TCCDM Pulls One Out..."The Gospel According To Zeus" - Power Of Zeus (1970 - Rei 2019)

"The Gospel According To Zeus" - Power Of Zeus (1970 - Rei 2019)

There must be something in the Detroit water that makes so many good bands wanna blow your house down.  This time it's the heavy, hard rock sounds from...Power Of Zeus.   Recording just one album, "The Gospel According To Zeus"...PoZ delivers a square that holds up nicely alongside other, better-known bands from the same era.  I'm thinking, maybe, early Heep or Purple.  However, the Power Of Zeus has its own way to dance.

The obscure band has tasty Hammond and riffing guitars all over the album with psych and prog ideas dropping in and out in pleasant doses.  Even dips of doom sneak into the mix with attacking drums to push everything forward.  A bridge into the 70s is being crossed right before your ears.  Not everything is absolute first-string, but the stuff that's good is very good.  Surprisingly a few rap artists, including Eminem and Jay-Z, have sampled the chili.

"The Gospel According To Zeus" - Power Of Zeus (back)

Favorites include...the gloom and psych-infested epic..."The Sorcerer Of Isis (The Ritual of the Mole)."  It has a nice jam break and a spooky funk-driven vibe.  "In the Night" has a strange ominous vibe not unlike what BOC would later sharpen their teeth on.  The opener "It Couldn't Be Me" is a nice heavy psych rock 'how-do-ya-do?'.  Good stuff.

Power of Zeus was an Amazon purchase I made after watching one of "Matt Sands and The Psych Professor's" end-of-year Top Ten finds on Youtube.  Online purchases are not as much fun as finding one in the wild, but you do what you have to do.  My copy is a 2019 reissue on heavy wax and half-speed mastered at Abbey Road.  It was an RSD release and I think I spent $27 shipped. The record arrived safe, sound, and packaged as it should be.  (I mention this because I've read recently some are receiving their vinyl orders from Amazon shipped in a paper bag!)

Hype Sticker

Rare Earth label

CAT #
RS-516
SIDE A  DEADWAX
B1 494X0-07  A^  MILES . ABBEY ROAD ½ SPEED-ROOM 30.  
SIDE B  DEADWAX
B1 494X0-07  B^  MILES . ABBEY ROAD ½ SPEED. ROOM 30.

"It Couldn't Be Me" - Power Of Zeus / "The Gospel According To Zeus" (1970)

TRACKS:
A1  "It Couldn't Be Me" 3:53
A2  "In The Night" 3:56
A3  "Green Grass And Clover" 3:10
A4  "I Lost My Love" 2:12
A5  "The Death Trip" 7:40
B1  "No Time" 3:26
B2  "Uncertain Destination" 4:55
B3  "Realization" 2:49
B4  "Hard Working Man" 2:15
B5  "The Sorcerer Of Isis (The Ritual Of The Mole)" 5:48

PERSONNEL:
Joe Periano - vocals, guitar
Bill Jones - bass, vocals
Dennie Webber - Hammond organ, harpsichord, piano
Bob Michalski - drums, b-vocals

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