Witchcraft

Witchcraft is a powerful band hailing from Sweden. However, unlike many of their Swedish kin, Witchcraft choose not to express their music in death or even more repetitive black metal, but rather a frenzied, medieval/acid-metal freak-out. Like if Cream was crossed with early Sabbath. Claptonesque solos over fast, hard fuzzbox riffs and an 11th century/1970 Ozzy wailing over it all. Sometimes it is delivered in Swedish. They are highly fond of covering Pentagram, specifically their early, hard-to-get demo material that is just like Sabbath but not famous.

Visit their MySpace and listen to Wooden Cross and If Crimson Was Your Colour. There is also an exceedingly low-fidelity .mp3 of Not Angel Or Demon on their official website. But it's worth the static.

I hope to see them live soon. The closest show to me is the one in Brattleboro, Vermont at (and I quote from the Witchcraft website) 'A stone church with no name'. Like, how fuckin' badass can you be? If anything on this green earth is metal, that is. That will kick ass, considering also that they are supported by Witch, another good NWOARM band that is added to the "List Of Bands With Painfully Obvious Metal Names", along with The Sword and Witchcraft.