Icecross - Icecross CD

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Icecross - Icecross CD. 40th anniversary first official reissue of 1973 Icelandic hard rock underground monster that's been the target of collectors for at least two decades! Carefully remastered for pristine sound that lays waste to all the bootlegs that have come before. 12-page booklet with liner notes, clippings and photographs. After several years of trying to make this happen, we are very happy to finally be able to bring you the first official reissue of this legendary gem.

Icecross possess a unique and dark sound for their time which reveals influences ranging from Sabbath to Crimson to Blue Oyster Cult and beyond all melded together in such a way to form their distinct Icecross style. Considered proto-metal by many, though they don’t achieve this with a typical smash your face approach. Instead, Icecross unleash some killer inventive guitar sounds by way of Leslie speakers combined with wild ominous bass lines, frantic drumming, spooky effected vocals and splendid use of bow to create a perfect dark heavy guitar album. One of the few, if not the only, Icelandic band inspired by Sabbath at that time. (sealed)

For fans of Leaf Hound, Blue Cheer, Elias Hulk, Iron Claw, Jerusalem, Necronomicon, Hairy Chapter, Incredible Hog, Dust, Pentagram, Flower Travellin' Band and the like.

All tracks are self-composed and sung in English:

Track Listing:

  1. Wandering Around
  2. Solution
  3. A Sad Mans Story
  4. Jesus Freaks
  5. 1999
  6. Scared
  7. Nightmare
  8. The End

 

Press:

"Their album has been legendary among collectors for years. All in all this is an album of overwhelming power with an underlying, uncomfortably penetrating coldness. Obviously one for guitar lovers or those willing to delve into the more obscure history of heavy metal"  - Scented Gardens of the Mind

 

Features

Genre:
Hard Rock
Format:
CD
Discs:
1
Manufacturer:
Rockadrome
Orig Year:
1973
Issue Date:
2013
Pressing:
Reissue
Country of Origin:
Iceland
Made In:
USA

Reviews

If you read the description and expected to hear an Lp with heavy guitar riffs, sorry you'll not find it here. There's nothing really heavy about this Lp. You do get high pitched lead guitar solos that sound very much the same throughout the Lp. Haunting psychedelic style vocals at times, and frantic drumming from Asgeir Oskarsson. Matter of fact this is a drummer's delight of an album.
In summary this Lp does have an interesting sound. Is just that it wasn't what I expected. I thought I was going to get more Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, & Budgie style guitar riffs.
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