{"id":3281,"date":"1989-03-01T00:00:06","date_gmt":"1989-03-01T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2013-07-20T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T12:10:15","slug":"demo-review-witch-master-general-winds-over-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-witch-master-general-winds-over-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"WITCH MASTER GENERAL – Winds Over Salem (1988) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITCH MASTER GENERAL<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nWinds Over Salem (1988)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Formed in 1986 by Mark Beaudoin (lead guitar) and Tom Kavanagh (drums), Witch Master General are a power metal band based in Ottawa, Canada.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s current demo was recorded in October of last year and features five songs: \u2018October Frost\u2019, \u2018Scarlet Fever\u2019, \u2018Reduced To Ashes\u2019, \u2018On The Warpath\u2019 and the title track \u2018Winds Of Salem\u2019.<\/p>\n

Musically, the band \u2013 whose line-up is completed by Randy Chase (vocals), Dan McNamara (rhythm guitar) and Bryant Dale (bass) \u2013 mix early Metallica and Black Sabbath<\/a> influences with injections of thrash and enhanced with a strong sense of melody. Vocalist Randy Chase reminds me a lot of Ozzy Osbourne with a touch of Candlemass\u2019 Messiah Marcolin thrown in, which suits the complex story structures perfectly.<\/p>\n

On the evidence of this tape, Witch Master General have some strong material, especially \u2018October First\u2019 and the pacey \u2018On The Warpath\u2019, which displays excellent musicianship and a desire to be creative and original, and hopefully they shouldn\u2019t have too many problems in securing a record deal in the near future.<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 37 (1989)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WITCH MASTER GENERAL Winds Over Salem (1988) Formed in 1986 by Mark Beaudoin (lead guitar) and Tom Kavanagh (drums), Witch Master General are a power metal band based in Ottawa, Canada. The band\u2019s current demo was recorded in October of last year and features five songs: \u2018October Frost\u2019, \u2018Scarlet Fever\u2019, \u2018Reduced To Ashes\u2019, \u2018On The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-witch-master-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","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=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13147,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/13147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}