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Live'n'Loud‬: Blackwitch Pudding

A Doomed & Stoned Film

They're one of the most exciting acts in metal today: BLACKWITCH PUDDING. The collective of 500-year old wizards have been jamming in the ether for for eons, manifesting in the flesh on rare occasions for unseemly rituals, such as the one that took place last weekend at World Famous Kenton Club in Portland, Oregon.

This being the release of their fabulous new EP, the boys were joined by one fabulous chick by the name of Soul Wizard (see our interview with her for hints as to her identity!) Dig this incredible performance of "Herman, The Worm Man" from the new EP:

Filmed by yours truly last Friday, April 29th, 2016. Blackwitch Pudding played new songs, old songs, and the two amazing songs on their new EP, which can be gotten here. A wondrous experience for all involved!

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An Interview with Soul Wizard from Blackwitch Pudding!

Meet The Mysterious Fifth Member of the Portland Wizard Clan

By Billy Goate (Editor in Cheif)

God, it’s good to hear you again, Uta! I think I melted the first time I heard “Betty Kougar.” We’ve missed your voice! Not many people know about the other projects you’ve been involved in besides Witch Mountain. How does it feel to be collaborating with the ruffians of Blackwitch Pudding?

I’m afraid you have me mistaken for someone else. I just got into town on my sub-sonic transporter two earth months ago which is for me just three of your human heart beats. However, I accept your positive acknowledgements and will say this about the space wizards: they know how to party.

Soul Wizard is the perfect name, because it really grabs the heart of your vocal style and the strong emotional tug people get from listening to your work throughout the years. I’m curious, how did all of this special brew bubbled up to begin with - did the most revered wizards approach you or did you cast a spell and beckon them thither?

Lizard Wizard and I go way back. We used to shoot womprats together on my home planet. I hadn’t heard from him for a while when he sent me BWP’s first album, I played it on my radio show back in Jakan and now they’re HUGE in Jakan. When they asked me to travel 50,000 keejams to do some guest vocals I was honored. I’m afraid I can’t stay long though. Responsibilities at home you know - muckfusking and bjrkling.

Betty Kougar/Herman The Worm Man by Blackwitch Pudding ft. Soul Wizard

Well, we love the new EP and are curious to know what you have brewing in that creative mind of yours for the future, either with Aranya, collaborations with other musicians, or solo work?

You must be talking about this other person. Lizard Wizard tells me he’s in a new project with her called Inverted Crosses and they’ll be recording next month. Hope that’s helpful.

Damn! Sorry, I’m finding that when it comes to Blackwitch Pudding, I’m always caught in a transdimensional mind fuck. I found both tracks to be just, well, fun. So how fun was it to write them, and was this a collaborative deal or all Soul Wizard?

We had some riffs laying around, but no words, and we never had that ‘shit your pants, this is it’ kinda feeling about them, so instead of putting in hard work and finishing the songs, we decided to find someone else to do that for us and went straight to the top of the galactic charts, Soul Wizard. We greased the wheels by promising to crush her enemies, see them driven before her, and to broadcast the lamentations of their women through the airwaves. Who wouldn’t go for that?

You and your new mates performed in early February, joined by Ice Princess, and Dry Heathen at the Know in Portland. Do you have more live shows planned? I’ve got to see you! Of course, fans will be wanting to know, will you all be taking the show on the road?

We will be having our release show for the EP on Friday April 29th, at The World Famous Kenton Club in North Portland. Joining us once again will be our witchitanic comrades in Ice Princess, as well as some young ritualistic heathens by the name of Hound the Wolves. Soul Wizard will be there to perform her tracks, and BWP will round out the set with as much new material from the upcoming LP as we can. Look for a west coast run in September, the weed everywhere else has got to get better before we venture farther….. Just kidding, we are working on getting the next full length record recorded, so we can’t blow all our juice on a full tour just yet. (Seriously though, we expect some dank shit out there…)

Soul Wizard, Space Wizard, Lizard Wizard, Wizard Wizard, and Lazer Wizard release both songs on a 10" vinyl 45 two weeks from now, on April 15th. You can pre-order it here.

