 genre: heavy country: germany quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans) time: 37'02" size: 233 mb misc.: 1991
Cosmic Dreams: Why didn't this group record more than just one album? Their self-titled album is a
heavy progressive masterpiece with excellent, Hendrix-influenced guitar work and vocals
by Frank Diez. Armageddon was the start of his long and impressive career. Their
album had six tracks, and two of them were cover versions. Most impressive was the 10
minute version of Jeff Beck Group's "Rice Pudding". This track had some of the
greatest heavy guitar riffing to appear on a German record. Their version of Spooky
Tooth's "Better By You, Better Than Me" was also competent enough. In addition, both
Frank Diez and Manfred Galatik wrote great songs, as typified by the tracks "People
Talking" and "Open". Michael Nurnberg and Jurgen Lorenzen provided a strong backing.
Armageddon's album has rocketed in price during recent years, due to the ever increasing
interest. However, demand for the group was poor way back in 1970, and Armaggedon soon
broke up. Diez never played material with a similar energy again, his next step was
to join the 'slightly-above-average' jazz-rockers
Emergency. Luckily
the Armaggedon album was released on CD in 1991 with a sharp and clean digitally
remastered sound (in a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies)
01. Round 4:12
02. Open 7:31
03. Oh Man 6:01
04. Rice Pudding 9:40
05. People Talking 5:02
06. Better By You, Better Than Me 4:36
Frank Diez (lead guitar, vocals)
Manfred Galatik (electric piano, bass, vocals)
Michael Nürnberg (bass, rhythm guitar)
Jürgen Lorenzen (drums) depositfiles: p1, p2 = sharingmatrix: p1, p2 |
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