SIR LORD BALTIMORE — Kingdom Come (review)

SIR LORD BALTIMORE — Kingdom Come album cover Album · 1970 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Unitron
Perhaps the first album to be described as a heavy metal album, it comes as no surprise, as Sir Lord Baltimore's debut of Kingdom Come is a roaring shredfest that sounds closer to what's known as the classic metal sound than many of their contemporaries.

The first thing that caught me when I first heard this album was just how much fucking energy is just bursting out of the speakers. It's like these guys just had a bunch of built up energy inside waiting to unleash itself in the form of spastic and driving heavy metal. Apart from the medieval break of Lake Isle of Innersfree and the title track, which is closer to lumbering doom, this is just pure energetic metal. Hard Rain Fallin', Pumped Up, and Hell Hound especially are absolutely infectious in their delivery. They're raucous and raw, switching between distorted crunch and screeches with attitude, with vocal expressions of so much personality and thunderous drums going off like crazy.

It's a hard choice between this and Deep Purple's In Rock as my favorite metal album of 1970, this album just has so much exuberance and pure joy in playing expressed. Crazy album, in all the right ways.
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