The Crucible

Serving as the middle installment of their acclaimed 'Gullvåg Trilogy', the Norwegian progressive rock veterans deliver a remarkably concise, yet overwhelmingly dense, three-track album. The record features the same sprawling, heavy psychedelic jamming of its predecessor but condenses the energy into darker, more avant-garde arrangements featuring prominent mellotron. It confirmed the band's seemingly limitless capacity for complex, long-form composition.