Just the name alone conjures up thoughts of demonic early seventies heavy metal, progressive rock. Atomic Rooster came out with a couple of very powerful early seventies albums. They sounded great.
It’s always a happy thing when one of your favorite artists returns from a lengthy absence. What’s even happier is when he comes storming back with the sort of record that makes you realize why you held him in such high esteem in the first place. Rant is such an album.
Probably Savoy Brown’s best and most successful album. It was recorded on a personnel precipice as within weeks of its release, three-quarters of the band deserted the ship leaving leader Kim Simmonds on his own
Definitely one of the finest of many good live albums from the early seventies, catching the live beast that was Steppenwolf at the peak of their undoubted powers.
Back in 1992, Hawkwind released ‘Electric Tepee,’ a sensational album of space rock combining intergalactic orbital rockers with huge chunks of Hawk dreamscapes that whisk you off on a sonic journey, clocking in at one hour and fifteen minutes.
Busting at the seams with creative energy, The Clash’s stunning 1979 double album, “London Calling,” digitally remastered from the original production tapes, puts both vinyl albums on one CD.
‘Interstellar Chaos’ is a series of trips to outer space through the mind of Harvey Bainbridge. All the music is played by the man himself. Each one whisking you away to different parts of the stratosphere.
“Deep Purple’s Infinite, Gold Edition,” released in 2017, is the band’s 20th studio album and fourth since new boy Don Airey joined on keyboards in 2002.