Chris Logue reanimated his band for some shows around the year 2010 and received an infamous reputation in the meantime, but that’s not our story here. There only was the picture disc EP “Ride Into The Night” a year later before the band slowly fell apart in the early 1990s.
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With all those brilliant songs it’s a real pity that “After The Fall From Grace” was the last full length album from SAVAGE GRACE. And the final highly melodic epic ‘Tales Of Mystery’ even reminds me of the mighty first album of HEIR APPARENT.
In addition to finest melodic Speed Metal tunes like ‘We Came, We Saw, We Conquered’, ‘Destination Unknown’ or ‘Trial By Fire’, SAVAGE GRACE added more Power Metal styled mid tempo parts and even some epic parts to their sound, just listen to the fantastic title track or the great ‘Flesh And Blood’. And the songs on “After The Fall From Grace” are even a little better than those on the debut, in my opinion. After wearing out (or scaring away) four singers in four years, mastermind and guitar player Chris Logue decided to take over vocal duties himself and did a nice job. And “After The Fall From Grace” still is finest American Metal of that era. On the one hand, you only get not even 40 minutes of music (yes, back in the days of vinyl most albums didn’t run much longer), on the other hand, you get only finest musical quality in its original form.
Like with the re-release of the highly acclaimed 1985 debut album “Master Of Disguise”, a classic of US Speed Metal, some few weeks ago, the rather new label Hooked On Metal Records concentrated on presenting the album in its purest form. Sometimes you simply get an original album without much extras, like in this case of the second (and final) SAVAGE GRACE full length album “After The Fall From Grace”, originally released in 1986. Sometimes you get jam-packed CDs or even double to triple discs. But over the years, a lot of this legendary stuff got re-released. Their albums are hard to get and their names are spoken mainly by those who know since that age of dinosaurs. Asides from the big bands that became commercially successful or well respected influential acts, there were so many other good to great bands who got nearly forgotten over time.
I guess I don’t need to tell you once again how great the 1980s were for Heavy Metal. BEST OF 2021 – THE BEST RELEASES OF THE YEAR - Special.
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