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Uta Plotkin Joins Blackwitch Pudding For Fiendish New EP!

The ancient conjurers of sound have returned to melt hearts and explode minds! Blackwitch Pudding today announce through Doomed & Stoned their new 10" EP, 'Betty Kougar/Herman the Worm Man' (2016) and reveal for the first time the album art, the product of Darren Saint Darren (with David Paul Seymour designing the logo). Recorded, mixed and mastered by Adam Pike at Toadhouse Studios in Portland Oregon, this new release - which will receive it's streaming debut via our friend JJ at The Obelisk - marks the wizard's third self-produced release, following their covers EP and debut LP (both of which we adore).

They're not returning alone, either. The big news that makes this an even more of an exciting release to talk about is that the new EP will mark the return of Uta Plotkin (of Witch Mountain fame) to the heavy scene.

From the Wizard's hive:

"The time has come for another offering from the psychedelic wizards of Blackwitch Pudding! After the passing of many moons, it was decided that more wizards make a better pudding, so they have decided to collaborate with the one and only Soul Wizard. Previously masquerading as a mere mortal human by the name of Uta Plotkin, Soul Wizard has established her reputation with Witch Mountain and Aranya as one of the mightiest voices in the Pacific Northwest. Now, with no false pretenses to hide behind, Soul Wizard is free to claim her identity as the one true bringer of soul, the mother and maker of rock and roll.

"This two song release is a double-sided dildo of ear penetrating delight! The 10" vinyl release has no A side, no B side just solid fucking gold. Betty Kougar/Herman the Worm Man are just a taste of the new Blackwitch Pudding sound. Betty Kougar is a hellish ride of a rocking one night stand gone wrong while Herman the Worm Man is an earth churning look into the evil assholes of music scenes everywhere. These stories take you on fun adventures that will land you somewhere in between hilarious and terrifying. Strip naked and take the plunge into some brand new Blackwitch Pudding ft. Soul Wizard."

God, I love them...glad they're back.

You can pre-order the new Blackwitch Pudding record here and follow their exploits at www.blackwitchpudding.com.

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Day Of The Shred Festival 2015 announced; Captain Beyond, Crowbar, Torche, Saviours, Ides Of Gemini and more to perform

Official press release: This fall, the Day of the Shred Festival returns to Southern California, presenting a diverse lineup of heavy music acts. Billed as an experience “to gather the living and remember the dead,” The Day of the Shred will take place on November 1 (Dia de los Muertos) in Santa Ana, CA. Celebrating monolithic riffs, skateboarding and the souls of the departed, the second annual…

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Had a great time playing metal records out at the World Famous Kenton Club with Dry Heathan, Disenchanter, and Black Witch Pudding! Can’t wait to do it again!

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BLACKWITCH PUDDING: 600-Year-Old Party Doom Wizards Announce "MAGIC UP YOUR BUTT" U.S. TOUR

Following the wildly successful release of their new EP, Covered In Pudding Vol. 1, the 600-year-old wizards of Blackwitch Pudding are taking their magic, their smoke, their lazers--and most importantly their riffs--on the road. Starting January 15th, you can catch the traveling wizard doom party extravaganza across the U.S....and a show so entertaining that no other doom metal band in their weight class can muster.  "MAGIC UP YOUR BUTT" U.S. TOUR DATES: 1/15 Seattle, WA @ The Narwhal

1/16 Portland, OR @ The Kenton Club 1/17 Ashland, OR @ Club 66 1/18 Sacramento, CA @ TBA 1/21 San Diego, CA @ The Til Two Club 1/22 Pomona, CA @ Characters 1/23 Tempe, AZ @ Tempe Tavern 1/24 Tucson, AZ @ Sky Bar 1/25 El Paso, TX @ Grynde Bar 1/26 San Antonio, TX @ Lime Light Bar 1/27 Houston, TX @ Rudyards 1/29 Austin, TX @ The Lost Well 1/30 Dallas, TX @ Lola's Room 1/31 Little Rock, AR @ Vino's 2/1 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory 2/2 Amarillo, TX @ TBA 2/3 Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad 2/4 Flagstaff, AZ @ The Hive 2/5 Las Vegas, NV @ The Dive Bar 2/6 Los Angeles, CA @ Los Globos 2/7 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Sweet Springs Saloon 2/8 San Francisco, CA @ The Hemlock Tavern 2/10 Bend, OR @ TBA 2/14 Portland, OR @ High Water Mark Haven't heard Covered In Pudding Vol. 1 yet? Listen to it in its entirety and read about 600 years of wizard adventures AT THIS LOCATION.

