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Raging Silence

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I can live in '72 forever and I will... this ain't Heep, this is swill! Catch 'Sweet Freedom' for the best of the best of Uriah Heep (other than the BONUS TRACK which could have gone by the wayside.) "Return to Fantasy" is a heart throb of an album. "Magician's Birthday" has some stellar tunes. The only album worse than this one is the superdud "Equinox".

Got this in the bargain bin after purchasing Salisbury. Couldn't believe it was the same group.

How the mighty have fallen. This one is simply awful. It originally came out in 1990, and has been described as a Bon Jovi soundalike. I wouldn't even be that generous with this album. If it deserves comparison to anything, it is to what the Christian band Petra was doing around the same time - same lame attempts at social commentary in the lyrics, same limp, going-through-the-motions "hard" rock, same hoarse grade-B vocals that suggest Bruce Springsteen trying to sound like Steve Perry, same unimaginative compositions that merely recycle what was being played on the hair metal stations at the time. The album cover and title are both blatant copies of Manfred Mann's 1976 album _Roaring Silence_. A waste of money, unless you think Petra's _This Means War_ was the pinnacle of rock.