Wytches [Import]

Inkubus Sukkubus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 31, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Resurrection
• ASIN: B00006FR7E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,190 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2002 reissue of the British goth's 1994 album, packaged in a tri-fold digipak & limited to 3,000 copies. Resurgence.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The second albulm, October 26, 2002

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jkelly - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wytches (Audio CD)

This is a re-release of "Wytches", the 1994 follow-up to "Belladonna & Aconite". A number of Inkubus Sukkubus fans will choose this as the best of the I.S. catalogue, citing the title track as the classic I.S. recording. The albulm certainly has its strengths, such as the idiosyncratic high-energy guitar/chant "Catherine", while "Conquistadors" and "Church of Madness" are what I.S. do best, which is voice straight-forward angry Pagan critiques of Christianity. "The Rape of Maude Bowen" and "Devils" achieve a lyrical gravity that no track on "Belladonna and Aconite" really approaches, although the pronunciation of 'Grandier' (the French priest immortalized in Huxley's _The Devils of Loudon_ ), may be painful to some ears.

I.S., not unlike other U.K. mid-90s Goth bands, have a tendency to force hard rock guitar cliches to maintain themselves throughout an alblum and rely on tempo changes and vocal embellishments to avoid monotony. This approach is simply more successful on "Belladonna and Aconite" than it is on this albulm. Nor do any of the Pagan anthems that one listens to I.S. to hear from this albulm compete with those from the re-release of "B&A" that includes the earlier "Beltaine" tracks (although "Call Out My Name" comes close). "Catherine" appears again on the following albulm "Heartbeat of the Earth" in a version that some find the more appealing of the two.

"Wytches" is, obviously, a defintive albulm for I.S. The band's trademark (now refreshingly) brash Paganism and Candia Ridley's vocals do rescue this albulm from mediocre goth metal. If you're not a fan of the band already, the expanded "Belladonna & Aconite" is the better starting place for goths, but others may well appreciate the more standard hard rock approach of this albulm.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Have No Title, December 17, 2002

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Daniella (Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wytches (Audio CD)

I love this Cd and happy to own it....Inkubus Sukkubus are a great band and this is by far, in my opinion, their best album,
My fav tracks are : Devils, Wyches, and Song to Pan.

Buy it -- It's good :)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intensely Pagan/Aesthetically Lyrical, October 18, 2007

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Montague Whitsel (Western Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wytches (Audio CD)

This is one of IS's most driving, hypnotic albums. Mesmeric rhythms back and complement intense lyricism. A beautiful album for dark days and after dark; when I want to create, think deeply or imagine more earthen possibilities. It's not as chant-like as "Heartbeat of the Earth" or "Supernature," but has its own more Dionysian rewards. The songs are diverse of theme and are musically well-crafted. A few of them are:

"Dark Mother" - song about dealing with the fact of death and being reborn.

"Witches" - is a powerful invocation for us to leave the ordinary, daylight behind for a night and fly! For e, it induces dream-travelling, often when the circle rises and round and round we go--dancing the night away!

"Queen of the May" - is a great song for inaugurating Cetsamhain (Beltaine).

"Pagan Born" - is an affirmation of life lived in the Earth under the Sun.

"Gypsy Lament" - is a love song for a dead lover; very much in the tradition of the English folk song.

"Conquistadors" - is a condemnation of the invasion of the Americas by European Imperialists; it is also a condemnation of Christianity as complicit in this genocide.

"Burning Times" - is a memorial to those who died under the reign of the Inquisition, and a plea to never let it happen again.

"Song to Pan" - a poetic poem; a call to the goat-footed god.