From the mean streets of Gary, Indiana by way of Oslo, Norway (or maybe the other way around – we’re not sure) comes WITCH TAINT, the most extremely extreme and Satanic Norwegian Black Metal band from Indiana ever (probably). On the eve of releasing their debut LP, Sons of Midwestern Darkness, the demonic duo has premiered the official music video for “Death to Death Metal” exclusively via Metal Injection. We’ll be frank, if you think you can stomach the kind of depraved shit that goes down in fucking Gary, Indiana, go ahead and click the link below.
Brought to fruition by the very unstable genius collective of Lance the King of Black Metal (rumored to actually be comedian and musician Dave Hill) and Matthias Backwards (rumored to actually be comedian and musician Phil Costello) Witch Taint’s full-length debut Sons of Midwestern Darkness (recorded entirely in darkness in a damp room that was also annoyingly cold even if you wore a coat and a hat and stuff the whole time) will be released TOMORROW (April 10th) on Tee Pee Records.
Pre-order the album HERE
To celebrate the release of ‘Sons of Midwestern Darkness’, Witch Taint is hosting an official record release party on their Facebook page at 9pm EST on April 10th (again, that’s tomorrow). Why the hell are they doing this? Beats us. Stop asking so many valid questions and click on the banner below.
Sons of Midwestern Darkness, is extremely difficult to listen to in all the best ways and features guest appearances from members of such not-nearly-as-extreme-as-Witch Taint bands as Venom, Carpathian Forest, and Autopsy and also Lance’s dog Lucifuge because they forgot to keep the basement door shut even though she will end up coming down there every single time no matter what. Sons of Midwestern Darkness is a twelve-song collection of extremely grim yet very catchy and danceable heavy metal anthems that are perfect to get hammered and sing along to with all your closest friends and enemies. There are also five extremely extreme interludes where Lance and Matthias Backwards basically school motherfuckers on various topics, which is awesome. If you think you can handle it, which- statistically speaking anyway- you probably can’t, please get yourself a copy. And by all means, come see the band live (where Lance and Matthias will be joined by the destructive tendencies of opera diva La Sinistra [rumored to actually be Jennifer Valle], bassist Dean Ripper [rumored to actually be Dean Rispler], guitarist Thomas Guillotine [rumored to actually be Tom Beaujour], and drummist Markus St. Bastard [rumored to actually be Dave Richman]) for an assault on yours and a lot of other people’s senses. However, whether you decide to kill yourself, go sit in a ditch for a while, or simply stare off into the distance for a disturbingly long amount of time as a result of having done either one of these things, that is not Witch Taint’s fucking problem.
This past spring, Witch Taint began performing as a full, six-member live band (consisting mostly of members found in the darkest recesses of Craigslist) that is so extreme, brutal, grim, unholy, kvlt, and just sort of negative in general that most people can’t even handle it basically even if everyone agrees the Witch Taint T-shirts are pretty awesome and they should really consider keeping more mediums in stock but whatever. This being the case, Witch Taint has scheduled an album release show for April 7th at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. Get tickets HERE.
Sons of Midwestern Darkness Tracklisting:
1. Introduction
2. We Are Your New Gods
3. Interlude Black Metal VS, Death Metal
4. Death to Death Metal
5. Sons of Satan
6. Interlude Can one be Grim and Extreme
7. Changes
8. Viking Heaven
9. Ready for LVV
10. Are you Ready (To Black Metal)
11. Interlude Grimness of Noodles
12. Sons of Midwestern Darkness
13. The Dark Way
14. The Taint of the Witch
15. Conclusion
16. Gods of the North (Bonus Track)
17. Hall of the Witch (Bonus Track)
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