Favourite Hard Rock/Proto Metal releases?

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Some of my favorites are:

Lucifer's Friend - s/t
Jericho - s/t
Blues Creation - Demon & Eleven Children
Randy Holden - Population II
Bang - s/t
Warhorse - s/t
Dust - both albums
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JACKAL (CDN) - Awake
WARPIG - Warpig
NECRONOMICON - Tips zum Selbstmord
HELL PREACHERS INC. - Supreme Psychadelic Underground
JENGHIZ KHAN - Well Cut
WIND - Seasons (Kraut with Heavy Organ)
BIGELF - Money Machine (from 2000 but sounds like 1970)
OGRE - Down of the Proto Man (from 2003 but sounds like 1975)
MURASAKI - Everything (Great Deep Purpe copy from Japan)
TYBURN TALL - Same (Kraut with Heavy Organ)
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caminantenocturno wrote:
Nightlock wrote:Not sure if there's a thread about this, did a quick search and couldn't find anything. Accepting upto 85 but it really all should be in the 70's.

Start listing! (I'll come back with mine)


Before '85? - That would include all the NWOBHM-stuff! :D

Budgie were mentioned before ... Blue Öyster Cult ... Golden Earring are really great (not too metal though) ... I dunno ... Riot? Gillan? Derringer? Vandenberg? Y&T? Montrose? What do you call "metal" in the 70s actually (apart of course Sabbath, Priest, Motörhead)?
:roll: I meant the releases that come under this catogory released in those years. Such as Ashbury etc
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tbieri wrote:BIGELF - Money Machine (from 2000 but sounds like 1970)
OGRE - Down of the Proto Man (from 2003 but sounds like 1975)
In other words completely unrelated crap.
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sorry it is not possible to make a list, there are too many!
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Here's a few more. I would call these "hard rock" as opposed to "proto metal":

Winterhawk - There & Back Again, Revival
Full Moon (US, Pennsylvania) - s/t
Ashbury - Endless Skies
Darkstarr - s/t
Spike - Price Of Pleasure
Legend - From The Fjords
Impeccable - Live On The Rox
White Boy & The Average Rat Band - s/t
Joe Step - Sacrifice
Alkana - Welcome To My Paradise
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a can of worms...
not all proto-metal, but mostly 70s (some late 60s) hard rock/heavier prog/psych that i like...

budgie
uriah heep
thin lizzy
ufo
lucifer's friend
sorcery
dust
sir lord baltimore
hairy chapter
blue cheer
randy holden
bolder damn
chicken bones
amulet
atomic rooster
banchee
euclid
flower travellin' band
seompi
friedhof
i drive
light of darkness
white lightning/lightning
little free rock
lyd
morly grey
socrates/socrates drank the conium
toad
warlord
wizard
primevil
privilege
ray owen's moon
salem mass
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@ tbieri:
Hell Preachers Inc. looks interesting. Could you give us some more information?

@muskeg:
Great list! But I have to admit that I don't like the Salem Mass album. Besides the first song, everything is utterly boring in my opinion.
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tomas wrote:But I have to admit that I don't like the Salem Mass album. Besides the first song, everything is utterly boring in my opinion.
I heard that one too. I hardly remember it, but I do remember I wasn't that impressed either.
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tomas wrote:@ tbieri:
Hell Preachers Inc. looks interesting. Could you give us some more information?.
If your attending something dark and evil, you are wrong !
But it's full of heavy organs and fuzzy guitars. Short and crunchy songs, not too long and too fucked up like some Kraut Bands. It also has a 60ies feel (is from 1969), so not too heavy !

Rumours says that the record is from some Deep Purple musicians, but Purple always denied it ! Some 60/70ies specialists i know are shure that it is Deep Purple, but i don't think it's true, but after all i don't have the slightest idea.
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Some of the heavier Amon Düül II stuff is really good as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21tzc4GI3wc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCStedI ... re=related

Don't know if you can call it 'proto-metal' but it definitely has a doomy vibe.


@Nightsblood:
In the 'insane ebay auctions' thread you said you didn't know anything about krautrock. Well, old Amon Düül (II) is a good place to start!
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Speaking of Amon Duul II. Phallus Dei, Yeti and Tanz Der Lemminge are absolutely killer albums. Overwhelming ... like being engulfed by an invisible monster ...
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Noisenik wrote:Speaking of Amon Duul II. Phallus Dei, Yeti and Tanz Der Lemminge are absolutely killer albums. Overwhelming ... like being engulfed by an invisible monster ...
Amon Düül II are in my top 5 favorite bands without a doubt, but i left them off because if i put them on there'd be a slew of other krautrock i'd have to add to a list that's already too long. haha
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tomas wrote:@ tbieri:
Hell Preachers Inc. looks interesting. Could you give us some more information?

@muskeg:
Great list! But I have to admit that I don't like the Salem Mass album. Besides the first song, everything is utterly boring in my opinion.
definitely not my favorite from the list, i guess that's why it came to mind last...but i still like it for the most part.
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There is a ton of stuff I foolishly forgot to add..but everyone else has pretty much added it in. I will however say that the Swedish band November needs to be included.
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