There are certain bands that crop up every now and then which are such an obvious fit for In The Court If The Wenton King that it almost feels like a cop out to review them. These are in fact the hardest bands to review - yes these guys play prog which is good - the album cover is nice - errrrr.
Uriah Heep were interesting in that I listened to the albums backwards (Demons and Wizards, Look At Yourself and Salisbury). So I started with Deep Purple and ended up at Prog.
Now as the Laws of Physics would have it, time travels forwards which would suggest that progress would be from Prog to Purple. This is not how it sounded to my ears. I started off disappointed and then slowly became excited!
There is nothing wrong with Deep Purple, they are one of the biggest bands in history for a reason. They wrote some bloody good rock songs. But I would much rather listen to a Spotify playlist of them, than an album in it's entirety. There comes a point when Deep Purple are just Deep Purpling and actually when we did our run of reviews I found it a bit frustrating.
So the perception that Uriah Heep had started off with Deep Purple and then expanded their musical palette was refreshing. How often do bands find a groove and struggle to get out of it? But as it turned out Uriah Heep had done what everyone else does and reaped huge financial rewards :(
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