Browse metal and hard rock albums in the 1968 Albums collection.
1960s Metal & Hard Rock Albums
All 6 metal and hard rock albums from the 1960s, reshuffled on every visit and shown 8 at a time. NEXT deals the next 8 albums you have not seen yet.
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1960s Albums
All 6 albums live on this single page, in a random order that changes on every visit.
Concerto for Group and Orchestra captures DEEP PURPLE at a point where the later image is not yet fully fixed.
Deep Purple retains the first lineup’s psychedelic color while moving more deeply into heavy riffs and intricate song construction.
Led Zeppelin takes blues language as its foundation and joins Jimmy Page’s layered guitar, Robert Plant’s soaring voice, John Paul Jones’s musicianship, and John Bon
Led Zeppelin II captures the momentum accumulated between tours and turns it into thick riffs and dense groove.
Shades of Deep Purple introduces the band through Ritchie Blackmore’s cutting guitar, Jon Lord’s classically colored organ, and Rod Evans’s gentler vocal presence.
The Book of Taliesyn expands the blues-and-psychedelia mixture of the debut into longer forms and a more dreamlike atmosphere.