Rush: The Complete Album-by-Album Guide

CARESS OF STEEL (1975)
Key Tracks: "Bastille Day," "Lakeside Park"
Quick Take: Loaded down with two heavy-handed, multi-part albatrosses in "The Necromancer" and "The Fountain of Lamneth," Caress of Steel collapses under its own weight. Lacking a decent power trio single, Steel has plenty of sci-fi wankery but little for even hardcores to latch onto.

Caress of Steel (Mercury)