VIRGIN STEELE — Wait For The Night (review)

VIRGIN STEELE — Wait For The Night album cover EP · 1983 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Wait for the Night" is an EP release by US heavy/power metal act Virgin Steele. The EP was released through Mongol Horde in December 1983. It´s the follow-up release to Virgin Steele´s second full-length studio album "Guardians Of The Flame" from August 1983. The EP exists in two versions. The US version is titled "Wait for the Night" and features four new original tracks (which did not appear on the original version of "Guardians Of The Flame" (1983)), while the European version is titled "A Cry In The Night". "A Cry In The Night" is the closing track on the original version of "Guardians Of The Flame" (1983) and on the European version of the EP, a remix version of the track replaces "Don't Say Goodbye (Tonight)", which is the opening track on the US version of the EP. The track "Interview" replaces the track "Wait for the Night", so the two versions only share two tracks in "Go Down Fighting" and "I Am The One".

I won´t go into detail with every track on the US and European versions of the EP, but only say that stylistically all tracks are more or less a continuation of the melodic heavy metal style of the preceding album, and as the case was on the album it´s the helium screams of lead vocalist David Defeis and the creative lead guitars of Jack Starr, which are the most interesting features of the band´s music. The rhythm section is pretty average for the style and the songwriting is decent but not terribly memorable. The sound production is reverb laden and lacking heavy bottom, so it´s not the greatest contemporary heavy metal release. There´s enough quality here to warrant a 3 star (60%) rating but that´s it.
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