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  • there no fuckg question in my mind and after many yrs of being a tage' fan, this by far (being, their first release, at least here in the northern states) their best material to date by them. the whole Lp just jams out. Savatage is the true metal genre of what american metal is all about. its about time they get their props!!! fuck yeah. to bad about chris ;( and STO? the euor'os should take notice, for this is true fuckin "METAL" at its best! My Friends 3;-7*** (<..........

  • @GhostsInMyAttic are you talking about Tower and Alien?

  • @xMetalegendx No the name I am looking for is even before those two names, You are very close though.

  • Trivia Time...Everyone on here claims to be such HUGE "Savatage" fans what is the "Original" name for the band and don`t say "Avatar" because you would be mistaken.

    I`m not being an ass just trying to have some fun instead of the usual banter.

  • @GhostsInMyAttic Are you referring to the cover band Jon and Criss started called Black Diamond?

  • @shreddybits No the "original" name of the band once called Avatar then Savatage, Do you know the answer? =]

  • @GhostsInMyAttic If it's not Black Diamond, which is what they called themselves when they were 13 and 10, are you referring to Metropolis? I remember reading about Jon and Criss recording an old EP when they were teenagers under the name Metropolis.

  • @shreddybits Smart man you got it right on "METROPOLIS" bitches we have a winner! message me and I`ll get your address and send you some memorabilia. .

    Cheers. =]

  • @doughboy206 Iron Maiden is definitely awesome too, but they're probably my 5th or 6th favorite metal band. Savatage will probably always be my number one. But yes, both Maiden and Savatage rule.

  • I'm glad the midget got the treasure.

  • I had basically forgotten about these guys until recently when I picked up an old Guitar World magazine and seen an article on Criss. I remember bein a kid through the 80's and 90's and listenin to Savatage with my cousi and sayin one day we would play like that. Well, now I'm 30 and still can't play like that, but still love his work. RIP Criss!!!!

  • This is the first metal video i have ever seen before youtube! In their official website of course! HAIL!

  • Quite possibly the most underrated (and greatest in my opinion) band in the world.

  • @xMetalegendx I don't know,,,Iron Maiden was pretty awesome too. But at they very least Savatage was one of the best metal bands to ever exist. Hard to choose between "Gutter Ballet" and "Hallowed Be Thy Name" or between "Number of the Beast" and "Hall of the Mountain King". lol Well,for me it is.

  • RIP Criss Oliva

    On October 17, 1993, at around 3:30a.m., Criss and his wife Dawn were driving north on Highway 301 on his way to the Fourth Annual Livestock Festival held in Zephyrhills, Florida, just north of Tampa. An oncoming car operated by a drunk driver crossed the median and struck Criss' 1982 Mazda RX-7 head-on, killing him instantly. The drunk driver, who had seven prior DUI convictions, survived with minor injuries and was later found guilty of DUI manslaughter,

  • In 1983, "Avatar" was forced to change its name due to copyright issues. Combining the words "Savage" and "Avatar", the band arrived with Savatage.

  • @MWHersman You are close but, Incorrect, I am looking for the original name.

  • Trivia Time, What was the original name of this band?

  • Lol my stepdad wanted me to listen to this

  • @BlackorWhite0920 We should all be blessed by such parents...

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  • Song is great, but the video reminds me of spinal tap. :D

    \m/

  • Whenever I"m in the mood for a little compact epicness, I look this vid up and jam the fuck out.

  • this video is very......interesting....o.O..­..ignoring that, AMAZING song!

  • 3:16 HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCKING IDIOT

  • Went from great to godly at 3:24.

  • great song, totally forgotten all about this song until now and so glad to have re-discovered it again, Savatage is definitely one of the most underrated metal bands of all time

  • YES! 

  • Is Jon Oliva not dead?

  • @OzzyTheFreak no Jon is alive and well and making great music still in his band Jon Oliva's Pain . really good stuff alot of it every bit as good as the Savatage days check it out plenty songs on you tube .

  • @jimischild13 he's REEAAAALLYYY let himself go though

  • @skullknap yes he has but they say he has dropped some weight last year . hopefully Jon will get even more healthy this year . sure hasn't dimmed his voice in any way still got it big time .

  • @jimischild13 Jon gave me a copy of his new CD to be released still unknown, It`s rather mellow and he does a few copies of other songs on it.

