Witchery

Infobox musical artist
Name = Witchery


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Origin = Linköping, Sweden
Genre = Thrash metal
Speed metal [ [http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=218 Encyclopaedia Metallum - Witchery (Swe) ] ]
Death metal
Black metal
Heavy metal [ [http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,10076.sm WITCHERY | Rockdetector ] ]
Years_active = 1997–present
Label = Century Media
Associated_acts = Satanic Slaughter
Seance
Arch Enemy
The Haunted
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Current_members = Toxine (Tony Kampner)
Patrik Jensen
Richard Corpse
Sharlee D'Angelo
Martin Axe
Past_members = Mique

Witchery is a Swedish thrash metal band, formed by former members of Satanic Slaughter in 1997.

Begun in 1997 when their cult band Satanic Slaughter splintered, Witchery started as guitarists Patrik Jensen (The Haunted) and Richard Corpse, vocalist Toxine, drummer Mique, and bassist Sharlee D'Angelo (Arch Enemy, Mercyful Fate). In 1998 they recorded and released their debut, Restless And Dead by Necropolis Records. Later that year, Witchery released the Witchburner minialbum. The EP featured two originals and four cover songs bearing witness to the individual musicians’ influences. In 1999, Witchery embarked on a U.S. tour with Emperor and Borknagar. Their second full-length album Dead, Hot and Ready was unleashed soon thereafter, and a six-week early 2000 European tour followed. Symphony For The Devil, the band’s 2001 release, was recorded at Berno Studio (Amon Amarth, Dark Funeral) Malmö, Sweden with new skinsman, Martin “Axe” Axenrot (Bloodbath, Opeth). Witchery returned to tour North America later that year with The Haunted. Returning to Berno Studios in 2004, the band recorded Don’t Fear The Reaper, this time entrusting mixing duties to Tue Madsen and his Antfarm Studios (The Haunted, Heaven Shall Burn, Himsa). After recording the album, the band signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media.

Discography

"Restless & Dead" - Necropolis (1998)
# The Reaper
# Witchery
# Midnight at the Graveyard
# The Hangman
# Awaiting the Exorcist
# All Evil
# House of Raining Blood
# Into Purgatory
# Born in the Night
# Restless & Dead

"Witchburner" EP - Necropolis (1999)
# Fast As A Shark (Accept cover)
#* Originally released on the Restless and Wild album.
# I Wanna Be Somebody (W.A.S.P. cover)
#* Originally released on the W.A.S.P. album.
# Riding on the Wind (Judas Priest cover)
#* Originally released on the Screaming for Vengeance album.
# Neon Knights (Black Sabbath cover)
#* Originally released on the Heaven and Hell album.
# The Howling
# The Executioner
# Witchburner

"Dead, Hot And Ready" - Necropolis (1999)
# Demonication
# A Paler Shade of Death
# The Guillotine
# Resurrection
# Full Moon
# The Devil and the Damage Done
# Dead, Hot, and Ready
# The Devil's Triangle
# Call of the Coven
# On a Black Horse Thru Hell

"Symphony For The Devil" - Necropolis (2001)
# The Storm
# Unholy Wars
# Inquisition
# Omens
# Bone Mill
# None Buried Deeper...
# Wicked
# Called For By Death
# Hearse of the Pharaohs
# Shallow Grave
# Enshrined
# The One Within

"Don't Fear The Reaper" - Century Media (2006)
# Disturbing the Beast
# Stigmatized
# Draw Blood
# The Ritual
# Ashes
# Plague Rider
# Damned in Hell
# Crossfixation
# The Wait of the Pyramids
# Immortal Death
# Styx
# War Piece
# Cannon Fodder
# Legion of Hades

References

External links

* [http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=70 Witchery page at Century Media]