Artist: V. A.
Album: BLACKMORE’S CASTLE - A TRIBUTE TO RITCHIE BLACKMORE (CD)

Release date: 2003
Media type: CD

Reviewer Chad Bowar writes, "Ritchie Blackmore has been one of the best guitar players in the world for nearly 40 years. This much deserved tribute album focuses on the Deep Purple and Rainbow era. Lion Music utilizes its stable of talented progressive and power metal musicians to create an excellent tribute to Blackmore. The interesting thing about Blackmore's Castle is the choice of songs. I like the fact they dug a little deeper and picked songs from a variety of albums from Deep Purple's 1972 "Machine Head" to 1992's "The Battle Rages On". Some of the artists featured on this CD include Lars Eric Mattson doing "Self Portrait", Winterlong covering "Machine Head", and Arabesque doing an interesting version of "Stargazer." Blackmore's Castle is also a good combination of faithful covers and artists putting their own spin on Blackmore's songs. It's a highly recommended CD for all power metal, progressive metal and of course, Ritchie Blackmore fans."

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
Total running time, 72:39

TRACKLIST:

01.) MISTER KITE – Bloodsucker
02.)TRANSCENDENCE - Perfect Strangers
03.) ARABESQUE – Stargazer
04.) LARS ERIC MATTSSON - Self Portrait
05.) REIGN OF TERROR - Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
06.) IRON MASK - Gates of Babylon
07.) HEADLINE - Battle Rages On
08.) CONDITION RED - Black Night
09.) TORBEN ENEVOLDSEN - Space Truckin’
10.) ERIC ZIMMERMANN - Man on the Silver Mountain
11.) WINTERLONG - Highway Star
12.) JASON RICHARDSON – Lazy
13.) CONDITION RED - Still Iґm Sad