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Sacred Oath is an Power Metal band from Bethel, Connecticut.

Sacred Oath was originally formed in 1985 by Rob Thorne and Pete Altieri while the two were classmates at Bethel High School. The band recorded their first demo in 1985 and quickly sold hundreds of them through local stores like Record Broker and Phoenix Records, developing a loyal following referred to as the “Oathbangers.”

They signed a recording contract with the Mercenary Records label in 1986, shortly after recording their second demo Shadow Out Of Time. By then the band was becoming known internationally in an underground circuit. Members Rob Thorne, Pete Altieri, Glen Cruciani, and Kenny Evans recorded Sacred Oath’s debut album A Crystal Vision in May of 1987 at Presence Studios in East Haven CT, where Dave Obrizzo produced and Jon Russell engineered. The album was released in 1988 on vinyl, cassette, and CD and went on to garner cult-classic status as one of the pioneer efforts of the American power metal movement.

The band disbanded in December 1988 before the album had caught on, due to creative disagreements and frustration with their failing record label. Mercenary Records and its parent label Celluloid Records went bankrupt soon after.

Sentinel Steel Records reissued the debut album in 2001 through an exclusive agreement with the band.

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Trepissimo wrote:
last month

Yes, Counting Zeros, one of the best songs published in 2009!

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glaMfuckk wrote:
last month

counting zeros!

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Voggis2008 wrote:
November 2009

The twentieth-anniversary edition of A Crystal Vision to be released next week!

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DefenderOTFaith wrote:
September 2009

Yeah, they were still in high school when they recorded A Crystal Vision and they had been a band for 2 years by that point.

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PopaIuda wrote:
September 2009

Does anybody know exactly how old is Rob Thorne ? His myspace page says he is 40 , meaning that he was only 18 years old when he recorded A Crystal Vision...which seems amazing...So does anyone know for sure?

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z-la wrote:
June 2009

if you guys like Thorne's voice check out his prog rock band Soundscape, they were amazing.

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epolskorp wrote:
May 2009

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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CaptureTheCat wrote:
March 2009

special

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Roadmutant wrote:
February 2009

I actually like it as you don't hear this type of powermetal to much these days! Thumbs up!

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Vicarious_Lord wrote:
August 2007

Yay! first shout! This band is quite goood, although they do have a few fillers on both albums they've released. What I don't understand is why they only rereleased four of the tracks from their original release in 1998, why not the whole album?

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