Sirens (Savatage album)

Sirens
Studio album by Savatage
Released April 11, 1983 (US)
November 1, 1983 (UK)
Recorded January 1983 at Morrisound Studios, Tampa Florida, USA
Genre Heavy metal, speed metal, power metal
Length 35:51
Label Par Records (US)
Music for Nations (UK)
Producer Danny Johnson
Savatage chronology

City Beneath the Surface
(1982)		 Sirens
(1983)		 The Dungeons Are Calling
(1984)
CD edition cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The Metal Crypt [2]
Martin Popoff [3]

Sirens is the debut album by American heavy metal band Savatage, released in 1983. The music on this album is heavier than in later Savatage albums, where the band developed their own style of progressive metal.[1]

According to front man Jon Oliva, Sirens and the long 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 version published by Music for Nations and of Combat Records edition of 1985 is the same of the children's book The Borribles Go for Broke.[4] It was also used by Metal Blade Records for the first edition on CD and other subsequent versions.

Track listing

Side one
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Sirens"  Jon Oliva, Criss Oliva 3:43
2. "Holocaust"  J. Oliva, C. Oliva 4:34
3. "I Believe"  J. Oliva, C. Oliva 5:25
4. "Rage"  J. Oliva, C. Oliva 2:42
Side two
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
5. "On the Run"  J. Oliva, C. Oliva, Steve Wacholz 3:33
6. "Twisted Little Sister"  J. Oliva, C. Oliva, Keith Collins 3:39
7. "Living for the Night"  J. Oliva, C. Oliva 3:20
8. "Scream Murder"  J. Oliva 3:50
9. "Out on the Streets"  J. Oliva, C. Oliva 5:15

Personnel

Band members

Interesting to note is that in the liner notes for the album, they gave themselves roles instead of listing their instruments.

Production

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orens, Geoff. "Savatage Sirens review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  2. ↑ Turnbull, Bruce (12 December 2010). "Savatage - Sirens". The Metal Crypt.com. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  4. ↑ "The Borribles Go for Broke (covers)". LibraryThing. Retrieved 2010-04-09.

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