Song 44 ( Savatage - The Wake Of Magellan )

Today I chose the title track off of Savatage's The Wake of Magellan album. This is another "Prog-Metal" or "Opera-Metal," very much like their Dead Winter Dead album. Mostly this album was inspired by an event called Maersk Dubai incident, in which three stowaways were thrown overboard in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and a fourth was kept safe by a member of the crew. The crewman who risked his life to protected the stowaway was treated as a criminal. The captain and those who were involved in the killing of the first three were all but set free. The song itself is again very similar to the music released on the Dead Winter Dead: very operatic metal. The lyrics, like most other Savatage songs, are quite deep and complex.

Here is the studio version on YouTube.
Here is live performance on YouTube.

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