Whitechapel - When A Demon Defiles A Witch

Since their 2007 debut, "The Somatic Defilement", The Knoxville metal titans WHITECHAPELs output has been mired in darkness, but they have never inhabited blacker territory than where we find them on 7th full-length, "The Valley".

The band is named after the WHITECHAPEL district in East London, England, referencing the series of murders committed by Jack the Ripper.

On November 2, 2018 the band announced their seventh studio album "The Valley" will be released on March 29th, 2019 via Metal Blade Records and the first song "Brimstone" was released. It has also been reported Navene Koperweis from Entheos has tracked drums for the upcoming album. The song solidifies a change in their once-deathcore sound to a more melodic metal sound.

On February 20, 2019 the band released a music video for the song "When a Demon Defiles a Witch", see it below.

"The Valley" of the title relates to the part of Hardin Valley, west of Knoxville, Tennessee, where Bozeman grew up. To track this powerful collection, the band once again teamed up with producer Mark Lewis (CANNIBAL CORPSE, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) whose commitment to creating the best possible record reflects that of the musicians involved and mixed by David Castillo, mastered by Ted Jensen

Today's tune "When a Demon Defiles a Witch" taken from "The Valley." Video is Directed by Mathis Arnell, enjoy!


Upcoming Tour

04.18.2019 STARLAND BALLROOM SAYREVILLE, NJ United States
04.19.2019 PALLADIUM WORCESTER, MA United States
04.20.2019 NIGHTCLUB REVERB READING, PA United States
04.23.2019 REX THEATER PITTSBURGH, PA United States
04.24.2019 AGORA THEATRE & BALLROOM CLEVELAND, OH United States
04.25.2019 CONCORD MUSIC HALL CHICAGO, IL United States
04.26.2019 CROFOOT BALLROOM PONTIAC, MI United States
04.27.2019 THE RAVE MILWAUKEE, WI United States
04.28.2019 CABOOZE OUTDOOR PLAZA MINNEAPOLIS, MN United States
04.30.2019 THE ORIENTAL THEATER DENVER, CO United States
05.2.2019 UC THEATER BERKLEY, CA United States
05.3.2019 HOUSE OF BLUES ANAHEIM, CA United States
05.4.2019 THE PRESSROOM PHOENIX, AZ United States
05.5.2019 SUNSHINE THEATRE ALBUQUERQUE, NM United States
05.7.2019 THE COMPLEX SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD, MO United States
05.8.2019 DIAMOND BALLROOM OKLAHOMA CITY, OK United States
05.9.2019 THE ROCK BOX SAN ANTONIO, TX United States
05.10.2019 GAS MONKEY LIVE DALLAS, TX United States
05.11.2019 WAREHOUSE LIVE HOUSTON, TX United States
05.12.2019 HOUSE OF BLUES NEW ORLEANS, LA United States
05.13.2019 BUCKHEAD THEATRE ATLANTA, GA United States
05.15.2019 REVOLUTION FORT LAUDERDALE, FL United States
05.16.2019 JANNUS LIVE ST PETERSBURG, FL United States
05.17.2019 THE RAMKAT WINSTON-SALEM, NC United States
06.15.2019 PETIT BAIN Paris France
06.16.2019 DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL Donington Park United Kingdom
06.17.2019 CLWB IFOR BACH Cardiff United Kingdom
06.18.2019 O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON London United Kingdom
06.20.2019 COPENHELL FESTIVAL Copenhagen Denmark
06.21.2019 GRASPOP Dessel Belgium
06.22.2019 HELLFEST Clisson France
06.24.2019 L'USINE Geneva Switzerland
06.25.2019 KIFF Aarau Switzerland
06.26.2019 UNIVERSUM Stuttgart Germany
06.28.2019 JERA ON AIR Ysselsteyn Netherlands
06.29.2019 VAINSTREAM Münster Germany
06.30.2019 FERROPOLIS Gräfenhainichen Germany
07.2.2019 DÜRER KERT Budapest Hungary
07.3.2019 CLUB MIXTAPE 5 Sofia Bulgaria
07.4.2019 QUANTIC CLUB Bucharest Romania
07.5.2019 EXIT FESTIVAL Novi-Sad Serbia
07.6.2019 GALA HALA Ljubljana Slovenia
07.7.2019 DISSONANCE FESTIVAL Milan Italy

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We Sell The Dead - Echoes Of An Ugly Past

“What if Jack the Ripper had played in a band? A heavy metal band?”

