DEEP PURPLE — Stormbringer (review)

DEEP PURPLE — Stormbringer album cover Album · 1974 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
SouthSideoftheSky
Hold on!

This is the second Deep Purple album since David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes joined the band and Stormbringer follows closely the formula established by Burn. Indeed, there is not much difference between the two albums in style. The respective title tracks open the respective albums, and they fill the same roles and are among the best songs on these two albums. Stormbringer too has a great guitar solo, but the interesting Neo-Classical interplay between Blackmore and Lord that made the title track on Burn so exciting is sadly absent in Stormbringer. But like on the Burn album, the majority of the rest of the album is occupied with funky Blues rockers of varying quality. If you love Burn, Stormbringer is surely a good addition to your collection. But for many of us this is far from essential. When listening to these albums, I’m often tempted to think that they could have made a much better album had they taken the best songs from each and combined it into a single album. But as they now stand, they are not very strong efforts despite some good moments on each.

The real standout for me here is the delightful acoustic ballad Soldier Of Fortune that closes the album (a side note: Ritchie still plays this lovely song live in Blackmore's Night. Candice, his wife, sings it beautifully!). What we find in between the opening title track and the closer is however rather weak material. These songs are much closer in nature to what Coverdale would go on to do with Whitesnake than with what Richie would do with Rainbow. This means rather standard, generic Blues rockers often with sleazy and even sometimes chauvinistic lyrics! The Gypsy is, however, a decent song.

Hardly Deep Purple’s finest moment
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