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  • Video just follows trends of the time. In 20 years we'll be saying the same about today's vids. Great song.

  • Holy Shit...gnar guitar move @ 0:53

  • lol the mountain king is a santa claus like tyrant :P

  • This video was filmed in the Caverns of Schoharie County, NY

  • i swear i'll fight anyone that says this or dio sucks.....

  • Me too..This is the baddest riff in Metal..ever!

  • lol ok ya this video does suck but another song with a weird video is Dio holy diver lol if uve seen it u know lol

  • please i watch this crapon sci fi every night

  • lol, this really is a terrible video

  • dipshit, this vid is like rly old

  • Criss Oliva a Guitar God that will be missed!

  • 3:24 is fuckin funny

  • awsome band and ya they do have fans ironslayerking they just dont have much fans in the states or canda and your a fag for thinking that

  • AWESOME video!

  • i'm loving it at about 3:30 when there's random flashing clips of the lead singer sort of grabbing his guitarist and yanking him around hahahaha poor man. xxx

  • jon looks fantastic in this! lol brilliant i love them so much x

  • Fucking best riff ever.

  • OMG this song so rocks. How did I miss this in the 80's? Probably from listening to the likes of Dokken :-(

  • Ok listen i hate it how ppl always fucking argue that this band is better and ect. like i have not hear much from this band but they are good sound very iron maidenish in my opinion anyway i also am a huge metallica fan like holy crap can u ppl like not get along at all??? also like i personally am a huge fan of dio,this guy rivals his singing wouldnt say quite topping it but pretty close any way how about we stop trashing metal and go fuck with rap groups like come on were all metal heads here!

  • ICED EARTH.... SINCE 1990... HAS ANYONE HERE EVER HEARD OF... Fuckin... ICED EARTH?... If not please You-Tube them... Especially their first 4 albums..... They blow Maiden...Priest... Every metal band out of the water!!!.. Well... Actually...on their last two albums... They had RIPPER OWENS singing for them... But now have their old and beter singer back!
  • hey they have some good songs. they dont suck

  • they dont blow any band out of the water... they do mostly covers...they are an ok band but no.

  • COVERS?... ICED EARTH... WHAT?... Hey Dummy Dumb... They did 1..that is (1)... C/D of strictly cover tunes... NONE BEFORE...NONE SINCE.. ON any of their C/D's... Maybe you should catch a fuckin CLUE... Before you open that dumb sounding... PIE HOLE!.. Geez get you story straight before you talk lil boy!!!
  • erm no talking was involved while i was TYPING my reply.. lmao

  • AMAZING!

  • This video makes me laugh every time i watch it, freaking stupid but funny... The dwarf is all like "WTF is going on?" and some how the band helps him find some gold... then the king is like "WTF are you doing little man?" then the dwarf gets his ass out of there... this song kicks ass though

  • LOL, nice man. Awesome song/video though/

  • what about pink Floyd doesn't kicks all their asses

  • listen closely?......what was never heard in the 80's were the distinctive octave pull-offs in the rythm riff, and it's even better than that!....the syncopation of the rythm was, again, never heard in metal until this. this was as ground-breaking as Eddie Van Halen's Eruption, but on the basic rythm level....true genius here. the video sucked, but that rythm riff will be with me until i'm done. HeadBangers Ball signed off with this in the 80's....any clout there?

  • great song

  • If I were Jon Oliva, I would have refused to do this video. The song is classic, but this video is so moronic and makes the band look silly ... esp with Jon making those funny faces.

  • I love this song.lol. The music video is so funy!!!

  • This is not suppose to be a cover. This song is based off the play which Henrik Ibsen wrote. The original piece was written for the play (is not a song, there are no lyrics) Get your facts before bashing a band.

  • they sure do a good job stealing part of the chord progression, like they're trying to make it sound like the song and add they're stupid own lyrics to it ...this band suck beyond all compare anyway so i will quit arguing with you because they couldn't write a good song if they had to

  • well your mammy has i different opinion on this you faggot....savatage is the greatest band of the 80's so take this riff in your ass and do whatevery you want with it...jackass

  • they were not the fucking greatest band of the 80's what the fuck are you fucking stupid ...i never heard of their sorry asses till i looked for a cover to hall of the mountain king metallica was the best band of the 80's so go fuck yourself

  • savatage kick metallica's ass in every fucking way....

  • ROFL metallica = best commercial band of the 80's and 99% of commercial bands blow

  • lol yeh this band kicks metallicas ass

  • Ha, you made me laugh, good job.

  • Metallica? HA-HA-HA-HA-HA. Seriously, the moment you say that, your opinion is null and void. Listen to more Savatage before you bash them.

  • Metallica is a cash cow. They're not artists. How much have you heard from Savatage?

