THE WITCH

THE WITCH rocks in the current formation since late summer 2005. Indeed the story of the band already started much earlier when Wolfgang Toechterle (wäg), at that time guitarist of the rap-metal band Hop o’ my thumb was in search for a new bass guitarist. The reason for that search: the former bass guitarist Matthias Ladstätter had found his place in another metalband named Rusty Crown. After a quite intensive search wäg met Patrick Hellweger (Patti), who was the perfect candidate for that job. The current vocalist Mirco Raffl (Mirc) joined the band shortly after. On the drums at that time: Gabriel Mair from Percha who left the band, meanwhile named THE WITCH, for private and occupational reasons. So it was time to search a new drummer. A few talents were invited for a jam session. The decision after the session was quite easy: Simon Plaickner (Simmi), ex-drummer of the punk band For daily use, suited more than anyone had imagined for that job. The line-up was complete.

Numerous live concerts on a national level and abroad followed. Among them the Scool’s out Open Air, the Rock im Ring Festival, the Badia Rock’s Open Air and the Stoaner Rock Open Air. Furthermore the band achieved the finals and semi-finals of the Metal Champ Contest and of the Italian Live Award respectively.

The brand new and at the same time first full length studio album of THE WITCH „Lilly Rose“ which contains 13 songs is the second studio project of the band after the first demo recording in late summer 2006.