All Artists:Q5 Title:Steel the Light Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label:High Voltage Original Release Date: 4/18/2000 Re-Release Date: 10/3/2005 Album Type: Import Genres:Pop, Rock, Metal Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC:4030554000320
"It's albums like "Steel The Light" that make Heavy Metal music so special. I've been trying to locate this masterpiece on CD for several years and now it is here for all of us to enjoy. Play it loud and enjoy some of the best Metal music of the last century. Go get it before it disappears again. Good old, pure Metal!"
Awesome Classic
Kent | Chicago | 02/10/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I dont understand why someone would write a 500 word essay and totaly blast this cd in a negative way (see previous review). Obviously the guy is a ass*&^%. Awesome cd it's to bad I didnt discover it until 2001. If you like 80's metal youll love this cd!"
Fan from Turkey
Mehmet Barlas Cevikus | Turkey | 09/21/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"One of the best heavy metal bands ever...
The inventor of the superb tremolo system Floyd Rose, himself plays the guitars.
(Although I mailed him, he did not answer :(
The sound and the power of the songs are nothing but one of the best in metal.
Although they had many ads in English metal mag Kerrang! in mid 80s they never bacame popular in Europe.
Buy this album and thank me forever.
The other album When The Mirror Cracks is much different from that one, but I think you'll love it too, especially if you are not in too deep with metal.
I consider myself as the Q5 ambassador to Turkey"
Probably one of the best unknown metal albums ...
Mr. Paul Campbell | Melksham, Wiltshire United Kingdom | 02/19/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"... the guy who suggested that the internet arose from mankinds need to hear this album .... I can only concur :PIf there any justice in this world this album would have achieved the general aclaim of the likes of genre classics such as "van halen 1", "wheels of steel" (saxon), "pride" (white lion), etc and ... well you see the sort of thing I'm on about. Somehow though Q5 never made the breakthrough.
I can only imagine this is becuase they went soft AOR after this album - big mistake, they should have stuck to it then pimped thier back catalogue when the breakthrough came.As a cautionary note I would add that there are a couple of weak songs and the shrill vocals wont to be to everyones taste (hence the 4 stars) but the overall musical style is very much in the early Van Halen/White Lion harder-end-of-glam-metal tradition with very tight hard rocking drums/bass/guitar throughout. Floyd Rose's guitar playing even holds up respectably in this sort company (although he isnt as good as Eddie or Vito). You can certianly see why he invented the locking tremelo ... he gives it some serious stick, but in a way that compliments his style and the music generally.This is sort of cd that the '10 on your car stereo volume dial was designed for. ..."
Track Listings (16) - Disc #1