Abominog
| Abominog | ||||
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| Released | April 1982 | |||
| Recorded | October and December 1981 | |||
| Studio | Roundhouse (London) | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 41:48 | |||
| Label | Bronze | |||
| Producer | Ashley Howe | |||
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Abominog is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band Uriah Heep, released in April 1982 by Bronze Records in the UK, and on 12 July 1982 by Mercury Records in the US. It was their first album without keyboardist Ken Hensley. The album was critically acclaimed and fairly commercially successful, due in part to the band retooling and updating their sound to a polished contemporary hard rock style, "delivering a punchier, more pop-metal–oriented sound", according to AllMusic.
The album featured their final US hits, "On the Rebound" and "That's the Way That It Is". The latter was their highest-charting single of the 1980s, reaching No. 25 on the American rock airplay chart.
The album was preceded by a 7-inch EP titled Abominog Junior, featuring "On the Rebound" and two non-album tracks: the Small Faces cover "Tin Soldier", and the original song "Son of a Bitch".