...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble signed to that label. The album shows the band trying out various genres a mix of heavy metal and progressive rock rather than the hard rock that they would become known for on later albums. Tracks 3 and 8 were recorded as Spice songs prior to the band's renaming as Uriah Heep, and featured session player Colin Wood on keyboards. When Ken Hensley joined Spice in late 1969, the tracks were not re-recorded. The album was generally panned by the mainstream critical press upon its release, although it has since been acknowledged as an early classic of the heavy metal
Heavy metal genres style and its influences after the genre had branched in the 80s into more extreme styles that were highly influenced and mixed with hardcore punk in reaction to the 80s Glam scene which had also overshadowed what the term originally meant at the time along with the emergence of the New wave of American heavy metal that led after in the early-mid 90s which made the term "heavy metal" further lose its connotation when Grunge and Alternative rock help give birth to heavy-sounding styles that would be fused with some elements of heavy metal among others which caused the genre