    I would love to post it but, Jon would have me killed I`m sure...lol

  • @jimischild13 That is great news! Hopefully he can keep at it and hopefully his voice hasn't diminished in the slightest

  • @jimischild13 Jon broke up JOP 3 months ago.

  • @GhostsInMyAttic i heard they was going to get another guitarist in the future . time will tell hope he returns .

  • @jimischild13 Jon is so wrapped up in TSO he doesn't have the time to do much else, Since Matt`s death I don`t know if he will ever reform the band.

    I do know he`s NY right now and he has a couple shows in Germany at the end of the year but, Chris Caffery is going to play guitar on those dates.

  • @GhostsInMyAttic i wish him the best in what ever road he follows and wishes of good health . i will try my best to keep up with his work as i have since the first savatage album .

  • @jimischild13 I`m sure he would appreciate hearing that brother.

    Keep the dream alive and remember Madness reigns in the Hall of the Mountain King.

  • Jon looks a little like Ozzy.

  • What a fuckin kick ass solo. I play this over and over 'till I go to sleep.

  • THIS WAS AHEAD OF ITS TIME !!!!

  • awesome!!

  • Man I wish there were better new bands. Only band that I feel like lives up to this/Megadeth/all the other good metal is Lamb of God, they've got the groove!

    This song makes me want to play Skyrim while playing guitar.. in traffic

  • @mattman1127

    Lamb of god is terrible. Feel free to play guitar while playing Skyrim, though!

  • @megalooneyone1 Actually, you may not like Lamb of God but that certainly doesn't mean they're terrible. Get over yourself, will ya? You should realize that your opinion matters to all of 1 person. I'll give you one guess who that is.

  • @megalooneyone1 You can't say that after listening to songs like Ashes of the Wake, 11th Hour, Reclamation, The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion, Ghost Walking, and Again We Rise, and still consider yourself a fan of metal.. it simply isn't possible.

  • Midgets, Hidden Treasure, and Ridiculously dressed rock stars...nothing more metal than that!!!! Classic!

  • Musical taste is subjective.

  • is this song too young to be considered a classic? lol, edge-wise...fucking epic.

  • 3:16 Try this!!!

  • Huh... King Under The Mountain... Thorin's hall.... Mountain King..... DWARVES.

    .... I wonder if there is an LOTR / The Hobbit referance in here... probably not. :P

  • I had a Hall of The Mountain King poster in my college dorm room!

  • wow and now they're Trans-Siberian Orchestra selling out arenas

  • @2002nymichael Too bad... I miss the Tage so much...Now just Zak Stevens band with Jon or Santa Claus songs.\

    wish at least he and Caffery could do one more Dr. Butcher album

  • @2002nymichael { Jon Oliva's Pain } great stuff some of it is every bit as good as Savatage no doubt . this is Jon's band still going even now this dec 2011 doing concerts with good albums .

  • Shhhhhhh.... you're going to wake the Mountain King up....and boy He gonna get angry that somebody stealin his sheeeeaat.

  • Wow~ Umm - All of these comments do not have any understanding of who SAVATAGE is! Chris Oliva and John Oliva made history with SAVATAGE~ Now known as Trans- Siberian Orchestra. John Oliva is as always has been ~ A conductor of Music! Trans-Siberian Orchestra is the #1 Christmas Band of all time! Understand that without these Two Brother's creating SAVATAGE ~ We would not have Beethoven's last night with us as we know it now!. R.I.P Chris !

  • these guys are criminally under rated....btw i got a band called orion with a forthcoming debut record being mixed as we speak...posted a couple tracks of rough demos...lies within the lies is about marshall law and media prophaghanda...rise of the monarch slaves is about peoples obsession with celebrities and the corporations who use these celebs to dumb down the public...i appreciate anyone who gives us a chance...thanks...i dont have a money machine backing us,sorry for the cheap plug...

  • @bluefukingreene

     Ummm

  • The only thing they didn't do to degrade the Dwarf was pull his pants down!!!!

    I love this song!!!!

  • 26 people couldnt overthrow his towers of stone

  • I thought this was total schlock crap 20 odd years ago and I still do -_-

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  • @brenter08 lol  nickelback too funny

  • @brenter08 your words prove you have NO ear for Real Metal . this is Classic Metal Greatness Jon Oliva is still one the best singers going even this day late 2011 .

