Editing Edge of Thorns (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/edge-of-thorns-mw0000095723 | title = Savatage - Edge of Thorns review | accessdate = April 8, 2018 | last = Orens | first = Geoff | work = [[AllMusic]] | publisher = [[Rovi Corporation]]}}</ref>
| rev2 =''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2Score = 7/10<ref name="martin" >{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | authorlink1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties | publisher = [[Collector's Guide Publishing]] | date = August 1, 2007 | location = [[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] |  page=383 |isbn = 978-1-894959-62-9}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Metal Hammer]]'' (GER)
|rev3score = 7/7<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.metal-hammer.de/reviews/savatage-edge-of-thorns/ |title= Savatage – Edge of Thorns |language=German |last=Nieradzik |first=Andrea |magazine=[[Metal Hammer]] |date=May 1993 |accessdate=2018-05-08 }}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]'' 
|rev4score = 9.5/10<ref name="rockhard">{{cite magazine|last=Breusch|first=Matthias|title=Review Album Des Monats: Savatage - Edge of Thorns|url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/savatage-edge-of-thorns|issue=71|year = 1993| magazine = [[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]] |accessdate=April 8, 2018 | language=German}}</ref> 
}}
In a contemporary review for ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]'' magazine, where ''Edge of Thorns'' had been elected Album of the Month, Matthias Breusch wrote that Savatage had "not lost a pinch of their compositional potential and energy" and praised Criss Oliva's guitar playing; he complimented new singer Zak Stevens' "powerful, energetic voice", which was "cleverly adapted to the melodic lines" of the new songs, although he missed Jon Oliva's "crazy screams".<ref name="rockhard"/>

Modern reviews are generally positive. [[AllMusic]] Geoff Orens praised Savatage's continuous experimentation of new sounds and wrote that ''Edge of Thorns'' moved away from the [[progressive metal]] of the two previous albums, being a "leaner, more understated guitar-driven record", with the majority of the songs consisting "of stripped-down metal anthems, recorded with less flashy guitar work and production" than before. In his opinion, the new material fits well the "less bombastic delivery" of new singer Stevens, who does "not have the emotional range that Oliva showed on ''Gutter Ballet'' and ''Streets''".<ref name="allmusic"/> Canadian journalist [[Martin Popoff]] remarked how ''Edge of Thorns'' was "a raucous return to old Savatage vein", with "mountains of thirsty power riffs" and "an odd adherence to a goth past", mostly out of fashion in the [[alternative metal]] scene of the time. He was more critical of "the band's mellow tendencies" and the murky long intros to the songs.<ref name="martin" />