Doctor Butcher [Import]

Doctor Butcher | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Black Lotus Germany
• ASIN: B000AP2YTK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #492,263 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Altar

2. Don't Talk to Me

3. Season of the Witch

4. Reach Out and Torment Someone

5. Juice

6. The Chair

7. Innocent Victim

8. The Picture's Wild

9. Lost in the Dark

10. I Hate, You Hate, We All Hate!!

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Inspector Highway [#][*]

2. Freaks [taken from the original butcher demos][*][Demo Version]

3. Born of the Board [taken from the original butcher demos][*][Demo Versi

4. Help! Police? [taken from the original butcher demos][*][Demo Version]

5. Bridges [taken from the original butcher demos][*][Demo Version]

Editorial Reviews

Unleashed at Last from the Vaults of Metal (Originally Released in 1993), this is a Forgotten Jewel of an Album featuring (Then) Savatage Duo Jon Oliva and Chris Caffery. It's Very Much in the Savatage Vein, as You Would Expect- So You Are Getting Killer Power Metal with a Dark Edge. This Re-issue Comes with Five Bonus Tracks Including One Brand New Tune from the Duo. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is pure metal, January 11, 2006

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Music Fanatic (Bettendorf, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doctor Butcher (Audio CD)

I agree with the other reviewers -- especially the one that said this sounds like "angry" Savatage. Take the most blazing tracks that Savatage ever did and imagine an album of nothing but those songs. Chris Caffery is the MAN! This is full of great guitar work with tons of solos. And the bonus disc is not any weaker than the main disc. Both discs are 100% blow-your-face-off metal. If you're interested enough to be reading this, trust me--you need to get it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Back to the old school, June 20, 2007

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doctor Butcher (Audio CD)

Doctor Butcher was the side project of Savatage members Jon Oliva and Chris Caffery. If you split the essential elements of Savatage's unique sound into two separate entities, the progressive, theatrical, epic elements would all go into Trans-Siberian Orchestra, while the old school straightforward (angry) heavy metal elements would go into Doctor Butcher. This is about as close to the Sirens/Dungeons Are Calling-era Savatage sound as you are going to get.

I discovered Savatage late in the game (circa Dead Winter Dead), so my preference is for their later, rock opera-type albums. Still, there's no denying that Oliva and Caffery can "bring the metal" quite well, which is what this collection is all about. Jon Oliva's screaming vocals keep pace with Caffery's guitar riffs, and the duo channel some serious anger into these straightforward metal tracks.

Doctor Butcher isn't for everyone, and probably isn't even a must-have for all Savatage fans, but if you prefer the earlier Savatage albums or the Chris Caffery solo material, you'll definitely want to check this one out.

Edition Notes: The 2005 2-disc Doctor Butcher collection from Black Lotus is the total Doctor Butcher experience. You get the self-titled 1994 album plus the demos that were released in 1996, all digitally remastered, in a nice digipack package with plenty of liner notes and photos.

3.0 out of 5 stars review from the heavy metal encyclopedia www.metallian.com, May 2, 2006

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gra blu - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doctor Butcher (Audio CD)

DOCTOR BUTCHER - Same - BLACK LOTUS 50

Doctor Butcher was probably conceived by Savatage singer Jon Oliva (and guitarist Chris Caffery) to play metal again following the drift of their main band into rock territory. Indeed, Doctor Butcher hacks like a real metal blade reminiscent of the earlier Savatage sound with Oliva screaming with abandon. Now and more than ten years after its original release by Gun Records Greece's Black Lotus has picked up the album for re-release, albeit with a complete booklet and a few demo songs tagged onto disc number two.

As said, the creation of Doctor Butcher was a reaction to the decline of Savatage and given its style a cut above the mother ship, but fact is that the album sounds half-baked. While the screaming vocals and the copious amount of solos and guitar rhythms is literary music to the ears several songs sound half finished. In particular, Don't Talk To Me, Season Of The Witch, I Hate, You Hate, We All Hate!!! And All For One... None For All are especially weak and lacking force. Counteracting these are the opener The Altar, The Chair with its excellent guitar work, The Picture's Wild with its crunchy sound and the slow and creepy Lost In The Dark which manage to impress. Were there a choice between Savatage as it had become and Doctor Butcher the metal fan's vote would be with the latter act. Having said that, this good doctor does not quite garner much confidence either given the lack of outright winners. - http://www.metallian.com (the heavy metal encyclopedia)