Concerning TSO doing something Savatage related; I still think there is a strong possibility of them doing a non-seasonal TSO tour with a Savatage set, like the Wacken show taken on the road (but probably with only one stage) like they talked about doing back in 2011, and they will probably continue to bring more Savatage songs into the sets on their tours regardless. As for doing a whole album of Savatage covers, remember the upcoming Gutter Ballet rock opera is going to have a lot of music borrowed from the 1989-1994 era of Savatage. I don't think they want to do an entire album of straight-up covers, though we will probably continue to get the occasional one-off covers like "Stay" on Letters from the Labyrinth or "Believe" on Night Castle.
When it comes to TSO however, "Upcoming" has really to be taken with a grain of salt 
We're still waiting for the Romanov musical!
I thought too that implicitly Jon Oliva's Pain ended with Matt LaPorte's passing. Also Jon said he doesn't want to still sing Sirens when he's 70 so he's probably gonna be more a composer than a performer going forward. And I remember an interview when he said that at Wacken people could see how Savatage and TSO were essentially the same thing with the same players, adding that from his own perspective, Dead Winter Dead and The Wake of Magellan are more TSO albums with some Sava-sounding songs here and there, and that for him the band was done with Criss' passing.
Yeah, even back when JOP was more active (2006-2010) Jon always said that Savatage never ended, it just "became another band" and that Savatage post-Criss was more TSO then Savatage. I really think the whole idea of JOP being Savatage reborn came from 1) the fact that so much of the JOP material was made up of unused Savatage demos (
'Tage Mahal was essentialy what Jon intended as the follow-up to
Poets and Madmen ), 2) the vibe of the band being more akin to old-school Savatage pre-1993, and 3) to placate all the fans who wanted to see Savatage continue and return to a heavier sound after 2002.
Personally, I think that outside of Savatage/TSO, Jon can call his side projects whatever he wants. There were already hints of the retro sound from
Raise the Curtain apparent on
Festival and
Global Warning;
Raise the Curtain just dropped much of the metal elements. I read in an interview where Jon said that he doesn't really view his work in terms of "Savatage","TSO", or "JOP"; it's all just one massive body of music he's written over the years. I can certainly understand that, especially considering the overlap of material from all his projects (both TSO and JOP have used Savatage music;
Poets and Madmen had some unused material from Doctor Butcher; etc.)
And yes, I do take TSO's promises of upcoming material with a grain of salt. I believe we will hear
Romanov and
Gutter Ballet eventually, but it may take another decade or two...
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