Saw Savatage open for DIO in Cleveland Ohio around 1987 at Music Hall. Still have the drumstick that stuck to my chest after being tossed from the Savatage drummer. Fantastic show.
👍👍👍JAMESD , SAME YEAR I SEEN : SAVATAGE , MEGADETH ( SO FAR SO GOOD SO WHAT TOUR , AND DIO ( DREAM EVIL ) AT THE ALABAMA STATE FAIR GROUND !!!🔥🔥👍👍👍🎸🎸💯💯💯🎸💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Fun Fact:Jon Oliva didn't want originally to include ''Prelude to Madness'',on the album.Paul O'Neil,Savatage's producer and manager,was the one who convinced him to put it on the record. Paul O'Neil passed away,today RIP.
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
When someone asks me to recommend a Metal song so they can get a sense of the power and feel of the genre, I recommend this and Accept's "Balls to the Walls."
This is the piece of music that corrupted me at age 18 into listening to heavy metal, and other forms of music that weren't strictly classical or pops/Broadway. Grieg, played on electric guitar, and then something inspired by Grieg... I will forever be in Savatage's debt.
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
I remember giving RIP Magazine holy hell because they had wall-to-wall columns about Kurt Cobain passing but couldn't take six seconds to even mention Criss Olivia's name. Gutter Ballet and Edge of Thorns will always be in my top ten albums of all time.
@@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'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!
MADDDDDDDDDDDDDNEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.....IN THE HALL...OF THE MOUNTAIN KING!
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/
I love telling Trans Siberian Orchestra fans it is a heavy metal band started by the original singer before he died... his dream to see the two come together.... thank you for having this 👍
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
First Power Metal song written and recorded in Drop C! It was hard to capture the lows like the bands of today, but listen to the clean ending of the song with no distortion and you can hear that low C. I know Black Sabbath was C# in like 1971 (that’s also proto-Metal Classic rock) I’m talking 80’s Metal. Thanks Dean🤟🏻
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.
something i forgot about 80s metal no one does preludes anymore miss this album and edge of thorns ....sorry to say this style of metal is lost for ever
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
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.
+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
As much as I love this song, the harsh reality is, Grieg wrote this song as a joke to show how bad music was....yeah, I love it, but it was kind of the, "I love rock and roll" of the early twentieth century....
Nobody will ever match his MONSTER tone. Long Live Criss Oliva.
hell yeah 👍😁🤘
Amen bad ass
I can this
Saw Savatage open for DIO in Cleveland Ohio around 1987 at Music Hall. Still have the drumstick that stuck to my chest after being tossed from the Savatage drummer. Fantastic show.
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.
When Criss Olivia left us it was a tragedy for all. He reigns in the Hall of the Mountain King.
You got that right, Sava fan. Damn right. Best guitarist at what he did ! Period. Other guitarists who knew, knew that.
😭👍🏻
Fun Fact:Jon Oliva didn't want originally to include ''Prelude to Madness'',on the album.Paul O'Neil,Savatage's producer and manager,was the one who convinced him to put it on the record.
Paul O'Neil passed away,today RIP.
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
When someone asks me to recommend a Metal song so they can get a sense of the power and feel of the genre, I recommend this and Accept's "Balls to the Walls."
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
I can almost see Edvard Grieg head-banging to this song in his coffin.
Or in Heaven!
One of the best metal songs ever composed!
With a little help of Edvard Grieg: hall of the mountain king (Peer Guynt suite)
This is the piece of music that corrupted me at age 18 into listening to heavy metal, and other forms of music that weren't strictly classical or pops/Broadway. Grieg, played on electric guitar, and then something inspired by Grieg... I will forever be in Savatage's debt.
And here I am going the other direction due to songs like this and X Japan.
@@shangri-la-la-la byeeee!
This band changed my life as a guitar player, and a drummer. Aunt got us through some hard-core combat situation
In Webster's On-Line dictionary, under the description for the word "epic", there is a link to this video.
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
The Bohemian Rhapsody of Heavy Metal
A Metal Magnum Opus!
I respect your opinion, but I think there might be a...CHANCE...you were thinking of another song 🎵
I remember giving RIP Magazine holy hell because they had wall-to-wall columns about Kurt Cobain passing but couldn't take six seconds to even mention Criss Olivia's name. Gutter Ballet and Edge of Thorns will always be in my top ten albums of all time.
Nirvana fucking blows SAVATAGE ALL THE WAAAAY‼️
Love Edge of Thorns, just listened to it again, it never gets old
@@NorthWoodsWalks Savatage never really got their just due. Yet they touched MANY lives nonetheless. More talent than MANY bands from that period.
Nirvana sucked ass 100%
@@toastedcrack8105savatage is still nasty 1oo% their songs are so much better any nirvana garbage.
The Birth of Symphonic Metal right there.
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.
Still epic in 2023! 🤘🏻
Indeed, my friend.
May the neoclassical Gods bless Oliva´s bros, I will pray for they return! Savatage ruled the thing at that ages, fvckin´Rocks!
Xoan García Heavy Metal Hitman face book \m/ :) \m/
RIP Criss. Wow such a loss! Just been introduced to Savatage recently. Badd-ass!!!!
Savatage. One of my favorite bands of all time. Gave birth to TSO. R IP. CHRIS!!
Beyond bad ass!!!..if you can’t appreciate this you have no soul!
It takes a real badass to pull off sandals
bought this album in 1987 still luv it and now 27 years later I look like the album cover no joke I do haha
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... 🤣🤘🤘
Savatage's best album and a must have album for any metal head collection! every track is top notch metal!
