Title: “The Storm”
Format: Album track
Written by: John Oliva and Paul O'Neill
Performed by: Savatage
Genre: Progressive Metal
Taken from: The Wake of Magellan
Year: 1997
Acclaim: n/a
One of the very early albums I reviewed for my original journal, Savatage's
The Wake of Magellan contains three instrumentals, of which this is the last, in fact the penultimate track on the album. I love the way it evokes the majesty of nature while threading that with a sense of danger and foreboding. You can almost feel the deck rocking beneath your feet as the gale tosses the ship to and fro like a toy in God's bath. Great stuff.
Things I like about this :
1. The deceptively gentle opening on piano with sound effects
2. The way it builds to a crescendo, just like a real storm breaking
3. The almost Holstesque percussion
4. The fretwork, so emotional
Things I don't like about this:
Nothing
Rating: 