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Rainbow's 'Rising' (1976) - Full Album Review of this Metal classic!
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In another Classic Albums Review, Daria & Laz delve deep into Rainbow’s second album, ‘Rising’. This album would prove to other bands that Metal could be different from what they were used to in the mid-70s and, arguably, was one of the first Power Metal albums - incorporating keyboards, fantastical lyrics, powerful choruses and classically inspired instruments/music!
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Introduction and Overview
00:00:10
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to Minds of Metal. My name is Daria. And I'm Laz. And welcome to one of our classic album reviews. Yeah, this is the series where we take a look into the back catalogue of heavy-neckle albums and pick out and review and discuss the ones that, well, the most famous and important ones that made the genre what it is today. And today we're bringing you Rainbow Rising. Before we begin, please don't forget to like this video. It really helps us promote the channel.
00:00:39
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Album Background and Lineup
00:01:06
Speaker
OK, so why don't you give us some quick facts about the album? Right, so the album was released 17th of May, 1976. It was recorded a few months before in February of 1976. It was produced by Martin Birch, who's also produced some Deep Purple albums. And the album, Rising, comes in at 33 and a half minutes, which is rather short, isn't it? Yeah, very much so. Now, something different from this album to the previous Rainbow album. The previous Rainbow album was called Richie Blackmore's Rainbow.
00:01:34
Speaker
But after that, I'm going into this album. Richie Blackmore only kept Ronnie James Dio from that previous band. He then invited, who is it, Jimmy Bain on bass, Tony Carey on keyboards and Cozy Power On drums for the newly formed Rainbow.
Track Analysis: Tarot Woman to Starstruck
00:01:51
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OK, so track one is called Tarot Woman.
00:01:56
Speaker
And I just love it. Okay. I am very biased here because I love Dio. Absolutely. Just so much for my heart. He is one of my biggest vocal inspirations. One of the best I've ever done in rock music. Yeah, I do think so. And I just love that they start the song with the keys. Yeah. You know, it's so interesting to hear and imagine like if you were
00:02:23
Speaker
listening to it in 1976, you'd be like, oh. Yeah, hearing futuristic keyboards, you know, synth sounding keyboards are just providing this new atmosphere, really, because you're hearing it and you're thinking, well, this is completely different. And as Dash said, from 1976, this is quite a unique and different way to open a head metal album.
00:02:43
Speaker
The thing I loved about Tarah Woman is that I love the upbeat feel to it. It really gives me like a proto Iron Maiden vibe. And I really hear these rhythms come in and that's the one thing I think Richie Blackmore and the band nail in this album.
00:03:02
Speaker
We'll get into it later, but for all intents and purposes, I think the first half of the album is a hard rock album with metal characteristics, and the second half is metal music. But I think it's the likes of these rhythms that we're mentioning and talking about, which is what accentuates the metal feel to the first half of this album. Yeah, absolutely. And you actually already mentioned Diane Maiden, and I was going to say that I can really see Steve Harris taking a lot of inspiration for his songwriting for Maiden.
00:03:30
Speaker
That's right. And obviously I made informed the year before this album came out and they were writing music and preparing. So yeah, for the first album, which was 1980, wasn't it? So there you go. So the second song is called Run With The Wolf, which I think is really cool. I enjoy this one. It's got those heavy beats. And the rhythm section is really holding it down, keeping it nice and heavy. The guitar riff is kind of like a hard rock, kind of classic rock kind of guitar riff.
00:03:59
Speaker
Got a little bit of bluesy influence there, isn't there? Just a little bit here and there. What I love about this song is the drum fills, cosy-pal filling of a whole way through it. And again, I love that this is, for me, characteristic of heavy metal. I know there are drum fills in rock music, but I feel like, especially with this album, individual performance is a key to this album. You've got cosy-pal doing the drum fills in this song, and we'll get to some other solos later.
