MAY BLITZ — May Blitz (review)

MAY BLITZ — May Blitz album cover Album · 1970 · Proto-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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From the stable of Vertigo Records who had Black Sabbath, Juicy Lucy and Uriah Heep just release thier debuts May Blitz was next in line halfway through 1970 with Tony Newman on drums from the Jeff Beck Group on the recording of Beck-ola and two Canadians from Vancouver Island, guitarist/vocalist James Black and bassist Reid Hudson who tripped and smoked thier way over to the UK looking for "stardom".

The vibe of this freaked-out psych proto heaviness of the album is captured on the opening track, "Smoking The Day Away",a haunting, massive doom down pour with a roach blues riff and a acidic solo with drums and the boom bass smoldering and bubbling below and connecting with nature chemically."I Don't Know" is a fusion of boggy blues smacked out with psych and eventually jacks up the juice of a jazz fusion firing together in unison. "Dreaming" is a cool, laid back body stone of a number.

Side two starts out with "Squeet" all over the wall..." One can only imagine where and when these lyrics came from as this track is all about heavy, a psych/blues twisted with a jazzy jam as "Tomorrow May Come" slows down the palpitations only to be ripped out of your mellow state from the "Fire Queen", which places one in pure protoness prison to finding yourself washed up on the stoned shore with "Virgin Waters".

One of the top five proto-metal releases of 1970 and essential of the genre. A stone slab of heaviness.
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