ANGEL - Angel / Helluva Band (2CD) - UK BGO - LISTEN

The first two, superb and at the same time by far the best albums in the career of this once quite popular American band (discovered by Gene Simmons of Kiss) playing a combination of hard and progressive rock (with a pinch of glam). The first, in my opinion stunning (!) hard-progressive album resembled the work of early Rush (and a beefed-up Pavlov's Dog), Led Zeppelin of the time and Genesis (from the period of A Trick Of The Tail) and actually contains no weak spots! Very catchy, riffing compositions, rocking guitars, nice, very dense keyboard parts (mellotron, Moog, organ) - you cannot tear yourself away! One of the 3-5 coolest American albums of the mid-70s! The second LP (from 1976) was in a very similar and even slightly more hard-rock style. Please do not look at the smoothed-out image (supposedly in opposition to Kiss), just buy this record! An absolute must!