While not managing to recapture the other’s older glory, it remains the most touching take on the album. The most interesting, and certainly most unique moment is the closer and fan favourite Soldier of Fortune, a semi-acoustic, soft ballad similar to When A Blind Man Cries (an excellent and unfortunate outtake from the Machine Head sessions). Hearing a band such as Deep Purple attempt a fusion with soul is interesting, and the result shouldn’t be called poor, but neither is it that good, and you can’t help but feel we’d rather leave that genre in the hands of others. Holy Man and You Can’t Do It Right (With The One You Love) are clearly the most soul-influenced, which is most notable in the vocal department. The Gypsy, however, which runs in the same vein, finds the right amount of power to hold its momentum. Love Don’t Mean a Thing and Holy Man both start off as relaxing songs, but you’ll grow bored with them just a tad too quick. A greater amount of funk and soul is potentially interesting, but Deep Purple get the amount of ingredients wrong this time, rather than the ingredients themselves. That doesn’t mean that we should have gotten a complete repetition exercise, of course. The point where things get up to the assault level of Burn, You Fool No One or What’s Going on Here only arrives at the fifth track Lady Double Dealer, which almost seems fit to belong on Burn. Surely, the title track is an excellent opener, but there is no sense of fierceness, and Coverdale takes the vocal march all by himself, while him and Hughes’ harmonies proved to be so effective before. Stormbringer, on the other hand, has problems starting up. Funk becomes even more dominant here, along with a slight touch of soul here and there, and Purple is actually moving gradually away from their classic hard rock sound.īurn was intense, as fiery as its title suggested, so powerful that not many albums from its time couldn’t hold a candle up to it. The greatest issue is however inevitably clear from the beginning: Stormbringer doesn’t quite hold the punch that Burn did. Still, the second and last output this line-up brought forth isn’t half-bad at all, and there are quite some catchy rockers to be encountered. He would go on to form the initially great new hard rock outfit Rainbow, which featured Ronnie James Dio at its heyday. Even Ritchie Blackmore, long-time member and probably the most important one at that, lost faith in his main musical experience and quit after the album, leaving a still young Mark III in shambles. Though it features essentially the same approach as its predecessor, being hard rock infused with blues and funk elements, it is often seen as a disappointment among most. Stormbringer came soon after the fantastic Burn even in the same year, 1974. Review Summary: An inferior repetition exercise, but one not too shabby.
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