00:04:24
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Yeah, and you know, it reminds me of like this continuous kind of rock jam. Yeah. And you want to groove with it. It's like, it's the vibe, you know, I really like that vibe. And vocal harmonies for the whole album, actually. Is he harmonizing with himself? I think so. I really love it. Who would you rather harmonize with? If you do, I'd just do it myself. And what's really interesting is that, I mean, pretty much all the songs on the album, including Run With The Wolf,
00:04:54
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End with a fade out. Yeah. Yeah, they do actually. It's very, I think that's quite, I don't know what that was. I mean, I know fade outs were loved in the eighties and nineties. They use them quite a lot, but maybe, um, I don't really know what they were like in the seventies if they did a lot of them. Let us know in the comments, if you know, if you found a pattern of fade outs happening in the seventies. Um, but yeah, no, it's quite interesting as well. And I think for most of the songs, it works. Yeah, I think there's a couple, maybe you could have made written an ending, but I love how they all fade out because it's just like
Track Analysis: Do You Close Your Eyes and Stargazer
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one track.
00:05:22
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I'll be done with this one. And here's the next one. I'll be done with that one. I like it. I like it a lot. I like it a lot. Leave it in. Why not? So from that, we will go to track three, which is called Starstruck. This is the dumb and dumber reference for anyone that got it. So the Starstruck one. What I like about this is that the guitar riff feels
00:05:54
Speaker
Feels hard rocky, classic rocky, maybe even you could use the word blues. I don't want to use that word because it's not the blues, the blue notes are not there. You're not hearing the blues and blue notes, blue scales, blues progressions, but it does kind of feel that way with the licks he's playing. It's the groove of it. I think so. But the bass and drums are keeping it heavy. And that's what I like. Yep. And again, I really like the fact that Keys in this album and in this song actually,
00:06:21
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they play a huge part very important role and we can hear like even I think it's like an inharmonizing like dual something like yeah it's it's cool it's really great to listen to I don't know I really enjoy that I thought that this one out of all of the tracks on this album this one could most be a Deep Purple song
00:06:44
Speaker
As you can hear, I can hear this somewhere on a Deep Purple album, which I thought it's called. But then again, it's obvious because you've got the Richie Blackmore influence coming in. And I think actually talking about the next track, which is Do You Close Your Eyes, it's continuing that vibe, isn't it? Yeah. With Do You Close Your Eyes, that's a tongue twister, I can say that. Do You Close Your Eyes, Do You Close Your Eyes. No, we put the with in front. With Do You Close Your Eyes. With Do You Close Your Eyes, with Do You Close Your Eyes.
00:07:13
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with do you close your eyes sorry guys i i i heard a big influence for example of this glam metal stuff death leopard kind of like a bit of motley crew just accessible yeah accessible nice choruses
00:07:32
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but it is heavy as well in its place. You know, like I said before, I feel like these first four songs are kind of hard rock songs with metal characteristics slash influences. But yeah, what do you think about this one? I think it's just continuing the same vibe. So I don't really have much to say about it. Like you've said it all really. So I mean, can we just go to Stargazer, please? Yeah. Can we please talk about Stargazer? I love that song so much. It's probably one of the
00:08:01
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First songs I learned, like rock songs, to sing when I started singing rock and metal.
00:08:08
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And I think it's just obviously we can't ignore the vocals. It's all centered around the vocals here. It's the epic deal performance. It's just a huge track. How famous is it? It's like it's still out there, isn't it? Yeah, but I think it should be more famous. I think this is one of the most important heavy metal tracks of all time because this was one of the tracks where one of the first
00:08:35
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track like these hard rock heavy metal tracks where it's eight and a half minutes long. This gave bands like Iron Maiden the license to go on and write eight, nine, ten minute songs and it's because guys like Blackmore and Dio and the rest of the band said, well, screw, we'll try, you know, we'll have a go at it. And I think the keys and guitar parts, you know how it's not at the background, it is very much around the vocals as well, but
00:09:03
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It's so important, like I really listened to it yesterday properly, although I listen to this song sometimes, but I listen to it focusing on the guitars and the instrumentation and all the scales that the keys play and the guitars. It's like this Mid-Eastern vibes. It's just so interesting, so intricate and actually quite complicated.
