hell yeah 👍😁🤘

Amen bad ass

I can this

Awesome James D

Yea saw them open for Testament haha

👍👍👍JAMESD , SAME YEAR I SEEN : SAVATAGE , MEGADETH ( SO FAR SO GOOD SO WHAT TOUR , AND DIO ( DREAM EVIL ) AT THE ALABAMA STATE FAIR GROUND !!!🔥🔥👍👍👍🎸🎸💯💯💯🎸💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I saw Dio open up for Iron Maiden and was embarrassed at how sorry he was.

Good one...I recommend them too for one the best high pitch (reaching it) like Judas Priest and the like, love that sound when it's done that well

You got that right, Sava fan. Damn right. Best guitarist at what he did ! Period. Other guitarists who knew, knew that.

awww.

Paul was a musical genius in all aspects of the art

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

Or in Heaven!

With a little help of Edvard Grieg: hall of the mountain king (Peer Guynt suite)

And here I am going the other direction due to songs like this and X Japan.

Nirvana fucking blows SAVATAGE ALL THE WAAAAY‼️

Love Edge of Thorns, just listened to it again, it never gets old

What is a metal but a refined rock? For the canvas was laid in days of future past.

Agreed M. Von Drake

Members of this band went on to form the Trans-Siberian Orchestra

@@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 respect your opinion, but I think there might be a...CHANCE...you were thinking of another song 🎵

Xoan García Heavy Metal Hitman face book \m/ :) \m/

that's because this is amazingly EPIC =)

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

It was a masterpiece

such great muscles? haha =) pretty fit or his age =P

Bought it for the album cover and was hooked from the first track...

I have a t-shirt with this cover on it. It's one of my favorites, and it gets a lot of comments from fellow metalheads.

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!

Me too, Paul. Me too... 🤣🤘🤘

For real. I always think how does he do it

Alex scholnick is widely underrated and underappreciated

Funnily enough is that while Alex is a great guitarist, he couldn't hold a candle to criss Oliva, and butchered any of criss's stuff he tried to play.

Yes

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

There was no name change. It just became something different.

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/

They Play Gutter Ballet too.

Me, too -- at a club in South Jersey, on their "Gutter Ballet" tour. Excellent show!

@@glennhecker4422 Same tour I saw!

@@gagmangraham how was it ? Just discovered this awesome band this week and sadly already found out some members passed away );

Wow great !!!!!!! Absolutley Epic!!!!!

lel

@Edward Beil 2 years late r/wooosh

My parents exposed me to this album when I was an infant. This album along with Rust In Peace are some of my earliest memories.

Your Uncle Terry is rad

I bought this album when it came out because of the cover and became instantly addicted to the 'Tage... 🤘🤘

It certainly does now.

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.

(Although I found out somewhat later that the band my friend told me was Helloween wasn't - it was really Savatage)

+TacticleRock410 I decided to buy the album on the iTunes store... am I a filthy individual?

Indeed, my friend.

? you mean "sauvage" that means wild, never heard of "savatage" in french a part of the Bandname.

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

x1StapleGun uh! fun to know! thank you for that info!

+x1StapleGun More like savage and sabotage

+Florestan bourreau The intro is a cover of Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg ;)

+Steve Pinkerton Nope, Hall of the Moutain King start at 1:20 . Go check Mars of Gustav Holst, you will recognise the intro

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.

I only talked about the introduction..

+Florestan bourreau no, it's not. It's actually a cover of Grieg's "In The Hall Of The Mountain King"

So was Paganini

With Dio-esque vocals omg I'm hooked😮😮😮😮

I did

+James Rodgers uuum no?

FUCKIN AENAY RITE !!!!!!!+James Rodgers

+James Rodgers Stoner metal? I'd label this "power metal" if anything

+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

@@jamesrodgers1443 u still have the album cover as your profile pic after 7years???? Damm