Demons And Wizards (CD)

Despite a Spinal Tap-like inability to secure a drummer, British band Uriah Heep has continued to roll with the punches since 1969. Their eclectic approach to rock folds Tolkeinian dragons-and-dwarves imagery into grand musical themes that draw on prog, metal, acid rock, and pastoral folk. The band were fairly popular in the U.K. in the '70s, and their albums charted respectably in the U.S. during this time as well. As the musical landscape shifted in the later '70s, the band's popularity died down, but they have continued to release albums (their live discography is rather lengthy) and tour, and remain popular in Eastern Europe and Japan.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  Hard Rock
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• Release Date: January 21, 1989
• Label: Mercury
• UPC: 042281229725
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106028758
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #6761 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2929 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #153 in Hard Rock (See Top 100 Hard Rock Bestsellers)

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Personnel: David Byron (vocals); Ken Hensley (guitar, keyboards, percussion); Mick Box (guitar); Gary Thain (bass); Lee Kerslake (drums, percussion).

Recorded at Landsdowne Studios, London in March and April, 1972. Includes liner notes by Ken Hensley.

Although renowned heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio would become the eventual undisputed "expert" on dungeons, dragons, and wizards, one of the first heavy metal bands to tackle such subject matter was Uriah Heep on their 1972 release, DEMONS AND WIZARDS.

But just as the band went "medieval" on us, they also issued their best straight-ahead rocker (and biggest U.S. hit), "Easy Livin," which was eventually covered by '80s shock rockers W.A.S.P. Other Heep highlights include the album-opening folk rocker "The Wizard" (not the same similarly-titled song by another British metal band--Black Sabbath) and the space rocker "Traveller in Time."

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