WITCHCURSE...

UP THE HAMMERS FESTIVAL VII (2 and 3 MARCH)-ATHENS, GREECE

Only one month left and the band is ready for the first performance with the brand new line up!Unfortunatelly our new drummer(Hammer of Damnation) can't be with us in this live gig but we found an 18 years old drummer who is ready for the action! Up The Hammers Fest. is for sure the best and the only true heavy metal festival in Greece. The only festival here that come a lot of people from abroad and a great heavy metal meeting. This years line up:

FRIDAY 2 MARCH 2012:
SHOK PARIS (USA)
PAGAN ALTAR (UK)
HOLY MARTYR (I)
EVIL LYN (FIN)
SORROWS PATH (GR)
GAE BLOGA (B)
WITCHCURSE (GR)

SATURDAY 3 MARCH 2012:
SKYCLAD (UK) (SPECIAL OLD SCHOOL SHOW PERFORMING SONGS ONLY FROM THE FIRST 4 ALBUMS!!!)
CLOVEN HOOF (UK)
METAL INQUISITOR (D)
VALOR (GR)
AXEVYPER (I)
SERPENT SAINTS (DAN)
LETHAL SAINT (CYP)

Special guests: Remember Lizzy (Tribute to Thin Lizzy)
The amazing Greek tribute band to Thin Lizzy will take the stage by storm once the festival ends for a party all night long!

2 DAY TICKET: SOLDOUT
SINGLE DAY TICKETS: 30 EURO @ NO REMORSE RECORDS, SIRENS RECORDS, TICKET HOUSE

THE NEW WITCHCURSE LINE-UP

After many line up changes from September 2011 till now the final magick circle is:

POSSESSED-bass guitar/back vocals
NECRO-lead and rhythm guitars
SLAUGHTER-lead vocals
UNLEASHED-lead and rhythm guitars
HAMMER OF DAMNATION-drums

With this line up we will enter the studio for the recordings of our second album.

DETAILS FOR THE NEW UPCOMING WITCHCURSE ALBUM

Time has comen for more details in the new album.It will called "Gamble with the devil" and it will include 11 songs.Here are the titles:

1.Bad Trip To hell(Intro)
2.Call your name
3.Rock You Tonite
4.Black Witch
5.Get High(T.H.C.)
6.Dogs In Chains
7.Gamble With The Devil
8.Cover song-A real surprice
9.Rock 'N' Rot
10.Nuclear Bomb
11.Red Pentagram
12.Serpent's Strike

Lyrical Themes: Satanism,Occultism,Heavy metal life,Women
Musical style: We continuew in the TRUE way. Melodic and Raw with a really NWOBHM touch.
We worked this songs from summer 2010 till now really hard. There will not be an weak song.We have choosen only the Dynamites!And we worked every song again and again. After hard rehearsals we will enter the studio for the recordings next week.Soon you will see the results!!!!!!NO TIME FOR MISTAKES ONLY KILLER STUFF!Soon we will inform you about the copver artwork and the painter that we will choose for it(which will be really wellknown!)

SOLD OUT RELEASES

Last weeks we had 2 sold out releases.The first is split LP "Witchcurse/Witchunter-Defenders of the past"(Heavy Forces records-Germany 2009).
The second one is the 100 limited tape edition of our new ep "Still evil"(Inferno Records-France-October 2011).There are still copies of the 7"ep edition but run if you want one.Only few copies left.
The limited white vinyl edition of our first album "Heavy Metal Poison"(Heavy Forces Records-September 2010) is also sold out! I quess that few copies of the normal vinyl edition are still available from the label.We sold all of our copies from the first month of the release..We have also round 50 copies of the cd edition which was out from Inferno records and the last announcment of the label was to run and buy their copies because the release sells really fast....
Finally only 10 copies left in our stock from the cd re-release of the "Demon's warning" ep which was out from La medula Espinal Records-Ecouador(October 2011) as a split release with the German brothers Iron Kobra under the name "Heavy Metal Drunk Machine"(the original release of the ep was on tape back in 2008 from Herege Warfare prod-Portugal and it's sold out many years now). A new tape edition of this split release will be out soon from Raw Black Cult prod.

LIVE VIDEOS UPLOADED IN YOUTUBE

Follow the link and watch video by video an Witchcurse live gig in Germany back in 2010 in which we shared the stage with Metalucifer.All hail to the german maniacs!the atmosphere is amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ra_ywQ0Lco

REVIEWS FOR "STILL EVIL" EP

Here some links for reviews in the net.Of course there are many also in paper zines but these are better to read in paper as the underground origins suppose!
ENGLISH LANQUAGE:

http://battlehelm.com/?p=552
http://www.brutalism.com/content/witchcurse-still-evil

GERMAN LANQUAGE:

http://www.squealer-rocks.de/cdreview.php?var=2886
http://www.underground-empire.com/reloc.php?reloc=http://www.underground-empire.com/review.php?idx=12241

MERCHANDISE

WITCHCURSE has in stock:
"Heavy Metal Poison" album 2010(cd/tape)
"Still evil" 2011 (7"ep)
"Witchcurse/Iron Kobra:Heavy Metal Drunk Machine" (split re-release cd of "demon's warning" ep-last 10 copies) 2011
"Fantomania 3-Antidisco" (compilation cd includes "Defenders of the past" split LP with Witchunter songs plus cover songs of Fantom-Hungary) 2011
"The Witch Is Alive" 2008 (live tape-last 20 copies)
"Poisoning Europe Tour 2011" T-shirt front/back black with red stamps
"pins:logo,witch face"

CONTACT

c/o Dimitris Papachristos

I.Goura 9
54352 Thessaloniki
GREECE
e-mail: possessed666ia@hotmail.com
web: myspace.com/witchcurse6669
facebook.com/pages/Witchcurse/164533166897305