Piramis 3

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By 1979’s <i>Piramis 3.</i>, Piramis frontman Révész Sándor was sharing more vocal duties with keyboardist Péter Gallai. But in addition to sharing the microphone, Sándor stepped up his game. Here, he attacks falsettos with the flawless aplomb of Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickenson and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford. The Hungarian prog-rock band’s third album opens with instant intricacies played hard and loud. If you were listening to this on vinyl and dropped the needle on the start of the first song, “Kóbor Angyal,” it'd be easy to assume you mistakenly skipped ahead to the solo before realizing the album indeed opens with a solo. It'd also be a safe guess that with “Kóbor Angyal,” the band was less influenced by prog rock and more by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. That is, until the following “Nem Tudom” takes the band back to its penchant for proggy balladry punctuated by Gallai’s studied keyboard work. (He also takes the lead vocal on this one.) “Amikor Veled Vagyok” closes with hard-driving blues-rock played at Blue Cheer decibels.

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