Walnut Band

 

Walnut Band
1976 - Go Nuts FLAC

Heavily Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers influenced hard rock, with their trademark dual guitar sound and some subdued and tasty organs. Originally released 1976 in the US as a private press. Fantastic and superrare privately released hard guitar psych from Boston.

Voltz

Voltz
1982 Knight's Fall
FLAC

Voltz was a british rock band often cataloged as NWOBHM band. 
Their music is actually a cross between hard rock and early heavy metal. 
Arcane sound and a bit prog-ish and psychy. The singer has characteristic harsch voice. Sharp and painful lead guitars riffs. There are some slower passages. A quite strange album, difficult to compare with others, but it may perhaps come close to Judas Priest's "Sad Wings of Destiny" or Legend (the british band).

roquecolorNov 09 2021

Vox Dei

 Vox Dei

1972 Cuero Caliente 

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Rara avis, even for the Argentine rock scene, Vox Dei were formed as far back as 1967 in Quilmes, a remote suburban area of the Greater Buenos Aires.
Their career was marked by anomaly almost from the start: after a weak, poorly produced, 60s-sounding debut LP released in 1970 ("Caliente"), they came up with an ambitious rock opera, "La Biblia", which sold over one million copies, not bad for the second album of an Argie rock band.

In 1972 they re-recorded that first LP with a more straightforward, rocking sound, and marketed the record with a pirate flag on the cover: "Cuero caliente".
Despite the raw production quality and being a partial re-recording, this album is graced with great songs, and signals a definitive stylistic departure for the band, compared with the primitive sound of "La Biblia" and the prominently acoustic "Jeremías, pies de plomo".

"El regreso del Dr. Jekill" channels Black Sabbath's nefand heavy rock sound with a horrific end, haunted by the phantasma. "Reflejos tuyos y míos" -sung by drummer Rubén Basoalto- is a gritty crossover between Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk Railroad, while "Azúcar amarga" comes like a more standard blues rock tune.
"El momento en que estás (presente)" closes side one, a gorgeous ballad which turned out to be one of the most popular songs of the band.

"A nadie le interesa si quedás atrás (total qué...)" and "Tan solo estás recordándome (cuero)" bring that Sabbath feel back, thanks to Willie Quiroga's groovier-than-life bass and Ricardo Soulé's potent riffdom, perfectly backed by R. Basoalto's somewhat jazzy drums.

The Beatles-esque ballad "Canción para una mujer que no está", and W. Quiroga's bluesy heavy rock "Compulsión" complete "Cuero caliente": such a brilliant hard rock LP and an archetypal testimony of Argentine rock from the 70s: its flaws, its idiosyncrasies, its zeitgeist.

death_metal_doll Feb 22 2008