Description
Slipcase has a few clamp marks
2004 box release with double cd and bonus dvd in a slipcase
Psychotic Waltz were one of the most underrated progressive metal bands of their era. While most of the group’s early-90s peers (primarily Queensryche, Fates Warning, and Dream Theater) were still performing traditional heavy metal with more cerebral lyrics, technical expertise, and a 70s prog rock aesthetic, Psychotic Waltz and a few other, mostly lesser-known outfits were actually, truly engaged in progressing the state of heavy metal into altogether novel stylistic combinations. Alas, as is often the case with such groundbreaking pioneers, the band proved a little too intractable for the mainstream music marketplace and met with a premature demise after years of meager financial and critical reward. On their independently released debut album, A Social Grace. Here, the band, in all fairness, were playing angular riffs and heady lyrics still owed much inspiration to Fates Warning and Texan tech-metal overlords Watchtower, but European critics were still mightily impressed and the incredulous bandmembers soon found themselves performing at Holland’s prestigious Dynamo Festival in the summer of 1991. Their second album, Into The Everflow (1992), earned the band several awards, including Best Hard Rock Band at that year’s San Diego Music Awards. After completing additional tour dates, Psychotic Waltz repaired to Los Angeles to work with famed metal producer Scott Burns on 1994’s Mosquito. By this stage, the members of Psychotic Waltz had taken to describing themselves as an underground hippie metal band, and the shoe really did fit, given this latest album’s increasingly dreamy musical psychotropics and swirling instrumental layers, wed to Lackey’s uniquely free-spirited world-view.
Track list:
Disc 1: A Social Grace
1. And The Devil Cried
2. Halo Of Thorns
3. Another Prophet Song
4. Successor
5. In This Place
6. I Remember
7. Sleeping Dogs
8. I Of The Storm
9. A Psychotic Waltz
10. Only In A Dream
11. Spiral Tower
12. Strange
13. Nothing
Disc 2: Dvd track list: A Social Grace Release Party San Diego 1991
1. Faded-promo video
2. My Grave-promo video
3. A Social Grace Release Party
Disc 3: Mosquito
1. Mosquito
2. Lovestone Blind
3. Haze One
4. Shattered Sky
5. Cold
6. All The Voices
7. Dancing In The Ashes
8. Only Time
9. Locked Down
10. Mindsong
11. (silence)
12. Darkness