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Dead Winter Dead is a concept album by Savatage, released in 1995 dealing with a Serb boy and a Muslim girl who fall in love. The story of the album also focused on the Bosnian War, which was on going at the time.[1]
This album featured the return of Chris Caffery, who featured on Savatage's 1989 release Gutter Ballet. Alex Skolnick, who had played guitars on Savatage's previous album Handful of Rain, opted not to stay around for the next album in order to concentrate on his solo band. So Jon Oliva took Jeff Plate from the Handful of Rain tour, and brought in his old friend, former member and Doctor Butcher member to join the band. Atlantic Records also felt that the band needed a second, more well-known guitarist to complete the line-up. So, Al Pitrelli, formerly a member of Alice Cooper's touring band, became the lead guitarist for the band.[1]
This record gave the band an unexpected radio hit in Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24), and the band decided they wanted to explore this kind of music in a different way. Around this time, Paul O'Neill, along with Robert Kinkel, was interested in starting up what became the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) was re-released with TSO on their first release.
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- "Overture" - 1:50
- "Sarajevo" - 2:31
- "This is the Time (1990)" - 5:40
- "I Am" - 4:32
- "Starlight" - 5:38
- "Doesn't Matter Anyway" - 3:47
- "This Isn't What We Meant" - 4:12
- "Mozart and Madness" - 5:01
- "Memory" - 1:19
- "Dead Winter Dead" - 4:18
- "One Child" - 5:14
- "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" - 3:24
- "Not What You See" - 5:02
[edit] 2002 SPV Re-Release Tracks
- "All That I Bleed" (Acoustic Piano Version) - 4:34
- "Sleep" (Acoustic Version) - 3:46
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