00:09:28
Speaker
Well, there's a great point he makes and it's worth coming on to the next section, which is talking about classical music, which I didn't think, you guys didn't think we'd do that, did you? But classical music has a huge part to play in heavy metal and I'll explain why.
00:09:43
Speaker
the end of the 60s going into the 70s you've got progressive rock happening, you've got bands like Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Genesis and Yes doing their stuff. Now what they are is they're a rock band with classical music influenced. Keith Emerson from Emerson, Lake and Palmer, he was a classical piano player, listened to any of their tracks and you'll hear the classicalness in his playing. Now after those bands kind of
00:10:06
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got bigger and sort of became more
Classical Influences and Fantasy Themes
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prominent in the rock world, Richie Blackmore has this fascination with neoclassical compositions, which is basically like Dash said, using these odd scales that you wouldn't normally hear in rock and applying it to his rock music. You can hear this in Stargazer.
00:10:24
Speaker
The solo he plays after the second verse is in B Phrygian Dominant. I knew it was Phrygian. We don't need to explain what it is. It's just another scale that's not normal. You normally hear major scales, minor scales, blues scales, pentatonics. These are odd scales. We're not going to go into the... Please let's not, because it's pain of my uni life. It's tough to understand, unless you're a guitarist, you can fully picture all the notes.
00:10:52
Speaker
Why this is important is because this is where I feel the album turns into a heavy metal album, an out and out heavy metal album. Because a number of critics, most notably a gentleman, a Canadian journalist called Martin Popov, one of his definitions of metal is that heavy metal began when you take the blues out of rock. And then the part I'm adding to this is when you add classical in.
00:11:20
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because don't forget the year before you've got Zeppelin doing physical graffiti and whilst that album is just a rock album you can still hear Zeppelin's influence from the blues coming in there's a number of songs which have some bluesy progressions bluesy tones bluesy rhythms whereas Rainbow on the other side they removed that blues just like Sabbath did just like Atomic Rooster did you know Uriah Hebe all these bands they took the blues out of their music and that's what makes it metal
00:11:47
Speaker
But the part I like is that Blackmore took the classical in. Yeah, because of the strings in the end. The strings in the end, but more appropriately, like you said, the scales, the solos throughout the whole of Stargazer.
00:12:02
Speaker
They're not bluesy solos, which is not, if you listen to a Jimmy Page solo, quite bluesy, whereas check out a Richie Blackmore solo, way more classically inspired. I mean, I read something yesterday that the Smoke on the Water riff by Deep Purple is like a melody from one of Mozart's symphonies reversed or something like that.
00:12:23
Speaker
Richie Blackmore was hugely into his classical music and you can hear it in such a fantastic way because what you're hearing, I'll put it very simply, what you're hearing in his guitar playing and what's he called, Tony Carey's keyboard playing is classical melodies, notes, scales, arpeggios, whatever. You're hearing it in a rock band format.
00:12:45
Speaker
Yeah, sorry, I'm just trying to reverse smoke in the water and my head's singing back. I know, we'll be forever trying
Impact on Metal Genre and Power Metal Origins
00:12:55
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to figure out which moments I seem to be came from. But you know, it's really interesting. I have to, I really have to check that out. But yeah, I love the string section and you know, it just brings that epicness into it. I mean, it was already epic, like it needed to be more epic. It really didn't, but it just brings even more and you're like,
00:13:15
Speaker
Well, the thing about adding that, so that was the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra for anyone that doesn't know. This then opens up another can of worms of this album, which is that this actually could be considered. Actually, I'm not going to say the whole album. I'm going to say the two tracks, Stargazer and A Light in the Black. These tracks could be considered the founding fathers of Power Metal. Oh, I could see that. Yeah, definitely. Why didn't you explain what Power Metal is? So Power Metal is
00:13:45
Speaker
Traditional metal elements played faster with a with in some cases a symphonic element So like the classical orchestra traditional metal elements being Well stuff that Sabbath would play heaviness do me no blues. Yeah, you know Sorry, check out our episode on black Sabbath album because we did the paranoid
00:14:09
Speaker
Overall, it's a lighter, faster, more uplifting feel. There's a song called Through the Fire and Flames by a band called Dragon Force. And people will have a go at me because that shouldn't be the number one power metal song, but it's the number one that comes when I think about it. And you listen to it and you want to smile that there is a positivity to it. There is a happiness. It sounds nice to listen to, but it's still heavy, fast metal.
