''Prime Cuts'' is a compilation album by
progressive metal
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band
Shadow Gallery :''The Shadow Gallery is also the name of the home of the protagonist in the graphic novel V for Vendetta.''
Shadow Gallery is an American progressive metal band formed in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania during the early 1980s. It was originally ...
. This was the final release from the band on
Magna Carta Records
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. The band compiled the track listing which consisted of 9 original studio cuts, 2 edits and an original unreleased demo from the
Carved In Stone sessions. This album contains no songs from the
Room V
''Room V'' is the fifth album by the progressive metal group Shadow Gallery, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). It continues the story started in ''Tyranny'', picking up after Tyranny's Act II. It is the band's first album not featuring lon ...
album as that was released on
Inside Out Records. The album was pressed with an error, the track listing says track 1 is "Mystery" from the
Tyranny
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album. But in fact, it is "Out Of Nowhere" also from the
Tyranny
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album, which is heard.
Track listing
Personnel
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Kevin Soffera -
Drums
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and
Percussions
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*
Joe Nevolo -
Drums
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and
Percussions
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*
Ben Timely -
Drums
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and
Percussions
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(Ben Timely is a name that the band gave to the
Alesis
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HR-16 drum machine)
*
Carl Cadden-James -
Bass guitar
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, Vocals,
Flute
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*
Brendt Allman :''The Shadow Gallery is also the name of the home of the protagonist in the graphic novel V for Vendetta.''
Shadow Gallery is an American progressive metal band formed in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania during the early 1980s. It was originally ...
-
Acoustic,
Electric guitar
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s, Vocals
*
Chris Ingles -
Keyboards
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Music
* Musi ...
and
Synthesizer
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*
Gary Wehrkamp
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Biography
Career
Early Years
Wehrkamp made his foray ...
- Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
*
Mike Baker -
Lead Vocals
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Shadow Gallery albums
2007 compilation albums