Lucifer's Friend (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Lucifer's Friend
Type = Album
Artist = Lucifer's Friend


Released = 1970
Recorded = 1970
Genre = Progressive rock/Heavy metal
Length = 40:32 (Original LP) , 53:02 (with bonus tracks)
Label = Billingsgate Records in the US Vertigo Records in Europe Repertoire Records CD reissue in Germany
Producer = ???
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxfixqw5ldse link]
Last album = "Asterix" (1970)
This album = "Lucifer's Friend" (1970)
Next album = "Where the Groupies Killed the Blues" (1972)

This is the first album by heavy metal/progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1970. There are many Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin influences heard throughout this album, most notably the dark lyrics heard on many songs, especially the song "Lucifer's Friend." There is a little controversy that "Ride In The Sky" is a rip off of the "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin, but this is not true due to the fact that "Ride In The Sky" was written before Robert Plant wrote "Immigrant Song." There are also some very striking similarities between this album and Black Sabbath's debut because both are the first and self-titled albums by both bands, both have a self-titled song, and both have arguable anti-christ band names.

Track listing

# "Ride in the Sky" - 2:55
# "Everybody's Clown" - 6:12
# "Keep Goin'" - 5:26
# "Toxic Shadows" - 7:00
# "Free Baby" - 5:28
# "Baby You're a Liar" - 3:55
# "In the Time of Job When Mammon Was a Yippie" - 4:04
# "Lucifer's Friend" - 6:12
# "Rock 'N' Roll Singer"* - 4:21
# "Satyr's Dance"* - 3:17
# "Horla"* - 2:52
# "Our World Is A Rock 'N' Roll Band"* - 3:20
# "Alpenrosen"* - 3:53

*Bonus tracks from the 1995 re-release

Personnel

*Peter Hesslein - Lead Guitars/Vocals/Percussion
*Peter Hecht - Piano/Keyboards/French Horn on "Ride The Sky."
*John Lawton - Lead Vocals
*Dieter Horns - Bass
*Joachim Rietenbach - Drums