SAVATAGE

[Dick Sirloin]

So, if you would have known me back in 10th grade (aside from being a much more complete human being) and asked "Hey Dick, who is the best band to ever walk the face of the earth?" I probably would have said "IRON MAIDEN!" and kicked you in the cods. But on some days I would have said "Fuckin SAVATAGE!" and pulled out my wang (but it was probably already out, considering so many girls wanted to play with it back in the day...).

I don't listen to them all that much anymore, but every time I do it's a like "Whoa!" trip through memory lane. I love nearly all their albums. Other than Ulver, I can't think of a more diverse band at the moment.

CRISS OLIVA = guitar god.

My rankings (not incl. live ones):

1) Edge of Thorns
2) Gutter Ballet
3) The Dungeons Are Calling
4) Hall of the Mountain King
5) The Wake of Magellan
6) Handful of Rain
7) Streets
8) Sirens
9) Dead Winter Dead
10) Power of the Night
11) Fight For the Rock
12) Poets and Madmen


Favorite alltime tracks: "Not What You See"; "Edge of Thorns"; "Strange Wings"; "By the Grace of the Witch"; "Morning Sun"; "Gutter Ballet"

PS: What other band can proclaim the membership of Criss Oliva, Alek Skolnik and Al Pitrelli?!?

 

[dorian gray]

uhh...wasnt yngwie malmsteen in savatage?

 

[GrumpyDwarf]

Gutter Ballet >>>> everything else

stoopid

 

[GrumpyDwarf]

uhh...wasnt yngwie malmsteen in savatage?

Turn in your metal card at the door pls k thx

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I just wish the Zak Stevens/Criss Oliva combo could have made more albums. Then Criss had to go and die, that bastard.

 

[GrumpyDwarf]

You also have Streets WAY too far down.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

You also have Streets WAY too far down.

It never turned me on in the gay way... not to say that it isn't entirely wonderful... Fuckin "Ghost in the Ruins"!!! heartheart

 

[dorian gray]

Turn in your metal card at the door pls k thx

i already turned it in the other day after my led zep comment. i think im on borrowed time here.

 

[GrumpyDwarf]

It never turned me on in the gay way... not to say that it isn't entirely wonderful... Fuckin "Ghost in the Ruins"!!! heartheart

Yeah, well, you need to give your entire collection a reach-around then.

I don't even know what that means.

 

[GrumpyDwarf]

i already turned it in the other day after my led zep comment. i think im on borrowed time here.

Oh yeah. OFF WIT' YER HEAD!!!

 

[Dick Sirloin]

DO YOU FEEL YOU'RE CAPTURED

BY!

THE GRACE OF THE WITCH?

Man, that album is so fucking metal...

A CITY BENEATH THE SURFACE ABOVE!
HOW YOU SURVIVE ON EVIL AND BLOOD!

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Edge of Thorns fucking rules.

Edit:

some fag on AIM corrected my minor error.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

DO YOU HEAR THE HOUNDS, THEY CALL!
SCAN THE DARK, EYES AGLOW!



Did Savatage break up or something? I have heard NOTHING from their camp for quite some time now...

 

[lizard]

I listened to Ghost in the Ruins the other day...

 

[Dick Sirloin]

The live album or just the song?

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

I gots to see Nevermore open for Savatage once :Spin:

 

[lizard]

the whole album

and speaking of nevermore, will they ever, ever break out of this US perennial opening act status.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Well they headlined at the CM Christmas shindig *shrug* haha

 

[Demilich]

so when I bought used LPs of Genesis-Foxtrot & Savatage-Hall of the Mountain King, I was unwittingly making some kind of Sirloin-inspired purchase?

never listened to either one btw

 

[lizard]

CM actually has a christmas party? that's not very grym.