Still sealed clam shell box with cdwith two bonus tracks, sticker and full color poster

Poets and Madmen, Savatage’s 12thstudio album and fourth concept album, finds the band continuing towrite grand metal pieces with changing time signatures andeffective transitions between quiet and loud sections. However,with the return of Jon Oliva as vocalist and the departure ofguitarist Al Pitrelli, the band’s sound continues to evolve andchange. While the years have seen Oliva’s vocal range decrease, hissnarling style of talk-singing is thankfully still present and isreminiscent of his work with Dr. Butcher. With Chris Caffery, thesole guitarist in the band, the group sounds leaner and yetironically heavier than on their previous records. Oliva’s limitedvocal range also has put the focus more on rhythm and churningguitar riffs than melody. However, that does not mean the vocallines are dull. In the ten-minute “Morphine Child,” massive vocalharmonies fuse together heavy metal and cabaret musical influencesthat take some of the experiments the group has done before to thenext level. “The Rumor,” meanwhile, features the most prominent useof acoustic guitar on a Savatage album for years and finds the bandmoving back and forth between folk and heavy metal. While “Man inthe Mirror” and “Awaken” sound more like Streets-era Savatage, theclosing ballad, “Back to Reason,” admirably moves away from theadmittedly moving but redundant power ballad formula the band hadbeen repeating for quite some time.

Track listing:
1. Stay With Me Awhile
2. There In The Silence
3. Commisar
4. I Seek Power
5. Drive
6. Morphine Child
7. The Rumor
8. Man In The Mirror
9. Surrender
10. Awaken
11. Back To Reason
12. Jesus Saves-live
13. Handful Of Rain-video

Condition cover: stillsealed

Condition cd: mint

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