The Velvet Underground — White Light/ White Heat Earthless " Such snapshots into the

" Such snapshots into the Velvet Underground's twin sides make WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT indispensable

"Running" and "Hard Times")

The album was a continuation of the band's 1990s musical reinvention

Landmark albums such as "Effigy Of The Forgotten" and "Pierced From Within" went on to inspire the birth of the tech-death and slam death metal genres

and Steve Osborne

The Velvet Underground — White Light/ White Heat Earthless " Such snapshots into theVelvet Underground: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, piano); Sterling Morrison (vocals, guitar, bass); John Cale (vocals, electric viola, organ, bass); Maureen Tucker (percussion). WHITE LIGHT WHITE HEAT, the Velvet Underground's second album, is the band at their most calculated and perverse, but it also shows another side. It is a glimpse of the more accessible rock which Lou Reed wrote but wasn't entirely comfortable with until the group's third album.