Track Listing

1. Speed King
2. Bloodsucker
3. Child In Time
4. Flight Of The Rat
5. Into The Fire
6. Living Wreck
7. Hard Lovin' Man
8. Black Night
9. Studio Chat 1
10. Speed King (1)
11. Studio Chat 2
12. Cry Free
13. Studio Chat 3
14. Jam Stew
15. Studio Chat 4
16. Flight Of The Rat (1)
17. Studio Chat 5
18. Woffle And Speed King
19. Studio Chat 6
20. Black Night (1)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2984 in Music
• Released on: 1995-06-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Monolithic, immense and enduring--much like that cover image: the band-members' heads carved into the side of a mountain, a la Mt. Rushmore. Perhaps they felt they'd earned such veneration, having emerged relatively unscathed from the experience of Jon Lord's overblown Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Whatever the rationale, the band regrouped in early 1970--complete with new vocalist Ian Gillan--and set about making one of the decade's undisputed hard-rock classics. For all their undoubted power--and despite the jazzy inflections of Ian Paice's drumming--there's little in the way of groove to these tracks; rather, they're about volume and density, the simple piling-on of dynamics. Clocking in at over ten minutes, "Child In Time" ranks as a classic of its kind, while tracks like "Speed King" and "Into The Fire" see the band at its most unfettered--Richie Blackmore and Lord trading solos with a dazzling sort of ease, and Gillan loosing the full-throated roar for which he soon became renowned. --Andrew McGuire

CD Description
With IN ROCK, Deep Purple added vocalist Ian Gillan into the line-up, a decision that irrevocably changed their fortunes. IN ROCK is one of the genre's definitive albums, combining hard-edged riffs with virtuoso technique, topped by Gillan's full-throated roar. Few singers could survive the instrumental power beneath him, but this he does with room to spare, reacting to and emphasizing his colleagues' musical prowess. Chock-full of material destined to become Deep Purple anthems, later releases were evaluated against this trail-blazing, heavy rock collection.

Customer Reviews

Perhaps THE milestone of hard rock
This album deserves recognition for the way its stunning power, volume and energy completely blew away practically anything people had heard at the time, and perhaps even moreso that you can play it to modern metal/hard rock fans and they will often be blown away by the same qualities. Superb, musical performances all round from perhaps the highest quality hard rock band ever. Combining monster riffs, insane solos, and musical passages, In Rock gets closer to Deep Purple's live, raw sound than any of their others. In my mind this makes it Deep Purple's best studio album.

Into the Fire and Bloodsucker are big as a house and showed many groups the way to Metal.

Speed King, Child in Time, Flight of the Rat and Hard Lovin' Man are superb adrenaline-fuelled bouts of hard rock/rock 'n' roll on speed.

Living Wreck is lighter than the others, but really grooves, and still hold power.

No weak tracks, plenty of variety within the album, and yet it seriously ROCKS throughout.

If you really like this, and want to hear more of Deep Purple from this era, look out for 'Live in Stockholm', for similar tunes, but further soloing and Deep Purple character

A class act
Deep purple's first album with their new line-up was a dramatic change to their earlier releases. Deep Purple, their last album was in comparison a very mellow record (even so another superb album), and does not really sound like the predecessor to In Rock. A truly explosive sound from start to finish, and definitely THE pivotal hard-rock album of the seventies. Perhaps a very under-rated track is Living Wreck as I have not seen anything written about it anywhere...those who haven't got this album are missing out purely on that song.

If it's riffs, solos, bass lines, lyrical genius you're looking for, it's written everywhere, all over this album. Not much more to say than a truely great sound.....one to have for sure.

A unique album that will live on well beyond the musicians!
'DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK'is the first and the greatest Purple album.This cd version also has a bonus selection of humourous studio chat in between different versions of some of the original seven tracks found on vinyl.Also 'Black Night'has been added to make the first seven into eight.A masterpiece from a brilliant group of musicians.A must for lovers of Hard Rock/Seventies music.BUY,BUY,BUY!!!!!!!!