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Track List
01) Carpathia
02) Cask of Amontillado
03) Psychotic Episode
04) Masque of the Red Death
05) Sevil Alucard
06) The Premature Burial
07) MJR #13
08) Paganini - Concerto in B Minor
09) Noit Al Ever
01) Carpathia
02) Cask of Amontillado
03) Psychotic Episode
04) Masque of the Red Death
05) Sevil Alucard
06) The Premature Burial
07) MJR #13
08) Paganini - Concerto in B Minor
09) Noit Al Ever
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3:07
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First Released
1994
Progressive Metal
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The Dark Chapter is the first studio album by Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo, released in April 1994 through Zero Corporation (Japan) and reissued in 2000 through InsideOut Music (Europe).
Originally recorded in 1992 as a demo tape which Romeo had sent out to various guitar publications, the album that would eventually become The Dark Chapter garnered the attention of a Japanese record label named Zero Corporation, who expressed an interest in further material. Romeo then joined up with keyboardist Michael Pinnella to re-record the album for a CD release through Zero in 1994, after which both musicians went on to form Symphony X. An entirely instrumental album, it bears many similarities to the progressive metal stylings of Symphony X, and could be considered a direct precursor to their self-titled debut album which was released later in 1994.
Several of the track titles are references to works by Edgar Allan Poe, such as "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Premature Burial". The cover art portrays a raven, in reference to "The Raven", and a guitar, with its body resembling the shape of a pendulum, referencing "The Pit and the Pendulum". Most of the other track titles bear cryptic meanings: "Sevil Alucard" reads "Dracula Lives" spelled backwards (a possible reference to Dracula Lives!, a short-lived magazine by Marvel Comics); "MJR #13" is an abbreviation of the initials of Romeo's full name, Michael James Romeo; "Noit Al Ever" reads "Revelation" spelled backwards.
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The Dark Chapter is the first studio album by Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo, released in April 1994 through Zero Corporation (Japan) and reissued in 2000 through InsideOut Music (Europe).
Originally recorded in 1992 as a demo tape which Romeo had sent out to various guitar publications, the album that would eventually become The Dark Chapter garnered the attention of a Japanese record label named Zero Corporation, who expressed an interest in further material. Romeo then joined up with keyboardist Michael Pinnella to re-record the album for a CD release through Zero in 1994, after which both musicians went on to form Symphony X. An entirely instrumental album, it bears many similarities to the progressive metal stylings of Symphony X, and could be considered a direct precursor to their self-titled debut album which was released later in 1994.
Several of the track titles are references to works by Edgar Allan Poe, such as "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Premature Burial". The cover art portrays a raven, in reference to "The Raven", and a guitar, with its body resembling the shape of a pendulum, referencing "The Pit and the Pendulum". Most of the other track titles bear cryptic meanings: "Sevil Alucard" reads "Dracula Lives" spelled backwards (a possible reference to Dracula Lives!, a short-lived magazine by Marvel Comics); "MJR #13" is an abbreviation of the initials of Romeo's full name, Michael James Romeo; "Noit Al Ever" reads "Revelation" spelled backwards.
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