Warhorse’s self-titled debut was a progressive rock-heavy rock meld that was even less humorless than that of Deep Purple, let alone Black Sabbath, the band that they got compared to most frequently. There’s a bit of art rock in the Hammond organ, and an operatic earnestness to Ashley Holt’s lead vocals. Titles like “Vulture Blood,” “Burning,” “Ritual,” “Solitude,” and “Woman of the Devil” are indicative of the group’s desire to set a menacing mood, although the songs don’t really forcefully hit the mark for which they were probably targeted. A cover of an Easybeats song (“St. Louis”), of all things, is the only non-original. Angel Air’s CD reissue adds bonus live versions of four of the album’s songs, as well as a demo, “Miss Jane,” of a tune that didn’t appear on the original LP.
Formed in 1970 around ex-Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper, Warhorse were understandably close to early Deep Purple in their blend of keyboard-colored progressive rock and early heavy metal. The group coalesced when Simper left Deep Purple in 1969 to lead soul singer Marsha Hunt’s backing band, which included Rick Wakeman on keyboards for a while. The backing band formed the nucleus of Warhorse, which recorded a couple of albums for Vertigo in the early 1970s. With their early hard rock/metal sounds and a singer (Ashley Holt) who could roll into over-serious, high stentorian vocal phrases, the group have also been compared to early Black Sabbath, although they lacked the hooks necessary to achieve the same level of success as Sabbath or Purple. Echoes of Yes (in the keyboards) and perhaps Uriah Heep can be heard as well. Warhorse broke up in 1973, with drummer Mac Poole joining Gong, and Holt and drummer Barney James (who briefly replaced Poole in Warhorse’s final days) going to Rick Wakeman’s band.
~ Richie Unterberger, All Music
Track List:
01. Vulture Blood [0:06:13.50]
02. No Chance [0:06:22.13]
03. Burning [0:06:17.55]
04. St. Louis [0:03:50.67]
05. Ritual [0:04:54.30]
06. Solitude [0:08:48.33]
07. Woman Of The Devil [0:07:16.30]
Bonus Tracks
08. Ritual (Live) [0:05:06.27]
09. Miss Jane (Demo) [0:03:37.33]
10. Solitude (Live) [0:04:52.45]
11. Woman Of The Devil (Live) [0:06:45.62]
12. Burning (Live) [0:06:09.05]
Personnel:
Ashley Holt – vocals
Ged Peck – guitar
Nick Simper – bass
Frank Wilson – keyboards
Mac Poole – drums
EAC extraction logfile from 13. July 2018, 13:12
Warhorse / Warhorse [ARC-7014]
Used drive : HL-DT-STBD-RE BH10LS38 Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:Program Files (x86)Exact Audio Copywavpack-4.60.1wavpack.exe
Additional command line options : -hm -w “Year=%year%” -w “Genre=%genre%” %source% %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.32 | 6:13.50 | 32 | 28056
2 | 6:14.07 | 6:22.13 | 28057 | 56719
3 | 12:36.20 | 6:17.55 | 56720 | 85049
4 | 18:54.00 | 3:50.67 | 85050 | 102366
5 | 22:44.67 | 4:54.30 | 102367 | 124446
6 | 27:39.22 | 8:48.33 | 124447 | 164079
7 | 36:27.55 | 7:16.30 | 164080 | 196809
8 | 43:44.10 | 5:06.27 | 196810 | 219786
9 | 48:50.37 | 3:37.33 | 219787 | 236094
10 | 52:27.70 | 4:52.45 | 236095 | 258039
11 | 57:20.40 | 6:45.62 | 258040 | 288476
12 | 64:06.27 | 6:09.05 | 288477 | 316156
Range status and errors
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Filename G:Rips by AlderWarhorse – Warhorse [ARC-7014].wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 7.8 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 9124F4B0
Copy CRC 9124F4B0
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
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Track 12 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 3) [2FE967DE], AccurateRip returned [12A25386] (AR v2)
No tracks could be verified as accurate
You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database
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[CTDB TOCID: GQJ6VRbaO10YmoiUsJGKEsbrfeg-] found
Submit result: GQJ6VRbaO10YmoiUsJGKEsbrfeg- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (11/11) Accurately ripped
2 | (11/11) Accurately ripped
3 | (11/11) Accurately ripped
4 | (11/11) Accurately ripped
5 | (11/11) Accurately ripped
6 | (11/11) Accurately ripped
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10 | (11/11) Accurately ripped
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log date: 2018-07-13 18:55:24
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Analyzed: Warhorse / Warhorse [ARC-7014]
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -1.00 dB -10.64 dB 6:14 01-Vulture Blood
DR9 0.00 dB -11.56 dB 6:22 02-No Chance
DR9 0.00 dB -10.31 dB 6:18 03-Burning
DR8 0.00 dB -9.71 dB 3:51 04-St. Louis
DR9 0.00 dB -10.50 dB 4:54 05-Ritual
DR9 0.00 dB -11.39 dB 8:48 06-Solitude
DR8 0.00 dB -10.59 dB 7:16 07-Woman Of The Devil
DR8 -0.29 dB -10.25 dB 5:06 08-Ritual (Live)
DR8 -0.22 dB -9.68 dB 3:37 09-Miss Jane (Demo)
DR8 -0.19 dB -10.41 dB 4:53 10-Solitude (Live)
DR9 -0.09 dB -10.34 dB 6:46 11-Woman Of The Devil (Live)
DR7 -0.26 dB -9.78 dB 6:09 12-Burning (Live)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR8
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 816 kbps
Codec: WavPack
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Pregap length 00:00:32.
[CTDB TOCID: GQJ6VRbaO10YmoiUsJGKEsbrfeg-] found.
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2 | (12/12) Accurately ripped
3 | (12/12) Accurately ripped
4 | (12/12) Accurately ripped
5 | (12/12) Accurately ripped
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11 | (12/12) Accurately ripped
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[AccurateRip ID: 001fadd7-01267415-b810770c] found.
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04 [baecf31f] (0/8) No match (V2 was not tested)
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