Birmingham, England's Bachdenkel recorded just two albums in their nearly decade-spanning run during the late '60s and most of the '70s, landing on a sound that was complex enough to qualify as prog but still had flashes of melody and powerful hard rock chops. The band broke up in 1977 but were long championed as a lost gem of the psychedelic scene of their time, and their two studio albums were filled out with demos, live performances, and other previously unreleased material on 2022 anthology collection Rise and Fall.
The origins of Bachdenkel began in 1967, when guitarist/...