00:14:37
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and that's what the power metal side of this is. Anthenic choruses, faster playing, fantasy subject matter, now that's a huge big deal. This album, I don't wanna, hold on, we'll go back to that, I don't wanna say too much. We will talk about lyrics as well. Like I said, the lighter, faster, more uplifted feel, but with still heaviness in the instruments and the rhythms and dissonance in the chords and harmonies, because it's heavy metal. Yeah, and do you know what I think you mean by saying that it's happier?
00:15:07
Speaker
I think you mean it's like, it's empowering. It's like, you look, you wanna go like, hell yeah. No, no, I mean that it's nice to listen to. Listen to the first song of Black Sabbath's first album and it's like, oh, this is nice to listen to. Whereas the other ones, that Dragon Force one is the best example because you listen to it. It's heavy, it's fast, it's speedy, it's full of solos, but it's nice to listen to, it's pleasant. You can sit, you can put on that Dragon Force song with your family around and they'll be like, oh, this isn't too
A Light in the Black and Instrumental Complexity
00:15:34
Speaker
bad. Family gathering. Whereas you couldn't put Sabbath on, if you know what I mean.
00:15:37
Speaker
Yeah, I see what you're saying now, I do. I kind of thought that you went in another direction there, but no you didn't, okay. Okay, the thing I mentioned before that we'll get back to is the lyrics. Do you want to talk about the lyrics of Starlaser? Oh yeah, it's like about a wizard who... there's something about a tower.
00:15:56
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built, like there was a tower being built. Yeah, so he enslaved several humans, or several, a bunch of humans to build this tower for him so that he could get closer to the stars. And it's an odd thing, maybe Dio did write them, but what's important is the fantasy element of it, and you've got it throughout the whole album.
00:16:17
Speaker
A tarot woman is a woman who reads cards to determine your future. Run with the wolf. You know, I don't literally think he means go to bloody Siberia and run with the wolf. I think he means a mystical wolf, a fantastical wolf. A light in the black will get there, but that is a sequel to Stargazer. It's a song written from the point of view of the humans after the wizard fell. Sorry, spoiler alert.
00:16:44
Speaker
The wizard fell and what I like in the black lyrically concerns what the humans did after he fell. And another fade out, can they just say that? Another fade out, yeah. But it's really important in those lyrics because it signifies, and check this out, this is going to make me laugh. This signifies the beginning, so I've read, of castle metal.
00:17:06
Speaker
What's castle mental? I think it means like the fantasy, the medieval side, castles and dragons and everything. I don't like it. I'm not going to use that term, but I like that someone sort of saw that and attributed these lyrics to being the beginning of castles. I mean, I just, I sometimes get completely lost in all these genres, the sub-genres that we have. We're not going to use castle mental. It's just a little bit much, guys. It's just a bit much.
00:17:36
Speaker
Other parts about stargazing, let's see what I've got. Again, just the classically influenced solos. You can hear it there. There's not a single ounce of bluesiness in that. It's classically inspired. Very complex instrumentally and musically. Hits in the post chorus, the length of the instrumental, some of the odd chords being used. And this is what I'm talking about, the influence that classical music had on prog rock. And now prog rock is having on the likes of
00:18:04
Speaker
Well, we'll call it metal because of Rainbow. I imagine Ritchie Blackmore looking at the bands like Emerson, Lake and Palmer and yes, and saying, well, let's make our songs longer. Let's put lengthier instrumental sections in our songs. Why not? And because we've got the perfect example here with the two last songs of the albums. Yep. So we'll talk about Alliance in the Black. Do you have anything else? No, I just thought the rhythms, yeah, Stargazer, both one of our favorite songs of all time. And like I said, I think
00:18:33
Speaker
I would I would genuinely consider putting it in the top 10 or 20 most important heavy metal songs of all time. Another, so this is my point is this is why I've got a lot to say. The rhythms throughout are very, very heavy. Yeah. The whole of the verse. Then the pre-chorus.
