Well, it looks unbaked, so it very well could be all goat meat!!!Any "goat meat" in that there pie?
Second consecutive powerlifting session -- deadlift and back day -- accompanied by Live At The Inferno. I'm tllin' y'all that this "live" capture of Raven is giving even some of my "best" Metallica shows -- even Seattle 1989 (!), a run for the money.
The sequence of "One For All" > "Forbidden Planet" > "Star Wars", followed by "Tyrants Of The Airways" & "Run Silent, Run Deep", is an outstanding 18-minute run of Metal. Love it.
Addendum: I'm even thinking about adding the 'live' Raven LP to my Unsurpassed Master Guitarists thread cuz dang this Mark Gallagher has GOBS of great chops and KILLER TONE.
Hell, I'm adding this one.
@Delmarva -- back w/ the review of:
Witchfinder General
Friends Of Hell
(Heavy Metal Records, UK, 1983)
* Rip of original UK-issue vinyl LP
> First things first: while there is an obviously strong influence of Black Sabbath in WG's sound, they pull it off admirably and make it their own. Having a vocalist who operates @ a range of ~ 1/2 octave lower than Ozzie (of course) helps, but there's something else going on here, and I think I know what it is: The seeds of DOOM Metal. Yep, no less than that element is present and, certain Sabbath numbers aside, it's about the earliest and most consistent "early" application of what I think of as The Doom Metal sound I've heard outta any of not merely the NWOBHM ensembles but just about everything that preceded them. Even the upbeat, faster-paced, more "chipper-sounding" numbers betray the Doom element. All the while the band's "string section" achieves a very smooth overdrive w/ lush bits, here and there, of "fuzz". I dig it. I played it sorta loud but next time round I'm gonna play it VERY LOUD cuz this material will stand up to the challenge.
Boy now I really wanna hear their debut LP, i.e., Death Penalty (1982).
Wow. Witchfynde circa 1975. Long before there was any thought of a NWOBHM movement or much knowledge of punk rock. Should be a pure early '70s influence on the recordings.I finally got around to writing about an album I wanted to mention a few days ago. I said I would circle around to it, now I have.
Witchfynde "The Lost Tapes" 2lp. This is 5 tracks from 1975 and 2 tracks from a 1977 session. Never released in any permanent form until 2013 on Bad Omen records.
This album for me is really fantastic. I can really hear where the band was going, this is a heavy doom rock jammer. Really Sabbath influenced and very very much sounds like Witchfynde. Hearing this, then 'Give 'em Hell", everything just makes sense. The 5 songs from 1975 sound just fantastic and the 2 1977 track have a much more raw, poorly recorded rehearsal sound. But the songs are good
Wow. Witchfynde circa 1975. Long before there was any thought of a NWOBHM movement or much knowledge of punk rock. Should be a pure early '70s influence on the recordings.
7 songs on 2 LP's. I assume this is 45rpm.
Discogs is classifying it as Stoner Rock, Doom Metal, Sludge, etc. Crazy. Not the Witchfynde I'm familiar with. I love it!Nope, 33rpm last 2 tracks on their own separate lp.
I edited initial post to include discogs link.
https://www.discogs.com/Witchfynde-The-Lost-Tapes/release/5523432
Yeah it is killer.Discogs is classifying it as Stoner Rock, Doom Metal, Sludge, etc. Crazy. Not the Witchfynde I'm familiar with. I love it!
Just made my way through the whole album via digital files. Wow. This is not Stoner Doom, Sludge, Heavy Metal or anything else. It's very much it's own unique and beautiful thing. It's very progressive but with a stripped down street level vibe.
Wow. Witchfynde circa 1975. Long before there was any thought of a NWOBHM movement or much knowledge of punk rock. Should be a pure early '70s influence on the recordings.
7 songs on 2 LP's. I assume this is 45rpm.
Read this story about Mark Gallagher's near death experience and long road to recovery. He'll become even mightier in your eyes.
http://noisecreep.com/raven-survive-shattered-limbs-re-learn-to-fly/
Read this story about Mark Gallagher's near death experience and long road to recovery. He'll become even mightier in your eyes.
http://noisecreep.com/raven-survive-shattered-limbs-re-learn-to-fly/
Alright then.
Today marks four weeks since this thread got started. We're up to TWENTY FIVE pages of solid posts.
It's been a great sharing and learning experience thus far and we've barely opened the door.
Thank you sir. It's been quite the education for me and I'm the one who started the thread!Why? Because the topic and, especially, the contributors, of/to this thread have made it one of the most informative, engaging, spirited, and just plain fun threads we've had @ Music Forums or, for that matter, most of the other forums. I've cetainly been enjoying it, learning about so many bands I might have heard about YEARS AGO but never actually "heard" musically, in the offing am discovering some fantastically good material -- Raven, "the two witches", i.e., Witchfynde and Witchfinder General -- all of "witch" (heh heh) has been added to my weekly listening. How the hell (good word @ a NWOBHM thread, yes?) I managed to let more than three decades go by before "discovering" this band called Raven and, especially, Mark Gallagher's whole "thing" w/ the Tele and other geetars... ah, 't'was a crime against humanity, I tell yooze. And now I'm discovering that I am nearly as enamored of "those two witch" bands, maybe "....finder General" the most, what w/ their Sabbath "feel" but obviously advancing to what'd become Doom. Great stuff. Love this thread.