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I just want to carry on what Sabbath started, states front-man Necroskull. I want to keep that old flame alive. I think
that’s always been what all the great doom bands have strive to do. It’s a tremendous honor to add our own color to the
great tapestry of doom metal
Smoldering away in the dark corners of metal since Black Sabbath birthed it with that immortal tritone, doom has lurked in the
shadows for decades, waiting for the earth’s lost souls to find their solace in it. Following in the footsteps of Sabbath, Saint
Vitus, Candlemass, Trouble, Cathedral, Reverend Biz ...read more
I just want to carry on what Sabbath started, states front-man Necroskull. I want to keep that old flame alive. I think
that’s always been what all the great doom bands have strive to do. It’s a tremendous honor to add our own color to the
great tapestry of doom metal
Smoldering away in the dark corners of metal since Black Sabbath birthed it with that immortal tritone, doom has lurked in the
shadows for decades, waiting for the earth’s lost souls to find their solace in it. Following in the footsteps of Sabbath, Saint
Vitus, Candlemass, Trouble, Cathedral, Reverend Bizarre and countless other greats who have carried the torch for this genre
are Hampshire doom disciples Witchsorrow – a triumvirate for whom this music is a calling, an obsession.
Formed by singer/guitarist Necroskull and bassist Emily Witch to embody their love for the form, from their first embers in
2006, Witchsorrow’s puritanical devotion to doom has become their life’s work. Armed with riffs forged in the same Iommian
fires as their doom metal forebears, they have fanatically explored the genre for new sparks to stoke the fire – all the time
biting their thumb at the world they hate. And with the riffs, misanthropy and pure doom worship of 2010’s self-titled debut,
2012’s Armageddon-invoking God Curse Us, and the heavy metal thunder of 2015’s No Light, Only Fire, Witchsorrow have
earned a reputation as one of the UK’s finest underground doom outfits. Think the atmosphere of early Cathedral, Electric
Wizard’s heaviness, the heavy metal heart of Candlemass or Solitude Aeturnus and you’re in Witchsorrow’s parish.
The band’s name quickly spread, and appearances with such doom luminaries (doominaries?) as Saint Vitus and Electric
Wizard followed, as well as crushing appearances at Download 2016, Roadburn, Desert-fest, Bloodstock, Damnation, and
Germany’s Stoned From The Underground festivals, and the time they duked it out with Metallica headlining the Jagermeister
Stage at Sonisphere.
Now, a new dawn breaks, and the band are currently sharpening their claws to record the follow-up to No Light, Only Fire at
Skyhammer with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial, Electric Wizard), set to land early 2018. In a world of President Trump, the
Armageddon so referenced in the band’s lyrics seems closer than ever – this will be the soundtrack. « hide |
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