Improved melodies, absolutely great lyrics and the classic Witch sound made this album a must for any metal fan.
A great beginning album with true classics like Priest of Evil, Flour in the Wind or Walpurgis Night.Ī year later, the second album came out, "Tales of Terror", that meant one more step ahead in Stormwitch sound. They soon became known as "the masters of black romantic", thanks to that unique combination of dark melodies and mystery lyrics created mainly by Lee Tarot, a die hard fan of the old terror literature from Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde or Thomas Hardy. Stormwitch (Andy Aldrian - vocals, Lee Tarot and Steve Merchant - guitars, Ronny Pearson - bass and Pete Lancer - drums) presented themselves with the typical leather and spikes image, recording the album in only eight days and releasing it in 1984. In 1983, after recording a four-song demo (Cave of Steenfoll, Priest of Evil, Walpurgis Night and Flour in the Wind), the band managed to get their first record deal of 5 albums, for the Gama records label, recording their first LP, "Walpurgis Night", at the famous Spygel studios, home of most of the bands mentioned above. At first, Peter Langer was pretty hesitant to accept Thomas (later known as Ronny Pearson) because of his early age, but his crazy ways on stage and demonstrating he was a real showman managed to get him a place in the band. Formed in 1979, under the first former name "Lemon Sylvan", the band went through some line-up changes, the last being bassist Wanschi replaced by a 16 year old teenager called Thomas Gleisberg. Bands like Gravestone, Noisehunter, Veto, High Tension, Tyrant.and of course Stormwitch.
Many bands with a special "teutonic" sound were coming out, most of them soon to disappear in the early eighties. It was 1981, and while the NWOBHM was kicking the world´s ass, in Germany things were a bit different. Now we´ve remembered that scenario, we can start telling the story of the Witch. Let´s go back to the eighties for a moment, when heavy metal meant unity, the bands were absolutely true and, anyway, there was a special mood in all the metal scene.
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