5/31/2023 0 Comments Uriah heep first albumThe tightness of the music is stunning at times what few instrumental breaks there are, are concise and to the point. "Traveler in Time" particularly shines in this respect.Īll in all, it's an entrancing side of rock & roll. Not an ordinary song in the lot: "Easy Livin" is a flat out fuzz-tone punk rocker, "The Wizard" is almost a combination of psychedelia (the lyrics and phased vocals) and rock, and the remaining three cuts on the side are generally similar in that they combine hard rock with good melodic hooks. The first side of Demons and Wizards is simply odds-on the finest high-enery workout of the year so far, tying nose and nose with Blue Oyster Cult. But then in places they sound a bit like early Procol Harum, and you forget about categories altogether. The vocals are psychedelic and quavering, the guitar and rhythm section is English heavy metal rock, and Ken Hensley's organ is employed in a fashion faintly similar to Deep Purple. Just what Uriah Heep's style consists of, it's hard to say. Starting with their third album, Look At Yourself (generally monotonous but with several genuinely exciting tracks) and particularly this new album, Uriah Heep have finally gotten into their own distinctive style. Uriah Heep started out as awful as any group crawling out of the Cream/Jeff Beck age of British blues excess: a bit of de blooze, a few Cream cops, some poorly-conceived heavy riffs - a familiar musical formula employed by not a few groups. To be honest, for a while I didn't think these guys were going to make it. Most of the excitement around these days is still happening in the hard rock field, and nothing in recent months proves this fact more conclusively than Uriah Heep's new album, Demons and Wizards. Formerly exciting rock groups have gone musically soft, if not well on the road to outright senility, making the moniker of hard rock almost a contradiction in terms when applied to old survivors from the Sixties.
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