ANGEL WITCH BY ANGEL WITCH
MOST MUSICIANS WOULD absolutely love to pick the song that becomes their most cherished anthem. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work like that. As he cheerfully admits today, Angel Witch singer/guitarist Kevin Heybourne wrote the song that would give his band its name and become their perennial set-closer, when he was still a teenager, “literally just mucking about on my guitar, trying to write a song.
“It’s not like any of our other stuff, is it?” he continues. “At that point there was no Angel Witch anyway. I was just finding my feet as a songwriter. It was just bedroom stuff, when your parents tell you turn it down, you know?”
Much has been written about those heady days in the early 80s when the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal swept across the UK, conjuring countless great bands and inspiring Metallica in the process. But with the obvious exceptions of Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon, by Angel Witch from the album ) is in no way typical of their sound, it a certified NWOBHM anthem. As Kevin notes with a chuckle, if he had to write a song that would endure for 40 years, it definitely wouldn’t have worked out.
