#URIAH HEEP SALISBURY PROFESSIONAL#
Reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪccording to AllMusic reviewer, the album perfected Uriah Heep's "blend of heavy metal power and prog rock complexity" and "is too unfocused for the casual listener but offers enough solid songs for the Uriah Heep completist." Canadian journalist Martin Popoff described the album as "a dark downer" and "a failed experiment", imputing the cause of the slip to the "prog rock nightmare" of the title track and to "the hatchet production job". In 2016, Sanctuary Records released a two-disc deluxe edition. Salisbury was remastered and reissued by Castle Communications in 1996 with two bonus tracks, and again in 2003 in an expanded deluxe edition. The album was reissued by Bronze Records later in 1971 after the band signed to that label for their third album. Subsequent Canadian pressings used the UK artwork. The American release on Mercury Records featured a different cover image (a man tearing out of his own skin), as did the original Canadian pressings. Later reissues would be in a single sleeve.
The original LP release was a gatefold sleeve, with a black-and-white image of the underside of a Chieftain tank on the inside with the turret facing the rear, over which were printed Hensley's comments on each track. The front cover of the album depicted a British Chieftain tank, which connects to the title, as Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, is a military training area. Salisbury is skewed toward the progressive rock genre, with its 16-minute title track featuring a 24-piece orchestra and was also significant for Hensley's instant rise to a position as main composer of the group's music.
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