out June 5: Witches

The day of the new Witches work The Fates is here. In the late 1980s, Metal Archives shows, there was a pretty good flurry of activity once the band got under way in 1986, and they hit the ground with three demos (1988, 1988, 1991) and two in the early 1990s (1991, 1993), and in 1994 they did the debut album 3.4.1 (which, by the way, has a very positive review on Metal Archives). Then there was a demo in 1997, and a long period of apparent silence until 2007’s second album 7. In 2014 and 2015 there EPs, and now in 2020 some 29 minutes of old-school, no-nonsense, headbanging thrash/death. Expect the sharp, fast, tight thrashing riffs to pile up quickly, and die-hard, love-it-all fans of the classic thrash guitar sound should immediately be feeling at home and comfortable with the riffs. The death metal fan will like the growled vocals and high-speed moments like the blasting. The recording ends the way that it begins, intense, and seeks to leave the listener wanting more due to the compact and efficient style of the French band.

"After touring Europe with Venom inc and Vader in 2015, Suffocation in 2018, Japan (2017) and France (2019) with Hate Beyond (JPN), playing all around France and at festivals like Hellfest, Witches comes back with a new album for their 33 years anniversary! Sibylle Colin-Tocquaine (guitar, vocals) together with Lienj (Desarticulate, ex-Kaemorph…) and Jo 'Sangli' Juré (ex-Disaster, ex-Insain, …) create this brand-new album of Thrash Metal. Their Thrash is not only Thrash. Thrash with lots of Blast and which leaves a little room for breathing and melodies. It also mixes several types of Extreme Metal which gives a varied and very coherent whole. The album is mixed and mastered by HK at Vamacara Studio (Loudblast, Dagoba, Sinsaenum, Black bomb A, Les Tambours du Bronx, and lots more). The Artwork, by Headsplit design, illustrates the song WE ARE, first song of the album, and shows THE FATES that spin, unwind and cut the thread of men's lives. Their loom is made of bloody spears, their comb is a sword, their thread human organs…"

Witches - We Are

WITCHES - Jump with Fright @ Hellfest 2016 (Official Video)

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