After the Fall from Grace

I've been aware of Savage Grace's reactivation, and while I don't really have any particular expectations, I do think it has the potential to be more interesting than the 2010 gigs considering Chris Logue will be on guitar again.  I was web surfing earlier and what I was unfortunately not aware of is that THE SAVAGE GRACE WEBSITE IS FUCKING INSANE.

As a huge Savage Grace fan (well, at least of their '80s stuff*), I don't mean that in a smarmy SJW-esque way either.  Despite me being terribly late on this, as soon as I saw some of the crazy shit on there, I knew I had to make a blog post.  

Eh, as much as I love Master of Disguise--it's almost (but not quite**) neck and neck with Skeptics Apocalypse as my favorite US speed metal album--this is some terribly overzealous embellishment at best.  I subscribe to what I think is a pretty standard view: Priest, Accept, and Anvil having early examples of individual speed metal tracks, and the Exciter debut being the first overall speed metal album.  As for the US?  Never really thought about it too much.  I consider The Dominatress and the early SG stuff to be far more USPM than speed metal anyway.  Perhaps the '82 Exodus demo, or the Abattoir or Sceptre demo stuff?

Then there's the book:

This is a bit confusing, as the book is marketed for "men of honor and conviction"--isn't that kind of contradictory with that Ian Astbury looking cover?  The "reviews" are fantastic and made me laugh in much the same way as I did when hearing the vocals in a certain Countess song for the first time.  Alas, I doubt I'll be joining the affiliate program.  The $19.95 price for a .pdf is a bit too steep, particularly since the site doesn't specifically mention if there's anything in there about Peter Knutson or Logue's illustrious medical career.  For that price I want several hundred pages of how the Master of Disguise cover was conceived and executed (and why they didn't get a, uh, perkier gal for the cover).

Be sure to check out the photo gallery, lots of classic (and other) stuff.  Considering anything semi-recent, probably the best classic metal bandsite photo gallery after Nasty Savage's.

I love it.

*"Crazy Saturday Night" is musically decent, but most of that lame early '90s hard rock shit they did makes me want to sing "HE'S THE JUDAS OF US ALL...BE-TRAYAAAAAAAH!  BE-TRAYAAAAAAAH!"

**Don't feel bad.  Cyriis was clearly a gift to metal from extraterrestrial forces.