"Norways best kept secret. The tracks on
their debut was written back in the early 70´s but the recordings were
in such bad shape
that the band jumped into the studio 1997 to re-record the old stuff with the same gear and equipment.
Their sound can be best
described as a cross between Black Sabbath & Jethro Tull."
Their second CD "In Anadi's Bower and can best be described
as a pure masterpiece. With a knife sharp production and over 400 hours
in the studio,
LUCIFER WAS give us another Sabbath/Tull album
with melodic and folk influences.
Discography:
CD - Underground And Beyond RHCD5
PIC. LP - Underground And Beyond RHPD12
CD - In Anadi's Bower RHCD26
Line up:
Thore Engen - Guitar +
Vocal
Dag Steneng - Flute + Vocal
Anders Sevaldson - Flute
Einar Bruu - Bass
Kai Frilseth - Drums
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"In Anadi's
Bower"
RHCD26
A brand new hardrock album from Norways best kept secret. The
band started
already back in 1970. Three years ago their debut,
"Underground And Beyond"
was released with material written back
in the early seventies. Their follower
"In Anadi´s Bower" is a
fantastic comeback. With 400 hours of mixing and recordings
the result is
remarkable.
The Sound is modern and the production is very professional.
The album can be best desciribed musicaly as a
mix in between Deep Purple, Jethro Tull
& Black Sabbath.
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HOMEPAGE
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"UNDERGROUND AND
BEYOND"
RHCD 5
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Review by GL
Productions June 2000
Lucifer Was(Norw)-In
Anadi´s Bower Big thanks to the excellent Swedish label Record Heaven that
have released the second album from one of the best kept secrets of the
Scandinavian underground progressive heavyrock scene-Lucifer Was a band from
Oslo that formed already in 1970 while the other bands from Norway got signed
such as Höst Junipher Greene Aunt Mary and Flax Lucifer Was remained doing
basement tapes, some of the recordings from the period 1970 to 1971 ended up in
the hands of Record Heaven and gaved the band the offer to re-record them for
their debut album that got released in 1997 titled Underground and Beyond an
album that I havent heard yet. Now the band are back with this new album titled
In Anadi´s bower and the band has spent a lot of hard work with this album over
400 hours of mixing and recordings and the final result have become a
remarkeable album packed with influences from the likes of Jethro Tull and Deep
Purple to the underground cult bands from the 70s such as Pan, Zior, Teargas and
Leviathan. It remains a mystery that the band didnt made it in the first place,
cause this album is up there with the classic Norwegian releases of Junipher
Greenes first, Flax-One, Aunt Marys Loaded Höst-På sterke
Vinger definitely. The production is fantastic, the use of the mellotron and
the flute is fantastic and the material is fabolous. This album sounds all you
fans of highly progressive rock from the early 70s perfectly, order it from the Record
Heaven website
Review by Fred Monster, Majestic
Magazine
Formed in the early
Seventies this Norwegian band never made it to recording an album. They split
up, tried to reform again once before finally in 1997 their debut was released.
Now, three years later this eight-piece band releases its second album.
On their website the band
is described as a mix of Jethro Tull and Black Sabbath. As you can
see above the band has two flutists and a comparison to Jethro Tull is
easily made.
But - fortunately - the
music on In Anadi’s Bower is much heavier than anything Jethro Tull
has ever produced. Which probably is the reason Black Sabbath is
mentioned. Personally I don’t hear much of the Sabs in the music of Lucifer
Was or it must be on Darkness and the title track which are rather
doomy. If I have to make a comparison I'd say some of the songs resemble the Scorpions
during their In Trance and Virgin Killer era.
But the music is actually
rather original, with some progressive structures in it. At the same time the
songs are quite accessible. Even a song as long as Little Child, clocking
over 11 minutes, isn’t difficult to get into which is quite an achievement, I
think.
Another thing worth
mentioning is the crystal clear production. True, the album sounds a bit
Seventies but the band spent over 400 (!) hours in the studio for this album and
that’s something that certainly paid off.
Only criticism I could
possibly think of are the somewhat nasal vocals of Jon Ruder, otherwise a
nice surpise, this one.
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