Witch Ripper Announce The Flight After the Fall Out March 3; Video Posted
Still not sure what witches ever did to these dudes, but Seattle Witch Ripper are set to debut on Magnetic Eye Records on March 3 with their second full-length, The Flight After the Fall, and accompanying that announcement is a shenanigans-fueled video for “Enter the Loop,” which leads off the record. By the end of it, you’ll likely agree the laser lightshow is well earned.
The LP is only five songs long, so I would expect maybe “Enter the Loop” at seven minutes to be pretty representative of where they’re coming from in that regard, but you can hear the metallic underpinning the PR wire talks about below, as well as all that proggy heavy rock flourish and groove that, you know, makes it fun. I dug their 2019 split with Brume (review here) — interesting that both bands have added a fourth member since — and though I’m kind of on the fence, I’m gonna give the record a shot when the time comes and see how it goes. Magnetic Eye‘s usually pretty on the ball. Worst that happens is I go ‘nah’ and leave it at that. Best that happens is lasers, figuratively speaking.
From the PR wire:
WITCH RIPPER release first video single ‘Enter the Loop’ taken from forthcoming new album “The Flight after the Fall”
Preorder: http://lnk.spkr.media/witch-ripper-the-flight
WITCH RIPPER have released the tongue-in-cheek video clip ‘Enter the Loop’ as the catchy first single taken from the forthcoming album “The Flight after the Fall”. The sophomore full-length of the American melodic sludge metal outfit is slated to hit stores on March 3, 2022.
WITCH RIPPER comment: “We wanted to start off our new album with a musical bang, and ‘Enter the Loop’ is clearly making a statement about this band”, guitarist and vocalist Curtis Parker writes. “Yes, we can play heavy riffs with pummeling drums, we all know that. Yet with the addition of Chad on guitar and co-vocals, we’re now able to execute big dramatic musical passages inspired by bands that we love like Queen and David Bowie. ‘Enter the Loop’ represents a launching-off point for us both in lyrical and musical terms. It lets people know that they’re in for something special, and that this musical journey is just beginning.”
Tracklist
1. Enter the Loop
2. Madness and Ritual Solitude
3. The Obsidian Forge
4. Icarus Equation
5 .Everlasting in Retrograde Pt. I & II
Born and raised in the city of grey skies and loud music, Seattle in 2012, Washington’s WITCH RIPPER have seamlessly welded together the contemporary heaviness of such hard-hitting acts as MASTODON, GOJIRA, and BARONESS with the anthemic quality of classic rock artists.
WITCH RIPPER have created a loving pastiche of the legendary pulp science fiction stories of old. The story told on their sophomore full-length “The Flight after the Fall” has all those tasty ingredients: a mad professor, his dying wife, cryogenic chambers, a black hole as well as themes of love, failure, loss, and acceptance.
Release date: March 3, 2023
Engineered by Derek Moree
Drums Aux at The Unknown, Anacortes, WA, USA
Guitar, bass, Vocal recording at The Boiler Room, Seattle, WA, USA
Mixed at Diamond Drives Studio, Black Diamond, WA, USA
Artwork and Layout by Chris Panatier
Line-up
Chad Fox – guitar, vocals
Brian Kim – bass, vocals
Curtis Parker – guitar, vocals
Joe Eck – drums
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Oh Snap. .. this was pretty good. Magnetic Eye has been putting out good stuff over the past few years