00:18:59
Speaker
is your star and then everything chorus the bass during the guitar solo just this constant heaviness rhythmically being delivered yeah the only other thing i had to add about this song was the keyboard you mentioned it in tarot woman is that the keyboard plays a huge part forget the soloing listen to the keyboard in the pre-chorus it's just sat at the back playing one or two notes in a very sort of
00:19:22
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It's almost like harmonizing Dio's melody, not properly, but just a little bit. And I just think it's fantastic because it adds such atmosphere, such another texture, another layer. It's almost like if the keyboard was removed, I consider calling this a rock song. But for that pre-chorus, I think it just adds so much in that section. It does. It does. A lot of songs.
00:19:44
Speaker
I get goosebumps every time because I think of that ending where he's just vamping, you know, to see him fly. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, coming home. You want to just be like, yeah, my eyes are bleeding. Let's stop starting the next. We can go on and on about that game, though, really.
00:20:16
Speaker
Final track. Lights in the Black. A Lights in the Black, yeah fantastic. Another one and I think it's fantastic because it does, it is a sequel lyrically and I also think musically. Musically as well. It's a different song but it's still sort of connected. You know, can I just say here about Dio, okay? I think it's just sort of, it's a great place to sum up his vocal performance just on this album because
00:20:45
Speaker
You've heard it all. And it's very conversational phrasing because he is telling us a story with these awesome bells. So there's this kind of storytelling and these bells, you know.
00:20:59
Speaker
And all of that, together with his gritty, rawness, like this vocal, it's really, it's really raw, I think, and powerful. And he's, you know, where his diction is amazing, okay? This is the problem with today's singers, okay? Can't understand a word, okay? You can follow the story. But you don't mean screaming and shouting. You mean singing. No, no, no. I mean, actually like articulating the words. Yeah. It's so proper. And this is where his classical, like what you said, operatic influence coming in,
00:21:29
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100% you can really follow the story you don't need to really even like get the lyrics up you can hear everything he's singing absolutely and i think that lends itself to this sorry i think this lends itself to this castle because it's like he's trying to tell a story so you've got to narrate the story properly you can't tell a story and not understand half of the words they're saying it's got and he's just perfect like honestly and this is probably my favorite performance of his um stargazer and a light in the black yeah and uh
00:21:59
Speaker
Did you go with the blind black? I was just gonna talk about the crazy key solo. Okay, go for it. But yeah, what do you think about it? I just feel like it's just going completely just nuts. Yeah, well, again, I think I hear loads of classical melodies in there. It's classically inspired. And it is crazy. And I think what I really like that's another
00:22:23
Speaker
signature heavy metal characteristic that could have been started with this album or you know in and around this is the dual lead instruments. Thin Lizzy was so famous for doing this way early on in their career and then that manifested into metal doing it and it's two guitars playing the same line but one may be harmonizing the other or maybe not maybe playing in unison. We've got it
00:22:46
Speaker
after the keyboard solo you've got the keys and guitar sharing a melody after the guitar solo you've got the guitar and the keys sorry then you've got two guitars and then after that you've got keys and a guitar and i love the dual lead it's called dual lead
00:23:02
Speaker
Well, it's normally guitar, so you'd say dual lead guitar. We'll call it dual lead instruments, which is where they're just doubling the melodies. The bass and the drums are keeping the rhythm really nice and tight whilst the lead instruments, the melodic instruments, minus the vocals, are just playing these melodies but harmonizing it on top.