This is the question that formed and influenced WE SELL THE DEAD, this is the question that made the band.

Revolving around Guitarist - Niclas Engelin (IN FLAMES, ENGEL), Bass player - Jonas Slättung (DRÖMRIKET), Drummer - Gas Lipstick (former HIM) and the voice of Apollo Papathanasio (SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, FIREWIND), WE SELL THE DEAD go beyond the strains of conventional storytelling and create a multi-media experience of premium quality heavy metal music embedded in visually stimulating and atmospheric visuals.

WE SELL THE DEAD’s debut album “Heaven Doesn’t Want You And Hell Is Full” is going to be released on February 23rd, 2018 on earMUSIC.

Heavy, yet melodic sounds transport the listener into a Victorian inspired world that is defined by pompous manors and daunting luxury standing in deep contrast to the harshness and cruelty of the gutter. It is a world that reeks of hysteria, but above all a sense of mysticism and dark romanticism. WE SELL THE DEAD’s music rises above this, not merely pointing out this injustice, but expanding the narrative into the extreme, playing with themes of ghosts, death or religion. But not only…

Despite a reference to Victorian times, WE SELL THE DEAD maintains a very modern and ever-so-current approach that translates to the world we live in today.

Jonas Slättung Explains: “From the late 1800, an era that has inspired our band enormously, comes one of the greatest and darkest crime mysteries of them all: Jack the Ripper. We don’t know 100% who he was but we know his horrendous deeds. All the visuals we had in our mind, combined with the sometimes slightly morbid lyrics, made us think that this is what music would have sounded like if heavy metal had existed in the 19th century, or if Jack the Ripper had travelled forward in time to join a metal band. We Sell the Dead would have been his natural choice for a backing band. He probably would have felt right at home with us.

But, at the same time, the world hasn’t exactly evolved into a beautiful place since the 1880’s.
In the 1979 movie, ‘Time After Time’, Jack the Ripper escapes justice by, indeed, fleeing in a time machine to 1979. After getting caught by his followers, The Ripper utters this line of wisdom:
– back in 1893, I was a monster. Today...I’m an amateur.”

Well enjoy today’s tune!



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Screaming Lord Sutch - Jack the Ripper

 

Sunday again, and sure the hell we are continuing with our Horror/Shock Rock theme and listens on a little melody in. David Edward Sutch (1940 – 1999), also known as "Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow", or simply "Screaming Lord Sutch", was a musician from the United Kingdom. He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time he stood in numerous parliamentary elections.

During the 1960s, Screaming Lord Sutch was known for his horror-themed stage show, dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of Alice Cooper. Accompanied by his band, the Savages, he started by coming out of a black coffin. Other props included knives and daggers, skulls and "bodies". Sutch booked themed tours, such as 'Sutch and the Roman Empire', where Sutch and the band members would be dressed up as Roman soldiers.

Despite self-confessed lack of vocal talent, he released horror-themed singles during the early to mid-'60s, the most popular "Jack the Ripper", covered live and on record by garage rock bands including the White Stripes, the Gruesomes, the Black Lips and the Horrors for their debut LP.

Screaming Lord Sutch at London Rock & Roll Show - 1972, were he is performing "Great Big Coffin" and "Looking for Mary" This clip is just marvelous, check it up.



The London Rock and Roll Show was a concert held at Wembley Stadium in London, England on August 5, 1972. It was the first ever concert held at the stadium.

The concert included performances by major performers including Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Bill Haley and His Comets. The concert ended with an extended performance by Chuck Berry, who at the time was enjoying major chart success in Britain and the US with his "My Ding-a-Ling". Other established rock and roll acts were The Platters, The Drifters and The Coasters. Roy Wood's new band Wizzard, only formed a few weeks previously, also made their live debut at the show.

The show was opened by MC5, who were not over-popular with the crowd. Little Richard also got booed when he stopped singing rock and roll and jumped on top of his piano. As did a very new Gary Glitter, with The Glitter Band.

The concert was filmed and released in 1973 as The London Rock and Roll Show, directed by Peter Clifton. Although no soundtrack release occurred at the time the film was made, one was finally issued in the early 2000s, followed by several different releases with different combinations of performances.

Anyway, todays tune "Jack the Ripper", released as a 7" single in the UK and Germany in 1963 on Decca. The song was banned by the BBC upon its release.



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