![]() The pressure to get it right in the studio was pretty intense. But I think the real spirit of the band would have been kept intact. But, yeah, we got rid of that stuff, went a different road, and didn’t start playing “The Night is Calling” live again until 2009, it goes down so well, we couldn’t drop it from the set. It could have totally failed, commercially. Imagine we’d recorded all those, in the “ real” Angel Witch way, without getting in a different singer and trying to move with the times…. He has a point, I suppose there is a live tape from 84 that has “Witching Hour”, “Dead Sea Scrolls” & “Don’t Turn Your Back”, plus there was the original arrangement of “Undergods” and “The Night is Calling”. Palmer is always boring us with his “imagine what the second Angel Witch album “ could” have been theory”. – I always loved “The Night is Calling” but in the mid-eighties, the other guys in Angel Witch didn’t want to record a track like this, I think they thought it was too old school or something, so we moved onto other things, which resulted in a period of the band which isn’t really worthy of the Angel Witch name in my opinion. How do you work when you choose which old tracks to rerecord? Do you remember all the songs you have perfomed live, or do you have to go back to old live recordings and relisten? How big are the changes made to these two songs? If I understand right, there are a couple of older, never recorded tracks present this time as well, in the form of “The Night Is Calling” and “Don’t Turn Your Back”. ![]() On that album you recorded a couple of older songs from the past. People liked it, because it had that original vibe of Angel Witch which they love, but I am just not sure that we executed it well enough. I wasn’t too sold on it, even back in 2012, if I’m honest. It has its great moments but, as a body of work, it doesn’t stack up, as far as I’m concerned. The material was OK, but with a bit more work those songs could have been really great! As it was, we just went into the studio and bashed out what we had and that was that. – The last record was a bit thrown together really. Which is fortunate, because we got it right this time round!Įven though the reception was generally great, was it something about that album you weren’t fully satisfied with and tried to do differently this time, or was the approach pretty much the same? Once the fog lifts, the creativity comes back and you start to look forward again. ![]() But myself, Will and Jimmy had to double-down, cut out the dead wood and carry on anew. It was very hard to deal with, and at my low points back then I did start to feel that it wasn’t worth it. Come around 2013 the vibe really began to hit rock bottom for a year or so, Bill Steer had to leave because he couldn’t juggle us with Carcass and certain people in the group just started to run their own agenda and attempt to sow division within the group. ![]() – I am always playing guitar and writing riffs and, ultimately, I always want to record new music, but there has to be the right feeling in a band for that to happen. When you released «As Above, So Below» in 2012, did you know you had another album in you, or did you finish the album with the thought: “Never again, not another album”? When the opportunity arose to hear Kevin Heybourne’s thoughts on the band’s brand new, fifth studio album, as well as some topics from the past, I didn’t hesitate a second. ![]() In retrospect, these songs fueled my interest in NWOBHM and underground metal in general. It might have been the mystical cover art that convinced me, I can’t recall having heard anything from the band, not even the song “Angel Witch”, but as I listened to the album, songs like “Angel Of Death”, “White Witch”, “Sorceress” and “Atlantis” to name only a few, really impressed me. Being a bit too young to experience the release of Angel Witch’s self titled debut, the band’s material still made a huge impact on me when I bought the vinyl version of “Angel Witch Live” at my local store when it was released through Metal Blade back in February 1990. ![]()
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