{"id":5758,"date":"2012-09-07T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2013-04-07T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T00:19:09","slug":"witch-cult-musichead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/09\/witch-cult-musichead\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch Cult @ Musichead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0295witch-cult.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0295witch-cult-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"witch cult female lead singer ashland oregon medford musichead\" title=\"Lilith Regina Inferni witch cult\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0295witch-cult-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0295witch-cult-165x250.jpg 165w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0295witch-cult.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month Musichead had their &#8220;First Annual Metalfest.&#8221; Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. The band I really wanted to see at Metalfest was Witch Cult from Ashland. <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/marduk-getaway-rock-festival-2011\/>Black Metal<\/a> in Ashland? Seemed hard to believe so I was excited to see that they were playing again. This time (September 4, 2012) they opened for some Portland bands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0283witch-cult.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0283witch-cult-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"witch cult musichead oregon black metal\" title=\"witch cult kadath nick temple sou\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0283witch-cult-800x540.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0283witch-cult-250x168.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0283witch-cult.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I arrived a little late, in part because the shows never start on time in Medford. If Witch Cult started late it wasn&#8217;t very much after the 7 p.m. start time. I don&#8217;t think I missed more than one song. As I entered they were blasting through a familiar tune, some old <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/sepultura\/>Sepultura<\/a>, written long before the Witch Cult members were born.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0291witch-cult.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0291witch-cult-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"Witch Cult bassist Destruidor Louco black metal corpse face paint\" title=\"Destruidor Louco witch cult\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0291witch-cult-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0291witch-cult-165x250.jpg 165w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0291witch-cult.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Witch Cult is as close to the Norwegian black metal bands as you can get, including corpse paint and names like Lillith, Destruidor Louco, Blaspherion Necrokult, and Kadath. With Witch Cult so close to home I won&#8217;t need to <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/immortal\/>head to Norway for my black metal fix<\/a> again anytime soon. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0281witch-cult.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0281witch-cult-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"Blaspherion Necrokult lilith musichead medford\" title=\"Blaspherion Necrokult witch cult ashland oregon black metal\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0281witch-cult-800x522.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0281witch-cult-250x163.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0281witch-cult.jpg 1653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0300witch-cult.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0300witch-cult-577x800.jpg\" alt=\"witch cult black heavy metal guitarist gold hill oregon medford rogue valley\" title=\"Blaspherion Necrokult witch cult\" width=\"577\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0300witch-cult-577x800.jpg 577w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0300witch-cult-180x250.jpg 180w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0300witch-cult.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0294witch-cult.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0294witch-cult-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"Destruidor Louco bass Witch Cult\" title=\"Destruidor Louco\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0294witch-cult-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0294witch-cult-165x250.jpg 165w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/129_0294witch-cult.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month Musichead had their &#8220;First Annual Metalfest.&#8221; Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. The band I really wanted to see at Metalfest was Witch Cult from Ashland. Black Metal in Ashland? Seemed hard to believe so I was excited to see that they were playing again. This time (September 4, 2012) they opened for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,11],"tags":[140,167,229,144,154,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}