Legacy and Influence on Future Bands
00:23:19
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And I love that.
00:23:20
Speaker
And do you know what I also love? Like you said about it being a continuation of Stargazer in a way. I love that. Structuralized is actually very similar as well because we've got this midsection, you know, solo midsection going back to the verse and same happened in Stargazer. So it is a sort of a continuation of Stargazer like
00:23:40
Speaker
Yeah. What else? You mentioned the scales. You've got that weird scale at the end, which is like... Do you know what a scale that is? No, I haven't looked into it, no. I almost don't want to... I'm happy trusting Richie Blackmore.
00:23:58
Speaker
Fair enough. The only other point I had to make about this song, which is quite interesting, is the inclusion of the double bass kick drums patterns here, because this is one of the first examples where we get this
00:24:15
Speaker
on the double bass. The first example in metal or in rock I can give is Fireball by Deep Purple in 1971, then Cozy Pound doing it in this song. Just listen, where is it? It's the verses, you know, you've got some of the double stuff in the verses, but in the solo, as soon as the solo starts, Cozy Pound's there going... And that's really interesting, especially because we're seeing the innovation of double kick drumming in heavy metal and hard rock around this time.
00:24:45
Speaker
yeah and i am the queen of fade outs today there's no fade out no no but i'm happy with that because it draws it to a close i know and i'm like yeah what an end to the albums like yeah you know fade out fade out fade out no because it does feel like a journey throughout the album and we're like okay i said earlier on this journey okay we fade out start another song journey okay but then comes to a conclusive and decisive end with the light in the black
00:25:13
Speaker
Overall, it's this album feels to me like a bridge between 70s and 80s sort of thing, you know, the metal, like you said, all these influences, I can't even within this one album. Yeah. We have first half is like more hard rocky, second half is more metal. But then you could but Iron Maiden, you could you could hear where Iron Maiden got some ideas from from the first and the second half of the album.
00:25:42
Speaker
Exactly. So this is why I think it's such an important album for metal to come from the 80s onwards. You're absolutely right. So you've got to think, from 1970 to 75 you have the first wave of heavy metal. You could put British in there. The first wave of British heavy metal. Your sabbaths, your urea heaps, atomic rooster.
00:26:04
Speaker
Then from 75 to 80, you've got the second wave, which is UFO, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow. Deep Purple is somewhere. Deep Purple are more in the first one. But it's just lovely to see how we discussed it. The early Deep Purple and Sabbath, and then how Dio and Blackmore, what they did to sort of build on that from here to get to Rainbow Rising, and then what we could think the likes of Iron Maiden and Death Leopard took from Rainbow in the 80s.
00:26:32
Speaker
Yeah. But it's just fascinating. It's incredible. You know, breaking it down. This is what I mean. Like one of the goals for me personally, I'm sure you'll agree for this channel is to sort of unravel all these albums and elements of heavy metal that made it what it is actually today. And I'm just fascinated. Like I knew everything I was going to say today and like,
00:26:57
Speaker
I roughly know, because we've talked about this before, I roughly knew where you stand on this album as well. But it's just amazing to me to see how important this is. Yeah, I mean, I think it's one of those albums that goes under the radar because it wasn't, you know, you've got to think Black Sabbath released Sabotage a year before this. So what we knew Heavy Metal was,
00:27:23
Speaker
Heavy Metal was Sabbath through the 70s. Like I said, there was all those other bands who were doing bits for it. Rainbow, Lizzie, Uriah, UFO. They're all doing parts for it and putting their hat into the metal ring. But Sabbath was still the benchmark of where metal was. And this rising album sounds very different to Sabotage from Black Sabbath. But
00:27:46
Speaker
looking at what it could have done for future generations of metal is what I think you're alluding to and how important it is because you can hear bits in this album. Like I said at the start, for me the first half is like a hard rock album with some metal characteristics, whereas the second half for me is pure metal. It's just metal, yeah. Do you have anything else to add? No, I'm just processing this because it's so amazing. It's just so I didn't realise
00:28:15
Speaker
to be quite honest with you, how, how important it is. And I hope that you guys will see it after like today's episode, because yeah, I just kind of broke it all down for myself. I'll go, oh my God. Don't forget, two years after this album, Rainbow released another one called Long Live Rock and Roll, which is a great album. But two years after that in 1980, Mr. Ronnie James Dio went and joined Black Sabbath. Heaven and Hell.
