WITCHFINDER GENERAL - Live '83 (1983) UK

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New 2nd pressing with updated booklet, cover art and correct audio mastering(Original CD-rip in FLAC for an excellente 100% quality sound with the HQ booklet scans)!
Okay NWOBHM and Doom Fiends our ultimate dream has finally come true! A lost recording from Ultra Doom Merchants Witchfinder General has been unearthed from the grave via Phil Cope and will soon be ready for release from Nuclear War Now Productions. The recording from 1983 shows the band in their finest form slowing the songs down a couple of notches for that extra doom feeling!
The incredible Guitar work of Phil Cope and the sinister vocals of one Mr.Zeeb Parkes backed by their strongest rhythm section of Rod Hawkes and Derm the Germ.This their first release in 23 years will crush all newcomers and have Hippies running back to their stoner records stored on their Ipods.

For the new and nu metal fans Witchfinder General were really the first band to capture the Black Sabbath feeling without ripping them off one bit,criminally under appreciated in their time all real doom fans understand the authentic and desperate vibe of the recordings.This out-scares anything currently out touting itself as stoner or extreme doom b.s.
The line-up in this last WFG' live album is: Zeeb Parkes (vocals), Phil Cope (guitars), Dermot Redmond (drums) and Rod Hawkes (bass).
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TRACKS:
1 Free Country
2 Burning a Sinner
3 Witchfinder General
4 Requiem for Youth
5 Shadowed Images
6 Friends of Hell
7 Death Penalty
8 Last Chance
9 Invisible Hate
10 Quietus
11 No Stayer
12 Love on Smack

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WITCHFINDER GENERAL - Buried Amongst the Ruins (2007) UK

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Witchfinder General, one of the few bands of the NWOBHM era to opt for the classic early BLACK SABBATH dirge rather than the more uptempo metal of most of their countrymen, has revealed the details of its upcoming collection of obscure material. Entitled "Buried Amongst the Ruins", the release couples for the first time the "Burning a Sinner" 7", "Soviet Invasion" 12" and four live tracks from 1981 (including the never-before-heard "Phantasmagorical"). The package also features never-before-seen photos of the band's original recording lineup of Zeeb Parkes (vocals), Phil Cope (guitar), Toss McCready (bass) and Steve Kinsell (drums) along with pictures of the original lyric book for many of the songs, gig flyers and original artwork and perhaps some other suprises. (Nuclear War Now! Description).

This is a must for all Doom freaks and NWOBHM maniacs out there.
WITCHFINDER GENERAL mainly gained fame after their disbandment. A NWOBHM band whose sound is clearly influenced heavily by Black Sabbath. The band became notorious for its album covers, featuring the band in medieval costumes torturing semi-naked women (witches). The band was one of the earlier bands with a Doom-metal'ish sound, and has reached cult status these days (esp. among older fans).
TRACKS:
"Soviet Invasion!" EP (1982)
1. Soviet Invasion
2. Rabies
3. R.I.P.
"Live '81" (never released)
4. Satan's Children (live)
5. Rabies (live)
6. Phantasmagorical (live)
7. Soviet Invasion (live)
"Burning a Sinner" 7" (1981)
8. Burning a Sinner
9. Satan's Children

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WITCHFINDER GENERAL - Burning A Sinner 7" (1981) UK

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This Midlands-based New Wave Of British Heavy Metal group are rather better remembered for two controversial album covers than for any of their actual music. Formed in 1979 by vocalist Zeeb Parkes and guitarist Phil Cope, with a name taken from a classic horror film, the initial line-up settled with a rhythm section of Toss McCready (bass) and Steve Kinsell (drums). Their debut single, "Burning A Sinner" (also jokingly known as "Burning A Singer"), revealed a primitive, Black Sabbath-influenced doom metal style, and was quickly followed by the "Soviet Invasion" EP, and a track on the "Heavy Metal Heroes" compilation. SAXON producer Peter Hinton was drafted in for "Death Penalty", recorded in three days with a session drummer - this position remained unstable - and bassist Rod Hawkes replaced the departed Kinsell and McCready. The album showed promise, although it suffered from the rushed recording process. Most attention centred on its sleeve, which featured a mock-sacrifice scene photographed in a graveyard, with a well-known topless model and friend of the band, Joanne Latham, appearing semi-nude. The subsequent publicity reached the UK tabloids, and the band attempted to repeat the formula with "Friends Of Hell", with the sleeve featuring several semi-naked models daubed with theatrical blood in a similar sacrifice scene, this time photographed in front of a church.

The first and very rare 7" vinyl from now legendary Stourbridge band WITCHFINDER GENERAL, considered by many as a one of the very influental doom releases ever.
The main track of the single, "Burning A Sinner", is the one of the earliest band's song, which was very popular and favourite on the band's gigs. Unhurried, with a gloomy athmosphere, typical for an early Black Sabbath, it describes the ceremony of auto-da-fe somewhere in medieval town. The lyrics are definitely were inspired by the classical horror movie "Witchfinder General" starring Vincent Price.
The single is completed with Side B, "Satan's Children" (by the way, it was a potential name of the band back 1979). Like Side A, this one is also heavy influenced by the early Sabbath, both musically and lyrically. Phil Cope's guitar sound and riff-construction is a great tribute to Tony Iommi. A worthy song in general, and as for slightly flippant and nasal Zeeb's vocals, I think it's even some kind of WFG's trademark.
Line Up: Zeeb Parkes (vocals), Phil Cope (guitars), Kevin "Toss" McCready (bass), Steve Kinsell aka Kid Rimple (drums).
TRACKS:
1. Burning a Sinner 3:24
2. Satan's Child 3:30

Cooming soon!!