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Epitaph – King Crimson
Biography
Tampa, Florida (1990 – present)
1. Epitaph were founded in Dortmund in 1969, consisting of Cliff Jackson (vocals, guitar), Bernd Kolbe (bass, mellotron, vocals) and Jim McGillivray (drums). The first sessions for their debut album, released 1971 on Polydor, were recorded in an Essex studio in England. For unknown reasons, it was however finished in Windrose Studios, Hamburg, where a fourth member was added to the group: Klaus Walz (guitar, vocals). The five resulting tracks sounded similar to the earliest incarnation of Uriah Heep. Epitaph’s Cliff Jackson didn’t attempt to copy Byron’s operatic vocal style, though. Their repertoire at that time consisted of both fast rock’n’roll numbers and slow ballads with mellotron textures, usually in the ‘heavy progressive standard song length’ - from 5 to 7 minutes.
In 1972, Epitaph recorded their second album, “Stop, Look And Listen” in Audio Tonstudio, Berlin. This album also contained five tracks, stylistically similar to their first offering. Both albums are recommended for fans of the heavy progressive genre. In early 1973, Epitaph released two non-LP singles on the Polydor subsidiary Zebra: “Autumn ‘71” coupled with “Are You Ready” and “We Love You Alice” coupled with “Paradise For Sale”.
After this promising start, it seems as if the band was promised a bright future by the newly founded American record company Billingsgate, that they eventually signed to.
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Epitaph
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Outside The Law
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Seeming Salvation
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Stop look and listen
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Kraut
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seeming.....
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Seeming Salvation ya bastards[2]
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TrafficRiot911
Last FM really needs to seperate artists with the same name, but whatever I love both the German rock band and the Swedish death metal band.
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Color_Of_Sound
Undoubtedlyne one of the best early 70's German rock band. Great mix of prog and hard rock.... with a litle flavor of southern !!! Awesome....
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Leg69
Seeming Salvation is death metal classic<3
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iconan
Krautrock - Music for Your Brain. A spectacular mix, a magical whirlwind of sounds and colors, To go on a journey beyond the meaning of time and space... a pleasure renewed with each listen. -.-.-.-. om hari om .....
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crazydude1992
The early 90s Italian doom band is nice.
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omgislucas
Epitaph, the Swedish death metal band, is awesome.
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onkellu
what you write here from a Swedish band, we are bound here on the site of the GERMAN BAND EPITAPH....!! The German band epitaph is very good and highly recommended live...♫ ♥ ♫
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BTsGraveland
Swedish death metal Epitaph is great.
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Halturik
i have 4(band) named Epitaph on my pc ,but really special one is death from sweden!
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IndomSpirit13
Swedeath Epitaph is pretty good, nothing to really brag about however
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Psychedelic16
German epitaph is amazing!!!!
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Romencer17
Swedeath Epitaph is pretty good
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Flavio_S
70's
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LordsOfTheStorm
Vocals and guitar tone on Seeming Salvation are great, though Its definitely not my top choice for Swedish Death.
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tristan_f
Swedish Epitaph !!!
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Epitaph from Florida US
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