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Fortunately, however, what strikes most about Witchfinder General, in the varied maelstrom of NWOBHM, is not so much the themes or that kind of "proto-satanic metal iconography" (which nonetheless characterized a good part of the bands of the movement, think of Angel Witch or Witchfynde) as a precise stylistic and compositional choice: to enhance the energy and "drive" of the New Wave by putting them at the service – sometimes, it must be said, in an overly audacious manner – of the sound and dark and gothic atmospheres of the early Black Sabbath. Discover the review
Fortunately, however, what strikes most about Witchfinder General, in the varied maelstrom of NWOBHM, is not so much the themes or that kind of "proto-satanic metal iconography" (which nonetheless characterized a good part of the bands of the movement, think of Angel Witch or Witchfynde) as a precise stylistic and compositional choice: to enhance the energy and "drive" of the New Wave by putting them at the service – sometimes, it must be said, in an overly audacious manner – of the sound and dark and gothic atmospheres of the early Black Sabbath.
Witchfinder General thus presents themselves as a perfect blend between the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, the post-Black Sabbath Doom of St. Vitus, and the Black Sabbath themselves. Discover the review
Witchfinder General thus presents themselves as a perfect blend between the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, the post-Black Sabbath Doom of St. Vitus, and the Black Sabbath themselves.
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