Traduza\\ OLIVA, CAFFERY To Perform SAVATAGE's 'Hall Of The Mountain King' At BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

JON OLIVA'S PAIN, the Florida-based band led by SAVATAGE mastermind Jon Oliva, will play SAVATAGE's classic 1987 album, "Hall Of The Mountain King", in its entirety at the warm-up party for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place July 13-14, 2012 in Balingen, Germany. Joining JON OLIVA'S PAIN for the "Hall" 25th-anniversary performance on July 12 will be Oliva's SAVATAGE bandmate Chris Caffery. Caffery and JON OLIVA'S PAIN are also expected to play several songs from DOCTOR BUTCHER, the early 1990s project created by Oliva and Caffery at a time when they were not active members of SAVATAGE.

"Hall Of The Mountain King" was the first SAVATAGE album to be produced by Paul O'Neill and it showed the beginning of the band's progressive tendencies as they explored new forms of expression in their music. Many fans consider this LP a turning point in SAVATAGE's musical identity. As the group's first concept effort, it had a constant tone and was more complex than their previous albums, with two entirely instrumental tracks that go beyond simple guitar riffs and solos, namely "Prelude To Madness" and "Last Dawn".

As previously reported, Caffery will join CIRCLE II CIRCLE — the band led by former SAVATAGE frontman Zak Stevens — for a performance of the classic 1997 SAVATAGE album "The Wake Of Magellan" (which featured both Stevens and Caffery) in its entirety at next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2012 in Wacken, Germany.

Entrevista\\ Savatage: Alex Skolnick relembra passagem

Em entrevista à Goldmine Magazine, o guitarrista Alex Skolnick (Testament, Alex Skolnick Trio) relembrou um momento particular de sua carreira: a passagem pelo Savatage, onde gravou o álbum “Handful Of Rain”. Mas nem todas as memórias são alegres.

“Foi uma situação agridoce. Por um lado, pude fazer um disco com uma banda que gostava nos tempos de colégio. Mas consegui isso através de uma tragédia, a morte de Criss Oliva em um acidente de carro. Aconteceu na mesma época que tinha deixado o Testament. As coisas não estavam funcionando. Quando veio o convite, apenas pensei ‘por que não?’. No fim das contas não sabia muito bem onde estava indo e acabei não sentindo ter feito a coisa certa. Não tenho muita certeza, mas não foi um motivo específico. Talvez tenha sentido que precisava ter uma voz criativa, o que não teria acontecido no Savatage”.