Angel Witch

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Line Up
Kevin Heybourne (v,g) – also in Deep Machine and Blind Fury
Jimmy Martin (g) – also in Teeth of the Sea
Will Palmer (b) – also in Sloth and Mourn
Fredrik Jansson (d) – also in Witchcraft, Count Raven, Atlantic Tide, Noctum, Lugnet, Abramis Brama and Taiwan

Roger Marsden (v) (1982) – also in Deep Machine and E.F. Band
Dave Tattum (v) (1984-1986) – also in Skin Deep and Bill The Murderer
Rob Downing (g) (1978)
Grant Dennison (g) (1989-1990)
Doug Piercy (g) (1990-1991) – also in Heathen, Anvil Chorus, Control, The Company and Parryzide
Lee Altus (g) (2003) – also in Exodus, Heathen and Die Krupps
Chris Fullard (g) (1996) – also in Winters
Myk Taylor (g) (1996-1998)
Keith Herzberg (g) (2000-2002)
Bill Steer (g) – also in Napalm Death, Carcass, Gentlemans Pistols, Disattack and Firebird
Kevin Riddles (b) (1978-1981) – also in Samson and Tytan
Jerry Cunningham (b) (1982)
Pete Gordelier (b,v) (1984-1987, 1989) – also in Soldier, Marquis de Sade and Blind Fury
Jon Torres (b,g) (1989-91, 1998-99, 2003-4) – also in Laaz Rockit, Slough Feg, Ulysses Siren, Warning S.F., Pleasure and Pain, Heathen, I4NI and Repulsa
Ritchie Wicks (b,v) (2000-2002) – also in Tygers of Pan Tang and ShadowKeep
Steve Coleman (d) – also in Blind Fury (1977-1978)
Dave Hogg (d) (1978-1980, 1984-1985)
Dave Dufort (d) (1980-1981) – also in Nevada Foxx, Deep Machine, E.F. Band, Tytan, Lionheart, Mike Oldfield, Epizootic, Kevin Ayers, Paper Blitz Issue, Screaming Lord Sutch, Phantasm, Troy, The Scenery and The Voice
Ricky Bruce (d) (1982) – also in Deep Machine
Spencer Holman (d) (1984-1986, 1989)
Tom Hunting (d) (1990-1991) – also in Exodus, I4NI, IR8, Pleasure and Pain, Piranha, Quarteto de Pinga, Repulsa, Sexoturica and Wardance
Darren Minter (d) (1994-1998) – also in Heathen, SoulMotor, Brutal Groove, Dissident Aggressor and Die Krupps
Scott Higham (d) (2000-2002) – also in ShadowKeep
Andy Prestridge (d) (2008-2015) – also in Winters, The Oath, Warning, Lucifer, Kane, Cortizone and Tytan
Alan French (d) (2015-2016) – also in Firebird, Mourn, Purson, Sloth and Reactor

Notes:
– Their story begins in South London under the name Lucifer. The year was 1977.
– In the early days Maiden supported them on a few gigs.
– The single “Sweet Danger” made it to #75 in the UK singles chart.
– Spencer Holman (d) and Pete Gordelier (b,v) were also in Angel Witch in 1989 for the US West Coast tour. The first US lineup only lasted for about a month until Jon Torres joined.
– Angel Witch did not exist from 1991-1998 after Heybourne was deported from US

Discography

Demo 1978

1. Baphomet
2. Sorceress
3. Extermination Day
4. Flight 19
5. Hades Paradise
6. Devil’s Tower
7. White Witch

*This demo is included in the 30th Anniversary Reissue of their debut album (2010) and in “Sinister History” (1999)

Demo 1979

1. The Sorcerer
2. Devils Tower
3. White Witch
4. Extermination Day

Demo 1983

1. Evil Games
2. They Wouldn’t Dare
3. Nowhere to Run

Psychopathic

CASSETTE Self Released (1987)

