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Angel Witch - Sinister History
Copyright © 1999 Angel Witch
01.Baphomet (Demo)
02.Sorceress (Demo)
03.Extermination Day (Demo)
04.Flight 19 (Demo)
05.Hades Paradise (Demo)
06.Devils Tower (Demo)
07.White Witch (Demo)
08.Into The Dark (Live)
09.Devil's Tower (Live)
10.The Night Is Calling (Live)
11.Angel Of Death (Live)
12.Confused (Live)
13.Evil Games (Live
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If you can't get enough of the dead literalism in music that Angel Witch uncovered in NWOBHM riffing, nor the buttermilk (sweet and sour) vocal lines of head wailer Kevin Heybourne, missing this compilation of early demos is a massive loss on your part. In tracing metal's lineage back past Slayer, the alert researcher will notice a similarity in theme and construction of rhythm riffs between this band and the genre-shattering Americans, enough at least to justify a renewed interest in these British ragers. What is most immensely important about this band is the passion with which they tackled an old school task, that of hiding a melody and sense of structure in heavy music, with a foresight in aesthetics that presaged the coming of hardcore-influenced blastmasters in the metal genre. Songs glide gently from their beginnings into sweetly self-harmonizing but sourly dissonant melodies, which expressed in vocals and guitar together form a similar technique to that of Iron Maiden, in which harmony is played out linearly in composite interaction between guitars and vocals. Percussion is adept and while not necessarily innovative exact in its delivery of mood and emphasis. Lead guitars fuse a blues-rock tradition with a smattering of neoclassical elements, but most of all, a literate yet gutsy street smarts which is common to all popular music since the before Greco-Roman times. Although the writers of this web site mostly hate "heavy metal" as illiterate, boorish, degenerate rock music, we praise Angel Witch and select others for their insight.
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