Witch Cross-Fit for fight (re-issue)

Hell's Headbangers
2012

This is a classic for sure and that's certainly enough of a reason for me to listen to it and I do regularly. Now it has been re-issued so I get another chance to give it a listen and I sure can't complain about that. Formed in 1979 in Denmark this band knocked out a number of demos both before and after this 1984 LP. What an album this is. It often gets some Mercyful Fate comparisons due to the high vocals and the rambling musical style and the frequent pace changes.  That's a fair enough idea and there is a definite NWOBHM sound too, but Witch Cross had enough of their own style to set themselves apart as well. For 1984 this actually may have sounded a couple of years behind the time likely due to five years of playing before getting a record deal. No matter because what matters is Witch Cross stepped up and positively killed on eight tracks are pure metal on this album. They never stop moving on tracks like "Face of a clown" and "Fight the fire". Songs like "Light of a torch" and "Alien savage" just have the band throwing open the gates and going at it with everything they can bring. It's just constant notes and beats and they change it up whenever they want to, but it also sounds like it's fits perfectly. They really had a knack for getting the most out everything they put into their songs. There is certainly no wasted space. That's a large part of why it's such a great album. For this re-issue the cover is slightly different, really it's the same cover only without the border. Some of the running times are different that on the version I heard before I can't hear much difference in the songs themselves. Still any chance to hear this album again is very welcome. This version will be out on CD, LP, Picture LP and tape.

Current playlist

Here you go-

Andy:

Listening to:

Free: The Best Of Free: The Millennium Collection
AC/DC-Greatest Hits-Double CD (Hell's Hits)
Best Kissers In The World-Puddin'
Ramones-Rocket To Russia
Anthrax-Among The Living
Suicidal Tendencies-How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
Rolling Stones-Forty Licks
The Jam-In The City
Fight-Home Is Where The Hate Is
Death-Symbolic
Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over

Watching:
Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Double Feature
The Hunger Games
Zombie 3

Reading:
The Sherlock Holmes Collection

Metal Mark-

Listening to-

Trashcan Darlings-Real fucking make-up (One of the best real glam bands ever. I remember finding out they were breaking up when I interviewed them. I was sad for weeks)
Dust-Hard Attack (awesome except for a few flower child type tracks)
KIX-Live in Baltimore (painful, but being from Maryland I had to give it a listen)
Koji Kondo-Super Mario World SNES soundtrack ( every once in a while I'm in the mood for video game music)
Belzebong-demo (as cool as the band name)
Mos Generator- Nomads (Tony Reed never sleeps)
Exciter-Feel the knife (the first Exciter song I ever heard)
Witch Cross-Fit for fight re-issue (review coming soon I hope)
Liege Lord-Burn to my touch (I saw they were playing some festival soon and it made me listen to this one)
The Bomboras-It came from pier 13! (trying to squeeze in some surf music while it's still warm out)

Watching-
Bones season 2
Laverne and Shirley season 5
Remington Steele season 1
Warriors of the wasteland (Dear Lord, all kinds of badness)
Cosmos -War of the planets (Dear Lord, all kinds of badness...in space)

Reading-
Vincent Price-the art of fear
Scooby Doo Comics (with my kids)


***What are you checking out this week?