"A lot of squawking that overshadows everything else": Sir Lord Baltimore conjure up the right sounds on Kingdom Come, but about those vocals...

Sir Lord Baltimore: Kingdom Come cover art.

Sir Lord Baltimore: Kingdom Come

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Master Heartache
Hard Rain Fallin'
Lady of Fire
Lake Isle of Innersfree
Pumped Up
Kingdom Come
I Got a Woman
Hell Hound
Helium Head (I Got a Love)
Ain't Got Hung on You

Many argue over exactly when the term ‘heavy metal’ was born as a musical reference. A Creem magazine review of this debut album from Brooklyn trio Sir Lord Baltimore, often cited as the ground zero of ‘stoner rock’, was possibly its earliest use, and the music was certainly different. The use of heavy distortion and multi-tracked guitars made it unusual for the era, as a result of which the band were overlooked, even though they opened for Black Sabbath.