Witchcraft – Legend (2LP)

Svart Records, by kind permission from Nuclear Blast, present a 10th anniversary repress of the band’s fourth album Legend, pressed on 180 gram vinyl and with the original gatefold artwork.

2012’s Legend was a departure for Witchcraft in many ways. Not only did they change half of their lineup and leave the previous label, also gone was the fuzzy warm analog sound of their previous three albums. Witchcraft have never made the same album twice, and Legend is certainly no exception. The album boasts a muscular modern production by Jens Bogren that really make the band’s trademark doom riffs shine, and the songwriting is confident over the album’s ten tracks of perfect retromodern revivalist doom.