Additional trackinfo
All vocals are sung by David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes except 'Mistreated' which is sung by David Covedale alone.

Notes/Comments
The album was recorded during November 1973 in Montreaux with the Rolling Stones mobile unit. Engineered by Martin Birch and produced by Deep Purple.

Charts reached #3 in the UK, #1 in Sweden and Norway and #9 in US.
The US LP had a gatefold sleeve.

Two singles were released from the album, 'Might just take your life' and 'Burn'. Both had the instrumental track 'Coronarias Redig' on the B-side.

Reviews
I am convinced that "Burn" is based on the story of Cassandra in Homer's "Iliad". It was foretold that Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of Troy, would give birth to a firebrand, and this was Cassandra. After a disastrous affair with the god Apollo, Cassandra received the gift of prophecy, but with a price. No one would believe her. At the end of the war, Poseidon, whose epithet was "earth shaker", helped to destroy Troy, and Cassandra left as a prisoner of war with the Greek commander-in-chief Agamemnon.
  Consider again "Burn": The sky is red, I don't understand, past midnight I still see the land - He sees the shore of Troy because the city is engulfed in flames.
People are sayin' the woman is damned, - Of course the people would say this, she has been prophesying what to them seems madness.
  I didn't believe she was devil's sperm. She said, "Curse you all, you'll never learn! When I leave there's no return." The people laughed till she said, "Burn!" - I take "devil's sperm" here to be a reference to the gift of prophecy, which has gone awry. The people laughed at Cassandra, for no one believed her, and when she left with the conquering Greeks, there was indeed no return.
  Warning came, no one cared. Earth was shakin', we stood and stared. When it came no one was spared. - This could be a reference to Vergil's tale of the Trojan horse in Book 2 of the "Aeneid". In that scene, the Trojan priest of Neptune Laocoon strikes the horse with his spear, and immediately two sea serpents come out and kill him and his two sons. The earth "shakin'" is a reference to Neptune, the earth shaker, and the people standing and staring a reference to the Trojans who misinterpreted these events and took the deadly horse into their city.
  If David thought of any of this while penning "Burn", it is a testament to his education. If not, then great minds just run alike!

The first Deep Purple album to feature Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale, and as such, resulted in a much more bluesy effort all round. Coverdale's throaty roar, combined with Hughes' soaring vocal, made for a heartfelt, rootsy record. 'Might Just Take Your Life' was a hit single, and the album featured a series of extended jams, which worked most spectacularly with the elongated 'Mistreated', later resurrected by Coverdale as a live favourite with Whitesnake. The title track and 'Lay Down, Stay Down' gave vent to their more familiar refrains and emphasized the strength of their songwriting.

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