28012014 - Wicked Lady "Psychotic Overkill"

Another day, another obscure psych rock revelation! How obscure is this? It's so obscure the band don't even have a Wikipedia entry! There is, however, a Black Sabbath link in here somewhere, but I shall leave it to the archeologists amongst you to look up that one... Apart from a rather unnecessary version of "Voodoo Chile", the tracks on their second and last album are really great and the riffapalooza on the remaining six songs, including the epic 22 minute long album closer "Ship of Ghosts", should please all fans of fuzz and lovers of loudness! Great tunes, brilliant musicianship and enough heaviness for this 1972 release to qualify as proper proto-metal! I am going to check out their first album, "The Axeman Cometh" right away! Oh, did I mention that Wicked Lady was another power trio? Yeah - sometimes you can have it all!