  • @jimischild13 Criss is one of the most underrated guitar players in history. Criss and Randy were taken from us far too early. :(

  • @brenter08 You listen to Nickelback, your opinion on music doesn't matter.

  • @shreddybits You listen to Savatage, so you kick ass and have the top comment.

  • One of the best songs of all time!!

  • @shreddybits whats the thing about nickelback i dont know what has happened and you guys hate them so much

  • @fatkiller1000 Guy was commenting about how this isn't real metal, it's bogus music, etc. etc.

    He had a bunch of Nickelback videos in his favorites and liked videos list.

  • @shreddybits haha he fails

  • @fatkiller1000 they are not and will never be in this clik unless they drop their deal and start playing for real and shit !

  • @shreddybits who the fk is nickelback ?

  • @shreddybits true that, their music is written for them, its all been done before, actually, this era has extreme musical tallent and no one to look back to overcome so they really cant suck for eternity. i used to think mettalica was lame when i was 9 untill i saw sad but true video and it coresponded with peoples lives and there was no black president , i love america and our history!

  • @anything7441 whoa what's with the racism?

  • @gray007nl Who`s being racist?

  • @GhostsInMyAttic The guy I'm replying too, who implied that a black president is bad

  • @gray007nl Being black has nothing to do with him being a bad President, He`s lousy President because "In my opinion" he has run our debt so high and many other reasons but,

    It has nothing to with race the guy who said it is probably just a lonely troll...lol

    Cheers =]

  • it's a kicky little number!

  • This Satanic Smile... Rules!!

  • Holy shit Criss Olivia....

  • the absence of Grieg's melody is EXPLOSIVE!!

  • didn't know a dwarf could wave so frantically... Tyrion does not approve.

  • please pinch me...I must be dreaming...love this song!!!!

  • What a fucking awesome riff !!! This is, what I think is pure Heavy Metal!

  • going through Manapause is a Rockin thing....ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh

  • 26 people lost their way in the hall of the mountain king xD amaaaaazing song really heavy stuff!!

  • the fuck is the dwarf doing in this?

  • hellz ya

    

  • Love it !!

  • Guess what that was at 2:38 :)

  • awesome

  • chris olvia rules ,,reat in peace guitar god.

  • Excellent! Especially with the intro on the album

  • 24 people listen to c(rap)

  • @mknick1219

    Hahaha nice one

  • Yes They Real Metal band

  • The 24 that voted negative, are forever slaves in the Hall of the Mountain King!

  • That is the only riff ever needed to be played.

  • i can remember seeing them at the marquee in london many moons ago, gutter ballet tour i think....the keyboards broke down and they had to change their set list minutes before going on...total professionals!

  • I want one of those goblins....as a slave!

    

  • METAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLFFFF­FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKK­KKKKKKIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNYYYYY­YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • I literally got boner at 2:38

    one of the best riffs ever!

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  • 2:23 - 4:00 METAL ORGASAM !!!

  • @TheXsteel10 METALGASM.

  • That's funny. I don't remember this scene in "This Is Spinal Tap"

  • what's up with the little guy??

  • 2:45 2:46 , lol he looks like Frodo from The Lord of The Rings!

  • That Mountain King is so CoOL. Nothing bothers him. I mean, the most AZZ KICKIN Metal Band in the Universe holds a concert in his cave and some Dwarf is on the loose in there, stealing his treasure, and he's all Calm and Collected. He keeps his CoOL even after he throws that Goblet of Golden DOOBLOONS. Just L@@ks around and sits back down. He da Man!

  • 24 people are related to the dwarf

  • excuse me but is this david wayne, cause it was in a related video when I was listening to metal church.

  • I haven't heard this song since about 1989, I think. Fuck yeah!

  • this is sooooooooooooo fuckin 100 percent heavy metal...

  • Is that a real dwarf?

  • World!!!

  • Sounds like it could have been recorded in a cave. I dig the power chords and sustained high pitch vocals. Great sounding band with other overlooked tracks from this album. The video? Well even Weird Al couldn't make it any more schticky. I close my eyes when listening to it.

  • Good way to sell out, redo this song as Hall of the Mountain Dew!

  • @garmrofficial SOMEONE CALL WEIRD AL RIGHT NOW!

