Personnel

• Jon Oliva
  Jon Oliva
  John Nicholas Oliva is best known simply as Jon Oliva and as founder of and lead vocalist for Savatage. He is the third of four children...
  
   – lead vocals
  Human voice
  The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
  
  , keyboards
  Electronic keyboard
  An electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:...
  
  
• Chris Caffery
  Chris Caffery
  Chris Caffery is a heavy metal guitarist who is best known for his work as a member of Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra...
  
   - lead & rhythm guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, backing vocals
• Johnny Lee Middleton
  Johnny Lee Middleton
  Johnny Lee Middleton is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the bass guitar player for Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.-Musical beginnings:...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , backing vocals
• Jeff Plate
  Jeff Plate
  Jeff Plate is a professional drummer and percussionist. He currently plays with the progressive rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra and with thrash metal band Metal Church until their 2009 disbanding, although he is most remembered for his drumming for the band, Savatage on their albums since...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Bob Kinkel
  Robert Kinkel
  Bob Kinkel is a professional session keyboardist and music engineer most known for his role as a co-creater/co-producer/co-composer and touring keyboardist with Trans-Siberian Orchestra along with extensive studio work with the prog-metal band Savatage...
  
   - additional keyboards & backing vocals
• Al Pitrelli
  Al Pitrelli
  Al Pitrelli is a guitarist, best known for his work with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Joe Lynn Turner, Asia and Savatage.-Early career :...
  
   - additional lead guitars (featured on tracks "Stay With Me Awhile", "Commissar", "Morphine Child" & "The Rumor")
• John West - backing vocalist
• Zachary Stevens
  Zachary Stevens
  Zachary "Zak" Stevens , is best known as the former lead vocalist of the band Savatage. He is also a drummer and has a degree in psychology but is not, as is often reported, a licensed, practicing psychologist....
  
   - lead vocals (Track 12 on US Bonus Edition only)
• Criss Oliva
  Criss Oliva
  Christopher "Criss" Michael Oliva was born in Pompton Plains, NJ. He was the lead guitarist in, and co-founder of, the band Savatage...
  
   - guitars (Track 12 on US Bonus Edition only)

Further Credits

• Produced
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   by Paul O'Neill
  Paul O'Neill (rock producer)
  Paul O'Neill is an American music composer, lyricist, producer, and songwriter.-Early years:A New York City native, O'Neill began playing guitar with a number of rock bands in high school and quickly graduated to folk guitar gigs at downtown clubs...
  
  
• Co-produced by Jon Oliva
• Engineered & Mixed
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
   by Dave Wittman
• Assistant engineer: Darren Rapp, Ed Osbeck
• Additional engineering: Bob Kinkel
• Recorded and mixed at Soundtracks Studios
• Overdubs
  Overdubbing
  Overdubbing is a technique used by recording studios to add a supplementary recorded sound to a previously recorded performance....
  
   at Studio 900, New York City
• Mastered
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  at the Master Cutting Room by Kevin Hodge
• Studio managers: Jeff Thompson, Chris Rich, Ken Thornhill
• Cover art: Edgar Jerins
• Design: Deborah Lauren

External links

• The Story of Poets and Madmen