Showing posts with label Savage Grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Savage Grace. Show all posts

Friday, January 17, 2020

The 1986 Listening Post - Savage Grace - After the Fall from Grace

Savage Grace - After the Fall from Grace



#312/1992
July 1986
Savage Grace
After the Fall From Grace
Genre: Power Metal
3.5 out of 5


Highlights:
After the Fall From Grace
Destination Unknown


Apparently this band’s name was suggested by none other than Randy Rhodes, whose older brother was the guitar player until he wasn’t. And he didn’t record with them. But they kept the name. 
This is only slightly better than their first. It’s devil horn metal, baby! And we have way too many of them anyway. 
And this is recorded in a bathroom. Or sounds like it. 
Why are there so many power metal albums, which feature such massive instrumentation, but are crushed under the weight of shitty production? How did that happen?




Tuesday, July 23, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - Savage Grace - Master of Disguise

Savage Grace - Master of Disguise


#337/973
September 12 1985
Savage Grace
Master of Disguise 
Genre:🤘
2.75 out of 5

Galloping Guitars! Incongruous noodling! Soaring shrieks! 
There is nothing inventive or really all that interesting in what sounds to me like one long song of thrashing gloom and doom ala bargain bin Dio. (Although “Sins of the Damned”  wasn’t bad.)