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PainAmplifier

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Been listening to some Savatage again. So many great songs from this band and despite some good exposure at the time of the 'Gutter Ballet' album, they never quite got the push into superstardom that other bands did.

I've always loved this track ("Thorazine Shuffle") of that album, despite other great songs like the title track "Gutter Ballet", "Of Rage and War" or "Mentally Yours".

Savatage has a lot of great songs, but I think this one is my all time favorite. "Strange Wings" from the 'Hall of the Mountain King' album.

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PainAmplifier

Evil by Example
i bought hall of the mountain king recently.
In the end trans-siberian orchestra is pretty much savatage, olivia himself even says this and trans-siberian orchestra is qutie big.

I'm going to say that TSO isn't Savatage, it just shares the sound that Olivia brings to the projects he works on. TSO is too Classical/Holiday oriented to really be considered the follow up to Savatage. If anything, his 'solo' band, "Jon Olivia's Pain" is where Savatage went after Criss Olivia died and Savatage faded out.

Personally I like all the bands that Olivia has worked with, but early Savatage is my favorite for the raw metal sound. Music from that era was more raw, less synthy/overproduced (The Loudness war didn't exist yet!) and the progressive sound was still a minor influence yet. The late 70's through the 90's was an incredible era for rock/metal. (In all it's extremes, including things like punk.) Most things since then have been refinements/crossovers of those sounds and earlier. I doubt we will see any real major changes for a while now until the instruments that we use to make music change.

If anything we may see a bit of a breakdown in music (I think we are already seeing some of it.) where downloaded music has taken over but has been co-opted by old mainstream music industry interests. (DRM, RIAA, Clearchannel, etc.) That is to say, the potential new bands/underground music remains vibrant...but popular/mainstream stuff has tanked to the extreme.

Although speaking of bands resurfacing under a new name/sound due to members moving around. I wonder how many people know about the Demoniac-to-Dragonforce link? (Sam Totman/Herma Li)

From this:
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To this:

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You can hear the influences that carried over from the older band to the new if you listen for it.
 

Vaskadar

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[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyCrx4DyMk[/m]
Gotta stick some classics up.

Also:
[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATU9FCLRAv0[/m]
 
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tomcat ha

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yeah i know the switch studiofarce made. They supposedly have one album which basically is a mix between power metal and black metal.
 

PainAmplifier

Evil by Example
Gotta stick some classics up.
Also:

Didn't like the Clash song, but I'm glad that I'm not the only one who likes Ghoul!

Been listening to some older rock lately, some ZZ Top is my current band for older stuff.

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PainAmplifier

Evil by Example
The perfect time of the year for this song:

Not enough snow on the ground at my location for that, yet. While I don't mind a later start to the snow and slush, it just seems like that usually means a winter that lingers too long and makes spring/summer late as well.

Looking at everything else going on in the world today though, this was the first 'appropriate' song to come to my mind.

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theabyss

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Shit I'm back in my "Mid-nineties mood"...maybe because today's music is so ridiculously bad that I have to go back in time. Back then chicks wore Doc Martens at least...:lol:

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