COVEN Witchcraft 1969 1st LP Black Mass Nude g/f Album RARE Psych Metal Satanic

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Original Issue COVEN Witchcraft. Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls. Mercury Records SR 61239. Gatefold. Jacket is very good. Record is near mint. I have owned this one since I bought it in 1969. I am selling off a collection I started in 1966 so check back to see what else I have listed.I do combine on shipping.Any questions,just ask. Thanks for looking.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (1969) is the first album by the psychedelic rock band Coven. It was unusual in that it dealt with overtly occult and satanic themes, and was removed, in the past time, from the market soon after its release due to controversy. However, it remains a classic of its genre, and in some ways set groundbreaking trends for later rock bands. In this album appeared for the first time things which today are ubiquitous in occult and heavy metal rock music, such as the sign of the horns, inverted crosses, the use of Latin, and the phrase Hail Satan. The album track "Black Sabbath" may have also had a subtle influence on the much more successful group Black Sabbath (whose debut album, also called Black Sabbath, appeared just a few months later); according to rock journalist Lester Bangs, "...[in England] lie unskilled laborers like Black Sabbath, which was hyped as a rockin' ritual celebration of the Satanic mass [...], something like England's answer to Coven." [2]

One of the songwriters, James Vincent, appears with the name "Jim Donlinger" on the album. He actually was not a member of the band (prior to this he was in the band Aorta), but was asked by Bill Traut, Coven's producer (and founder of Dunwich Records, whose logo also appears on the album), to write, arrange and co-produce the album together with Traut. Vincent describes the event in negative terms, as a "bizarre album project":

Contents

• 1 Track listing
• 2 Personnel
• 3 Production
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Track listing[edit]

Personnel[edit]

• Jinx Dawson: lead vocals
• Jim Donlinger: guitar, vocals
• Jim Nyeholt, John Hobbs, Rick Durrett : organ, piano, keyboard
• Alan Estes, Oz Osborne: bass guitar
• Steve Ross: drums, percussion

Production[edit]

• Produced By Bill Traut
• Engineered By Mal Davis

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