A rather huge contrast when third track Pushed, But Notįorgotten is starting even very mellow, soon after amps are switched on again,īut on this one the music is much different from before and of much bigger quality and Monotonous and noisy after a while (the same problem I have with the heavy stuff of Quite heavy stuff, but for my ears and listening habits becoming a bit too That reason alone I'm hesitating to call it a masterpiece.įutilist's Lament and Death Warmed Up are really a true devil's ride Metal album in general, but they didn't play progressive at all. MC5's 'Kick Out The Jams' from the same year was probably the very first Actually before 1970 I can recall only bands like DEEP PURPLE, CREAM orīLUE CHEER, but none of them playing that heavy nor progressive in a way. It's most probably true that SEA SHANTIES was the very first Prog-MetalĪlbum. Posted Thursday, J| Review this album | Report (Review #35126) Be warned though: This album is not for the timid! The mix is not the best, but who cares? The music is fantastic! I rarely deal out 5 stars, but 'Nowhere' finally is what one could call a ballad, with lines like 'On the stage there is noĭoor, at your feet the moving floor decides to burn', yet again it is very heavy, as the 'Missing Out' has a slightly bluesy feeling, although a lot heavier than blues usually is. 'Walking Down Their Outlook' provides an interesting early example of violin and guitarĪctually playing two different voices, which is rare in rock music. The song ends with sad viloin over quiet guitar chords.

But the silence is not for long, soon heavy guitar crashes again, and 'Pushed, But Not Forgotten' starts quietly with some phased guitar and melancholic violin, What follows for the last 4 minutes is a wild battle between electric guitar and electric violin. Then it looks as if they go into another repetition, but Guitar and violin together play a very complicated theme of about 3 minutes The second track, 'Death Warmed Up', is an instrumental and probably the first prog metal The vocals of Tony Hill sound aīit like Jim Morrison the lyrics throughout the whole album are rather pessimistic. The other box, and then 'Futilist's Lament' is on the way. Pumping bass and drums enter, the guitar riff is answered with heavy electric violin out of The album starts right away with a heavy electric guitar riff out of one of the boxes, a Its trademark is the constant battlingīetween electric guitar and electric violin. Definitely the heaviest album of that aera. When I first listened to this album I couldn't believe it was from 1969 it is way ahead of

Roger Hadden / drums Releases informationĬD Repertoire Records ‎- REP 4414-WY (1994, Germany)ĬD Eclectic Discs ‎- ECLCD 1037 (2006, Europe) Remastered by Paschal Byrne with 5 bonus tracks, previously unreleasedĬD Esoteric Recordings ‎- ECLEC 2204 (2010, UK) Remastered by Ben Wiseman with 5 bonus tracks The Great Universal Protection Racket (11:24)ġ0.

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