BEWITCHED Diabolical Desecration (1996) CD

Before they were veterans, Bewitched were hungry. Diabolical Desecration, the 1996 debut that landed them on Osmose Productions and into the hands of every self-respecting black/thrash obsessive in Europe, is where the blueprint got drawn in blood.

This is Bewitched before the polish, all gnarly Swedish underground energy channelled into something that sits comfortably between the raw punk spite of early thrash and the cold darkness of the Scandinavian black metal scene. It's the record that made sense of why people were paying import prices for it in the nineties, and it holds up as a genuine artifact of a moment when the alternative metal underground was absolutely feral and completely alive. The gothic and metal crossover crowd who missed this the first time around have some catching up to do.

Format: CD. Full length debut album. Released 1996. Country of origin: Sweden. Genre: Black/Thrash/Power Metal.

Fans of: Gospel of the Horns, Nocturnal Breed, Midnight, Urn, Aura Noir.