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Uriah Heep Demons And Wizards CD

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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.
This is the album that solidified Uriah Heep's reputation as a master of gothic-inflected heavy metal. From short, sharp rock songs to lengthy, musically dense epics, Demons and Wizards finds Uriah Heep covering all the bases with style and power. The album's approach is set with its lead-off track, "The Wizard": it starts as a simple acoustic tune but soon builds into a stately rocker that surges forth on a wall of sound built from thick guitar riffs, churchy organ, and operatic vocal harmonies. Other highlights include "Traveller in Time," a fantasy-themed rocker built on thick wah-wah guitar riffs, and "Circle of Hands," a stately power ballad with a gospel-meets-heavy metal feel to it. Demons and Wizards also produced a notable radio hit for the band in "Easy Livin'," a punchy little rocker whose raging blend of fuzz guitar and swirling organ made it feel like a 1970s update of classic 1960s garage rockers like the Electric Prunes or Paul Revere & the Raiders. However, the top highlight of the album is the closing medley of "Paradise" and "The Spell": the first part of the medley starts in an acoustic folk mode and slowly adds layers of organ and electric guitar until it becomes a forceful slow-tempo rocker, while the second half is a punchy, organ-led rocker that includes an instrumental midsection where choral-style harmonies fortify a killer, Pink Floyd-style guitar solo from Mick Box. All in all, Demons and Wizards works both as a showcase for Uriah Heep's instrumental firepower and an excellent display of their songwriting skills in a variety of hard rock styles. As a result, it is considered by many fans to be their finest hour and is definitely worth a spin for anyone with an interest in 1970s heavy metal. ~ Donald A. Guarisco
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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Category Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs, Hard Rock
Label Mercury
Orig Year 1972
All Time Sales Rank   508  
CD Universe Part number 1056327
Catalog number 812297
Discs 1
Release Date Oct 25, 1990
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Gerry Bron
Engineer Peter Gallen
Personnel Ken Hensley - guitar, keyboards, percussion
Lee Kerslake - drums, percussion
Mick Box - guitar
David Byron - vocals
Gary Thain - bass
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Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample1.Wizard, The  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample2.Traveller in Time  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample3.Easy Livin'  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample4.Poet's Justice  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.Circle of Hands$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Rainbow Demon  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.All My Life
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.Paradise/The Spell  

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5 stars Previously owned LP, cassette and CD
I have owned this release as an LP, cassette and a CD. I still have the LP and the cassette. However, they are worn out and of course I don't have a record player. The CD I had met with a accident so I ordered another. Uriah Heep not only has good music but the lyrics are also entertaining. They really can not be compared to other groups then or now. I know own all their CDs waiting on Demons and Wizards.
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4 stars great music
great music from this splendid group. Also splendid service from Cd Universe.
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5 stars Heep's best!
Uriah Heep's best album ever!. Highly recommended CD.
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5 stars Uriah Heep Forever
I have listened UH back in the 70's. I was a heavy fan of them and now I wanted to listen their music again from CD's so I can carry the music with me and play it also in the car etc. It was not possible to buy this CD from Finland and I was very glad I found CD Universe. I have ordered from there all UH CD's I was missing.
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4 stars Soul Stealer
I wasn't much impressed at first play, but after listening to it ocassionaly for a couple of weeks it steals its way into the very fiber of your being and you will never be free of it again.
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