Burning Witch
Biography
When it became apparent that underground metal favorites Thorshammer had to shut down their operation, the group re-formed intact (except for vocalist Ozma and bassist James Hale) and charted a musical course both slower and heavier than their previous partnership. The resulting project became Burning Witch, one of extreme music's all-time slowest, lowest bands. Darker than doom metal, spookier than sludge, Burning Witch explored the most secluded corners of negativity and depression. Subsequent artists have matched this group's minimal approach to metal in terms of beats-per-minute and ridiculously detuned instrumentation, but Burning Witch recordings will perhaps always be known for their unmatched reach into the maudlin depths of fear, paranoia, and the entire range of sour human emotion.
After putting the cult success that was Thorshammer to rest in 1995, guitarists Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson (the latter formerly of the post-rock Engine Kid) along with drummer Jamie Sykes formed Burning Witch with the explicit intention of topping their previous unit in terms of heaviness. The trio came one step closer to its lofty goal when bassist G. Stuart Dahlquist and vocalist Edgy 59 signed on to the project.
Selected Discography
Crippled Lucifer
2008
Man this s**t is creepy awesomeness, i love the weird screech the vocalist lets out!
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nothing like sunn 0))) both are great bw is one of my all time faves-rite now its slagmur and striborg.
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oh all right-sounds like Rush in your bowels when an icepick is slicing thru the layers of your blackened depressed small brain-povert y of the soul-if you can't relate to burning witch.
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nobody who has any brains does not know who in the f**k these f**kers are. well, you got your hellhammer and now thank god, gallhammer and Sunn0))))but maybe these f**kers are the darkest motherf**ker s of all-if lil miss misfit can forgive.
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