[Question_Assumptions]

One other thing. "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" originally appeared on the Savatage album "Dead Winter Dead" and there is a lot of crossover between the heavy metal band Savatage and TSO. What's really funny is that I was listening to Savatage before that song was even released. Though some of their early songs are dark, they are a fairly "clean" and positive band -- the parental warning sticker on a couple of their albums was only there to help them sell -- they didn't need them. And having band member Criss Oliva die years ago (a car crash, not drugs) seems to have made them a bit introspective and spiritual. So now I buy the Savatage albums (they've moved into doing a lot of rock opera stuff like "The Wake of Magellan", too) and my wife buys the TSO albums. If you like the TSO stuff, you might like Savatage's "The Wake of Magellan", in particular, and possibly some of their other stuff like the rest of "Dead Winter Dead" (which is something of a rock opera about Sarajevo falling apart and hope for the future).

[Terabitten]

I'll have to check it out. I never really listened to Savatage at all. In fact, for the longest time, I thought it was Neil Zaza playing with TSO.

[RockinRight]

I like Savatage but am not too familiar with all of their work. I have "Hall of the Mountain King" on cassette and would like to get more of their catalog.