Tyranny
by Shadow Gallery
- Type: Album
- Released: 22 September 1998
- Label: Magna Carta
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:52
- Community rating: 3.28/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Gary Wehrkamp, Paul Chou
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The Pennsylvania sextet's third album is an ambitious, politically charged concept record detailing a dystopian future and a global conspiracy. Bursting with intricate vocal harmonies, sweeping keyboards, and dizzying technical precision, the release firmly solidified their reputation as intellectual heavyweights within the American progressive metal underground.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, political, complex, conceptual, uncommon-time-signatures, progressive
Tracklist
- Stiletto in the Sand (1:56)
- War for Sale (5:34)
- Out of Nowhere (4:20)
- Mystery (5:41)
- Hope for Us? (6:00)
- Victims (5:12)
- Broken (1:55)
- I Believe (8:40)
- Roads of Thunder (6:05)
- Spoken Words (4:37)
- New World Order (8:10)
- Chased (4:35)
- Ghost of a Chance (5:19)
- Christmas Day (5:40)
Credits
- Mike Baker - arranged by [vocal arrangements], band [shadow gallery is], lead vocals, words by, written-by [vocal melodies], lead vocals vocal, vocal arranger
- Joe Nevolo - band [shadow gallery is], drums, membranophone
- Brendt Allman - band [shadow gallery is], guitar [guitars], vocals, music by, guitar family, vocal
- Chris Ingles - band [shadow gallery is], piano, synthesizer, music by
- Rainer Kalwitz - cover [art], illustration
- James LaBrie - vocals [additional vocal performance]
- Gary Sloyer - voice [spoken parts]
- Larry Burke - voice [spoken parts]