  Paying Homage to the rotten filth from which they were born, Blackwitch Pudding are actually a band of three wizards. Legend has it they were raised from a stagnant, used puddle of ergot, left by the mysterious Blackwitch no less than 600 years ago. Trained in the dark arts of doom and witchery, these wizards wander the cosmos in search of nothing, for their path is a simple one: The riffs must be heavy and the smoke must be heavier. The band, their records, their merch, their live shows and the entire experience of Blackwitch Pudding is a self-sustaining, self-produced operation. Great lengths have been taken to ensure that no part of the spectacle that is Blackwitch Pudding has been overlooked. The sights, the sounds, the smells, the lights and the crushing feeling you get in the pit of your stomach travel to every stage, forest, and cabin they play. Hand-crafted by a loyal cadre of dark-art comrades, everything that goes into the Blackwitch Pudding experience is tailored to send the listener, and even more so the concert-goer, into an unforgettable celestial black hole of tongue-in-cheek, stoned-out doom. It’s been nearly a year and a half since the wizards released their infamous debut LP, Taste the Pudding, and they have grown restless. Though one might question why, after 600 years of conjuring evil riffs, casting spells and wreaking supernatural havoc upon this planet that the trio has only created one full-length record, but the truth is, for centuries, pesky, silly mortals have been ripping them off and making the themes more palatable for straight-laced human consumption. So the robed wizards of doom have resurfaced again with  a new EP, Covered In Pudding Vol. 1, to prove once and for all that they were here first, that their riffs shall ring true, and that rock and roll should be about an average wizard’s favorite things: sex, drugs, witch-babes and filth. The wizards of Blackwitch Pudding are: Space Wizard - Guitar, Vocals Lizard Wizard - Bass, Vocals Wizard Wizard - Drums, Vocals “They lay down some of the heaviest, testicle-swingiest, fuzzed-out grooves I’ve had the pleasure of hearing in a long time.”  - Oregon Music News “It sounds like a party that’s about to get way out of hand — and then the pounding starts, bones begin to splinter, and the splash of viscera begins to paint the walls red. Or at least that’s what I was imagining while I banged my head ’til the vertebrae began to disjoint.” - NO CLEAN SINGING Links: blackwitchpudding.com blackwitchpudding.bandcamp.com facebook.com/blackwitchpudding twitter.com/blackwitchpuddn

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Blackwitch Pudding, Bloodmoon, Chasma, Old Hand LIVE TONIGHT at Slabtown

Portlanders! Don't miss your chance to see four killer bands in their prime during the last days of Slabtown! News broke early in the weekend that the Rose City's favorite dive bar was indeed closing it's doors. That means I'm going to do my damnedest to get my fluffy goat ass (yes, it is quite fluffy) to Slabtown during the month of October so I can experience the dirty goodness that bands and fans have been coming for year after year.  

TONIGHT (10/4), the bill includes the sick, demonic riffs of those bastardly wizards Blackwitch Pudding, joined by Cali blackened-sludgers Bloodmoon, the "ragged fury" of Portland noir ouveau act Chasma, and the "loud, apocalyptic, dirty prog" of Old Hand. Show at 9 pm, 21+ and 6 bucks to partake of the madness.  Brought to you by Soundcontrol PDX. Here's the event page.

We've been especially supportive of Blackwitch Pudding since they were a relative unknown in the collage of the "Keep Portland Weird" set.  See my recent interview with Space Wizard.  And, I can't resist, here's my footage of the Ancient Ones shot in pitch black darkness of Slabtown this past spring.