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| Sirens | ||||
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| Released | April 11, 1983 | |||
| Recorded | January 1983 | |||
| Studio | Morrisound (Tampa, Florida) | |||
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| Length | 35:51 | |||
| Label | Par Records | |||
| Producer | Dan Johnson | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 10/10[4] |
| The Metal Crypt | [5] |
| Metal Forces | 9/10[6] |
Sirens is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Savatage, released on April 11, 1983. The music on this album is heavier than in later Savatage albums, where the band developed their own style of progressive metal.[3] It has also been cited as a key inspiration for the then-burgeoning thrash metal scene.[7][8]
According to frontman Jon Oliva, Sirens and the EP The Dungeons Are Calling were recorded and mixed all in one day. With most of the songs prepared no more than a week before the recording session, the band could only afford one day in the studio. The two albums together were to make Savatage's debut but since vinyl records limited the total running time, they were divided. In 2011, they were remastered and released together on the label Earmusic.
The cover of the English versions published by both Music for Nations and Combat Records in 1985 used the cover of the children's book The Borribles Go for Broke.[9] It was also used by Metal Blade Records for the first edition on CD and other subsequent versions.
- ^ VV, AA (2012). HM - Il grande libro Heavy Metal (in Italian). Giunti Editore. p. 190. ISBN 978-8-80977-636-4.
- ^ Bukszpan, Daniel (2003). The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal. Barnes & Noble Publishing. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-76074-218-1.
- ^ a b Orens, Geoff. "Savatage Sirens review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 312. ISBN 978-1894959315.
- ^ Turnbull, Bruce (12 December 2010). "Savatage - Sirens". The Metal Crypt. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ Constable, Dave (August 1983). "Savatage - Sirens". Metal Forces. No. 1. p. 21. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Still the orchestra plays: Remembering Savatage's Criss Oliva". 28 November 2018.
- ^ "Artillery Family Tree". 10 May 2021.
- ^ The Borribles Go for Broke (covers). LibraryThing. Retrieved 9 April 2010.