  • Criss Oliva was not a shitty guitarist. Have you heard Streets? That's an incredible album, much better than the entire Metallica discography, in my opinion. The video here is stupid, that's true. But Savatage never took themselves seriously, either... Eh, it comes down to opinion and differences in taste.

  • Speaking of shitty drummers.. Lars Ulrich. ;)

    A bad video doesn't make a bad song btw.

  • this drummer aint shitty. He plays for trans siberian orchestra, which most of this band does btw, now and he played an awesome drum solo during the concert

  • Because in the 80's Metallica had more opportunity than this band did. Metalica were in California, where EVERY fucking 80's band practicaly came from, and either way, who are you to judge? No Savatage fans give a fuck about what your opinion is about this band because they recognize Savatage's talent and love them for it, unless of course you find something positive to say.

    I love Metallica too, don't get me wrong, but comparing bands is so fucking dumb! They're different. Period.

  • do you even know what became of savatage brother

  • Of course I do.

    What BECAME of them proves no point that they were a bad band.

    The fact is they WERE great, they WERE talented, and people can still listen to old music and enjoy and respect it and be inspired by it.

    Look at what BECAME of Metallica.

    How many fans lost because they let out a music video? How many more they lost because of the Napster thing? How many more were pissed as hell because of St. Anger?

    Look at Savatage:

    Criss gone, completely broken up, and people still love them.

  • No fans were lost because of Napster, none were lost because of St. Anger. None were lost because of the music video, either.

  • Are you joking?

    When Metallica released the video for One, zillions of their fans said they were becoming sellouts and stopped listening to Metallica.

    Tons of people hated St. Anger, and I know a lot of people who said that ruined Metallica for them, which I think is kinda dumb, because ALL of their albums were better than St. Anger, but whatever..

    And they did to lose people from the Napster thing.

    Dude, they have videos on here saying all of that stuff....

  • Dude... Heh..Heh.. Dude... Have you ever..even heard of... ICED..."fuckin EARTH?.... ICED EARTH! If not... I suggest you YOU-TUBE them... They only been around since fuckin... 1990!!! Pussies like Metallica... Only wish they could be as bad assss as... ICED EARTH!!!
  • My point was that they didn't lose any FANS.

  • My point was that they did.

    And my point was proven.

  • hey kid u know why they didnt lose any fans c ause there werent any left to lose think about it and besides they just went face to pavement after black album

  • Wow...why the f*** would anyone praise Metallica? We as a society should demand that those poser imposters turn in their metal cards (they should have been forced to do so right after the "One" video...that was the beginning of the end for Metallica)

  • yea the original metallica i like... but death magnetic shouldnt of came out.

  • "turn in their metal cards"

    What are you, a faggot?

  • How can you say that metallica didn't lose any fans over napster, or st. anger with a straight face? You are a delusional person living in a delusional world in which Metallica never sold their souls for fame and fortune...pretty sad really

  • If somebody stopped listening to music that they liked just because of the way the band acted I wouldn't consider them a fan, more a self-righteous arse who'll only listen to bands who take strong moral stances similar to their own. I bet there are people who got pissed off at the Napster thing, and didn't like St. Anger who still listen to the older albums. New Metallica has few fans, Old Metallica still has a lot of fans. I'd consider them to be 2 different bands.

  • Oh yeah? And havent you heard of Motorhead? Maybe Judas Priests? Mmmm lets see. Venom never existed?

    No one is trying to be like Metallica because theyre gay and make same songs. The only good albums are Master, Justice and Lighting. The rest suck. Especially Black Album.

  • I believe you just implied that Metallica is more influential than the Beatles...curious

  • dude savatage was there before metallica even released anything, so how can they influence a band that is just as old, btw Streets rapes master of puppets thats just how it is

  • they're two different songs, apocalyptica plays in the hall of the mountain king wow you're dumb if you think they are the same song. savatage plays that other one too but is under a different name.

  • The song's pretty good, but the video is comedy gold. I haven't seen anything this campy since the last time I watched MST3K. Priceless.

  • lol wats MST3K?

  • Google is your friend.

  • Rest in peace Criss Oliva!!!!

  • Love that cackle >:)

  • very catchy riff.

  • Man, Savatage is fucking awesome. They don't make bands like this anymore.

  • 1:06 lol no cable

  • They don't make metal like this anymore

  • 5 Stars*

    All Hail The Lord Of Sirius

    AMen Aaron' Men John & Jesus

  • so the story behind this video is that savatage has been trapped under ground since the eighties and it has caused them to go insane and start hallucinating

  • I wish the end was longer!

  • the mountain king looks fucking creepy.lmao

  • I didnt know Santa Cluas lived in a cave and beat up midgets.I want some gold for Christmas though.

