Deep Purple in Rock (25th Anniversary, UK, Import, Original Recording Remastered)

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This album deserves recognition for the way its stunning power, volume and energy completely blew away practically anything people had heard at the time, and perhaps even moreso that you can play it to modern metal/hard rock fans and they will often be blown away by the same qualities. Superb, musical performances all round from perhaps the highest quality hard rock band ever. Combining monster riffs, insane solos, and musical passages, In Rock gets closer to Deep Purple's live, raw sound than any of their others. In my mind this makes it Deep Purple's best studio album.

Into the Fire and Bloodsucker are big as a house and showed many groups the way to Metal.

Speed King, Child in Time, Flight of the Rat and Hard Lovin' Man are superb adrenaline-fuelled bouts of hard rock/rock 'n' roll on speed.

Living Wreck is lighter than the others, but really grooves, and still hold power.

No weak tracks, plenty of variety within the album, and yet it seriously ROCKS throughout.

If you really like this, and want to hear more of Deep Purple from this era, look out for 'Live in Stockholm', for similar tunes, but further soloing and Deep Purple character