![]() Concluding the disc, "Think It Over"'s creation dates back to the recording sessions of 1980's "Conquest", the band's previous album. Same goes for "Sell Your Soul", which darker and slower passages are the only interest. On the opposite, "Hot Persuasion" is rather average and flat. This dynamic opener is definitely a little NWOBHM bomb! Wow! "Chasing Shadows" is a synth FM rock with a light fantasy ambiance. From the very beginning of "Too Scared To Run", you can hear the reconstructed URIAH HEEP wanting to catch up with the young generation. There is one last particularity to mention about this disc though: half of the songs are covers from 1979-1980 rock titles.įirst the new compositions. Even if we're surely not in prog-land any more, fans will still recognize some HEEP's markers here: typical keyboards, powerful choruses and cool melodies, this time coupled good riffs and a harder sound. After a mediocre try, URIAH HEEP starts the eighties again with a new youth! A transformed quintet for a strengthened approach: rarely before played the band this ferocious! However, don't be mistaken: despite its cover art, somehow demonic title and release date, don't expect pre-thrash / black metal on this album. "Abominog" is a nice and punchy mixture of direct AOR, hard rock but also of a slice of NWOBHM and a touch of fantasy. ![]() So what could we expect from a recomposed dated art-prog-rock band from the 70's, without its brain, already searching for renewal since several albums, for the turn of the 80's? Well, in fact. After multiple hesitations, the other original member, Mick Box, finally decided to reform the HEEP by calling Lee Kerslake back, the band's main drummer during the seventies, and recruited ex-TRAPEZE singer Peter Goalby, ex-OZZY OSBOURNE bassist Bob Daisley and future OZZY OSBOURNE keyboardist John Sinclair. Therefore what should logically happen happens: Ken Hensley - one of the two original members responsible of several hit titles - left the band, resulting in the split of the quintet. Thanks to Time Signature, Pekka, Lynx33 for the updates Buy URIAH HEEP - ABOMINOG musicĪfter a half-decade of more or less convincing art rock wandering, plus the explosion of punk and the new generation of metalheads, URIAH HEEP could difficulty survive in its current form. Think It Over (video soundtrack) (3:17)ġ6. Son Of A Bitch (Abominog Junior) (4:08)ġ3. Reissued by Sanctuary in 2004 with the following bonus tracks:ġ1. That's The Way That It Is (demo version) (4:27) Reissued by Castle in 1997 with the following bonus tracks:ġ2. Released in the US by Mercury with the following tracklist:ġ0. John Sinclair / keyboards, synthesizer, guitars, vocals Released: 5 February 2002 (recorded 2001).King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Uriah Heep in concert 1974 With Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep became one of the top heavy metal and hard rock bands of the 1970s. In the late 1970s the band had massive success in Germany, where the " Lady in Black" single was a big hit. 7 in 1975) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (No. Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart ( Return to Fantasy reached No. Uriah Heep's progressive/ art rock/ heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always featured massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and (in the early years) David Byron's operatic vocals. The band's best selling album is Sweet Freedom, which was released in 1973 and its worldwide sales are more than 6 million copies. Over the years, the British hard rock band Uriah Heep has released 25 studio albums (of original material), 20 live albums, 41 compilation albums, 27 UK singles (33 worldwide) and 17 videos.
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