Savatage - Poets and Madmen [Remastered 2014] (2001)

Artist: Savatage
Title Of Album: Poets and Madmen
Release Date: 2014 (2001)
Location: USA
Label: Ear Music (0209166ERE)
Genre: Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue+covers)
Length: 01:11:19 min
Tracks: 13
Total Size: 657 MB (+5%)

Poets and Madmen is the eleventh studio album by the American heavy metal band Savatage, released in 2001. It was their last album before their 12-year hiatus, which lasted from 2002 to 2014. The album has a loose concept inspired by the career and death of journalist Kevin Carter, but has much less narrative in the lyrics than the previous two rock operas (Dead Winter Dead and The Wake of Magellan) penned by Paul O'Neill. Everything said in the album is fiction, except with regards to what is sung about Carter. The album is also noted as it is the only Savatage album to not feature a title song from the album, although the title was taken from lyrics to the track "Symmetry" from the band's 1994 album, Handful of Rain.

Tracklist:

01. Stay with Me Awhile (05:07)
02. There in the Silence (04:57)
03. Commissar (05:37)
04. I Seek Power (06:04)
05. Drive (03:17)
06. Morphine Child (10:13)
07. The Rumor (05:16)
08. Man in the Mirror (05:56)
09. Surrender (06:40)
10. Awaken (03:24)
11. Back to a Reason (06:36)
12. Tonight He Grins Again (04:46)
13. Sleep (03:54)

Band:

Jon Oliva – lead vocals, keyboards
Chris Caffery – lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Johnny Lee Middleton – bass, backing vocals
Jeff Plate – drums, backing vocals
Bob Kinkel – additional keyboards & backing vocals
Al Pitrelli – additional lead guitars (1, 3, 6, 7)
John West – backing vocals

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