Subject: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:33 am
Hasn't come up for awhile, I'm mentioning it because I pulled out an album from a band called "Life" (Sweden, 1972). I'd heard some of the louder songs on the album before, but never listened to the whole presentation. I was absolutely blown away by this album, it's mostly kind of haunting dirgy piano music with a few very heavy dark proto metal songs in the mix. Brilliant prog-rock. It made me think of the few other Scandinavian bands that I know of from that time, all pretty good. Titanic, November, Aunt Mary, Ruphus, maybe Jerusalem a little later. I can't think of any more but I know a couple of you are experts so any recommendations are welcome.
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:57 am
Sounds interesting. Is the album self-titled?
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:06 am
I think the CD I have might be a comp of two albums (17 songs), and I think it's called "Version CD", but it's hard to tell because some of it's in Swedish! Yes I think you in particular might like it, lots of piano, some symphonic, and some very heavy rock. Most of it works well together too, although there are a couple of oddballs in the mix. All of the Scandinavian bands from back then that I know of were very diverse in different ways, I expect they didn't have any formula to work off unless it was maybe some Krautrock.
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:38 am
Sounds very interesting!
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:52 am
Full album here:
kmorg Metal is my Life
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:28 pm
Difference from Norway
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:31 pm
St. Helena
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:42 pm
Fleur De Lis from Denmark
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:46 pm
Junipher Greene, Norway
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:53 pm
I like that Life and Difference!
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Subject: Re: Early 70's Scandinavian Hard Rock Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:45 am