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Album of the day: Armageddon – S/T

Posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009

Armageddon - Armageddon

Armageddon - Armageddon

Lovingly stolen from our friends at Aquarius Records / San Francisco:  A few things you might want to know about Armageddon (this band / album, not the Biblical battlefield of the Apocalypse described in the Book Of Revelations, and presumably depicted on the album cover, with the longhaired band lounging about smoking cigarettes in the foreground):

1. Despite the name, it’s not a really heavy metal. Recorded in 1974, you could certainly call it “proto-metal”, though, as well as “heavy progressive”.

2. Don’t confuse ‘em with the other proto-metal band with more-or-less the same name. That band spells their name with two g’s and one d.
This band spells their name with one g and two d’s. That Armaggedon were from Germany’s krautrock scene, this Armageddon were a UK-USA sorta supergroup.

3. Their singer was Keith Relf, originally of The Yardbirds and later Renaissance, and this was his last recorded project before his tragic death from electrocution whilst practicing guitar in ‘76.

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