High Tide - Sea Shanties (1969) Fantastic early Heavy Metal album, a true hidden gem. Sea Shanties is the debut studio album by British.

Sea Shanties is the debut album of progressive rock band High Tide. It was one of the first albums to use violin as a rock instrument. The cover artwork was drawn by Paul Whitehead. Denny Gerrard (of Warm Sounds) produced Sea Shanties in return for High Tide acting as the backing band on his solo album Sinister Morning. The recording sessions for the two albums overlapped, with Sinister Morning being finished in late June 1969, and Sea Shanties being started on the 2nd of that month.

High Tide is the second album by High Tide. The album is slightly less heavy, with folk-influences within the band's sound. Though guitarist Tony Hill would later record with a new band under the High Tide banner, as well as releasing posthumous compilations of demos, this was the last proper album by the original group.

High Tide�s Sea Shanties reminds me of another album from that time which was also pretty raw and that�s T2�s It'll All Work Out In Boomland. There is also a clear The Doors influence here. Especially in the mood of the vocals. High Tide as basically the masterful combination of guitar and violin (in this case, Tony Hill and Simon House respectively), played with as much heaviness and gloom as poor lil' 1969 could muster.

High Tide (2) ‎– Sea Shanties. Label: Repertoire Records ‎– REP 4414-WY. Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Repress. High Tide-Time Gauges (Bonus Track). High Tide - The Great Universal Protection Racket (bonus) 11:28. High Tide - Missing Out (1969) 9:26.

High Tide had the muscularity of a no-nonsense proto-metal band, but they also ventured into prog territory with changing time signatures and tempos, soft-hard dynamics, multi-part arrangements, and even some ornate faux-Baroque interludes.

Album Name Sea Shanties. Labels Liberty Records. Music StyleProgressive Heavy. Members owning this album5. 1. Futilist's Lament.

Sea Shanties Q&A. More High Tide albums.

High Tide - High Tide (1970). Songs in album High Tide - High Tide (1970). Blankman Cries Again. Rock Rock Rock Rock. The Reason Of Success.

This guy absolutely shreds on most of the tracks here. The opening track, "Futilist's Lament", starts things off in a blaze of glory, but the next track, "Death Warmed Up", is not only the album's crowning achievement, but possibly the group's as well.