AXE WITCH: Visions Of The Past LP. Rare Neat Records 1985 w. inner. Mint condition. Top Swedish Heavy Metal.

Description

Axewitch is a Swedish heavy metal band formed around 1981 in Linköping.

Axe Witch – Visions Of The Past
Label: Neat Records   NEAT 1025
Format: Vinyl, LP with shinny inner black sleeve. Mint condition.
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Tracklist:
A1 Visions Of The Past
A2 Give Them Hell
A3 Tonight
A4 Hot Lady

B1 Stand Up
B2 Heading For A Storm
B3 Born In Hell
B4 Time To Live

The summer of 84 saw AXEWITCH returning to Decibel studios in Stockholm to record their follow-up album Visions Of The Past once again with Olle at the helm and assisted by Robban Wellerfors and Tomas Sunnmo.
The album itself went to number 12 in the Swedish hard rock album listing, and on the back of its domestic prosperity Fingerprint records managed to negotiate license agreements for other parts of the globe. Neat records gladly accepted the offer to issue Visions Of The Past in the UK. However, communication between the band and Fingerprint records at the time was in some what inadequate, to put it mildly, and this may explain why AXEWITCH were well aware of the Neat deal but never knew about the other international releases [Roadrunner records for continental Europe and Banzai records in Canada] until they learned the hard facts many moons later.

Visions Of The Past delivers the goodies with iron heart and heavy hand. This likeable Swedish band showed a little more song writing breadth and better execution on Visions Of The Past (Fingerprint Records). Stoking the furnace with their straightforward and heavy riffage, Visions Of The Past sends plumes of black smoke billowing into the air, choking your lungs with sooty goodness. Vocalist Anders Wallentoft displayed a noticeable degree of improvement on this album, as his singing exhibited more emotion and melody than before. The appeal of Visions Of The Past, at least for me, lies in the simple headbang it evokes. As I mentioned in a previous review for this band, Axewitch remind me quite a bit of the ol Dutch masters Picture. Eight tracks of coal-fired metal for your ass. The band was blissfully ignorant of the changing metal landscape at the time. My faves include Visions Of The Past, Stand Up, and Give Them Hell