2022 double album on red vinyls with gatefold cover, tourposter, booklet and bonus track

With Dead Winter Dead, Savatage returned to rock opera, a formatthe band had explored previously on Streets. However, with severalline-up changes having taken place since that seminal 1991 album,the sound of Dead Winter Dead is quite different. On this albumalone, the group have a new drummer in Jeff Platte and a newguitarist in Al Pitrelli. Chris Caffery, the guitarist who hadbriefly been in the band earlier, also returned to the group’slineup. Musically, Savatage have built upon the musical ground ofHandful of Rain with grand but heavy arrangements of theatrical andcomplex pieces. Both “This Is the Time (1990)” and the closingballad, “Not What You See,” show the strong influence of musicalson the songwriters. Take away the heavy guitars and you havesomething that could appear in many a Broadway show. Built around astory that takes place during the Balkan War of the early 1990s,the music nicely captures the wide range of emotion that thenarrative calls for. While Zachery Stevens provides the vocals forthe majority of the album, songwriter and former lead singer JonOliva returns on the sinister “I Am,” and “Doesn’t Matter Anyway,”which provides some straight-forward metal in between the moreprogressive pieces. The instrumentals, “Mozart and Madness” and“Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24),” are surprisingly well-arrangedominous metal versions of classical and traditional Christmaspieces, the latter of which would appear on the firstTrans-Siberian Orchestra album. All in all a minor masterpiece

Track listing:
1. Overture
2. Sarajevo
3. This Is The Time (1990)
4. I Am
5. Starlight
6. Doesn’t Matter Anyway
7. This Isn’t What We Meant
8. Mozart And Madness
9. Memory (Dead Winter Dead Intro)
10. Dead Winter Dead
11. One Child
12. Christmas Eve (Sarajevo)
13. Not What You See
14. The Storm-live in Neu Isenburg 1997

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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