Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum (1968) [Audio Fidelity 2017]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 32:21 minutes | Scans included | 1,3 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 664 MB
Mastered by Kevin Gray | Audio Fidelity # AFZ-253 | Genre: Rock

Vincebus Eruptum is the debut studio album by American rock band Blue Cheer. The album features a heavy-thunderous blues sound, which would later be known as heavy metal. It also contains elements of acid rock, grunge, experimental rock, blues rock, stoner rock, and garage rock. A commercial and critical success, Vincebus Eruptum peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and spawned the top-20 hit cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues”. Being an example of hard rock, it is also lauded as one of the first heavy metal albums. Online music service Rhapsody included Vincebus Eruptum in its list of the “10 Essential Proto-Metal Albums”, suggesting that the band “not only inspired the term ‘power trio,’ they practically invented heavy metal”.

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