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1968 Metal & Hard Rock Albums
Browse 2 metal and hard rock albums released in 1968, with detailed artist pages, track lists, Spotify players and English liner notes.
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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.