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05 Sept 2007

SCARTOWN - guitarist left the band

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05 Sept 2007

OVERKILL: "Immortalis" Track Listing, Artwork Unveiled

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01 Sept 2007

LIZZY BORDEN - New Albums Details!

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01 Sept 2007

SHAMAN: "Immortal" artwork unveiled

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01 Sept 2007

U.D.O. - Best Of Release, Vote For The Best!

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01 Sept 2007

NEVERMORE - Parted Ways With Smyth!

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01 Sept 2007

Moonspell: "Under Satanæ" release date announced

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01 Sept 2007

IN FLAMES post new song online

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27 Aug 2007

MECHANICAL POET new album

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26 Aug 2007

HELLOWEENs twelfth studio album cover

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26 Aug 2007

EXODUS - New Album's Details!

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24 Aug 2007

SUFFOCATION in MOSCOW live videoclips

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24 Aug 2007

DARK DOMINATION "Let Satan Speak Through Our Lips"

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21 Aug 2007

ARCH ENEMY - single "Revolution Begins" release dates

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20 Aug 2007

Autograph-session HAMMERFALL in moscow!

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17 Aug 2007

FALCONER extended its deal with Metal Blade

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16 Aug 2007

THE DUSKFALL: New Album Release Date Announced

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16 Aug 2007

EYES OF EDEN: Another Track From Upcoming Debut Available

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28 Jul 2007

SUBWAY TO SALLY: New Album Details Revealed

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28 Jul 2007

APOCALYPTICA With CRISTINA SCABBIA; New Song "SOS" Posted Online

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28 SEPT

1987

SAVATAGE released their fourth album, "Hall of the Mountain King," on September 28th, 1987, through Atlantic Records, and it changed the band permanently. Paul O'Neill had been assigned to them after the commercially misjudged "Fight for the Rock," and he produced this record at the Record Plant in New York while steering the Florida group toward the conceptual, orchestral approach that would define the rest of their career and eventually produce TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA. "Prelude to Madness" arranges Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and quotes Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" in its intro. Jon Oliva's voice is at its most commanding and his brother Criss's guitar work has never been bettered. It reached number 116 on the Billboard 200 and remains the album most SAVATAGE listeners name first.

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