Transcendence

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Transcendence
Studio album by Crimson Glory

Publication
(s)

1988

Label (s) MCA , Roadrunner Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

9

running time

50 min. 42 sec.

occupation
  • Singing : Midnight (JP McDonald, Jr.)

production

Jim and Tom Morris

Studio (s)

Morrisound Recording Studios

chronology
Crimson Glory
(1986) 		Transcendence Strange and Beautiful
(1991)

Transcendence is the second album by the heavy metal band Crimson Glory . It was released in 1988 and is widely regarded as the most typical and mature album by the band.

Track list

  1. Lady of Winter - 3:59
  2. Red Sharks - 4:48
  3. Painted Skies - 5:14
  4. Masque of the Red Death - 4:12
  5. In Dark Places - 6:59
  6. Where Dragons Rule - 5:04
  7. Lonely - 5:17
  8. Burning Bridges - 6:30
  9. Eternal World - 3:51
  10. Transcendence - 4:30

production

Transcendence was recorded at Morrisound Recording Studios in Tampa, Florida and produced by Jim and Tom Morris. The latter also took part in the background choir . Assistant sound engineer was Scott Burns , who later made a name for himself as a death metal producer. The whole band was responsible for the production itself. In contrast to the established, powerful sound of Heavy Metal in the 1980s, Transcendence sounded very clear and transparent.

The overall concept of the album was designed by Jon Drenning and Midnight, the cover by Takashi Terada .

Publications

Transcendence was released simultaneously in Europe in 1988 on Roadrunner Records and in North America on MCA .

Single releases

  • Lady of Winter (1988)
1. Lady of Winter
2. Eternal World
  • Lonely (1988)
1. Lonely (Remix)
2. In dark places
3. Dream Dancer

New editions

The album was reissued in 2000 and contained a remix of the title "Lonely" as a bonus track. In 2008 a "Remastered" edition was released, which also contained the 1986 recorded track "Dream Dancer".

Reviews

Transcendence followed seamlessly from its previous album, with Crimson Glory succeeding in sharpening their profile as an independent band. Above all, the coherent, detailed concept of the band was emphasized. The reviews were almost exclusively positive, 20 years after its release there is broad consensus that the album is a milestone in the development of melodic power metal.

"Unjustly qualified as one of the '80s best American-made progressive metal albums, Crimson Glory's Transcendence is actually one of the decade's best pure metal albums by an American band, period."

"Crimson Glorys Transcendence , wrongly dubbed" Best American Progressive Metal Album of the 80s, "is in truth one of the best metal albums of the decade by an American band. Point."

- Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide

"Seldom before have the covers, texts, music and image formed such a closed unit ..."

"It's amazing how CRIMSON GLORY managed to sound like a heavy metal band at all times and through and through, despite all the - unquestionably existing - poetic and mystical transfiguration."

"... a classic, mandatory album ... One of the best Melodic Metal albums of the 80s (...), and a landmark that has inspired countless other bands."

"... a classic, obligatory album ... One of the best Melodic Metal albums of the 80s (...) and a milestone that inspired countless other bands."

The present sound of the album, which differed significantly from the usual heavy metal productions, was occasionally rated negatively by the critics. The sound of the drums in particular was said to be too technical and robotic.

"If there is one issue that I have with this recording it is that I absolutely believe the percussion is mostly performed (if not completely) by machine and not Dana Burnell (...) if you listen objectively to" Masque of the Red Death "it is painfully obvious."

“If I have a problem with this recording, it's that I absolutely believe the drums were mostly (if not entirely) machine-played and not Dana Burnell (...) if you look at Masque of the Red Death listens objectively, it is painfully obvious. "

- Hugh Dark, Sea of ​​Tranquility

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Metal Metropolis , accessed May 27, 2010
  3. ^ Review on allmusic.com , accessed on May 27, 2010
  4. ↑ a b vampster.com classic , accessed May 27, 2010
  5. ^ The Metal Observer , accessed May 27, 2010
  6. ^ Encyclopaedia Metallica, Commentary , accessed May 27, 2010
  7. ^ Sea of ​​Tranquility , accessed May 27, 2010