A social grace

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A social grace
Studio album by Psychotic Waltz

Publication
(s)

1990

admission

1989-1990

Label (s) Rising Sun Productions

Sub-Sonic

Title (number)

13

running time

64:50

occupation
  • Buddy Lackey
  • Brian McAlpin
  • Dan Rock
  • Ward Evans
  • Norm Leggio

production

Mike Harris, Psychotic Waltz

Studio (s)

The studio

chronology
- A social grace Into the Everflow
(1992)

A Social Grace is the debut album by the US progressive metal band Psychotic Waltz . It was released in 1990 through the record company Rising Sun Productions and the band's own label Sub-Sonic .

Creation and publication

After demo recordings in 1986 and 1988, Psychotic Waltz recorded their debut album in 1989 and 1990. A Social Grace was produced by Mike Harris and the band. In the USA it was released on the band's own label Sub-Sonic and without professional marketing, in Europe via Rising Sun Productions. Metal Blade Records reissued the album in 2004 in a box set with the third album Mosquito , live recordings and video clips, Century Media released it on LP in 2011.

Track list

  1. ... And the Devil Cried - 5:45
  2. Halo of Thorns - 5:31
  3. Another Prophet Song - 5:28
  4. Successor - 4:13
  5. In this Place - 4:10
  6. I Remember - 5:26
  7. Sleeping Dogs - 1:34
  8. I of the Storm - 4:34
  9. A Psychotic Waltz - 6:11
  10. Only in a Dream - 3:37
  11. Spiral Tower - 5:59
  12. Strange - 6:38
  13. Nothing - 5:44

style

Psychotic Waltz play technical progressive metal on the album , which is occasionally reminiscent of Fates Warning or Watchtower , but is very independent with its instrumentation ( flute , vibraslap , tambourine ), Buddy Lackey's dreamy vocals and the psychedelic atmosphere. There are both complex structured pieces with many breaks and hard riffs as well as catchy ballads and harmonic passages.

reception

A Social Grace was positively received by the press in 1990 and is now considered a pioneering album and classic of progressive metal. Wolfgang Schäfer from Rock Hard judges that it offers "a probably unique mixture that [...] is not exactly easy to digest". Michael Rensen describes it as a "miracle that so much atmosphere, so much magic" fit on an album. Fierce von vampster thinks the band understands it “perfectly to combine progressiveness with heaviness, catchiness and demand [...] and to deliver an album on which there is absolutely no failure”. Both Rock Hard and eclipsed magazine voted A Social Grace fifth on their respective lists of major prog metal albums.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baby blue prog reviews: Psychotic Waltz. A social Grace , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Schäfer: Psychotic Waltz. A Social Grace , Rock Hard # 48, accessed December 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Fierce: Psychotic Waltz: A Social Grace (Hell of Fame) , vampster , accessed December 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Rock Hard No. 270, p. 96.
  5. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.