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Poets & Madmen
Aside from a loyal cadre of fanatics, the record-buying public has not been kind to this long-running band's mountain of concept albums. The formula of pomp and pretense sours somewhere between the loftiness of its conception and the bare tediousness of its execution. While potentially as fun as Alice Cooper or Queen, the story-rock of Savatage is forced into a tight metal funnel that squeezes much of the joy out of the proceedings. Then again, the driving gait of "Commissar" and the 10-minute "Morphine Child" don't invite anything but the most dire and maudlin interpretation. Somewhere in here there is magnificence, but it may be too tightly wound to unravel. This album marks the return to the microphone of bandleader Jon Oliva, who drove Savatage to great power-metal heights during the 1980s, and he brings his honesty, but not his former energy. --Ian Christe
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Tracks| 1 | There In The Silence | | 2 | Commissar | | 3 | I Seek Power. I Seek Power | | 4 | Drive | | 5 | Morphine Child | | 6 | Rumor, The | | 7 | Man In The Mirror | | 8 | Surrender | | 9 | Awaken | | 10 | Back To Reason |
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