Witchskull

Witchskull from Canberra, Australia

Witchskull blend NWOBHM laced traditional doom with the aggression that you would expect a 3 piece Australian band to deliver. This energy, coupled with an authentic insight into the occult to create mesmerising lyrics, has won the band plenty of interest world-wide.

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The story essentially began with the band intending to record a demo at Melbourne’s Goatsound Studios with Jason Fuller (Blood Duster), and ended up recording 8 songs that became their debut album The Vast Electric Dark…In just 3 days.

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With no expectations the album went on to top the storied Doom Charts, received an incredible boutique vinyl release through America’s STB label, and received a worldwide release through Ripple Music to a slew of album of the year nods and rapturous reviews.

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Buoyed by this response, the band considerably upped the ante for their second album, Coven’s Will.

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Travelling to New York’s Studio G in Brooklyn with one of doom metal’s best producer/engineers Billy Anderson (Sleep, Eyehategod, Cathedral), and their “right hand man” Jason Fuller, the band set out to make the album they always wanted. Live to tape, no click tracks and most tracks captured in one-take. The results speak for themselves. Pure, in-your-face, no frills traditional doom metal delivered with primal aggression.

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At the end of the recording process, Witchskull made its international live debut headlining New York’s famed St Vitus Bar.

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Coven’s Will struck a chord with several international labels, but once an offer from Lee Dorrian’s revered Rise Above Records arrived, the choice was simple.

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The album was released in June 2018 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews, including a full page spread in the universally acclaimed metal bible “Metal Hammer”.

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Since then, the band has been flat out playing headline and international support shows up and down the East coast of Australia, as well as supporting New Zealand's finest exponents of sludge "Beastwars" both in New Zealand and Australia. - Witchskull.com