Witchery

Thursday, 05 August 2010 20:06

Band: Witchery
Album: Witchkrieg
Label: Century Media
Tracks: 11
Release Date: 2010-06-21
Lenght: 37' 42" 2010 sees "Witchkrieg", where Witchery greet a number of illustrous guests, among them Hank Sherman (Mercyful Fate, Demonica), who was guesting on three former discs by Witchery. Furthermore Gary Holt and Lee Altus (Exodus), Andy LaRocque (King Diamond) and Jim Durkin (Dark Angel) are playing on the "Witchkrieg" album.

The fifth album of the Scandinavians is the first with new singer Legion (ex-Marduk, Devian).

"He lives close to our hometown Linköping. We wanted someone with experience. He only needed two days for the vocals of the whole record, he was a good choice!"

All the wizards of Witchery have other bands, Jensen plays with The Haunted; solo-guitarist Rickard Rimfält rocks for Séance; bassplayer Sharlee D´Angelo is in charge of the deep end of Arch Enemy and Spiritual Beggars; while drummer Martin Axe hits the skins of Opeth and Bloodbath.

String-Satan Kerry King was ready and willing when Witchery asked him to contribute an ultra-brutal guitar solo. The fretboard wizadry of the "King Of Thrash" crowns "Witchkrieg", opener and title-song of the brandnew album by allstar-quintett Witchery. Guitarplayer Jensen had met Kerry 1999 on the first US-tour of his band in Los Angeles after Witchery´s show at the Whiskey A Go Go.

"He came on our bus and we partied. At 6´o clock in the morning we were the only ones still awake. We played air guitar while listening to old Rainbow records", (Patrick) Jensen remembers.

"At the Roskilde festival in Denmark I bumped into him again. I played him the song, he listened to it three times straight and said: ,Yeah, I do it."

As far as the style of music is concerned, Witchery go for the classic bands, the choice of their guests speaks volumes. The fivesome mixes elements from Death-, Black- and Heavy Metal. In their lyrics subsequently creatures show up, which are known from 80s horror movies. Death and the devil are as important as werewolves, witchhunters and hellhounds. Jensen sums it up:

"We play party music without singing about whiskey and women.“






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