WIDOW

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WIDOW is a full-length album recorded by British rock band Ritual released in 1983. The album gained notability for the band when it was played several times by Alan Freeman on the Friday Rock Show.Also played on The World Service during an hour long interview with The Band by the late Tommy Vance . Several hundred copies of the album were pressed without the band logo, which are now highly valued as collectors items.

[edit] Musical theme

The album was sufficiently respectable as a buyable piece of good heavy British rock, but the haunting sound of the guitars the Re Bethe ILLUSION and very powerful vocals were quite remarkable in their darkness.

[edit] Value as a collectors item

While being pressed, several hundred copies were produced without the Ritual logo. The faulty albums were put into archive by management, and remained unseen for some time. The album failed to obtain mass general release without a distributor, and only a modest amount were sold. Copies of the faulty album started to appear in small batches all over the UK, adding weight to the speculation amongst collectors that the name of the band was "Widow" when in fact it was the work of Ritual. The no logo album is now considered a very rare and very collectible example of the early "Heavy Metal" genre. The Album received bad reviews notably from malcom Dome at Kerrang magazine the same year.Ironically many heavy bands today quote WIDOW as an important influence.