High Roller Records\/Playground<\/p>\n
V\u00e4xj\u00f6 band WITCHGRAVE follow up on their first outing, the mini album \u201cThe Devil\u00b4s Night\u201d. These satanic metal merchants have dedicated themselves to the NWOBHM they say, especially the likes of VENOM, HELL and ANGEL WITCH. Just a few years ago no one spoke of Dave Halliday (R.I.P.) et al, which caught my attention. The lineup is Jocke Norberg, vocals\/bass, Tobbe Ander, guitars, Gabriel Forslund, guitars, and Sven on drums. No keyboards here no. The titles are seeping with seventies horror movie themes\u2026so\u2026rock me!<\/p>\n
Opener \u201cRaising Hell\u201d is a piece of very raw-edged VENOM-ish music, paired with a sore throat screaming. No similarities with \u201cSave Us from Those Who Would Save Us\u201d there nope. \u201cThe Virgin Must Die\u201d has me thinking more of a rough MERCYFUL FATE, or possibly PORTRAIT. The lyrics shout WITCHFINDER GENERAL meets VENOM before copulating with BLACK WIDOW. The riff is perfect, but yet again the roughness, which reminds me of DEVIL LEE ROTH. The album continues along those lines as BLACK SABBATH is continuously paired with vomiting vocals and crude guitar sounds. There might be a lot of NWOBHM in the guitars, but that is sort of drowned in the flood of vocal excesses. The finest moments are \u201cThe Virgin Must Die\u201d, that echoes of every out of print in your face satanic panic early seventies horror movie you can find on YouTube, and the SAXON-esque \u201cMotorcycle Killer\u201d. The latter being the first ever interpretation of what it would have sounded if Tony \u201cDemolition Man\u201d Dolan would have done a surprise move in the mid eighties and all of a sudden became the front man of SAXON! Otherwise I think closing track \u201cShun the Light\u201d says it all. These blackened metal warriors do a crude take, in the last track spiced by an anomaly of doomy overtones, on VENOM, with nothing much more in common with the New wave of British Heavy metal. <\/p>\n
Track List
\nRaising Hell
\nThe Virgin Must Die
\nRites of the Dead
\nThe Apparition
\nSeduced by the Dark
\nThe Last Supper
\nMotorcycle Killer
\nShun the Light<\/p>\n
www.hrrecords.de www.myspace.com\/witchgrave <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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