For 22 years, "Graceful Inheritance" has remained the highest rated album
by the Editorial Staff of Germany's ROCK HARD magazine, rating 49 of 50 points.

"Graceful Inheritance" was released in Europe in January of 1986.
Rave reviews from Germany's ROCK HARD, France's ENFER, and The Netherlands'
AARDSCHOK magazines helped propel the group's promotion. In May, 1986,
Heir Apparent embarked on a European Tour sponsored by Germany's METAL HAMMER magazine.
With continuing sales, Black Dragon released "Graceful Inheritance" on CD in October 1986.
The first CD ever released by an Independent Label in Europe.

The Hard Rock/Heavy Metal media consensus established "Graceful Inheritance" as
Europe's debut album of the year for 1986.

The digitally remastered reissue contains bonus tracks of Paul Davidson's recordings with the band in early 1987,
"Tomorrow Night" and "We, The People", with Mike Jackson on keyboards, and Randy Nelson playing bass.
The Hellion CD features one of the original watercolor concepts and band logos created by Matt Bazemore in 1985.
This latest reissue contains new artwork based on an oil painting by Matt Bazemore in 1986.

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