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Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come



7.8 | 44 votes |
Release date: December 1970
Style: Hard rock, Heavy metal

Owners:

42 have it
10 want it


01. Master Heartache
02. Hard Rain Fallin'
03. Lady Of Fire
04. Lake Isle Of Innersfree
05. Pumped Up
06. Kingdom Come
07. I Got A Woman
08. Hell Hound
09. Helium Head (I Got A Love)
10. Ain't Got Hung On You

Top 20 albums of 1970: 8

21.12.2020
With 1970 being such a landmark year zero for metal, it's easy to forget that there were other pioneers besides the likes of Black Sabbath or Deep Purple. Released roughly 50 years ago this month, Sir Lord Baltimore's Kingdom Come is an album so heavy and energetic that it really feels like the early 70s didn't have the means to properly capture all that on wax just yet. Though they toured with Black Sabbath and were one of the first bands to get coined as "heavy metal" by journalists, a combination of poor album sales, personal differences, and drug abuse led to the band's early demise, though it's also that they were just too ahead of their time. Even though two of the three members having passed away, while the other remained in obscurity, the direct or indirect influence that Kingdom Come, and its more psychedelic follow-up Sir Lord Baltimore, had on heavy guitar music is something that lives on.

Here's some more unpicked year zero stuff: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

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29.09.2014 - 04:16
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
Written by Guest on 28.09.2014 at 23:31

The very first heavy metal album

YA NO.
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I do your mum

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28.02.2017 - 12:09
qlacs
"The Quaker"
Written by Boxcar Willy on 29.09.2014 at 04:16

Written by Guest on 28.09.2014 at 23:31

The very first heavy metal album

YA NO.


Well it's the closest to heavy metal one could probably hear in '70. The guitar tone is real heavy. Though that's just based on what I heard so far.
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26.12.2020 - 20:17
Rating: 9
Ansercanagicus
endangered bird
Great staff pick, this album is indeed very good
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