COVEN - WITCHCRAFT DESTROYS MINDS -ORIG 1969 PSYCH
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COVEN - WITCHCRAFT DESTROYS MINDS & REAPS SOULS
Original 1969 US Pressing MERCURY SR 61239
Gatefold cover has a minor corner dings, some ring wear and edge wear. Cover contains lyrics. Vinyl has some smudges, a few light surface scratches
(from droogster listing)This was the discovery of a lifetime, I thought it was an early offshoot of Black Sabbath, and it even had Oz Osborne on it, that is until I looked a little closer, it was very Sabbath like, even better, in my opinion, but it was not Ozzy, it was COVEN, a Chicago Psychedelic Rock band certainly ahead of their time, they a delivered strongly occult themed proto-Metal on this 1969 album 'Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls', produced by Jim Donlinger and Bill Traut. Due to the presence of the opening song 'Black Sabbath' and the presence of former MAGIC LANTERNS bassist Mike 'Oz' Osborne some journalists confused the act with BLACK SABBATH. They sound much like Atomic Rooster, Macabre/Pentagram, Salem, White Widow, Leaf Hound, Zior, Ghost, Necromandus, Laudunum, Iron Maiden, but I still think even better, with an actual black mass performed on side two. After just a few months of sales, Mercury Records pulled the album from stores. The band was gaining notoriety as a favoured musical group of Church of Satan mentor Anton La Vey but their career would be curtailed abruptly when an Esquire magazine article, entitled 'Evil Lurks in California', included a photograph of Charles Manson holding a copy of the COVEN album.
LINE UP Jinx Dawson (vocals), Oz Osborne (bass), Steve Ross (drums)
Track Listing
1. Black Sabbath 2. White Witch Of Rose Hall 3. Coven In Charing Cross 4. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge 5. Pact With Lucifer 6. Choke, Thirst, Die 7. Wicked Woman 8. Dignitaries Of Hell 9. Portrait 10. Satanic Mass
This recording is from the estate of a music inductry executive. Most items are in near mint to mint condition, played once or not at all.
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