  • The video is hilarious !!! xD

    Lesson learned .. Hall of the mountain king album is more valuable than mountains of Gold ... It can be sold off eBay XD

    Absolutely love the song ... One of the best Power metal bands EVAR !!!

    Thanks so much for uploading this :)

  • @91FroSt91 Rite-On Brother! I Love Ever Savatage CD & I Own Them All!!

  • @BurningGlobe Respect !!! :D

  • Thou shalt not fuck with the mountain king.

    Amen.

  • Oneof the best songs from the 80's metal era. F**kin awesome tune!!

  • 3:18 gets me pumped

  • @ohnonotinthere 3:18 is horrible

  • 2:38 sums it up

  • The very first song that made me a Savatage freak. They are the most

    underrated heavy metal band of all time. They deserved to be up there

    with Priest and Sabbath

  • <3

  • makes me want to go mail boxing with a dump truck !!!! leave the bat at home.

  • This should be heavy metal's anthem! This or For Those About To Rock.

  • @Beartallica86 stfu theres better for an anthem

  • @AssPimple69 any suggestions?

  • @museman91 return of the warlord by manowar

  • @museman91 return of the warlord by manowar.

  • @Beartallica86 and maybe rename it to Hall of the Metal King :P haha jk this is a great song

  • @Beartallica86

    AC/DC AREN'T A HEAVY METAL BAND YOU FUCKING MORON THEY'RE HARD ROCK JESUS CHRIST STOP DRAGGING GOOD CLASSIC BANDS INTO YOUR SHIT CATEGORY

  • @putmeawayplease excuse me...you got upset cause he said ppl should have " for those about to rock "like an anthem in heavy metal?In any case if you think metal is a shit category wth you're doing at a savatage vid.And moreover metal is the somehow rock taken a step further.Take that from a rocker...quit such mentality.

  • @Beartallica86 AC/DC is hard rock over heavy metal, and this is a close second to "Heavy Metal" by Sammy Hagar.

  • @Beartallica86

    AC/DC aren't metal.

  • I actually have this on vinyl!

  • I could totaly headbang to this.

  • the entire song is the best part of the song

  • 3:15 marks the beginning of tweeking.

  • It's like an instrumentally untalented Symphony X.

  • @grantmaster13 These guys were around before Symphony X, so its rather "Symphony X is like a super-charged Savatage"

  • @grantmaster13 Come on man, you're not going to find a more talented guitarist than Criss Oliva

  • @martymcfly002 Except for John Petrucci and Joe Satriani, to name two.

  • THIS IS FUNNY

  • @JapaneseMonsters14 FIRE AND ICE MAKES THE SACRAFICE!!!!!!

  • THIS is metal.

  • goooood!!!!!!!!

  • all metal lives in the hall of the mountain king where lay the instruments, beer, and the babes and the metalhead brotherhood

  • 24 peoples are not in the hall of the mountain king

  • one of the most epic songs in metal history ALL HAIL SAVATAGE !!!!!!!

  • Does anyone have a tab for this epic song?

  • @tenhundredkills

    Check out songsterr (spelled exactly like that) they have a pro tab of it, but you don't need the protab software. Welcome.

  • @megalooneyone1 I was kinda hoping it had the solos too, but thanks anyway!

  • @tenhundredkills

    Shoot, it doesn't? you could try ultimate guitar or youtube videos just for the basic idea.... or watch them live and figure it out from there

  • @megalooneyone1 The first place I tried was ultimate-guitar, the ones posted aren't too accurate. I guess I'll just have to watch Savatage live or lots of covers and figure it out.

  • I guess that's Santa's other job

  • 23 people are obviously Lil Wayne & Justin Bieber fans!! Clearly!!!!

  • Possibly one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Yet they are so underrated it depresses me :/

  • Epic riff, great voice. Must be so underated cause I never heard 'bout this band 'till now. Such a wonderful song!

  • 23 are just plain retards

  • GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY..........­... NOT!!!

  • One of the best guitar solos EVER.....

    RIP, Criss.

  • 21 people got smited by the mountain king

  • Savatage lost their way after Criss passed......

  • i agree 110% savatage should have been given a place of honor in metal the swept to the side.Very underrated.i once asked chuck noris his deepest fear he said it was Savatage.