The Maze
An obscure San Francisco-area group that cut one extremely rare album in 1968, Armageddon (recorded at Leo Kulka's Golden State Recorders, and issued on MTA), which is highly valued in some collector circles. Actually, they don't rank as a very impressive find, in fact epitomizing some of the period's least enduring excesses. They originally recorded under the name Stonehenge, with a female vocalist, before assuming their more familiar name, and left behind a good deal more than an album's worth of tracks, some of which turned up on the 1995 Sundazed CD reissue of Armageddon. Their all-original material emphasized heavy organ, long, drawn-out fuzzy guitar solos, despondent stoned vocals, and minor-key melodies, somewhat in the mold of Iron Butterfly, though not as bombastic. An alternate take of "Whispering Shadows," written by Wayne Gardner -- who composed all but two of the ten songs on Armageddon, fellow members J. Jensen, C. Boyd, and Richard Eittreim dividing two songs between the three of them -- was included on Gear Fab's 1997 Psychedelic Crown Jewels, Vol. 1.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Armageddon
Rock - Released by Sundazed Music, Inc. on 1 Jan 1968
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From Small Things
Pop/Rock - Released by Auxreturn Records on 29 Nov 2019
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2048 May The Brighter Future Be
Rock - Released by 3432305 Records DK on 4 Nov 2021
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Body Language
Electronic - Released by Light Company on 24 May 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo