Hellwitch - Final Approach
When I told Ray I’d never heard Hellwitch, he looked at me as if I had just farted in his dinner (spray fart). Assuring me that I was in fact a poser for not recognizing the glory and importance of these influential forefathers, who apparently much like MacGuyver, created Death Metal in 1984 using a cotton swab and an old antenna. Well, I can still count the number of times my endeared mentor has been wrong on one hand, but as it turns out, I had not heard these guys for a reason. I hope the Necrowarlord can forgive me, but I wonder if his fondness for this band isn’t more directly tied to the era of their arrival rather than the actual material. (You see kids, Metalheads, or just white guys in general, could actually get laid in the ’80s.) What I’m hearing is some pretty dated Thrash here. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely not bad, and for its time it’s pretty god damn extreme, but it’s nothing I haven’t heard Exodus, Kreator, and Destruction do 1,000 times better, and by today’s standards it sounds plain tired. Still, diehard fans of Hellwitch will need this reissue more than their oxygen tanks, as it is loaded with rare demo tracks and rehearsals, and it serves as a proper history lesson for posers like me.
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