Savatage

1. Marsielles de Sade 02:28
2. Battle Cry 03:02
3. Burn it Down 03:16
4. On a Wing and a Prayer 04:32
5. Chosen Ones 05:13
6. Caged Tiger 03:37
7. Never Say Why 03:30
8. Go for the Throat 03:09 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHUfaL7Ftw
9. Can't Fight the Evil 04:34
10. Run but Don't Hide 04:57
11. Street of Pleasure 04:55 bonus track [bonus track of Compilation "Metal Madness"]
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Line-up/Musicians
- Vic Hix / vocals
- Ken Erb / guitars
- Eric Marderwald / guitars
- Kel Berkshire / bass
- Bill Sabo / drums (R.I.P. March 16th 2007, heart failure)

5.0 out of 5 stars +bonus track "Street of Pleasure"
1983's Go For the Throat was the debut album from Cleveland-based heavy metal band Shok Paris. The band more or less falls into the 80's American power metal scene, and early on had a hard-hitting sound similar to Omen, Armored Saint, Savage Grace, Malice and early Savatage.

SEVEN WITCHES Passage To The Other Side (2002 UK 10-track advance promotional CD featuring the fourth album from the US metallers and the first to feature James Rivera singing! Housed in a custom card picture sleeve)

2002 UK 10 track promotional CD album issued by Noise/Sanctuary.

Packaged in a card sleeve.

Excellent condition.

Catalogue No. NO3740.

James Rivera (Helstar singer) recorded two albums with the band, Passage to the Other Side and Year of the Witch.

SAMPLES:
www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B00008OM6Z/ref=pd_krex_dp_a

Passage to the Other Side = Studio album by Seven Witches
Released: 2003
Recorded: Mix-O-Lydian Recording Studio, Lafayette, New Jersey, 2003
Genre: Heavy metal, Power metal
Length: 48:17
Label: Sanctuary Records PROMO
Producer: Jack Frost & Joey Vera

REALM OF SPIRIT:
Attitude
race with time
reflect
i hate you
No way out
Desperate Journey

Byfist - Adrenalin (CD demo) 2000

1. "Eternal Damnation" (3:10)
2. "Meltdown" (4:43)
3. "Let It Die" (4:33)
4. "Mary Celeste" (4:50)

Imagine the singer for Agent Steel or Steel Prophet singing on the first two Metal Church albums and you get an idea of what this cd demo sounds like. There are tons of 'big' names listed on the credits. The CD was produced by David Wayne (Metal Church/Reverend), was engineered by Joe Floyd (Warrior) and the vocals are handled by Vikk Real (Fiarro). The band is tight; all four songs contain some speedy licks, fast and furious drumming and hook-laden song writing. Killer high pitched vocal performance by Vikk as well. The recording itself sounds a bit dated, almost like it was recorded in the early 90's. Even the music has that retro-speed metal feel. Is this a bad thing? Certainly not in my book. This demo is excellent!

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Label: Saba
Playing time: 17:17

The Songs/tracks on "HELSTAR Burning Star" are

Burning Star 3:50
Towards the Unknown 4:44
Witch's Eye (3:03
Run With the Pack 6:38
Leather and Lust 3:26
Possession 3:28
Shadows of Iga 4:59
Dracula's Castle 4:51

"HELSTAR Burning Star" was produced by: Car Canedy, Oscar Pavon and Helstar, Walter O'Brien
This album was recorded at: Sunrise Studios, Houston, Texas
Record Label: Music For Nations MFN 20 / Combat Records

Record Format 12" Vinyl Stereo Gramophone Record
Total Album (Cover+Record) weight: 230 gram
Year & Country 1984 Made in the UK

Bill Lionel (aka James Rivera) Vocals
Larry Barragan Guitars
Tom Rogers Guitars
Paul Medina Bass
Hector Pavon Drums

1984's Burning Star was the debut album from legendary underground metal band Helstar. Helstar was one of a number of American power metal bands that surfaced in the early to mid eighties that were highly influenced by the NWOBHM movement. Helstar as well as other bands like Omen, Warlord, Liege Lord, and to some extent Crimson Glory, Savatage, and Fifth Angel, built upon the foundation established by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and the rest of the British metal scene.

FREE if you buy their first 2 albums.

