With the Blue Öyster Cult, Uriah Heep is one of the most hard groups underestimated 70 years. It is true that the monuments of the quenching of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin in front, the British training had little hope of returning to the very closed circle of immortals. Although it has been forever surclassé by these prestigious rivals, it can be put into credit Uriah Heep from being able to retain an identity of its own and, incidentally, to have buried all its direct competitors. Of course, Deep Purple is not dead yet, but it’s like . If by chance he had to explain to a newcomer what the Good ol ‘Rock’n Roll of the 70s, this album of Uriah Heep constitute a near-perfect hearing. For although released in 2008, Wake the sleeper is a pure album of 70 years and nothing else. These riffs solidly structured, these melodies relatively complex demonstrative without being free, this powerful song and adjusted to perfection, enhanced by the chorus of vocal harmonies air, the light psychedelic and oriental accents, these pieces of Baroque keyboard worthy of Jon Lord of the best days, all these elements are firmly anchored in a specific time. And while many current training does not hesitate to send some Å“illade to the said time, it is clear that nostalgia has nothing to do with the approach of Uriah Heep, who meets his just immobility time in like a Status Quo or an AC / DC. In fact, it is very simple: Wake the sleeper is so faithful to the credo of hard seventies that wonders if Uriah Heep had not set a challenge for fun after the first album ten years of abstinence. Whatever the merits, both Wake The Sleeper is a complete success in its genre. Overload is considered that this majestic epic reminiscent of a Highway star or a Man on the silver mountain, or War child to both East and liturgical tribal through a What kind of God worthy of an ancient war chant of the Highlands, it would demonstrate an appalling bad faith for tracked down any discordant note in this album of a narcotic. No need for more detail: this type of rock resolutely out of time has its admirers and its detractors unconditional fierce. Uriah Heep not revolutionizing anything, is left out of any compromise with the present and Wake the sleeper could have come out – and shine – without problems thirty years. For some, this will be sufficient for the sacrifice on the altar of has-been. Instead, the timidity of the race to-find-last-fashioned hype-in-two-weeks will be unbearable chance to enjoy a success that more unexpected, from a veteran in more verve than ever, who brilliantly defended his faith in a rock as explosive qu’immuable and unilaterally decreed that the development will be without him. If we could say the same for all the veterans .