516 - Virgin Steele Agony and Shame 1999

Since the beginning, the name of Virgin Steele stood for high-class, epic-dramatic Power Metal. Virgin Steele is a Heavy metal band from New York, founded in 1981, but more recently they have displayed progressive and symphonic metal elements.
They play what they call "barbaric-romantic" metal, which is very symphonic and contains many elements from classical music. Band-leader David DeFeis describes the music as "From a whisper to a scream, barbaric, romantic, bombastic, yet subtle, grandiose, yet earthy. A call, a shout, an invocation to Freedom and the continual awakening to the awareness that every moment of life is lived to its fullest potential. It is a force, a sacred quest which drives Virgin Steele on". This "Agony and Shame" belongs to "The House of Atreus - Act I", the first part of a metal opera concept album, based on the Oresteia, an ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus.