The Beauty And The Beast

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The Beauty and the Beast is the forth album released by Stormwitch in 1987. The album is the first to feature additional female vocals in a number of songs. The album also possesses a much less metal style and a more hard rock sound, the song "Tears By The Firelight" being almost completely acoustic. "Tears By The Firelight" was later covered by Italian Power metal band, White Skull. The line up for this album was
- Andy Mück alias Andy Aldrian (vocals)
- Lee Tarot (guitars)
- Steve Merchant (guitars)
- Ronny Pearson (bass)
- Pete Lancer (drums)

[edit] Tracklist

  1. Call Of The Wicked
  2. The Beauty And The
  3. Just For One Night
  4. Emerald Eye
  5. Tears By The Firelight
  6. Tigers Of The Sea
  7. Russia's On Fire
  8. Cheyenne (Where The Eagles Retreat)
  9. Welcome To Bedlam

Reissued on March 7, 2005 by Battle Cry Records (formerly Iron Glory Records) with these bonus tracks, all recorded live iat Conny's Place, Hanau, Germany on October 6, 1990:

  1. Emerald Eye
  2. Call of the Wicked
  3. The Beauty and the Beast
  4. Tears by the Firelight
  5. Russia's on Fire
  6. Thunder and Lightning
  7. Cheyenne (Where the Eagles Retreat)
  8. Away from the Darkness
  9. Tigers of the Sea

[edit] Trivia

Emerald Eye is currently the only Stormwitch song to have a music video which can be seen here [1].
An acoustic version of the song "Tears By The Firelight" has been recorded at Talk Heavy Radio / Münster and can be heard on the band's homepage.