We haven't been able to get the cd version of this in years, but we were stoked to discover that a new 2010 vinyl version had been released... which also took us quite a while to get a hold of. But now we've got 'em, at least a few, though when they're gone we don't know when we'll be able to get more. So if proto-metal is your thing, especially on vinyl like it was originally, then act fast!
Here's more or less what we said about it back when we had the compact disc reish:
Yet another amazing discovery in the realms of unheralded heaviness from the '70s. Krautrockers Night Sun released this, their only album, back in 1972, and probably the only heavier sounds produced on earth that year were produced by Black Sabbath (and, hopefully, some other as-yet-unknowns). Seriously. If anything is "proto-metal", this sure is. Deep Purple (the keyboards and high-pitched vox) meets Sabbath style DOOM guitars. These guys must have been gobbling both amphetamines and downers 'cause the disc goes to both extremes of doom-paced creepy crawls *and* manic prog-spazz riff, uh, mania. Produced by Conny Plank, with plenty of psychedelic phased-out atmosphere to go with the jarring riffage and crazy vox. '70s proto-metal to file alongside Jerusalem, Buffalo, Toad, Leafhound, Captain Beyond, Blues Creation, and early Pentagram. Definitely a crucial artifact of the "early heavy". Why Night Sun aren't huge cult heroes we don't know... From; aQuarius recOrds
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