Savatage
Savatage (/ˈsævətɑːʒ/) is an American heavy metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Savatage has released eleven studio albums, two live albums, four compilations and three EPs. The band experienced major American commercial success with the release of their third studio album, Fight for the Rock (1986), which peaked at number No. 158 on the Billboard 200. Their next four albums — Hall of the Mountain King (1987), Gutter Ballet (1989), Streets: A Rock Opera (1991) and Edge of Thorns (1993) — were also successful but more critically acclaimed than Fight for the Rock.
After Criss' death in 1993, Jon (along with producer Paul O'Neill) decided to continue Savatage in memory of his brother. The band released four more studio albums, and went through several line-up changes before going on hiatus in 2002. During the years, members founded various new bands such as Jon Oliva's Pain, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Circle II Circle and Doctor Butcher. On August 2, 2014, Savatage announced that they were reuniting for Wacken Open Air in 2015.
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ALBUMS
- Streets: A Rock Opera released: 2011
- Handful of Rain released: 2011
- Still the Orchestra Plays: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 & 2 released: 2010
- Unplugged released: 2003
- Fight for the Rock released: 2002
- Gutter Ballet released: 2002
- Poets and Madmen released: 2001
- Ghost in the Ruins: A Tribute to Criss Oliva released: 2000
- Believe released: 1998
- The Wake of Magellan released: 1998
- The Best and the Rest released: 1997
- Power of the Night released: 1997
- Edge of Thorns released: 1997
- Japan Live '94 released: 1995
- Dead Winter Dead released: 1995
- Sirens / The Dungeons Are Calling released: 1994
- Hall of the Mountain King released: 1987
- Live in USA released: 1985
- Sirens released: 1983
- Port Jefferson, NY Acoustic Show released:
Believe
Released 1998- Believe
- Visions
- Taunting Cobras
- Handful Of Rain
- Chance
- Sarajevo
- This Is The Time (1990)
- This Isn't What We Meant
- Christmas EveSarajevo 12-24
- Edge of Thorns [Live]
- Gutter Ballet [Live]
- The Dungeons are Calling (live)
- Sirens (Live)
- Criss Oliva Guitar Solo [Live]
- Hall of the Mountain King (live)
- Alone You Breathe
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by Savatage
Anymore
by: Savatage(Oliva/O'Neill)
Don't want to walk upon the water
Don't want to look across the waves
Instead of seeing hills of water
I just see markers on their graves
But in the fading of a season
To look across an empty sky
For a forgotten childhood reason
To once more wish that you could
Close your eyes and just believe again
There's a God does he remember when
We were young and faith was not pretend
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
And in the night he sees the ocean
Carve its thoughts upon the shore
For in the way it was created
It can do this and nothing more
And every message it would leave him
The next wave carefully erased
As the tears that passed between them
Were so real that you could
Close your eyes and just believe again
There's a God does he remember when
We were young and faith was not pretend
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
And all at once the waves were getting higher
And as they crashed I thought I heard them say
There'd be a time when men would all be wiser
When everyone, everyone,
Yes everyone is