Sirens (Savatage album) explained

Sirens
Type:studio
Artist:Savatage
Cover:Savatage Sirens original cover.jpeg
Released:April 11, 1983
Recorded:January 1983
Studio:Morrisound (Tampa, Florida)
Genre:
Length:35:51
Label:Par Records
Producer:Dan Johnson
Prev Title:City Beneath the Surface
Prev Year:1982
Next Title:The Dungeons Are Calling
Next Year:1984

Sirens is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Savatage, released on April 11, 1983. The music on this album is heavier than in later Savatage albums, where the band developed their own style of progressive metal. It has also been cited as a key inspiration for the then-burgeoning thrash metal scene.[3] [4]

According to frontman Jon Oliva, Sirens and the EP The Dungeons Are Calling were recorded and mixed all in one day. With most of the songs prepared no more than a week before the recording session, the band could only afford one day in the studio. The two albums together were to make Savatage's debut but since vinyl records limited the total running time, they were divided. In 2011, they were remastered and released together on the label Earmusic.

The cover of the English versions published by both Music for Nations and Combat Records in 1985 used the cover of the children's book The Borribles Go for Broke.[5] It was also used by Metal Blade Records for the first edition on CD and other subsequent versions.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: VV, AA. HM - Il grande libro Heavy Metal. 2012. Giunti Editore. 978-8-80977-636-4. 190. it.
  2. Book: Bukszpan, Daniel. The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal. 2003. Barnes & Noble Publishing. 978-0-76074-218-1. 218.
  3. https://www.musicradar.com/news/still-the-orchestra-plays-remembering-savatages-criss-oliva
  4. https://www.givememetal.com/thrashmetaltrees/artillery-family-tree
  5. Web site: The Borribles Go for Broke (covers). LibraryThing. 9 April 2010.