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Burning Plague is a hard blues band that was founded at the end of the sixties in and 
around Brussels as an answer to the reigning British and Dutch "blues boom" at that 
time (together with bands such as Kleptomania, Jenghiz Khan, Doctor Downtrip, 
Irish Coffee ...). 
Initially, the group consisted of Michael Heslop, Alex Capelle, Roger Carlier and 
Willy Stassen. Also Johan Verminnen was part of the group for a short while.
They specialized themselves in hard blues and boogie, as was recorded on their debut 
album "Burning Plague" of 1970. Thanks to "mythical songs" such as "A38", "Life is 
Nonsense" and "Night Travelin' Man" this album became a - for the genre - huge 
success (over 10,000 sold copies and a first place in the "PopHot"-hitparade of 
Télémoustique). 
Naturally, the group also did a large number of live gigs in Belgium, among which 
featured a place at Jazz Bilzen of 1970 (the lineup included Black Sabbath and 
The Kinks that year). After a tour of Zaïre together with Danny Lademacher's 
Kleptomania the group got disbanded.

1970 - Burning Plague (320)
1995 - Two (Reunion) (256)
1999 - Live At Last (1997-98) (320)