“You’re begging for mercy tonight”
There’s a killer on the loose in this highlight from Witch Cross’ 1984 debut album Fit For Fight. And a clown-faced one at that. The worst kind. Although this Danish band were geographically excluded from the movement, this track definitely has some raw New Wave Of British Heavy Metal magic to it. Funereal keyboards set the creepy tone before the predatory riffing kicks in. Brilliant Rhoads-esque guitar work here and the appropriately-named vocalist Alex Savage delivers the song’s deadly hooks with soaring ease. Highly recommended for fans of early Maiden, Riot and Witch Cross’ fellow countrymen Mercyful Fate. It’s jester killer.
HEAVY METAL OVERLOAD 
Still a staple of our live set, Alex sure set the bar high on this one mate! We were lucky enough to have it featured by Warner Brothers music in the Netflix series ‘Disjointed’ too.
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Total classic Kev. Alex really hit the high notes on this eh?
That’s cool about the series, did not know that!
I have the box set with this album on it but I bought the reissue High Roller put out last year too. Sounds great! And I got their Fighting Back comp too… brilliant stuff. Hope the new album is going well!
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Classic 1980s metal sound, I quite liked it.
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I learned a new adjective today, funereal (and the keyboard description is apt) – HMO, you’ve put the fun back in funereal keyboards!
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HMO… informative and fun!
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High Rollers have been great with the reissues, we enjoy working with them. The new album is all recorded, we have the wonderful Mike Exeter (Sabbath/Priest) mixing it. Looking to release early 2020.
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Cool. Look forward to it! HR are a great reissue label. Buy a lot of their stuff.
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Obviously I’ve never heard of these guys before, but this is pretty good. And an outrageous album cover… so I definitely need to investigate.
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It’s a cult fave. Get involved! Worth it for the cover anyway…
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No kidding. That cover is top 10 of ever ever stuff.
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One of our guitarists at the time, Cole Hamilton, painted it. He co wrote quite a bit on the album.
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Nice! Did not know that… the cover for Axe To Grind was pretty epic too.
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Yeah, Dimitar Nikolov is a great artist. He did exactly what we needed – if you look, it’s a follow on from the first album the warrior sailing to avenge the death of the buxom wenches ! 😎
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The buxom wenches died?!
… this is a sad day.
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In Rock n Roll…there are casualties my friend. Sometimes, even the good looking ones 😢
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I do pine for those days of olde where clothes were optional…
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It’s genuinely amazing. Outrageous. I like outrageous album art.
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