{"product_id":"black-widow-black-widow-cd-1971","title":"BLACK WIDOW Black Widow CD (1971)","description":"\u003cp\u003eProg rock had a weird, occult-obsessed cousin in the early seventies, and Black Widow were it. While everyone else was noodling over symphonic arrangements and pastoral English landscapes, this Leicester six-piece were conjuring theatrical Satanic rituals and getting themselves banned from venues. Ahead of their time in the best possible sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis self-titled 1971 album is the band at their most ambitious, blending heavy psych, proto-doom, and jazz-inflected progressive rock into something that still sounds genuinely strange today. It arrived a year after their infamous \u003cem\u003eSacrifice\u003c\/em\u003e LP and the stage show that caused a minor moral panic in the British press. If you've ever gone deep on the darker corners of early seventies UK rock, the kind of record labels like Vertigo and Deram were quietly releasing while the mainstream looked the other way, this is essential. A direct ancestor of goth, dark aesthetic metal, and occult rock as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD. Studio album. UK pressing. 1971 original release, reissued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of: Coven, Uriah Heep, Pentagram, Black Sabbath, Necromandus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALT CVLT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549625704639,"sku":"4009910533826","price":29.66,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0742\/3633\/0175\/files\/original_4ee6eeb5-e102-4e02-b725-aeb93f10bbb8.jpg?v=1777057710","url":"https:\/\/www.alt-cvlt.com.au\/products\/black-widow-black-widow-cd-1971","provider":"ALT CVLT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}