The BoD presents: The Unholy Metal Thread -RESURRECTED!

[The Waking Child]

I hate it when people write off Witchcraft as some Sabbath/Pentagram ripoff when it is so fucking obvious that they're not. Sabbath/Pentagram/Witchfinder General/The Doors/Led Zep/etc are all a part of the sound and for some reason people really don't know how to look beyond the Sabbath influence.

[Sir Kenneth]

I hate it when people write off Witchcraft as some Sabbath/Pentagram ripoff when it is so fucking obvious that they're not. Sabbath/Pentagram/Witchfinder General/The Doors/Led Zep/etc are all a part of the sound and for some reason people really don't know how to look beyond the Sabbath influence.

Oh, every doom metal (or retro heavy rock or whatever you'd call Witchcraft) gets the Sabbath comparison. Mostly for no apparent reason other than total ignorance. If I had a penny for every time I have heard/seen Saint Vitus for example described as Sabbath worship, I'd be among the richest people on the planet.

Saint Vitus doesn't really sound anything like Black Sabbath. Unless the only Black Sabbath everyone has heard is the first 2 minutes of Electric Funeral played on an old car stereo.