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Double album on black vinyls with printed innersleeves. Limited 500 numbered copies

Virgin Steele give Manowar a run for their assless leather chaps with the cover art chosen for 2006’s Visions Of Eden, which features vocalist David DeFeis gazing toward infinity beside a coal-black Clydesdale and wielding the biggest darn sword you’ll ever lay eyes upon. Incredibly, the dramatic music within suits this imagery 100-percent, only not with Dungeons And Dragons shenanigans, but with serious Old Testament stuff, as dictated by its title. Yes, roll your eyes if you must, but you still have to give this Long Island heavy metal institution some props for sticking to their guns (or, as it were, its swords) through thick and thin over the quarter-century discreetly marked by this, their 12th studio album. Not that there’s anything quiet, meek, or subtle about Visions Of Eden; in fact, its epic songs may amount to Virgin Steele’s most ambitious album yet. But even though DeFeis histrionic performance with his Freddie Mercury falsettos on Bonedust and his agonized delivery on Black Light on Black, can still land him in trouble now and then, they ultimately fit with the operatic theatricality and biblical subject matter within. Plus, let’s face it, it’s a little too late to expect DeFeis and his Virgin Steele bandmates to start apologizing for who they are. Rather, leave the apologizing to Adam, Eve, and the other merry characters populating Visions Of Eden; after all, in metal as in battle — unlike scripture — there can be no regret!

Track list:
1. Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam)
2. Adorned With The Rising Cobra
3. The Ineffable Name
4. Black Light On Black
5. Bonedust
6. Angel Of Death
7. God Above God
8. The Hidden God
9. Childslayer
10. When Dusk Fell
11. Visions Of Eden