Night Castle

TSO are true pioneers in the symphonic metal genre. I especially loved their take on the Carl Orf classic Carmina Burama. They never fail to impress with every release they put out!

Unfortunately when I tried to download Carmina Burana, it skips the first part.

I thought I’d be buying an orchestral album, but a lot of it was weird gothic singing, non-original stuff and so on. We all know was this group is known for, but I had never listened to an entire soundtrack. This just wasn’t what I was expecting.

I would like to mention that Tracers is the most underrated song on the album. Tracers is my favorite TSO song in existence. On this album, I also like Nutrocker, Toccata, and Mozart and Memories. My favorite song with lyrics is Sparks, with Time Floats On in a close second.

I saw them in concert the same year this came out and I didn't know about this new album until hearing the music at the concert! It was freaking amazing! This is their best album and I'm not sure they can top it.

The classical fusion pieces are absolutely five-plus star awesome and not to be missed here. The storyline however, is overblown and the vocal numbers are largely musically repetitive and the lyrics mostly uninteresting. Some great tracks. Not enough material for 2 discs, however.

If you look at the "Critical" reviews, they all get voted as unhelpful. Please..... Even a human with a recent Lobotomy would be able to distinguish the difference between the previous 4 releases and Night Castle. There is something missing, I'm not sure what it is. I've been a fan since the first Savatage album. TSO is mainstream, and as such, the mainstream want to hear songs they know, or have some catchy rah rah appeal to them. YA, I know, as sad as that is, it is what it is. The Christmas albums, and beethoven offered that, catchy as hell songs. There isn't much of that here. That doesn't mean the songs or the album is bad. It's quite good, and full of talent. I think for me, it's just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long of an album. If I listen to it in thirds, I actually really really like it. If I try to do the whole thing, my ADD doesn't even need to kick in. It's so long, that I need to go shave and head to work, put the kids in bed, before I can finish it. The Critical reviews are right, maybe a bit harsh, but don't start with this one, for ten bucks, it's deff. worth it, after the other four. They are spectacular pieces of music. Every song.

People like this and not Savatage, this is basically Savatage with other name. Good music, so bad that they needed to change the name in order to people to recognize a good band. Old Savatage fan here!, keep the good work!

I'm a young teenager and I must say this is real music not that stupid stuff most kids my age listen to. More people should know and listen to this and not the crap that sells itself on the radio. Now this, this is a musical work of art. Completely beautiful I love it to death.

Great music