Electric Food-Electric Food (1970)

From the ashes of the German band Lucifer's Friends emerged Electric Food, who, with a powerful style of psychedelic hard rock, released several albums in the early 1970s. The band consisted of Peter Hesslein (guitar and vocals), Peter Hecht (keyboards), Hans-Joachim Rietenbach (drums), Dieter Horns (bass), and Georg Mavros (vocals). Their debut album features some excellent covers, beginning with a frenetic rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", followed by the traditional "House of the Rising Sun", popularized by The Animals, and the boogie-rock track "Let's Work Together" by the ever-popular Canned Heat. Among their own compositions, highlights include the psychedelic "The Reason Why", the progressive "Hey Down", the blues-rock "Tavern", the dark heavy-rock "Nosferatu", the galloping "Icerose", and the heavy hard-rock "Twelve Months and Day".