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Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
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Power Metal |
DISBANDED
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Last update/review:
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June 27, 2015
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Oracle
This Floridian band formed in the late eighties as Prodigy,
managing to release one album in 1993 following a name switch
to Oracle, the album
solidly rooted in 80's American power metal in mold of
Liege Lord or early
Queensryche
(the latter due to William Wren's vocal similarity to Geoff Tate).
Hardly a popular style of music at the time, particularly in the
US (hence the release on a European label),
As Darkness Reigns was nevertheless a fine album for the genre
and worth seeking out.
Brothers Kent and Brent Smedley later continued the project under
the name Odyssey before calling it a day, and Brent later joined
Iced Earth.
Discography
As Darkness Reigns
1993
Massacre
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- Prisoner (Of Your Own Soul)
- Nightmares
- No Faith For The Liar
- As Darkness Reigns
- Paradise (On The Edge Of The World)
- Knights Of The Round Table
- The Watcher
- Prodigy
- In The End
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William Wren
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Kent Smedley
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Kevin Reid
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Brent Smedley
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