This very rare only release by Pinnacle is a good mix of hard rock and space rock (a la Hawkwind). Actually it's a lot like Hawkwind but 10 times as intensive and without prolonged pretentious meditations. It's like high Tide or Sir Lord Baltimore morphing into proto speed metal after being catalyst by Deep Purple, Budgie, and drug induced schizophrenia. It's like your dreams of not overly pretentious keyboard heavy prog, out there, but still really grooving really hard space rock and psyched up proto metal being alloyed into one amazing amalgam. It has astonishingly classed up keyboards which don't dilute the guitar driven heaviness, in fact actually ad to their fuzzed up but melodic brilliance. I don't know if it's only me and my fucked up sense of musical tastes, or if all of the reviewers rendering Pinnacle as another of the rightfully run off castaways of the 70's are just plain fucked, but Asssassin is definitely one of the best hidden and unsung diamonds of 70's hard rock proto metal .
i can't recommend it more than I already have so go check it out for yourself.
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