GRAVEDIGGER

• Red Sun Gravedigger, 1972
• Babi-Yar Journey, 1991
• If I'd Listened Journey, 1991
• Into The Light Innocence, 1993
• Gravedigger II Innocence, 1993
• Young Albert Freefall, 1994
• Abo Habit Freefall, 1994
• Agnus Dei 2000 Angus Dei 2000, 1998
• Another Day Angus Dei 2000, 1998
• Slave Girl And Owner Sea Of Sighs, 2002
• Great Uncle Joe Sea Of Sighs, 2002

Gravedigger by Janus finds the band playing in a psyche-tinged style of early progressive rock still entangled in the genre's roots in the 1960s underground - and emerged just as that style of prog was going out of fashion, to the band's misfortune. It's an enjoyable enough album if you like the early prog style - dramatic opener Red Sun is a particular favourite of mine - though I wouldn't say it's solid all the way through; in particular, the brash introduction to Watcha Trying to Do?, aside from being irritating, is also tonally inconsistent with the rest of the album - it feels like someone else's song parachuted into the middle of the running order.

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Posted Friday, April 12, 2013

A Progrock Time Capsule It is even as if this obscure relic from 1972 was destined to become ressurected. Crucified from the beginning by short-sighted record execs who dubbed the band with the tonque-in-cheek name Janus, after the mythical Roman God of beginnings and endings who is usually repr ... (read more)

Report this review (#269164) | Posted by Vibrationbaby | Monday, March 01, 2010 | Review Permanlink

I'm stunned that no one has critiqued this album ahead of me. Wow..... I know several people who have it, and it's a cherished item among all of us. The band hails from the U.K., but did their recording in Germany. Hmmmm.....that's a common point with another Brit band who had to leave the U.K. ... (read more)

Report this review (#184639) | Posted by beebs | Friday, October 03, 2008 | Review Permanlink

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