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
Welcome
by: Savatage(Oliva/O'Neill)
The lights come on
The set is down
The curtain's flown away
To all you creatures of the night
I say it's time we play
We'll show you things
That in your life
You'd never dreamed you'd know
So now before the ghosts arrive
It's welcome to the show
Minstrels, kings, explorers
Fantasies on order
Ghosts and dreams awakened
Stories long forsaken
The minstrel and the sorcerer
Are switching their disguise
The jester drinks and start to think
That he alone is wise
The governor and journalist
Exchange a Judas kiss
And now before the song is done
The plot begins to twist
Ghosts and lost explorers
Fate with all her daughters
Saints and hopeless sinners
Wise men in their winters
Know
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show