My Favorite Savatage Album
Let’s get one thing straight. This band is not made up of a bunch of nobodies. They have a different band that tours at about the time of Christmas that is more popular than they ever were when they called themselves Savatage. I like Savatage better than their other act. This is my favorite Savatage album. The guitars are amazing. Their vocalist is among the best in metal. If you like Fates Warning, or Iced Earth, then you will almost certainly like Savatage. If I had one Savatage album that I recommend the most it would be this one. This band had a small following at about the time that Nirvana changed everything, and then I never heard of them again for years. They probably got unfairly lumped in with the ultra rich hair bands, but as their greatest hits package is labeled, From the Gutter to the Stage, this band has almost certainly known what it is like to be a poor progressive metal act. I heard these guys first many, many years ago when there was a heavy rock top 50 countdown called the Z Rock 50, and it was the title track, Edge of Thorns. I recorded it off the radio (on a cassette tape), and eventually bought the album. As the album grew on me, Edge of Thorns became possibly my least favorite song on this album. This was definitely a case of a band releasing a song that bordered on
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