Wizard Rifle Streaming New Track "Crystal Witch"

With the release of "Here In The Deadlights," the new full-length from stoner/doom/math rock magicians Wizard Rifle, now less than one week away, today Noisey.Vice.com hurls forth opening hymn "Crystal Witch." Give it a listen below.

Set for release via Seventh Rule Recordings on October 28th, the follow-up to 2012's "Speak Loud Say Nothing" full-length (reviewed here) was tracked by guitarist Max Dameron over three weeks at Breakfast Studio in Los Angeles, then toiled over for a year with Billy Anderson (Sleep, Eyehategod, Melvins et al) and Jesse Johnstone sharing mixing duties.

Elaborates the band of the track being premiered: "'Crystal Witch' is about mystical enslavement, a frenzied loss of control in the face of an enamoring tormenter. The music came from some older ideas rehashed and coupled with new passages.

"The track feels very cinematic to us in it's pacing and tonal range; from serene to crushing but ever-menacing. Emily Hogg and Kathryne Dameron provide banshee wails, and all band members share vocal duties. It encapsulates a lot of the sounds and themes from the whole album in one concise -- by Wizard Rifle standards -- song."