NOBLE SAVAGE - ALBUM INFOS

Noble Savage

Released 1986 On Cobra Records, reissued by Noise/T&T

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Track listing:We rule the night - I'm On Fire - Thy Kingdom Come - Image Of A Faun At Twilight - Noble Savage - Fight Tooth And Nail - The Evil In Her Eyes - Rock Me - Don't Close Your Eyes - The Angel Of Light - Rerelease only: Obsession (It Burns For You) - Love And Death - Where Are You Running To - Come On And Love Me - The Spirit Of Steele - The Pyre Of Kings

Noble Savage, 877 kb

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Review:"Noble Savage" is the perfect Virgin Steel album, the maturiry album, the breakthrough. Their style remains the same, but finally everything is in place. An album drawing it's strenght from the duality, the opposition of elements (almost an ideological concept for the band, as later albums do prove). The roots of Virgin Steele are quite clear - a Rainbow (but also Deep Purple mark III - DeFeis voice lies somewhere between David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes) main architecture, with strong guiter playing (new guitarist Edward Pursino has a beautiful touch and a melodic sensibility unknown to Jack Starr) and tight (yet dynamic) drumming aided by grandiose keyboards creating symphonic and majestic atmospheres, with a particular pomp taste inherited from the american tradition of the seventies and class rock influences. The epic tracks are just awesome, away from the average sword and sorcery and reflecting a much more subtle and spiritual thing - man triumphing first against the odds and his weaknesses. The incredible title track and "Thy Kingdom Come" reflect this particular vision, aided by the complex "The Angel Of Light" evoking biblical apocalypse and the coming of the beast. On the other side we have immediate heavy rock tracks ("Rock Me", "I'm On Fire" and the seducent class metal "The Evil In Her Eyes"), like a metallic version of Whitesnake, easy listening without being superflous nor mediocre and thundering metal drills like "We Rule The Night" and "Fight Tooth And Nail". "Noble Savage" stands produ today as a metal classic everybody should have in his collection. The Noise reissue has some excelletn bonus tracks, so don't miss it.

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Line up: David DeFeis (vocals, keyboard), Edward Pursino (guitar), Joe O'Reilly (bass guitar), Joey Ayvazian (drums).

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