00:28:40
Speaker
There's a song, that's right, yeah, there's a song called Children of the Sea on Heaven and Hell. Listen to Stargazer and then listen to Children of the Sea by Black Sabbath. And you'll hear what Dio was able to bring. And like I said, Sabbath were the benchmark of metal. So even in 1980, when Heaven and Hell came out, although Ozzy left and Dio came in, they were still what metal is.
Album Cover and Conclusion
00:29:03
Speaker
yeah so how does the biggest band on metal earth black um how does the biggest what did i say how's the biggest band on earth did i say on metal earth i can say that imagine how the biggest metal band on earth adding a classically trained singer when you've had ozzy in your band for 10 years what did that do for now
00:29:28
Speaker
That's where the lights, I think the lights of Power Metal grew because you listen to a lot of Power Metal bands and they have very symphonic, operatic singers. I mean, you know, well, let's not even go that far. Bruce Dickinson. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's just one easy example to use. Yeah. Yeah. Brilliant. Brilliant. I've got one more thing to add and that is the album cover because I think it is metal as fuck because... Oh, now you swore we have to put the E thing. That's okay.
00:29:57
Speaker
We could just blur it to the line across. A rainbow. A rainbow is not heavy metal. A rainbow is all lovely colours. Oh, when the rain falls and it's sunny, but when the rain and sun falls and the rainbow comes, oh, it's lovely. How do you turn that into like heavy metal? All you do is you get an arm crunching it surrounded by gothic
00:30:20
Speaker
fantastical mountains and skies yeah it is wicked it is i'm just i'm just again looking at i'm gonna put it on the screen so you guys can see it's not essentially almost makes the album heavier for me yeah because when i'm listening stargazer i've got the image in my head of this hand crushing a rainbow everything about this album i think it's a genuinely outstanding album and i think it unfortunately doesn't get the
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the praise it deserves. And that might be because of the first four songs. Although they're great songs, there's nothing ultra, ultra special about them. It's the last two songs where the specialness, the innovation, the proper metalness is solidifying. You know, I think it's one of these albums where people who are really into music and studying music and musicians as well. I think this album gets a lot of recognition from
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People kind of in the music circle per se and not for like just the audience, you know Yeah, people who just listen, you know the listeners, but yeah Thank you for being with us today. Yeah, let us know your thoughts on the album I mean, I think it's pretty I think everyone loves Stargazer Yeah, another quick thing to add I will be quick is that if you go on the Wikipedia page of rising Take a look at everyone who's covered a song from the album. They're all metal bands. They're all metal bands
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You're not seeing some rock band cover it, they're all metal bands. And that to me is the final piece of evidence to show that this is such a hugely important heavy metal album. Love it.
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Thank you so much for being with us. All right. Have a metal day. Do we? Do you have anything else to say? No, no, no, no. No, I'm just like... I thought we would do the normal comment subscribe. No, we are. Let's do it. Well, no, we did that at the start. Yeah, but still, guys, like our video, please, if you haven't yet. Have you enjoyed this episode? I mean, I've enjoyed it so much. Yeah. I hope you hope that kind of showed as well. Let us know your thoughts. Like, subscribe, share with a rainbow fan. The band, not fans of the rainbows outside. Okay.
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Some people like rainbows. Whatever. I like rainbows. Oh man, what is this? What are we doing, honestly? Oh, and now I'm just gonna just rip our blood backdrop. Look, guys, this has been very informal, but can I say, I like it like that. Yeah. A few laughs. Yeah, brilliant. We'll see you very soon. Have a metal day. Have a lovely day.