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Artist: Uriah Heep

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CD Title: Conquest

 

Category: Classic Rock

Year: 1980

Label: Bronze

Catalog Number: BRON 524

Personnel

Chris Slade Staccato Drums, Percussion
John Sloman Lead & Backing Vocals, Piano, Percussion
Ken Hensley Obx, Vocoder, Organ, Piano, Guitars, Backing Vocals
Mick Box Guitars
Trevor Bolder Bass, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals Track 8

Gerry Bron Timpani Track 7

Tracks

1.	No Return	6:02
2.	Imagination	5:49
3.	Feelings	5:26
4.	Fools	5:03
5.	Carry On	3:57
6.	Won't Have To Wait Too Long	4:54
7.	Out On the Street	5:57
8.	It Ain't Easy	5:45
Total Running Time:		42:53

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Existing comments about this CD

From: Remastered Reason

Date: July 27, 2010 at 19:08

Ask any longtime Heep fan about this record & you will usually get a straight answer. It is either loved or loathed. For different reasons, depending on who was asked in the band for their choice of lead vocalist, they initially found a replacement for John Lawton with ex Trapeze frontman Peter Goalby. Oddly enough, he would eventually join a Hensley-less Heep in 1982. However, back in 1980, settling on ex Lone Star mic man John Sloman instead, apparently now known for vague & cosmetic reasons & not the correct musical choice, his vocals often fall short & incapable of carrying a note through to its end. In particular, even bordering on mumbling & humming in places. Hailed as the next Robert Plant, yet realistically somewhere deep between Glenn Hughes & Stevie Wonder vocally, clearly his vox was wrong for interpreting the bands extensive back catalogue of classics onstage. Still, his merit was perhaps judged too harshly & the songs provided on this album have some depth & character. Th

From: Remastered Reason

Date: July 27, 2010 at 19:09

The most worthy tunes to the Heep cannon are "Fools" & "Feelings", both being album highlights. "Carry On" & "Won't Have to Wait too Long" are sonically playful but the limits of Sloman's voice are upfront & are not hid within the harmony structure of the song or burried within the mix. Another honorable mention is "It Ain't Easy". A song penned & sung by bassist Trevor Bolder, who oddly enough, sounds somewhat Sloman-esque. After this album, which also marked the bands tenth anniversary, it was an upheaveling time for Heep. Sloman was sacked yet Hensley departed permanantly. Kerslake was already gone as ex Manfred Mann skinsman Chris Slade had duties here, then bolted & three plus year bassist Bolder went on to join with Wishbone Ash. Co founding guitarist Mike Box was now Uriah Heep or rather who was left. Yet, as we all know, that was enough.

From: hair metal again	Date: September 22, 2026 at 11:36
very good album once again for URIAH HEEP entering the 80 s with a new singer and a strong pop rock influence in songs like "no return","feelings","fools" .well the result is fine and i really dig that album with Sloman s singing being very fresh and updated

From: Planet Y

Date: September 24, 2026 at 2:36

As a die-hard Uriah Heep-fan, I enjoy all of their albums, in a way. This one too, but to say it is a good effort would be pushing it. No return and Imagination are intriguing enough, but then things get worse. Carry on and I won't have to wait too long to me are weak songs, made worse by the new singer's add-libbing and other vocal acrobatics. Feelings to me is a low point in this band's career, a horribly schmaltzy chorus that is repeated way too often. Heep sound like a pubrockband on Fools and It ain't easy. The latter appears on the 2009 On the rebound-compilation, and at the time it was claimed that Trevor Bolder sings on this ballad. Not true, it's John Sloman behind the mic. Out in the street is a more interesting and atmospheric effort. I guess Gerry Bron didn't appreciate Mick Box's guitarwork, since the guitars are pushed back so far in the mix they sound like someone playing a kazoo in the other room. Poor songwriting, a limp sound, no wonder the band fell apart after this.

From: Mickle Metal

Date: September 24, 2026 at 6:50

Agreeing with the last comment in that i also enjoy their catalogue, some more than others with this being buried under the weight of every studio album of their entire career. Retrospectively, i could understand the disappointment of fans especially after two previously outstanding vocalist and fearing the end after this debacle. Thankfully the resilience of guitarist Mick Box revamped the lineup with a more suitable cast and contemporary sound that reignited their career. Overall, Conquest is an interesting listen and really is an outlier album that history recalls as a radar blip.

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