  • Santa is pure evil. He once gave me a Motley Crue album for Christmas. Pure evil I tell you.

  • ah good old savatage, is it possible they are the forfathers of power metal? I think so, them and madien

  • i love this song and ive even been to where it was made. that place is pretty cool!

  • Where is this place??

  • it's in New York State. the cave is Howe Cavern, near Albany. i went there with my family and we walked through it. they give tours and our guide was kool enough to know that the video was made there.

  • I heard the song first and expected a godlike video, but thats my imagination for you. Just the wall of guitars are so powerful and larger then life and Jon Olivia's vocals are insane!

    Everytime, I hear this song, I picture huge mountains with thunder and lightning roaring through the valley, as the mountain king overlooks in a triumphant yet powerful glaze of the world. Sitting contempt on his throne in sheer dominance.

  • Ahhh shut up GTBAnime.

    I came here to listen to Savatage, not to put up with your homophobic nature. DOWN WITH GTB , UP WITH SAVATAGE!

  • do you even know what GTB is? did't think so you piece of white trash, and I came here to do the same, not read some retard's concept of this song, so shove it!

  • Just leave with your head still on your shoulders. You have no idea what you are getting yourself into.

    Just go hug the wife and kids, pray to your god and turn off the lights hoping you see the morning come brother.

    Such hateful words have their price. They say, what goes around...always comes around.

    Don't comment back.=D

  • You, Sir, are a dick.

  • Sinterklaas

  • Rip Chris O. Long Live THE TAGE!!!!

  • between 505-514 is my favorite where he looks all serious.

    man savatage is awesome.

  • yeeeeeeee

  • kick ass !!!! true heavy metal

  • been listening to these guys for a few years now and thought i was one of the few who still knew this band, but saw a kid twice as young as me, waering a jean jacket with a large Savatage patch on the back! thats awesome! no one should ever forget this band!

    RIP Chriss

  • First album with Johny Lee Middleton was Fight for the rock................

  • First album with Johnny.Awesome!

  • X-Treme CLOSE UPS!!!!!!

  • Know why that dwarf is scared? Because Savatage are planning to rape him. Gratification was the price of his freedom.

  • MOMA ME MACARONI!!!

  • Ya 2 bad theive all gone 2 make TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHASTRA! they were da shit in Savatage

  • ui love the song, but wtf??????

  • I´m so glad to see such an outpouring of love towards Criss and Jon and this band. For decades I thought I was the only one on earth who absulutley loved them. Thanks to everyone who posted kind and loving words about Criss and Savatage on this site I feel an immediate bond with all of you . R.I.P. Criss rock on Jon and the rest of the members of Savatge who brought us such great music. We will never forget you. Maybey in the minds of many Savatage never ruled but they should have, To me they do

  • I saw them with megadeath and dio and although i liked megadeath I payed money to see SAVATAGE. All my friends were into magedeath, anthrax, flotsom, and of course tallica who i also love but Savatage was MY favorite. Even in thier prime I always felt that Savatge was the most underated and underappriciated band ever.Viewing this site I was supprised to learn how influencial they were to many artist especialy Criss. And to me Jon is one of the best singers of all time.

  • I was very saddened to learn that Cris passed away many years ago. It was that man I who inspired me to pick up a guitar and play metal. His licks were so awsome and leads made me wonder if he sold his soul.I´m glad I got to see him atleast once live. In the 80´s I always looked for Savatage in metal mags and stayed up all night watching headbangers ball hoping to see the mk vid but they where seldom written about or shown I did hear mk on the radio from time to time though.

  • Savatage is one of the greatest metal bands ever. As a kid I never really listened to metal until I heard a friend playing the Sirens and Hall of the mountain king tapes It was love at first listen. I love all thier songs but Sirens holucost and hall of the mountain king are the ones that got me hooked.I emmidiatly bought the records and listened to them over and over again ,they would take me to another world making music videos in my head till I fell asleep. I saw them in San Antonio

  • i like in 4'42 the trick with drums ......... :)

  • Has anyone noticed that progressive power metal bands from the 80s are AMAZING!!! there is not one that sucks when it comes to musicianship :D

  • Savatage:I Will Enthusiastically Agree With DinosDIS ..I Wanna Go Back.

  • Shit!I have great memories listening to this band!True metal!!!!

  • at the end it should say "Directed by Peter Jackson"

  • LOL! Epic!

  • The very FIRST Savatage song I ever heard...and DAMN that was a good first impression!

  • same here! and it was '91...

  • Damn I'm jealous. I'm only 19 and a HUUUUGE SavaFan. Too bad Criss died when I was about 4 years old :(

  • Classic 80's Heavy Metal

    Gotta Love It

  • please for the love of god put this into guitar hero 4.