1. Psychopathic
2. Time To Die
3. Violence
4. Silent But Deadly

Twist Of The Knife

CASSETTE Self Released (1990)
CD-R Self Released (1998)

1. Twist Of The Knife
2. Pyschopathic
3. Slowly Sever

*CD-R limited to 150 copies

Resurrection

CASSETTE Self Released (1998)

1. Worm
2. Scrape The Well
3. Innertia
Sweet Danger

7″ EMI (1980) EMI 5064
12″ EMI (1980) 12 EMI 5064

1. Sweet Danger
2. Flight Nineteen
3. Hades Paradise (only on the 12″)

*Promo copies without sleeve also exist

Angel Witch

7″ Bronze Records (1980) BRO 108

1. Angel Witch
2. Gorgon

Angel Witch

7″ Victor Musical Industries (1980) VIPX-1554

1. Angel Witch
2. Gorgon

Loser

7″ Bronze Records (1980) BRO 121

1. Loser
2. Suffer
3. Dr. Phibes

Goodbye

7″ Killerwatt Records (1985) KIL3001

1. Goodbye
2. Re-Awakening

*Released without picture sleeve

They Wouldn’t Dare

7″ Archaic Temple Productions (2003) Treasure 002

1. They Wouldn’t Dare
2. Nowhere To Run
3. Evil Games
4. They Wouldn’t Dare (live)

*Recordings from 1982 – Limited to 666 copies

Condemned

7″ Metal Blade (2019)

1. Condemned

*Flexi single-sided disc given with issue #32 of the German magazine Deaf Forever (Oct. 2019)
Angel Witch

Original cover

Roadracer CD cover 1990

Bronze/Victor Japanese cover with obi

Earmark picture disc

1. Angel Witch
2. Atlantis
3. White Witch
4. Confused
5. Sorcerers
6. Gorgon
7. Sweet Danger
8. Free Man
9. Angel Of Death
10. Devil’s Tower

Vinyl editions

LP Bronze Records (1980) BRO 2044
LP Bronze Records (1980) BRON 532
LP Bronze Records (1980) 203 191-270
LP Bronze Records (1980) 203 191-320
LP Festival Records (1980) L-37531 (Australia)
LP Bronze Records/Victor (1981) VIP-6756 (Japan)
LP Bronze Records/Victor (1981) VIP-6756 (Japan, white label promo)
LP Bronze Records (1984) 823 609-1(Brazil)
LP Castle Communications (1991) CLALP 239
LP Picture Disc Earmark (1998) 41015p
LP Earmark (2003) 41015p (Gatefold)
LP Real Gone Music (2016) RGM-0471 – Flame Marbled vinyl (limited to 1000 copies), White vinyl (limited to 500 copies), Red/Black vinyl (limited to 300 copies)
LP Back On Black (2018) BOBV479LP – Gatefold, Red vinyl

CD editions

CD Teichiku Records (1989) 18DN-59 (Japan)
CD Roadracer (1990) RRD 9351 (US – 3 bonus tracks from the ‘Loser’ 7″)
CD Castle Communications (1991) CLACD 239
CD Victor Entertainment (1993) VICP 2086 (Japan)
CD Castle Communications (1998) ESM CD 598 (6 bonus tracks from singles)
CD Castle Music (2000) CMA CD 563 (3 bonus tracks from the ‘Loser’ 7″)
CD Castle Music (2005) CMQCD1157 (10 bonus tracks – slipcase)
CD Sanctuary (2007) SMBCD429
SHM-CD Universal (2009) UICY-93876 (Japan)
2CD Sanctuary (2010) 2741049 (30th Anniversary deluxe digipack)
CD Sanctuary (2013) UICY-75519 (Japan – 10 bonus tracks)

Bonus tracks from Castle Music CD (2005), Universal SHM-CD (2009) and Sanctuary (2013)

