W.A.S.P. 7 Savage CD Review

A few weeks back it was announced that a CD version of last year’s incredibly popular “7 Savage” box set from W.A.S.P. would see the light of day in January of 2025. As a matter of fact, the pre-orders are already up, and fans are digging in. I was shocked to see how many fans were upset that a CD version wasn’t released along with the vinyl set. Kind of strange considering the bulk of these releases are still readily available due to reissues. The only thing that wasn’t readily available on disc was the Bonus Tracks/B-Sides album but most W.A.S.P. fans should already have those on disc courtesy of imports, singles and so forth. Then again, not everyone is a crazed fanatic of the band like I am, and those singles aren’t cheap by any stretch. However, there's something to be said about having an LP/CD with all those tracks on it so you can just hear it all at once.. "Locomotive Breath", "When the Levee Breaks" and "Lake Of Fools" are reason enough to take my money! Overall I have more W.A.S.P. releases than I care to currently count on vinyl/CD and I still purchase boots/sound board recordings at every turn when I see them pop up. In the land of W.A.S.P. memorabilia there’s no such thing as too much, it’s simply not enough. So, yeah, I have a few duplicates – Japanese Pressings are a necessary! And then there’s the posters which I have enough to hang 4 in every room in my house, but my wife ain’t having it, so I’m relegated to 2 in the house.

Reading into the press release for this set it looks like the only difference between the vinyl and CD set is this CD set won’t come numbered or either they left that out of the press release. I hope that’s the case, that was a cool aspect of the set given that I didn’t really need it. I got #767 out of 2000 and that’s damned cool! At any length, a 60-page hardback book will be in the set and that’s a big plus, because a lot of these photographs aren’t easily found nowadays so it’ll be nice to have a piece of memorabilia like this.

As a lifelong W.A.S.P. fan it warms my heart to see the band having the resurgence they’ve had the last few years and be celebrated in this manner. The U.S. tour they did with Armored Saint a few years back was sold out everywhere. I caught the show when they stopped through Atlanta. I can’t say enough good things about that show and as luck would have it, the band is out doing another U.S. tour RIGHT NOW! This time they’re celebrating the 40^th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut and before you ask, I pre-ordered my ticket as soon as it popped up! Our show was the night before Thanksgiving. It was a fantastic show – Armored Saint fucking KILLED and W.A.S.P. was all killer no filler, like always! It was wild to see them perform some of those songs – “Tormentor” specifically. I don’t care how many times I’ve seen them; I’ll never pass up a chance to see Blackie strap it on one more time.

If you haven’t ordered this 7 Savage CD set, what are you waiting on?! This will certainly be the best release in January, no doubt! And if the band is rolling through your town on their current tour, get off your ass and go it’s worth the cash!

~Black Angel