Tuesday, August 4, 2026

The walls of doom (Triumvirat) (LP 4732)

Triumvirat  Spartacus (CD, Capitol Records, 1975) ****  

Genre: Prog rock

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Capital of Power

Gear costume: Spartacus

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8

Active compensatory factors: Triumvirat is a prog rock band from Germany and the Emerson Lake & Palmer comparisons can't be denied. The band is a trio - bass, drums and keyboards by 
Hans-Jürgen Fritz, who plays keyboards according to the Keith Emerson school of rock.

Spartacus was their third album, and the only one I've ever found. I'd buy others for sure because I love ELP and this style of prog.

The concept here is to centre the album on Thracian gladiator, Spartacus. It works too, as the music conjures up images from 73BC!

Terrible cover though. What was the idea?

Where do they all belong? A great addition to the prog ranks.