11. Loser (Loser 7″)
12. Suffer (Loser 7″)
13. Dr. Phibes (Loser 7″)
14. Flight Nineteen (Sweet Danger 12″)
15. Baphomet (Metal For Muthas)
16. Hades Paradise (Sweet Danger 12″)
17. Sweet Danger (BBC Friday Rock Show 14/03/1980)
18. Angel Of Death (BBC Friday Rock Show 14/03/1980)
19. Extermination Day (BBC Friday Rock Show 14/03/1980)
20. Angel Witch (BBC Friday Rock Show 14/03/1980)

Bonus tracks from the Sanctuary 2CD (2010)
CD1 – The above BBC Friday Rock Show session
CD2 –

1. Devil’s Tower (demo)
2. White Witch (demo)
3. Baphomet (demo)
4. Sorceress (demo)
5. Extermination Day (demo)
6. Flight Nineteen (demo)
7. Hades Paradise (demo)
8. Baphomet (Metal For Muthas)
9. Sweet Danger (Sweet Danger 12″)
10. Hades Paradise (Sweet Danger 12″)
11. Flight Nineteen (Sweet Danger 12″)
12. Angel Witch (Angel Witch 7″ Single Edit)
13. Gorgon (Angel Witch 7″)
14. Loser (Loser 7″)
15. Suffer (Loser 7″)
16. Dr. Phibes (Loser 7″)

Other Formats

CASSETTE Roadracer (1986) RRC 9351

Screamin’ N’ Bleedin’

LP cover

CD cover

LP Killerwatt Records (1985) KILP 4001
CD Archaic Temple Productions (2004) TREASURE 005

1. Whose To Blame
2. Child Of The Night
3. Evil Games
4. Afraid Of The Dark
5. Screamin’ N’ Bleedin’
6. Reawakening
7. Waltz The Night
8. Goodbye
9. Fatal Kiss
10. U.X.V.

CD bonus tracks Live recordings from Ridderkerk, Netherlands 1986
11. Frontal Assault
12. Screamin’ N’ Bleedin’
13. Straight From Hell

Frontal Assault

Killerwatt UK LP

JCI USA LP

LP Killerwatt Records (1986) KILP4003 (UK)
LP JCI Records (1988) JCI -9014 (USA)
CD JCI Records (1988) JCD-9014 aka ‘Frontal Assault [US Promo]’
CASSETTE JCI Records (1988) JCT-9014

1. Frontal Assault
2. Dream World
3. Rendezvous With The Blade
4. Religion (Born Again)
5. Straight From Hell
6. She Don’t Lie
7. Take To The Wing
8. Something Wrong
9. Undergods

* All the US formats of this release from JCI have the following tracklist:
1. Dream World
2. She Don’t Lie
3. Frontal Assault
4. Something Wrong
5. Straight From Hell
6. Evil Games
7. Waltz The Night
8. Goodbye
9. Fatal Kiss
10. Whose To Blame

Tracks 1-5 are from ‘Frontal Assault’, tracks 6-10 from ‘Screamin’ ‘n’ Bleedin”

As Above So Below

album cover

vinyl slipcase

Vinyl editions

2LP Rise Above Records (2012) RISELP145
– Clear vinyl with an 7″ (Devil’s Tower) limited to 100 copies (slipcase)
– Blue vinyl limited to 250 copies
– Black vinyl limited to 500 copies (slipcase)
– White vinyl limited to 1000 copies
– Red vinyl limited to 1000 copies

*Records play at 45rpm

CD editions

CD Rise Above Records (2012) RISECD145 (slipcase)
CD Rise Above Records / Metal Blade (2012) 3984-15086-2 (slipcase)
CD Trooper Entertainment Inc. (2012) QATE-10020

1. Dead Sea Scrolls
2. Into the Dark
3. Geburah
4. The Horla
5. Witching Hour
6. Upon This Cord
7. Guillotine
8. Brainwashed
9. Devil’s Tower (Japanese Bonus)