3:07 Ahhhh...that amazing inro riff! Just epic! 👍🙂
For real. I always think how does he do it
Always loved Savatage, ever since I heard edge of thorns I got hooked. Crazy that Alex scolnik played with these guys and TESTAMENT
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
Edvard Grieg must be proud :'D
Jon and Criss Oliva.... both Gods!
Tears still come to my eyes when I listen to this album.
It was a masterpiece
They just played Prelude to Madness at the recent TSO show. It was fucking great. A nice little throwback.
I need 20 more albums from Savatage
If your not a SAVATAGE fan, well your just not living!!!
MADDDDDDDDDDDDDNEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.....IN THE HALL...OF THE MOUNTAIN KING!
Criss has a "riding into battle" guitar tone.
🪓😬🛡
Simply off the charts!!
Edward Grieg approves
When they changed their name to Trans-Siberian Orchestra, they play Prelude to Madness pretty frequently.
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.
I love telling Trans Siberian Orchestra fans it is a heavy metal band started by the original singer before he died... his dream to see the two come together.... thank you for having this 👍
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
@@hundredpercentmetal Agreed. No Savatage. No TSO.
Good morning too you too, its 5:00 my time and just woke up.
So underrated as a whole package. John was awesome in keeping band together and productive
First Power Metal song written and recorded in Drop C! It was hard to capture the lows like the bands of today, but listen to the clean ending of the song with no distortion and you can hear that low C. I know Black Sabbath was C# in like 1971 (that’s also proto-Metal Classic rock) I’m talking 80’s Metal. Thanks Dean🤟🏻
Timeless music
It will always sound good
Perfection
Sorry about the delay...This song was currently kicking the shit out of, "Dance Monkey".
Savatage is back after the , imo, bad album " fight for the rock".
This is the first album with the great Paul O' Neil as producer.
R.I.P Paul.
I got this album senior year 1987, so awesome
Madness reigns...
It certainly does now.
I listened to this tape repeatedly for years....until there are no tapes I did....
I seen them in concert at a small Venue in a suburb of Chicago in the 80's they did this whole album!! It was outstanding!! 🤘🤘
beard/hair not as white .heard this on tommy vance on radio 1 rock show 1987 while on my cb radio talking with my mates how times change
I saw them live!
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 );
Que sonido tan majestuoso, un poco acelerado como si fuese de cassette, simplemente magnífico!!
A lot of symphony orchestras cover this song
lel
@Edward Beil 2 years late r/wooosh
This was scored in the 1800
3:07 🤘
8 people need slapped. My uncle Terry showed me this band when I was 15. That was 11 years ago.
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... 🤘🤘
In a land caught between time and space
I love this song!
Amazing, i have no other words to describe
this takes me back, savatage done some amazing work,,,fucking awesome!!!
Old time favorites that never get old, like the Kinks "Superman" & Frank Marino Mahogany Rush "Strange Dreams" and the list goes on & on ♥︎
Grieg would like it =) great Band, epic Song
Wow great !!!!!!! Absolutley Epic!!!!!
Drive to it .... 67 nova , 72 le mans , amc concorde , 95 gmc .
They are absolutely amazing fabulous
Perfect metal
This band was the precursor to awesome metal!!!!!!!!
prelude to madness is one of the seeds that became the transiberian orchestra.
Did you know Prelude to Madness is actually the original Hall of the Mountain King by composer Grieg?
3:03 chills! long live to Savatage!
As a bass player it's a great
Top classic!
I have the caset, but it needs a case transfer, and is due for some lubrication.
+TacticleRock410 I decided to buy the album on the iTunes store... am I a filthy individual?
Oh my lord I think I like this better than the Mountain (TSO's cover on Night Castle for those that don't know)
thank you so very much, guys. some of the best metal ever!
Wow!!! Outstanding!!!
Even though I prefer the original, this piece is really appealing!
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)
Song to warm up to
best version ever and sound is great
Obra maestra--savatage---grande criss leyenda....
Love
If only Edvard Grieg would know this....
🤘🤘🤘
something i forgot about 80s metal no one does preludes anymore miss this album and edge of thorns ....sorry to say this style of metal is lost for ever
in french, "savatage" means "ass kicking"...so adapted!!!
? 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
6:02 AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! AA! _AA! AA! AA! _*_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA_*
Challenge accepted
Manard Keenan does well too.
trying to sync this with the TSO cover
#Savatage RIP My Metal Brother #CrisOlive
#HeavyMetalHitman face book
1000th like😁😁😁
Alton Towers! Yeeeeeeahhhh!
Best Christian Band in the universe
The only thing wrong with this music is that the volume has to be at 11. No less. Is there a 12?
The intro is a cover of Gustav Holst - The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War
+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"
Grieg was metal before there was metal
So was Paganini
Why i cant find it in Spotify?
I did
💥🔥🎸🎸🎸🎸💥🔥🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🤘👍🎼🔥
Savatage is fucking awesome....stoner metal!!!!!!!
+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
The instrument skills kinda remind me of Power Glove
With Dio-esque vocals omg I'm hooked😮😮😮😮
Criss Oliva just as good as Dave Mustaine, if not better!!
As much as I love this song, the harsh reality is, Grieg wrote this song as a joke to show how bad music was....yeah, I love it, but it was kind of the, "I love rock and roll" of the early twentieth century....
67 chevy full size pu
i swear cradle of filth covered this. cant find the track though.
Irish...
still gives me goosebumps!
Great Album Folk Metal is what Savatage is, sounds better this rip sucks
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