Frank Pané rules! - 85%
There’s a label on the CD I bought that says “Aggressive Power Metal” - a very accurate description it turns out as you’re not likely to come across power metal more aggressive than this. The driving force behind the aggression is the rhythm guitar and the star of the show is undeniably guitarist Frank Pané. The mix is as rare as the skills Frank Pané brings to the table as this sounds a lot like Hollow’s unusual Architect of the Mind. Meaning, the guitars are raw, powerful and ridiculously prominent in the mix while the drums and bass are quite subdued. Vocalist R.D. Liapakis powerful voice is mixed quite high too and seems the perfect match for the meaty guitars.

Melodic Progressive/Power Metal band (Featuring Mystic Prophecy Members!) from Germany's Rare 2nd full-length CD. Released on B-Mind Records in 1999.

Line up:
R.D.Liapakis: vocals(Mystic Prophecy)
Mario Cavasin: guitars
Martin Albrecht: bass(Mystic Prophecy, Stormwitch, Rough, Börn Again)
Markus Krings: drums
Tony Mang: keyboards

The German band VALLEY'S EVE, already heroes in the German (prog) metal underground because of their debut CD "prodigia", signed to B. Mind Records released their new album "The atmosphere of silence." VALLEY'S EVE managed to top their acclaimed debut CD by far ... the band has become heavier, more progmetallic, more powerful, more dramatic, more varied and even experimented with sequencers and synthesizers a few times (in other efficient way). On "The atmosphere ..." you get prog metal band riffs, mighty double bass drums, dramatic keyboards and good vocals. The vocals are good. A big step for Valley's Eve on their way to higher regions.

released by MIEZ RECORDS/ZYX (Sealed copy).
Bombastic Power Prog. Vanden Plas meets Savatage

Progressive Metal from Germany (Bad Grönenbach, Bavaria)

R.D. Liapakis - Vocals (Mystic Prophecy)
Frank Pané - Guitar (Red to Grey, Solemnity, Burn (Deu))
Martin Albrecht - Bass & Keyboards (Mystic Prophecy, Stormwitch, Rough, Börn Again)
Frank Huber - Drums (Casus Belli (Grc), Trace, Triple X (Deu))

Conclusievely convincing slice of prog-metal from Germany. Not only because of the piano-vocal-end tracks and saxophone during the quest Ulterior sometimes blows the mood of Queensryche's "Promised Land". The 70 minutes show: Valley's Eve have their distinctive style, the songs are catchy and also the sophisticated and powerful sound collecting Plus points.

The album:
The opener Escape rocks like the real thing. For an impressive intro goes into a song about carrying, the intro theme is picked up on several occasions. Here already is becoming apparent that with prog-metal complex songorientiertem has to do it, which is technology-and soligepfefferten discs like Symphony X and Co-Frick learning distance of (which does not mean that I can not from something!).

This is the self financed 19​97-CD-Miez Records-1st press (later rereleased by MIEZ RECORDS/ZYX due to tremendous demand).
Bombastic Power Prog. Vanden Plas meets Savatage

Progressive Metal from Germany (Bad Grönenbach, Bavaria)

R.D. Liapakis - Vocals (Mystic Prophecy)
Frank Pané - Guitar (Red to Grey, Solemnity, Burn (Deu))
Martin Albrecht - Bass & Keyboards (Mystic Prophecy, Stormwitch, Rough, Börn Again)
Frank Huber - Drums (Casus Belli (Grc), Trace, Triple X (Deu))

Conclusievely convincing slice of prog-metal from Germany. Not only because of the piano-vocal-end tracks and saxophone during the quest Ulterior sometimes blows the mood of Queensryche's "Promised Land". The 70 minutes show: Valley's Eve have their distinctive style, the songs are catchy and also the sophisticated and powerful sound collecting Plus points.

The album:

A marvelous Scarlet production. Tyrant Eyes is a German power metal band that this year will celebrate their 10-year jubilee. Gaining the experience they now so much witness by playing at several local as well as many national gigs, it was not until the beginning of this millennium they released their first album. The result lies before me and it?s glorious!
The Darkest Hour can probably be represented by a mixture of Nevermore, Hammerfall, Savatage and the later Sentenced; up tempo powermetal with the progressive influences of thrashmetal guitarplay.
The music and sounds are in good balance, well-tuned and quite varied (it pleases with both thrashmetal, powermetal and ballads). For example Out of the Dark reminds me a lot of Hammerfall?s Legacy Of Kings, only with a thrashmetal-intro, while Command And Destroy consists more of ?Nevermore-staves? in combination with ?Savatage-burdens?.
The best song on this album? A difficult choice between The Dawn and The Last Light, but probably the first. It?s somewhat extremer than the rest of the album and contains a high Nevermore-percentage (I always go weak on that!).