Angel Of Light

CD Metal Blade (2019) 3984-15671-2
CD Nippon Columbia (2019) QATE-10119
LP Metal Blade (2019) 3984-15671-1
Box Set Metal Blade (2019) 3984-15671-1

1. Don’t Turn Your Back
2. Death from Andromeda
3. We Are Damned
4. The Night Is Calling
5. Condemned
6. Window of Despair
7. I Am Infamy
8. Angel of Light

*Japanese CD pressing on Nippon Columbia includes a demo recording of The Night is Calling as bonus
*LP available in Light Yellow (200 copies), Clear (100 copies), Red (unknown yet), Sungaze Swirl (100 copies), Orange (400 copies), Orange & Purple marbled (666 copies)
*Box set limited to 1000 copies and includes the following:
– Digipack CD
– LP pressed in Red/White/Black marbled vinyl
– 7″ with re-recorded versions of the tracks ‘Frontal Assault’ & ‘Straight from Hell’ originally from the album Frontal Assault (1986)
– Angel of Light backpatch
– Angel of Light art print

ANGEL WITCH - Give It Some Tickle

Give It Some Tickle

CASSETTE (1981)

1. Sweet Danger
2. They Wouldn’t Dare
3. Angel Of Death
4. The Sorceress
5. Confused
6. Evil Games
7. Gorgon
8. White Witch
9. Baphomet
10. Angel Witch
11. Devils Tower
12. Paranoid

*Official Fan Club release. Tracks recorded at Norbeck Castle, Blackpool 29th Jan 1981

ANGEL WITCH - Doctor Phibes

Doctor Phibes

LP Raw Power (1986) RAWLP 025

1. Angel Witch
2. Atlantis
3. White Witch
4. Confused
5. Sorcerer
6. Loser
7. Doctor Phibes
8. Gorgon
9. Sweet Danger
10. Free Man
11. Angel Of Death
12. Devil’s Tower
13. Suffer

*This is basically the first album with the 3 tracks from the “Loser” 7′ single

Screamin’ Assault

1988 cover

1995 cover

CD Killerwatt Records (1988) KILCD 1001
CD Killerwatt Records (1995) KILCD 1001

1. Dream World
2. She Don’t Lie
3. Frontal Assault
4. Something Wrong
5. Straight From Hell
6. Reawakening
7. Screamin N’ Bleedin’
8. Waltz The Night
9. Rendezvous With The Blade
10. Goodbye
11. Take To The Wing
12. Fatal Kiss
13. Underdogs
14. U.X.V.

*compilation with tracks from the “Screamin N’ Bleedin'” and “Frontal Assault” albums

ANGEL WITCH - Live

Live

LP Metal Blade (1990) ZORRO 1
CD Metal Blade (1990) CD ZORRO 1
CD Metal Blade (1990) 7 73443-2
CASSETTE Metal Blade (1990) 7 73443-4

1. Angel of Death
2. Sweet Danger
3. Confused
4. Sorceress
5. Gorgon
6. Baphomet
7. Extermination Day
8. Atlantis
9. Flight 19
10. Angel Witch
11. White Witch

*Recorded live in Los Angeles

ANGEL WITCH - Paranoid

Paranoid

CD Midas Touch (1995) 95811 (bootleg)

1. Sweet Danger
2. They Wouldn’t Dare
3. Angel Of Death
4. Sorceress
5. Confused
6. Evil Games
7. Gorgon
8. White Witch
9. Baphomet
10. Angel Witch
11. Paranoid

*Same gig as with the “Give It Some Tickle” cassette. Might have sound or edit differences

’82 Revisited

High Vaultage & Magnum cover

2006 Mausoleum cover

CD High Vaultage (1996) HV-1005
CD Magnum (1997) CDTB 173
CD Mausoleum (2006) 251061

