On the opening track of the first disc 'Introduction' we get hit by the immersive fuzz bass of Gedeon 'Giddy Kings' Mwamulenga, juddering organ of Paul 'Jones' Mumba and smoking guitar by John 'Music' Muma and Chris 'Kims' Mbewe. When you first get introduced to the craft of WITCH, the thing that is most noticeable is how Western their deep psych sound is as if they were an idealised Pebbles or Nuggets band. The greatest of all of them surely must be the Zambian psych rock group who were in existence during the 1970s and 1980s and who have had their recorded output from 1972 to 1977 collected in this excellent box set by Now Again. Women of the dark arts are an international concern however, and so it follows that there have been many groups called Witch all across the globe – and not just amongst the practioners of heavy metal. (Unless you happen to be J Mascis of course.)
This speaks of a different time, when metal was a purely youthful male concern and the idea of a self-sufficient old woman with rudimentary knowledge of herbs and a pet cat was presumably a more potently terrifying one than it is now. Featuring amongst the ranks of the multiple entries are groups with the nomenclature Witch.
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There is nearly a full page of groups called Stonehenge and at least 15 called Death. Even though this is little more than a frivolous coffee table gewgaw it still manages to nail something about the adolescent wish fulfilment of four decades' worth of long hairs the world over.
It is literally an alphabetic list of 50,000 heavy metal groups with no other information contained within its pages. There is a fantastically daft book out on McSweenys called All Known Metal Bands 'by' Dan Nelson.
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