Five years after Seven Devils Moonshine , the band released their first album since then, and their first single-CD album since Nocturnes of Hellfire & Damnation , The Passion of Dionysus , on June 30, 2023.
Three years after Nocturnes of Hellfire & Damnation , in 2018 the box-set Seven Devils Moonshine is published containing 3 new albums ( Ghost Harvest – Vintage I – Black Wine for Mourning , Ghost Harvest – Vintage II – Red Wine for Warning , Gothic Voodoo Anthems ) plus…
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In February 2017, the album Visions of Eden was reissued as a double CD containing a remixed version and a remastered recording of the original mix.
The first ever Virgin Steele tribute album By the Gods: A Noble Tribute to Virgin Steele was released on October 31, 2015, by Majestic Metal Records. It features a 12-page full-color booklet with exclusive liner notes by Virgin Steele’s frontman David DeFeis .
A new Virgin Steele album, entitled The Black Light Bacchanalia , was released at the end of October 2010 for the new label SPV/Steamhammer while, in 2011, the whole back-catalogue, from Noble Savage onwards, will be reissued again with faithfully restored covers and booklets, bonus tracks and liner notes.
In 2007, the band played at the Power Prog VIII Festival (Atlanta, Georgia) and at the Evolution Festival (Florence, Italy). David DeFeis and Josh Block appear on the Polish band Crystal Viper EP in the cover of Virgin Steele’s song “Blood and Gasoline” from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell…
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David DeFeis also created his own recording studio called The Hammer of Zeus (sometimes also called The Wrecking Ball of Thor ). In September 2006, after 6 years without an all-new studio album, the band released its 11th full-length Visions of Eden . The album revolves heavily around Gnostic beliefs…
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In 2002, the band released two compilations to celebrate the 20th anniversary. The Book of Burning consists of a mix of previously unreleased songs and new compositions created by David DeFeis in collaboration with original guitarist Jack Starr. The songs were written at the beginning of the 1990s and previously…
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David DeFeis (keyboards and backing vocals) appears as special guest on the first two Immortally Committed albums in the tracks “Epic” and “Council in Hell”. He, Edward Pursino , Josh Block and Exorcist’s drummer Geoff Fontaine played some live dates with the New York cover band Carnival of Souls. Between…
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Just before The House of Atreus Act II , the single “Magick Fire Music” was published, with some metal opera outtakes. Inspired by Virgin Steele’s metal opera, the German band Tobias Sammet’s Avantasia wrote various albums using the same format. David DeFeis appears as special guest on the track: “The…
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