Omega-200 Years After the Last War (1974)

"200 Years After the Last War" marked the end of the first era and the beginning of a new one for Omega, the quintessential Hungarian heavy hard rock band, emulating the progressive rock trend of the time. On this seventh release, hard rock, blues rock, and progressive rock follow in the footsteps of other British bands like Deep Purple and Uriah Heep, who were pioneering the style during those years. The album's highlight is the expansive "Suite", an intense 20-minute track where the pulsating mellotron and heavy rock guitar riffs, along with powerful vocals, drive one of the band's best compositions. Other standout tracks include the heavy rock anthem "Help to Find Me", the psychedelic "200 Years After the Last War", and the progressive hard rock track "You Don't Know". However, as with almost all Omega albums sung in English, it is the sometimes very poor lyrics and the difficult-to-understand lyrics that are the only drawback of this great progressive rock album from the mid-70s.