Doctor Butcher

Artist: Doctor Butcher
Label: Black Lotus
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5099751983224
ASIN: B00097HN40

Release Date: 2005-06-02

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25 Face Melting Metal Albums
Savatage 101

Tracks:

Altar
Don't Talk to Me
Season of the Witch
Reach Out and Torment Someone
Juice
Chair
Innocent Victim
Picture's Wild
Lost in the Dark
I Hate, You Hate, We All Hate!!
All for One...None for All

Tracks:

Inspector Highway [#][*]
Freaks [*][Demo Version]
Born of the Board [*][Demo Version]
Help! Police? [*][Demo Version]
Bridges [*][Demo Version]

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Customer Reviews:

"AWESOME".......2007-02-03

This album "BLEW ME AWAY" ! I am a big follower of Savatage and T.S.O. so you kinda have an idea where this is going! This album has found a home in my libary and its a shame that they are overlooked in the industry with some other groups out there that people seem to enjoy! Chris Caffery is one amazing guy and if you happen to see him "live", you can tell he enjoys his work from the start!
I suggest that if you get a chance to pick-up this copy,Go For It,
You will never be the same again!

review from the heavy metal encyclopedia www.metallian.com.......2006-05-02

DOCTOR BUTCHER - Same - BLACK LOTUS 50
Doctor Butcher was probably conceived by Savatage singer Jon Oliva (and guitarist Chris Caffery) to play metal again following the drift of their main band into rock territory. Indeed, Doctor Butcher hacks like a real metal blade reminiscent of the earlier Savatage sound with Oliva screaming with abandon. Now and more than ten years after its original release by Gun Records Greece's Black Lotus has picked up the album for re-release, albeit with a complete booklet and a few demo songs tagged onto disc number two.
As said, the creation of Doctor Butcher was a reaction to the decline of Savatage and given its style a cut above the mother ship, but fact is that the album sounds half-baked. While the screaming vocals and the copious amount of solos and guitar rhythms is literary music to the ears several songs sound half finished. In particular, Don't Talk To Me, Season Of The Witch, I Hate, You Hate, We All Hate!!! And All For One... None For All are especially weak and lacking force. Counteracting these are the opener The Altar, The Chair with its excellent guitar work, The Picture's Wild with its crunchy sound and the slow and creepy Lost In The Dark which manage to impress. Were there a choice between Savatage as it had become and Doctor Butcher the metal fan's vote would be with the latter act. Having said that, this good doctor does not quite garner much confidence either given the lack of outright winners. - http://www.metallian.com (the heavy metal encyclopedia)

This is pure metal.......2006-01-11

I agree with the other reviewers -- especially the one that said this sounds like "angry" Savatage. Take the most blazing tracks that Savatage ever did and imagine an album of nothing but those songs. Chris Caffery is the MAN! This is full of great guitar work with tons of solos. And the bonus disc is not any weaker than the main disc. Both discs are 100% blow-your-face-off metal. If you're interested enough to be reading this, trust me--you need to get it.

If you like old Savatage............2005-08-22

...then you will love this! Classic Sava-metal. Those who prefer the more recent prog-metal stylings of Savatage may or may not appreciate this as it's really a nod to the "olden days" when Savatage was a simple loud, and in your face, hard metal group. More like 'Sirens' and 'Dungeons' than 'PotN' and 'Mountian King' as it leans toward attitude instead of production values (not that Dr. Butcher doesn't have 21st cent. production values. It does.) It's just that this album is a raw, tough, hard recording; guitar, bass, drums, and best of all Jon all wound up and heavy as heck. It fits in very well with the four aforementioned albums, especially the first track: 'The Altar' - effin' classic!!! Criss would be damn proud.
My rating is 4.5: totally smokin' but just a half-step from all-time perfect.
Oh yeah; cannot comment on this version of the album with bonus tracks. Haven't heard the "bonus tracks" nor can I comment on if it has been remastered at all.

great forgotten album.......2005-07-15

This album is truly awesome. Take everything you loved about 80's Savatage with all the great riffs and solo's and make it angrier. Chris Caffery plays his ass off on this recording you can hear the emotion behind the note bending and inspired soloing. Jon Oliva as always is awesome. Truly one of the best American contributers to metal worldwide the Mountain King sounds like he's having fun on this one. Pick this up if you're a Savatage/Oliva/Caffery fan or even if you're not.

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