Witching Metal

Ok, for my first entry, I'm gonna write about something I've been wondering about for a long time. What the fuck is the deal with black thrash bands and witches? Don't get me wrong, I love the genre and all, but fuck, there are just too many bands like Witchburner, Witchtrap, Witchhammer, Witchaven, Skeletonwitch (what the fuck?) ...and the list goes on. And if that ain't bad enough, just about every other band in the genre who doesn't have witch in it's name, almost certainly has a song title with witch in it.
We all know Sodom was pioneering the genre, and has quite a few songs about witches themselves, but fuck me, if this is all just a major fucking Sodom "worship", they are probably the most ripped off band in the history of heavy metal.
I guess burning witches is pretty a pretty metal thing to do, but one thing comes to mind; Isn't burning witches a Christian thing? You are damn right it is, even though most of these bands are pretty satanic and evil and all, they still want to spread some love for the good old inquisition.

The worst of all this is the fact that most of these bands kicks ass, and I'm digging the shit out of it. So I guess the thing is, if a band has witch in its name, it's probably guaranteed to be awesome music, but with pretty dull lyrics, even though witches are pretty metal.

Just for the hell of it, heres the lyrics to the Sodom song "Witching Metal". Go ahead, try to make sense of it.

"Witch, Bitch, no sleep in Sodom
God, Shock, last night for Satan
Spell, Hell, this fight is blind

Metal war Sodom
Wildfire Sodom
Bloodlust Sodom
Witching metal

Cries, Crime, Cross over Sodom
Fight, Might, Dust to Dust
Sinner, Winner, the fight is Blind

War, Law, Slave of Sodom
Lust, Gods, Unholy Times
Night, Light, this fight is might

Sodom! Wildfire Sodom!

We are Sodom"


Ok, so they aren't as bad as Kreator's lyrics, but fuck, they're trying.