  • Hell...this is the band it would take to get me to even PLAY guitar hero and truly enjoy it.

    RIP Criss (a REAL guitar hero)

  • I like it. Not so mutch as you others whos ay this rocks, but it's still good. I like the hall of the mountain king from daniel graig.

  • amazing...if you don't like it fuck off!! if you don't like it go back to your britney spears' shit!

  • In the hall of the mountain Kiiiiiiiiingggg !!! ... yeaaaaaahhhhh SAVATAGE RULES !!!!!!!!

  • \m/

  • The song rocks but the video sucks heheeh

  • Criss Oliva is amazing!!!!!!!!

  • one of the best heavy metal songs ever ..

  • That was the worst thing i have ever seen in my life, you have terrible taste in music. Please stop breathing, sincerely The Sand Man.

  • This song is the pinnacle of Savatage.

    One of the true masterpieces on the history of Classic Heavy Metal \m/

  • What a kickass guitar riff!

  • NICE!!! So epic!!!

    JW

  • FUCKIN HELL YEAH!!!!

  • Ok, i want an answer from a professional guitarist .

    what scale criss oliva used for this song ?

    or any other Savatage songs like (jesus saves , edge of thrones)

  • The main riff just plays off of the blues scale. The "evil" note is the flat 5th. You play the E minor Blues scale, but its tuned in C standard, so you are actually playing C minor Blues.

  • 3:25

    WTF is going on there?

  • a great video that they just make videos like thids anymore!!!!!

  • this song is killer it makes me happy its got everything monster vocals kick ass guitar solo mean bass and bad ass drums this band was sweet

  • Criss Oliva R.I.P.

  • who is the guitarist in the video?

  • chris oliva

  • No doubt heartofcats that dude at the beginning is freakin' hilarious! Killer song!

  • haha i love the little dude at the beginning!!

    this song kicks ass!!

  • İt was connected with "prelude to madness"So,two song together would have better.

  • All I have to say is that this song friggin ROCKS. Nothing like hauling ass down the highway and hearing Jon Oliva's evil laugh....ha ha ha hahahahahahahaha

  • I remember one night I was feeling angry, hurt and disrespected that I didn't get invited to a rich girl's wedding and I was watching Metal Mania, when this song came on I began rocking out and it helped me get over the girl and realized that there are more things in life than being friends with the rich snobby girls.

    Thanks Savatage for putting out the good music and for helping me cope with my problems, you guys rock!

  • I don't see the problem. Visiting a wedding of a rich girl is wasting your time, dude. Next time a real problem please. The good thing is, u heard Savatage that night.

    Savatage rocks!!

  • Plus I don't fit in very well at rich people's weddings at all, I fit in alot better with the metalheads anyway and they have great taste of music :)

    I'm glad I've gotten to hear Savatage that night on VH1 Classic

  • Check out the new JON OLIVA'S PAIN CD (GLOBAL WARNING) when it comes out in March 08.... GREAT STUFF.

  • Weird video with the small gnome guy, but the singer is intense and the song is RAD!

  • i met jon in 1988-89 in orlando,fl at a club named visage and i was there to see king diamond with flotsam&jetsam and king diamond sucked live so i went outside and hung out with mike gilbert and erik ak from flots and also rick rozz from death was there along with jon oliva and jon was about 6ft 5 i swear!!

  • MAN,do yo hear his guitar tone change up at each solo interval,he was amazing-with love -n-respect.scott

  • Hey! I love Savatage! And to respect the Oliva Family the past guitarist name is Criss, not Chris.

    C'mon people get the names right!

    R.I.P. Criss and Dawn! I love you!

  • believe me bro'-all who know have respect my man,go easy..its all good...criss'guitar work hooked me when i first heard SAVATAGE,HE SHREDDED....OH KILLER SOUND QUALITY TOO!!!!!

  • Jon Oliva kills this shit! hes almost perfect even live, to this day

  • I remembered when Chris died,my friends and I drank and played Savatage until the dawn...seen them 4 times with Chris,just amazing.

  • 21 years ago..still beautiful

  • the lead guitar is chris oliva he is the singers brother and he died in a car wreck RIP

  • yeah,someone who was DWI need not we remember...RIP criss

  • Holy shit...this song,listen to the fucking guitar melody and vocals,pure just pure...takes me back..way back.

  • Very underrated band. This was probably one of the best metal albums to come out of the 80's.Still one of my faves of all time.

  • I love this song, and the band!! I have never seen this viode before tonight though...it rocks!

  • Well being a savy fan from way back,I would say if there is anything better than the mountain KING,I have yet to find it.All hail the KING.........