DEAD WINTER DEAD

...And one of the Savatage´s highlights! This album is their second Opera Rock, four years before the masterpiece "Streets"...And this is like a kind of Savatage´s reborn, because this is the first album with the guitar master Al Pitrelli, with the drummer Jeff Plate and "Dead Winter Dead" represents also the comeback of Chris Caffery, who worked with Savatage in "Gutter Ballet" and in some concerts at the end of the 80´s...

Every Savatage´s album it´s different of all the others of the band, but in this one they developed a very new sound. This is a very much orchestral work, least 80´s heavy metal oriented. In my opinion, "Dead Winter Dead" it´s the first really symphonic Savatage´s album. Here is the song Christmas Eve, a song that would become a great hit in the United States under the name of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the parallel Savatage´s group. Trans- Siberian Orchestra´s sound was born with "Dead Winter Dead"...

This album has a story...And it´s a very beautiful one. But I don´t want to explain here, because I think it´s better to know this story while listening the incredible music that Savatage made here. Listening this album you can feel the war. You can sense the sound of bombs, the fear of dying, the evil thoughts of politicians, the roar of the battle, the pity of the Sarajevo´s people while their city and country it´s being destroyed... But you can feel also the hope and love of these people.

I don´t want to write more...But if you want to discover one of the best album in rock history (in my humble opinion), just listen "Dead Winter Dead", a true masterpiece.

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