Bewitched - Spiritual Warfare

Published Nov. 17 2006

*=Staff's pick	Fucked By Fire* Gracefallen* Let Darkness Come He Is In Me* Black Burning Hatred Glorious Are The Ways Of Death* Malevolent Force Of Destruction This Is Goodbye…* My Skin Loves The Steel Spiritual Warfare

Genre	Black Metal	Vargher	Vocals
Tracks	10	Vargher	Guitar
Runningtime	45 Min.	Hellfire	Guitar
Label	Regain Records	Wrathyr	Bass
Release	20 Nov. 2006	Stormlord	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Venom, Dimmu Borgir

Since the mid 90s Bewitched has followed their mission to spread darkness. This they do rather with old school black metal, than in the sense of the true evil Norwegian noise. That means it is closer to for example Venom than to Mayhem. But there are also some elements of thrash, death and doom. Looking at the promo pictures, the guys themselves want to be associated with black metal anyway. And, if you take it serious, it is a bit satanic. Further it is raw, energetic music. Most important, it is great music, performed by skilled musicians. That way the comparison with Venom fails as well.

Fucked By Fire starts of as a hybrid between black and thrash. Here the influences from Venom come to me. Gracefallen is slower and more of modern black. Let Darkness Come is almost doom-slow. Still with some distinct melody. Glorious Are The Ways Of Death is another dark slow composition, while Malevolent Force Of Destruction leans more to the aggressive. This Is Goodbye… is closer to classic heavy metal but with an extra touch of evil. Although I'm normally a bit sceptic to angry corpse-painted fellows, I cannot but admit that this is three quarters of qualitative music.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
7	6	8

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - David