Wormsand / Witchfinder

Wormsand

Sludge-Grunge power-trio infused with psychedelic influences, Wormsand offers a powerful, intense and melancholy live show. The band has been touring over France and Europe for years and shared stage with acts such as Dopethrone, Mars Red Sky or Messa.

Created in 2018 by Julien Coppo, Clément Mozzone and Tom Valstar, the band released its first eponymous EP "Wormsand" at Saka Čost and, in 2021, its first LP "Shapeless Mass" with the help of Saka Čost, Poutrasseau Records and Stellar Frequencies.

Witchfinder 

Clermont-Ferrand's doom sludge quartet WITCHFINDER are powered by gloomy keyboard effects, haunted Dopelord-like vocals, thunderous riffage and a bone rattling rhythm section. Since the release of their eponymous debut album in 2017, they have garnered a sizable following among the underground scene opening for stoner and doom heavyweights such as Red Fang, Corrosion Of Conformity, Dopethrone, Ufomammut, Conan, Monolord, Kadavar, Hangman’s Chair... Witchfinder's sophomore studio effort 'Hazy Rites' throws in plenty of hardcore and sludge influences to their already massive and doom-laden sound. It came out on 2019 via Black Bow Records (CD) and 2020 via Mrs Red Sound (LP). In 2022, they release a 2-track EP entitled 'Endless Garden' blending fearsome fuzz, cold psychedelia and mucky sludge. This is the first studio effort recorded with their new keyboardist Kevyn Raecke, who brings some stagy ghostly effects and greatly emphasises the band's fat and spooky sounding. This EP came out on Mrs Red Sound and definitely picked the interest of a larger number of heavy sounds lovers. Witchfinder's latest album 'Forgotten Mansion' was recorded, mixed and mastered at Monochrom Studio, Gniewoszów, Poland, by Haldor Grunberg of Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Dopelord, Me And That Man). The record features gloomy atmospheres, explores the horror topic and spreads a massive blast of fuzz. Keyboardist Kevyn Raecke propels their already ultra-thick sounding into a cathedral-esque dimension; both theatrical and heavy.