1. Gorgon
2. Nowhere to Run
3. They Wouldn’t Dare
4. The Sorceress
5. Evil Games
6. White Witch
7. Angel of Death
8. Angel Witch
9. Evil Games
10. They Wouldn’t Dare
11. Nowhere to Run

Tracks 1-8 recorded live at East Anglian Rock Festival 24 July 1982
Tracks 9-11 are studio recording from 1982 same in the “They Wouldn’t Dare” 7″

*The Mausoleum pressing is titled “Angel Of Death: Live At The East Anglia Rock Festival”

Resurrection

Crook’d Records cover

ANGEL WITCH - Resurrection Zoom Club Records

Zoom Club Records cover

Mausoleum cover

CD self-released (1998)
CD Crook’d Records (2000) CR003
CD Zoom Club Records (2000) ZCRCD34
CD Mausoleum (2003) 92512
CASSETTE self-released (1998)

1. Psychopathic 1
2. Time To Die
3. Violence
4. Silent But Deadly
5. Twist Of The Knife
6. Psychopathic 2
7. Slowly Sever
8. Worm
9. Scrape The Well
10. Inertia

Tracks 1-4 “Psychopatic” Demo (1987)
Tracks 5-7 “Twist Of The Knife” Demo (1990)
Tracks 8-10 “Resurrection” Demo (1998)

Sinister History

LP cover

CD cover

LP Archaic Temple Productions (1999)
LP Archaic Temple Productions (1999) limited to 666 copies Golden vinyl
12″ Picture Disc Archaic Temple Productions (2004) limited to 245 copies
CD Zoom Club Records (1999) ZCRCD21

1. Baphomet
2. Sorceress
3. Extermination Day
4. Flight 19
5. Hades Paradise
6. Devil’s Tower
7. White Witch
8. The Night Is Calling (Live)

*All recordings are from the Demo 1978 except for “The Night Is Calling” Live in Marquee, London October 18th 1981

CD tracklisting

1. Baphomet
2. Sorceress
3. Extermination Day
4. Flight 19
5. Hades Paradise
6. Devil’s Tower
7. White Witch
8. Into The Dark
9. Devil’s Tower
10. The Night Is Calling
11. Angel Of Death
12. Confused
13. Evil Games

Tracks 1-7 Demo 1978
Tracks 8-9 Live March 11th 1978 Green Man, Plumstead, South London
Track 10 Live October 18th 1981 Marquee, London
Tracks 11-13 Live February 7th 1981 Norbreck Castle, Blackpool

ANGEL WITCH - 2000: Live At The LA2

2000: Live At The LA2

2CD Zoom Club Records (2000) ZCRCD47

1. Atlantis
2. Confused
3. Twist Of The Knife
4. Gorgon
5. White Witch
6. Sorceress
7. Extermination Day
8. Psychopathic
9. Baphomet
10. Angel Of Death
11. Guitar Solo
12. Angel Witch

*Recorded at the London Astoria 2 on May 26th 2000. The second disc is a VCD with 3 videos from the show: White Witch, Baphomet and Angel Witch

ANGEL WITCH - Burn the White Witch - Live in London

Burn the White Witch – Live in London

CD Rubicon Music (2009) RBNCD-1017 (cardboard sleeve)

1. Sweet Danger
2. Confused
3. Gorgon
4. Sorcerers
5. White Witch
6. Atlantis
7. Extermination Day
8. Baphomet
9. Angel Witch
10. Dr. Phibes/ Angel Of Death

*Recorded at the London Underworld on April 30th 2009

ANGEL WITCH - Seventies Tapes

Seventies Tapes

LP Extermination Day Records (2018) COVEN001

1. Baphomet
2. Sorceress
3. White Witch
4. Devil’s Tower
5. Extermination Day
6. Flight Nineteen
7. Hades Paradise

*Demo recordings from 1978 and 1979
*LP pressed in black vinyl, purple (limited to 200 copies), clear (limited to 80 copies), ‘metallic silver’ coloured and silver/black splatter vinyl