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Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King Audio CD

A fair review of the Savatage "Hall of the Mountain King" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Savatage reviews here, or go back to the Savatage tabs.

Savatage Band: Savatage
Title: Hall of the Mountain King
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: 24 Hours Ago 2: Beyond the Doors of the Dark 3: Legions 4: Strange Wings 5: Prelude to Madness 6: Hall of the Mountain King 7: Price You Pay 8: White Witch 9: Last Dawn 10: Devastation

Savatage: Hall of the Mountain King
A very good guitar album. A very musical hard rock, metal, or shredder album. Free of repetious drags and cookie monster vocals.


the best album savatage has to offer period.
I love everything about it. this is one of the albums that got me into heavy metal. the guitars,drums,melody and oh my gosh,the vocals are superb!if you love metal or getting into metal and you don't have this album then you are missing something really great. this is a classic,a must have album.


Paul Steps In
In fact, you can look an every album they have done and there will be something different than the previous album(well, not too different between Dead Winter Dead and Wake of Magellan), be it a change of lineup or experimentation with the music. Savatage is a band that's gone through many ch-ch-ch-changes throughout their career.
Hall of the Mountain King is a very important album in Savatage's career-It put them back in the game and it is where producer/songwriter Paul O'Neill came into the picture. Before this album Savatage's career was taking a nosedive. Pressure from their managers forced an album of soft AOR songs in the attempt to get mainstream radio play(Fight For The Rock). That album didn't make the big splash it was supposed to and also alienated Savatage from the strong metal following they had built. Then O'Neill comes to the rescue and helps make Savatage a force to be reckoned with once again in the metal scene.
The results are outstanding. HOTMK is a straight up rocker with a slight progressive tinge. One song, "Strange Wings", seems like it was done for mainstream radio, but it was never released as a single, and it's just too damn catchy not to like. "Prelude To Madness" is the kernel of what we'd see later in Savatage's career, and even moreso in the Trans Siberian Orchestra-A guitar rendering of classical music(in this case it's Grieg's Hall Of The Mountain King of course). The title track alone is worth purchasing the album, and has got to be one of the best heavy metal songs of all time.
Mix this stuff together and Savatage raised themselves from the dead, won respect in the metal community and put themselves back on the map. Many people feel this is Savatage's best album, but that's for you to decide considering if you ask the average Savatage fan what their favorite album is, you tend to get a broad range of answers. This album is rated rather highly in general though.
Should you get it? If you're a connoisseur of 80s or classic metal(and what healthy red blooded American isn't?), then this should most definitely be somewhere in your collection-Even if you don't listen to it!!!!!.


Old Metal
Great guitar playing and good singing. Remember when they actually sang on metal recordings? Well here is Savatage at it's best in my opinion. Almost like an old Metal Church album. This is Savatage before they got a little too far from their roots of metal (like the Wake of Magelin).


My first introduction to Savatage
These guys have been around for a very long time and this being one of their first offerings, its plain to see why. While not as "produced" as some of the later albums, this is a DEFINATED must have. Metalheads everywhere have at least heard of Savatage. 24 Hours ago, Prelude to Maddess and Hall Of The Mountain King, are just a few of the songs that you will want to crank up.


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