(E) The Music Encyclopedia of The Gravis Sub Humus

Edge: (same) Nose Records 1970

Edge was one of the many late 60s/early 70s bands that were making the transition from the Psych scene to the Heavy Rock scene. Their one eponymous musical effort on the very obscure "Nose Records" label is a decent effort to be sure. It consists of good "down to earth" heavy guitar driven tunes that also contain some keyboard work with appropriate raspy, guttural vocals. This album for whatever reason has never been reissued on vinyl or CD.


Euclid: S/T 1970

Euclid's one and only album is amongst the very best in it's genre which is most certainly Heavy Rock at it's best. The musicians themselves were of an excellent caliber & very experienced, coming from a diverse New England Garage & Psych rock background. Groups from which they haled prior included the noteworthy Garage acts the Lazy Smoke & the Cobras. One of the coolest things about this album is the overall evidence of it's group members various background influences on it. In Euclid, you get the very best of it all. You have the raw & ferocious high energy Garage element mixed with a very clear and real psychedelic conviction of the drug use saturated times. These over shadowing characteristics combined with their new heavy/hard rock discipline & focus, resulted in one of the best early Heavy Rock albums ever recorded in the United States. The combined member's various instrumental contributions is equally matched by their amazing crystalline vocal harmonies. This was all offset by the lead vocal's "take no prisoners" brutal male vocal stylings. The production on this record is absolutely top notch and can't help but to give the music it's unstoppable heavy forward momentum. Very much living up to the group's namesake, the guitar, bass & drums on this record, in typical earth moving fashion, musically command the attention of the listener & level any and all resistance in it's path. The album itself stands to this day as a perfect monument of that which musically represents the US transition from Hard/Heavy Psych to Hard/Heavy Rock. In short, the group Euclid were one of the true "unsung" fundamental cornerstones in the emerging FM oriented commercial US Hard Rock movement. KILLER! From start to finish