{"id":105319,"date":"2025-08-15T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105319"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:09:32","slug":"album-review-wild-witch-reapers-blade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-wild-witch-reapers-blade\/","title":{"rendered":"WILD WITCH – Reaper\u2019s Blade (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WILD WITCH
\nReaper\u2019s Blade<\/strong><\/span>
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\nClassic Metal (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Eight years after their 2017 debut album The Offering<\/em>, sporadic headbangers Wild Witch come surging back with this sophomore effort. Bassist Felipe Rippervert and drummer Weiberlan Garcia are all that remains from the original 2011 line-up which formed out of the Brazilian underground. They are joined by axeman Lucas Rodrigues who joined the ranks in 2017 and new vocalist Tiago Souza who was recruited last year.<\/p>\n

Reaper\u2019s Blade<\/em> is a rather concise heavy metal album at just under 38 minutes and it begins with \u2018Get Out!\u2019. It\u2019s reasonably standard metal, but there\u2019s some fiery Teutonic styled aggression as the album unfolds. There are times when the tribe borders on melodic speed metal and power metal, the latter emerging more so with the vocal attack. You\u2019ll hear hints of Judas Priest on \u2018King Of The Skies\u2019, especially with the fizz of the riffs.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s such a rich blaze to the musicianship at whichever level the band operates at. I\u2019m sure the headbangers on the European festival circuit would lap up Wild Witch due to the energy and melodic vigour showcased on songs like the nostalgic thud and sizzle of the mid-tempo \u2018Fist\u2019, the thunder gallop of \u2018WitchRipper\u2019 and the strident calls on \u2018Path To The Passion\u2019.<\/p>\n

Souza is not the best vocalist in the land, he\u2019s a touch off kilter at times, but that\u2019s where I draw the comparisons with a mid-80s, lower budget German metal act. That\u2019s not to say this is a cheap and cheerful release, because, as I said, the instrumentation provides quite the wall of warmth.<\/p>\n

The axe and drum work on \u2018Magic\u2019s Sin\u2019 is an enchanting delight, where again we are served a scorching gallop that\u2019s occasionally rough around the edges. \u2018Edge Of Chaos\u2019 is as equally robust, especially with the spine of the bass, so it\u2019s very much a true heavy metal outing that gave me more than I expected.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WILD WITCH Reaper\u2019s Blade Classic Metal (2025) Rating: 7\/10 Eight years after their 2017 debut album The Offering, sporadic headbangers Wild Witch come surging back with this sophomore effort. Bassist Felipe Rippervert and drummer Weiberlan Garcia are all that remains from the original 2011 line-up which formed out of the Brazilian underground. They are joined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5960],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-wild-witch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105321,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105319\/revisions\/105321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}