posers compared to my Broken Bones...until I met my friend Mike in the Freshmen year of high school. We traded some tapes and he gave me Helloween - Keeper Part 1, Death - Spiritual Healing and Crimson Glory - Transcendence.

I had always at least respected Iron Maiden and my favorite band Suicidal Tendencies were moving over to the metal side at this time so I just think I was ready. Helloween and Crimson Glory literally blew me away, the melody, the musicianship and those vocals...like nothing I'd ever heard and I was hooked. I wore the shit out of those tapes, lol and remember thinking on the song Red Sharks that he was screaming "Red Sauce" the way it was sung, haha.

Thanks for giving this what it so deserves and thank you for bringing it back to my attention, it never really left but I sure had forgotten...I'm gonna go now and download this album, hope iTunes has it !

Great review for a truly perfect album

Thanks guys! Glad you liked it My first ever review on MS!

Written by Crucial BarBQ on 17.03.2015 at 15:55

I've been a lurker here for at least 5 years but had to sign up to say "thank you." Holy crap was this such an amazing album (and still is). Growing up on typical 80's fare of Duran Duran, Culture Club and the like and moving into Naked Raygun, 7 Seconds, Misfits and even Public Enemy, EPMD and the rest of the great Punk and Golden Era of Hip Hop, I always skipped out on metal. I thought Megadeth were posers compared to my Broken Bones...until I met my friend Mike in the Freshmen year of high school. We traded some tapes and he gave me Helloween - Keeper Part 1, Death - Spiritual Healing and Crimson Glory - Transcendence.

I had always at least respected Iron Maiden and my favorite band Suicidal Tendencies were moving over to the metal side at this time so I just think I was ready. Helloween and Crimson Glory literally blew me away, the melody, the musicianship and those vocals...like nothing I'd ever heard and I was hooked. I wore the shit out of those tapes, lol and remember thinking on the song Red Sharks that he was screaming "Red Sauce" the way it was sung, haha.

Thanks for giving this what it so deserves and thank you for bringing it back to my attention, it never really left but I sure had forgotten...I'm gonna go now and download this album, hope iTunes has it !

Welcome BACK to the metal world !

Yeah, this is a classic album that i also sorta ignored back then due to those ridiculous masks this band was wearing. Heard the tune Lonely as well as Red Sharks one day & got this album immediately. It's not only a great 80's album, but still sounds awesome today, the melodic guitar work really shining here.

Such an amazing record in the Progressive Heavy Metal genre. Some of the songs in this record are timeless classics. A true gem, indeed.