Witchfinder General: C or D?

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cor don't get many of those to the pound luv

― dave q, Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

did they sound like The Outfield, or what?

― dave q, Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

nowt to do with the film of the same name, then?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Sunday, 10 November 2002 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

they ruled

― mammal, Friday, 17 October 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

but who were they?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought they were one of those New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands.

― Damian (Damian), Saturday, 18 October 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

probably. the name sounds right ...

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 18 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It's also the DJ trio of which I'm one third. Although I don't spin the tunes, I merely run around the venue ringing a bell and screaming at people.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 18 October 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.buoy.com/~bonfire/witch.html

more than you might even want to know. but if anyone ever asks you on the street who Kid Nimble used to drum for, you will have the answer handy.

― scott seward, Saturday, 18 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

They were a lot better than Witchfynde.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Witchfynde had at least one good song. the pseudo-Satanic, sub-Venom stuff seemed a bit incongrous though.

― Wyndham Earl, Sunday, 19 October 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

They're early Sabbath clones, prone to using photos of chubby pin-ups in nun garb being tortured in the sunshine days as album cover art. Great NWOBHM plodders who presaged the tedious late-90s stoner rock fad by 20 years. My favorite record is "Soviet Invasion," an EP lamenting the cold war with the lyric "What kind of country is Russia?..." So come correct.

Yes, they are every bit the dodgy operation that their Hammer Studios-inspired name demands. Taste the boulders, and writh under ropes mr. dj.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 20 October 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud.
People keep telling me how amazingly classic they are, but based on "Friends of hell", I can hardly see anything worthwhile. There's a few neat riffs stuck around on it, I'll grant them that; but there's very little else of note here, except the camp lyrics and cover art, if that please you.
The ballad is hilarious though!

Still, people keep telling me: "Witchfinder General, maaan!" so obviously there's something to be found there; but the frogs keep sneaking into my ears and creak it out of existence for me.

I'll stick with Candlemass.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

lol at this bans' lyrics

― chaki, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:59 (seventeen years ago)

I love this band. Found Friends of Hell on vinyl for $10 at a hipster record store here in Portland right before all the hipsters started buying Pentagram shirts. Lucky me!

Great riffs. Great production. Great sense of humor.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 03:24 (seventeen years ago)

ORRSOME and now that their early EPs have been reissued by nuclear war now i've got everything. well, except that live album.

i can't believe i missed this thread for the past five years.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 05:31 (seventeen years ago)

i enjoy the live album

― chaki, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 07:42 (seventeen years ago)

How come these guys have hipster cache and Angelwitch don't?

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 08:56 (seventeen years ago)

i refuse to believe WG have hipster cache. they barely have metal-dude cache.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 09:40 (seventeen years ago)

They're early Sabbath clones, prone to using photos of chubby pin-ups in nun garb being tortured in the sunshine days as album cover art.

CHUBBY?!

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 09:41 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, the only people I know that listen to WG are pretty obsessed with doom.

But I would say it's an easier sell than Angelwitch because it's slower and more Sabbathy. The guy has a great voice.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

How come these guys have hipster cache and Angelwitch don't?

same question for pagan altar.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

all the metalheads i know love Angelwitch

― chaki, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 02:37 (seventeen years ago)

Witchfinder General don't have hipster cachet. Angelwitch have absolutely no cachet. No songs either, just mediocre NWOBHM execution. Witchfinder had some tunes and an image slightly offensive enough to make them memorable for purists. Plus they had Zeeb, who was prone to announcing his name every so often in case you didn't know it.

As for the Witch bands, Witchfynde was much better than Angelwitch. But that's another story.

Now, what about Steve Zodiac and Vardis?

― Gorge, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 06:25 (seventeen years ago)

And the people on this thread keep mentioning Friends of Hell. The defining sound, tunes and lyrics are on Death Penalty.

Why to like Witchfinder General

― Gorge, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 06:35 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r32vt

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 5 March 2010 18:53 (sixteen years ago)

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