Burning the Witches

Burning the Witches
Studio album by Warlock
Released	March 1984
Recorded	Studio Klangwerkstatt, Düsseldorf, Germany November, 1983
Genre	Heavy metal, speed metal
Length	35:33
Label	Mausoleum Vertigo reissues
Producer	Axel Thubeauville
Warlock chronology
Burning the Witches (1984) Hellbound (1985)
Singles from Burning the Witches
"Without You" / "Burning the Witches" Released: 1984

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Kerrang!	(favorable)[2]
Metal Forces	(9/10)[3]
Martin Popoff	[4]

Burning the Witches is the debut studio album by German heavy metal band, Warlock, released in 1984 through the Belgian independent label Mausoleum Records. The album was re-released in late 1984 by Vertigo Records, which went on to release all future Warlock albums.^[5]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sign of Satan"	Rudy Graf	3:13
2.	"After the Bomb"	Peter Szigeti, Graf	3:50
3.	"Dark Fade"	Szigeti, Doro Pesch	4:07
4.	"Homicide Rocker"	Graf	3:12
5.	"Without You"	Szigeti, Pesch	5:25

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Metal Racer"	Graf	3:42
7.	"Burning the Witches"	Graf	4:17
8.	"Hateful Guy"	Graf, Pesch	3:41
9.	"Holding Me"	Szigeti, Pesch	4:07

Personnel

Warlock

• Doro Pesch – vocals
• Peter Szigeti – guitar
• Rudy Graf – guitar
• Frank Rittel – bass
• Michael Eurich – drums

Production

• Axel Thubeauville - producer
• Ralf Hubert - engineer
• Rainer Assmann and Henry Staroste - remixing (uncredited)^[6]

References

1. "Warlock Burning the Witches review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
2. Suter, Paul (5 April 1984). "Warlock 'Burning the Witches'". Kerrang! 65. London, UK: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 14.
3. Doe, Bernard (1984). "Warlock - Burning the Witches". Metal Forces (3). Retrieved 2012-06-29.
4. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
5. "Warlock (Deu) - Burning the Witches". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
6. "Warlock: the story so far". International Warlock Fan Club Info Magazine (1). 1984. Retrieved 10 February 2014.