Mountain Witch - Mountain Witch (2011)

   Mountain Witch debuted with a strongly Electric Wizard influenced album with rehearsal sound quality. This noisy, blurry sound didn't seem disadvantageous for the style they've chosen, and introduced things from a way simpler perspective. Like in stoner/doom there's no need even for distortion, cause minimal effort could be sufficient enough too to reach the desired effect (and also spares the wallet). 
   And according to the noisy atmosphere that's usual at Electric Wizard, it seems as a reasonable step, even it wasn't done by purpose like that. With other words, if Mountain Witch was a black metal band, they could have obtained trve cvlt status. However, their following, self-titled EP continued the same concept with the same implementation. Except in this case only with instrumental songs, and instead of Electric Wizard, hard rock influences took the main role. The change isn't so drastic as it might could be imagined, since even on "Scythe & Dead Horse" Mountain Witch mainly focused on the psychedelic effectiveness, and therefore their music lacks the endlessly obscure, more aggressive approach of Electric Wizard. And in this form the hard rock basics aren't so far. The EP sounds somehow more vintage only because of the very familiar themes, like if it was the lost demo tape of an ambitious but unknown band from the late '70s. Mountain Witch could be potencial favorite for both the fans of '70s psychedelic rock/hard rock and stoner/doom.