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Pre-Order 'Paralyzed and get 10% off at Insound

Pre-Order 'Paralyzed at Insound on vinyl or CD.
To get 10% off of your order be sure to use the coupon code "paralyzed10" when you check out!

Amazon also has it available for pre-order (no sweet 10% off deal though) Paralyzed but they have the full album up for preview and will have the DRM free downloads available for under $9.

Witch was featured at RCRD.LBL and you can download to new tracks from Paralyzed there now(Sweet Sue & Eye).

Additional Tour Dates Added!! Witch will be appearing at SXSW
Wed 03/12/08 Austin, TX Bourbon Rocks
Thur 03/13/08 Austin, TX Tee Pee Records/ Alam Magazine Day Party @ Encore Records
Thur 03/13/08 Austin, TX MTV Subterranean Party
Fri 03/14/08 Austin, TX Volcom Skate Party

and elsewhere... Tue 03/18/08 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
Wed 03/19/08 Brooklyn, NY Luna Lounge
Thu 03/20/08 Northampton, MA The Elevens
Mon 04/14/08 Berlin, GER Columbia Club
Wed 04/16/08 Hamburg, GER Logo
Thu 04/17/08 Groningen, NET Vera
Fri 04/18/08 Tilburg, NET Roadburn Festival
Sat 04/19/08 Hasselt, BEL Kunstcentrum
Sun 04/20/08 Weinheim, GER Cafe Central
Tue 04/22/08 Zurich, SWI Mascotte
Wed 04/23/08 Turin, ITA Spazio 211
Thu 04/24/08 Duedingen, SWI Bad Bonn
Fri 04/25/08 Paris, FRA Le Nouveau Casino
Sat 04/26/08 Cologne, GER Underground
Mon 04/28/08 Aarhus C, DEN VoxHall
Tue 04/29/08 Malmo, SWE Debaser
Wed 04/30/08 Goteborg, SWE Sticky Fingers
Thu 05/01/08 Stockholm, SWE Debaser Medis
Fri 05/02/08 Oslo, NOR John Dee
Sun 05/04/08 Utrecht, NET Ekko
Mon 05/05/08 London, UK The Underworld


All of which can also be found on the Google Calendar and the tour dates page.

Paralyzed Press Release

'Paralyzed' out March 18, 2008 on Tee Pee Records....
After their self-titled debut in 2006, Witch returned to the studio to work on their sophomore album, 'Paralyzed'. The new album, to be released this spring on Tee Pee Records, remains true to the classic heavy rock sound of the first, but has evolved as the band has learned to play to each other's strengths. The Vermont/Western Mass based band's new songs highlight the rhythm section of Dave Sweetapple (bass) and J Mascis (drums) who return to their punk roots and attack with a more aggressive tempo.
This foundation allows Kyle Thomas (guitar/vocals) to construct wailing vertical melodies of guitar and sinister vocals. Witch has turned out a record that burns with hostility, like the track, 'Mutated', but also smolders with intensity, like the track 'Sweet Sue'. The collective deviating influences of the group have more presence on this record than the last; experimentation in studio with different tonal effects to obtain a more diverse sound are evidenced in the guitar play of Kyle Thomas over the roaring backbeats provided by Sweetapple and Mascis. It is the time that the band spends not being a band that seems to have allowed their sound to grow. Kyle points out that the band 'does not practice and barely ever play shows'.

This has allowed the chemistry and music to grow organically and a bit more spontaneously. Live, the music morphs into a beast of its own instead of sounding like a CD on playback. J Mascis mans the kit with a punk like fervor this time around; according to Mascis 'I know I'm not the only one who thinks 28" is the right size bass drum.' Kyle decided to adapt his songwriting approach to J's drum playing. Kyle explained how some of the more punk songs came about, 'J plays drums with a lot of energy, so I decided that instead of writing slow songs and having them speed up when we play them live, I should just write faster songs.' At the heart of the album is still the heaviness that dominated the last record, this time though Witch is creating a style more their own. The exciting part Kyle feels for the band and fans is that 'they are still developing a sound that fully hasn't shown itself.' To lay down the initial foundation of the album the band headed out to J's Bisquiteen Studio in Amherst, MA, final mixing would occur here as well. The bulk of recording was done at Bank Row Studio in Greenfield, MA, with Justin Pizzoferrato, who engineered and mixed the album with Witch.

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