The Wake of Magellan

The Wake of Magellan
Studio album by Savatage
Released	September 15, 1997 (Europe, Japan) April 7, 1998 (US)
Recorded	1996–1997
Studio	Soundtrack Studios and Studio 900 (overdubs), New York City
Genre	Progressive metal
Length	60:06
Label	Concrete/Edel (Germany) JVC Victor (Japan) Lava/Atlantic (US)
Producer	Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva, Robert Kinkel
Savatage chronology
Dead Winter Dead (1995) The Wake of Magellan (1997) Poets and Madmen (2001)

The Wake of Magellan is the tenth studio album released by the American heavy metal band Savatage. The album was released in September 1997 in Europe and Japan, and in April 1998 in the US.

This is the first Savatage album to have the same lineup as the previous album since Hall of the Mountain King in 1987 and also the last to feature vocals from lead singer Zachary Stevens. The progressive metal band Dream Theater are thanked in the album's liner notes. Dream Theater keyboard player Derek Sherinian and Al Pitrelli went to college together, were both in the band Ethyl Mertz and toured with Alice Cooper for the Trashes the World tour. Pitrelli and John Petrucci also played together on a Japanese release called Guitar Battle.^[1]