Saturday, 14 January 2012

Iron Claw - Selftitled (Rare Unreleased Scottish Hardrock 1970-74)


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Official release of early 70s Scottish underground heavy rock recordings from this group who were stomping around the UK with the likes of Black Sabbath, Hackensack, Pink Fairies, Juicy Lucy and others from the time, but never released a proper album. Their name, Iron Claw, was taken from the first line in King Crimson's song "21st Century Schizoid Man".

In the beginning, Iron Claw probably became the world's first Black Sabbath tribute band, as they incorporated the entire first Black Sabbath LP and single into their set! As they went on, their live sets included many originals as well as covers such as War Pigs, Fairies Wear Boots, Wicked World, Green Manalishi and Lady Whisky. This collection of sixteen original studio tracks documents their existence from 1970 thru 1974 and features a wonderful 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes, lyrics and photos!

Hard riffing from Scotland's Iron Claw -- heady stuff from the early Sabbath school -- with a fuzzier, looser sound! Fierce stuff from the group's studio sessions of the early-to-mid 70s, meaty, darkness tinged riff rock that's been long buried for far too long! Titles include "Clawstrophobia", "Mist Eye", "Sabotage", "Crossrocker", "Skullkrusher", "Let It Grow", "Rock Bank Blues", "Lightning", "Knock Em Dead", "Devils" and more.

01) Clawstrophobia
02) Mist Eye
03) Sabotage
04) Crossrocker
05) Skullcrusher
06) Let It Grow
07) Rock Band Blues
08) Pavement Artist
09) Strait Jacket
10) Take Me Back
11) Loving You
12) Lightning
13) All I Really Need
14) Knock 'Em Dead
15) Winter
16) Devils

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4 comments:

Thumper44 said...

Good album, very Black Sabbath in places.
Thanks.

Heavybreizhad said...

very good. Thanks

Anonymous said...

loving these 68 -73 rock/prog albums great thing is you can get them on reissue vinyl now!

The Italian Job said...

Chris, I got this from a previous posting and I forgot how good this is. Anyone who likes hard rock must have this. Thanks for all you're hard work man!!!