Zior

Zior is a hard rock band with some progressive elements. The band obviously had a huge fascination with the occult and expressed this often in their songs (and mostly in their stage show). The Akarma label LP is the first eponymous album plus and additional nine bonus tracks which were to be on the band's next(ultimately unreleased) album. Tracks like "Angel of the Highway", "Your Life Will Burn", and "Before My Eyes Go Blind" show the band in it's rare form while the vocalist describes various occult imagery.

Another LP single, "Every Inch A Man", came out in 1973. At times they have a tribal-like rhythm to their sound, very pyschedelic and 70's. "Zior" is a great lost album of hard rock from this time period. Later era 'stoner rock' fans will like this. The same goes for fans of NWOBHM.

The first LP included artwork by the same artist who did Black Sabbath's first album.