Virus - Revelation (1970)

The debut album from this German band.

Virus was a quintet with a lineup of guitars, organ, bass, drums, flutes and some vocals. Both English and German vocals.

Virus released two albums before they gave up the ghost. A live album from a gig in 1973 was released in 2004, long after the demise of this band.

ProgArchives has them down as a heavy prog band. That is not that evident on this album (but OK on their second album) as this is a much krautrock album than most other things.

Take a solid chunk of blues, add in a lot of 1960s hard psych and add some psychedelia and rock. Then you get this album. This band coming from Germany, this mix of genres is normally referred to as krautrock.

There is a lot of cosmic and hypnotic rhythms and melodies on this album. On this forty-six minutes long album (I have not been bothered about the two short bonus tracks). The songs are very long and have some jam rock influences too.

The jarring guitars with the hammond organ in the background and some flutes makes this a good and heavy krautrock album. This album has it's qualities, yes. I am giving it a weak good rating.

3 points