A few months ago i was casually browsing through amazon looking for an old deep purple album and i came across this list posted by someone which listed about 35 hard rock albums,released during the 70's which totally took me off guard. I have been kinda closely following the rock scene since the 70's and was taken aback when i realized that there were tons of these super cool bands that i hadnt even heard of or to be more precise nobody i knew had ever heard of!
So i began checkin them out one full length album at a time and boy did i have a revelation!! Almost every album that i listened to had a unique flavour, great music and some surprisingly good lyrics. Here are some of my faves if you like hard rock with pounding basslines,Blistering guitar riffs, insane acoustic passages and ethereal vocals. i am sure you wont be disappointed.
Buffalo-Volcanic Rock
The introduction to 'Sunrise (Come My Way)' confirms that the band have come a long way since their debut album. Fantastic guitar lines shooting over a blues-rock riff that just totally cooks. 'Shylock' is another great out and out rocker with an even heavier riff. Faster than Black Sabbath, and heavier than Led Zeppelin these two tracks are guaranteed to blow away any self respecting early 70s hard rock fan. The real surprise on the album though are the two slow bluesy tracks with big solos - 'Freedom' and 'The Prophet'. Considering they take up a major chunk of the album themselves (over sixteen minutes) it could easily have ended in tears for a band of less quality. However the two track never outstay their welcome and should convince even the biggest sceptic
Flower Travellin Band - Satori (Japan)
Satori is a conceptual hard rock-psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums and bass and Yamanaka's banshee-like vocal style which was turning him into an occidental Iggy Pop or Ozzy Osbourne while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. Satori is a huge album in every way. From power chords to Eastern-tinged North African six string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band flexes its collective muscle from start to finish. 
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