CULTÖSAURUS ERECTUS

Ah, things could have been so much better! The band seems determined to explore a variety of musical styles on the first side. It kicks off with Black Blade a brilliant rocker. Monsters that comes next, is simply a summit and one of the best Cult tunes, ever, and justifies why BOC are a talk in our prog circles. It balances between jazz/rock so craftily, a sign of the musical IQ that exists in this band. Divine Wind is more on the blues side, whereas the keyboards in Deadline provide a more 80s, commercial approach, but still interesting. Unfortunately, the first three tracks of side B (especially Hungry Boys and Fallen Angel) are, in my opinion, way below the usual quality the band delivers. Did they run out of ideas? Did they want to keep open the commercial doors? Who knows. The thing is that they sound two-a- penny. But the final two songs bring back the edge of the band. Lips in the Hills rocks hard and Unknown Tongues features (among the rest stuff) some awesome piano playing too and it is a really great track. All in all, a good album, though it could have been so much better!

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