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Witch Charmer Post “Copernicopia” Video

Posted in Bootleg Theater on June 14th, 2017 by JJ Koczan

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Maybe it’s my heavy metal roots, but I remain a sucker for some good wordplay. Accordingly, the title of UK five-piece Witch Charmer‘s new track/video immediately caught my eye. Well, maybe not immediately. I had to read it twice, but once it sunk into my lizard brain, I got a legit chuckle out of “Copernicopia” — it’s like a cornucopia of Copernicus! — and the doomers back up that weighty song name with a rolling riff and trades between ethereal themes and burly delivery in the verses and choruses, so all the better. I guess when you decide to call something “Copernicopia” you have to make extra sure it doesn’t suck. Fair enough.

I hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe “Copernicopia” is the first new material to come from Witch Charmer since the band’s 2014 full-length debut, The Great Depression (review here), which makes the track all the more of an event. Frontwoman Kate McKeown and drummer Dave McQuilan share vocal duties, first in call and response as the former brings a sensibility to the early going not unlike what Sharie Neyland did for The Wounded Kings during her time with that sadly-defunct outfit, and the latter answering with a gruff dudeliness of the sort found throughout London’s busy heavy rock underground, eventually taking the fore over an uptempo section in the second half.

The video was recorded live, and presumably the same applies to the audio, so I don’t know if Witch Charmer have a new studio release in the works or where they might be in that process, but they’re clearly been putting together songs, so however they might show up, you won’t hear me complain.

Check out “Copernicopia” below, followed by more info/background on the band. Hope you enjoy:

Witch Charmer, “Copernicopia” live Blank Slate Session

Witch Charmer perform ‘Copernicopia’

Camera/Editor: Graeme Baty. Camera: Kenzie Cairns. Sound: David Curle First Ave Studios, Newcastle, Heaton

Witch Charmer are a five piece that play a unique blend of stoner rock, doom, metal & blues to create a rich tapestry to tell stories of darkness and depression about this world gone mad.

Euphoric Curse was the band’s first EP. It was self released on Bandcamp.com as a free or ‘name your price’ Mp3 download, as well as 2 pressings of 100 CDs. It received a great response from the underground stoner rock and doom scene. The response to Euphoric Curse invited a few interested record labels, Witch Charmer decided to work with Italy’s Argonauta Records to release their debut album ‘The Great Depression’ on CD & Mp3 worldwide in September 2014. The Great Depression was also released on Limited Edition cassette by Hevisike Records.

Witch Charmer is:
Kate McKeown – Vocals
Dave McQuillan – Drums & Vocals
Len Lennox – Guitar & Vocals
Adam Clarke – Guitar & Vocals
Richard Maher – Bass

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Ashes of Iron Post Stop-Motion Video for “Dances of Vanity”

Posted in Bootleg Theater on November 6th, 2015 by JJ Koczan

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I don’t know much about anything and I know next to nothing about most things, but I do know that stop-motion animation is hard as hell. My understanding is it’s hard as hell when you have a big-time corporate budget behind you, so, like everything, one imagines it’s even more difficult for an independent band — or, in the case of UK psych-prog rockers Ashes of Iron, for guitarist Tom Hoad — to dedicate the necessary time to such an endeavor. That only makes the results in the new Ashes of Iron video for “Dances of Vanity” more impressive.

The track comes from the band’s upcoming EP. When that’s expected out, I don’t know. What’s it called? How many songs are on it? Self-release? Physical pressing? I don’t know. I told you, not much about anything. But “Dances of Vanity” is the first audio from the Sunderland five-piece since the single “Idiot” followed up their self-titled debut in 2012, and while their moniker is deathcore-confrontational, or at very least ultra-dudely-doom, a progressive psychedelic rock pervades the track itself, smoothly textured and engagingly atmospheric across a six-plus-minute span as we see a body come together in the video to likewise hypnotic effect.

More to come on the Ashes of Iron EP when I hear it, but if you don’t know the band, the clip came out the other day and is a suitable introduction. As always, I hope you enjoy:

Ashes of Iron, “Dances of Vanity” official video

Ladies & Gentlemen, Many 100s of hours in the making and something us all in Ashes Of Iron are very proud of creating.

Please take a moment to wrap your eyes & ears around our new song and video from our forthcoming EP.

Dances Of Vanity is off our forthcoming EP. Video created by Tom Hoad. Thanks to Neil “The Beast” Bassett for recording & mixing and Tom Fletcher for playing the Lapsteel.

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Witch Charmer Sign to Argonauta Records; New Album The Great Depression Due Sept. 1

Posted in Whathaveyou on July 21st, 2014 by JJ Koczan

Today brings the news that UK doom rockers Witch Charmer have inked a deal to issue their first album, The Great Depression, via Italian imprint Argonauta Records. It will be the follow-up to the fivesome’s 2013 debut EP, Euphoric Curse, and is set to feature cover art by guitarist/vocalist Adam Clarke and a mix/mastering job by the omnipresent Tony Reed of Mos Generator, who, for a guy who doesn’t actually live in Britain, certainly finds himself involved in a lot of music coming from that part of the world.

Witch Charmer will head out tour ahead of the release of The Great Depression starting Aug. 16, and the dates can be found in the poster below, which also makes use of the album’s cover art. A rehearsal room demo of the song “Suffer” follows after the announcement of the signing, hoisted from Argonauta‘s page.

Dig it:

New signing: WITCH CHARMER!

After the great feedback received across the board for their debut E.P. “Euphoric Curse“, Sunderland (UK) based Stoner/Doom/Metal outfit WITCH CHARMER follow it up with their first full length record raising the bar on what came before. The band (featuring the talents of Kate McKeown – Vocals, Dave McQuillan – Drums & Vocals, Len Lennox – Guitar & Vocals, Adam Clarke – Guitar & Vocals, Richard Maher – Bass) expands on the sound from their previous release and add a monolithic slab of smoked out doom and groove to take you on a satirical journey to enlightenment.

“The Great Depression” has been mixed and mastered by Tony Reed (Mos Generator, Stone Axe) and will be released by Argonauta Records in September 2014. Just wait for a massive dark, groove-laden, heavy stoner-doom album that fans of Acid King, Purson, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Goatsnake & Electric Wizard cannot miss!

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Witch Charmer, “Suffer” rehearsal demo

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