With  a lineage dating back to 1977, South London’s Angel Witch were leading  lights of a now legendary movement known as the New Wave Of British  Heavy Metal that saw their path interwoven with the likes of Iron  Maiden, Saxon, Samson, Praying Mantis, the Tygers Of Pan Tang and  countless more.
Unlike a great many of the groups with whom they shared stages their  style was dark, uncompromising and heavy; a perfect complement for the  sword & sorcery-themed lyrics of songs such as White Witch, Gorgon  and Angel Of Death – no wonder Geoff Barton of Sounds magazine once  memorably described their bludgeoning sound as: "the first Black Sabbath  album played through a cement mixer".