''Noble Savage'' is the third
studio album
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of the American
heavy metal band
Virgin Steele
Virgin Steele is an American heavy metal band from New York, originally formed in 1981.
The band released a few career highlights albums (''Noble Savage'', ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I'', ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part II'' ...
, released in 1985 by Cobra Records. The album was reissued in 1997 on CD by
Noise Records
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with six bonus tracks. The remastered edition of 2008 by Dockyard 1 added two other extra tracks. In May 2011, the album was reissued once more by Steamhammer Records, a subsidiary of
SPV with the same track list as the 1997 release, but with an added bonus CD containing 13 additional tracks.
Before the recording of ''Noble Savage'', original guitarist
Jack Starr
Jack Starr (born 1951) is an American heavy metal and blues guitarist and songwriter, born of a French mother and American father.
Biography
He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of R&B records. His first semi-professional ban ...
resigned from the band and was replaced by Edward Pursino, an old friend of DeFeis, whose guitar playing immediately fit very well with Virgin Steele's music and style. Pursino's contribution came also in the form of new musical ideas and compositions, and he is still a mainstay in Virgin Steele's line-up. The band's frontman David DeFeis considers this album one of the most important in the history of the band.
''Noble Savage'' was the first album where the band was completely satisfied with its music and sound. It is also the first album on which the current musical style of the band is fully manifested, containing grandiose compositions with multi-layered keyboard sound and more sophisticated arrangements. ''Noble Savage'' has become one of the most popular Virgin Steele albums and it includes the songs "We Rule the Night" and "Noble Savage", which the band still plays in concert.
Track listing
Personnel
Band members
*
David DeFeis – vocals,
keyboards
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Music
* Musi ...
, orchestration, producer
* Ed Pursino – all
guitar
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s
* Joe O'Reilly –
bass
* Joey Ayvazian –
drums
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Production
*Al Falcon – engineer
*Artie Ware, Jerry Comito – assistant engineers
*Steve Young – remastering engineer
*
Hugh Syme
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– art direction and design
*Dimo Safari – photos
References
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1985 albums
Virgin Steele albums