Funny you say that! Except I get even more specific. I say it was the time up until Bonnie Jovi's Slippery When Wet came out. I called the early 80s the Golden Age of heavy metal as it was more "Raw". I turned 13 in 1980 and am SO glad I was born when I was and got to experience that time period as my coming of age!
1980s, the best years for music, movies, games ecc ecc, but especially for heavy metal music for me. Exactly the opposite of present. I miss the 80s and true metal music. Simple and happy years! Regards from Italy
You know , there is a certain magic about bands, like this, from the 80's. They are milestones in what was yet to come. These guys are underrated. You wouldn't really understand unless you were , of age, when this came out. Crunchy riffs and melodic vocals. Pure magic.
+69glamboy A week ago, I bought a compilation of the band called All That's Fit for Fighting. Great stuff great similarity with the NWOBHM. Includes 3 CDs plus a DVD concert of Live Dynamo Eindhoven Holland 1985 plus 5 video clips among them is, of course, this. Really amazing band!
+69glamboy You are 110% right!I'd never heard of Witch Cross, but I was there, being 13 in 1980 for what I call "The Golden Age Of Heavy Metal" and NWOBHM! Exciting time to be a teen! The early 80's were when what I term "Raw Metal" was coming out, before metal became all radio friendly with sappy pop ballads (although, I do like all kinds of metal or hard rock, regardless of the bands image).
I was born in 1990, so way passed that era, but I think the older I get the more I appreciate 80s heavy metal. Like you said, great riffs and great singing combo just sounds so tight.
I found they have this on iTunes. I never heard of this band before. I’ve been listening to metal since 1982 and I’m still discovering hidden gems like this.
Exact same year as me! I was 14, and other than my buddies older sister having Sabbath's Master Of Reality on 8 track, when we were 10 in '77, I was introduced to metal when Priest's Screaming For Vengeance and a schoolmate ha # Of The Beast when it
Nights of blood and sweat behind Dreams of stardom filled our minds Friends that did not stand the fight Hope they'll see us here tonight The roar in your ears goes straight to your head Filling your body with pleasure You Start clapping your hands You start singing along and we'll be Rockin' the night awaaay Rockiiiiiinnnn... Hearts that broke along the way Just the price we had to pay Love did never strike us blind Nights like this were in our minds The roar in your ears goes straight to your head Filling your body with pleasure You Start clapping your hands You start singing along and we'll be Rockin' the night awaaay Rockiiiiiinnnn... Rockin! You have justified the fight Now we're standing in the light Proves our aim was never wrong See the music made us strong The roar in your ears goes straight to your head Filling your body with pleasure You Start clapping your hands You start singing along and we'll be Rockin' the night awaaay Rockiiiiiinnnn...
Rocking The Night Away Witch Cross Nights of blood and sweat behind Dreams of stardom filled our minds Friends that did not stand the fight Hope they'll see us here tonight The roar in your ears goes straight to your head Filling your body with pleasure You start clapping your hands You start singing along and we'll be Rocking the night away Rocking Hearts that broke along the way Just the price we had to pay Love did never strike us blind Nights like this were in our minds The roar in your ears goes straight to your head Filling your body with pleasure You start clapping your hands You start singing along and we'll be Rocking the night away Rocking Rocking! You have justified the fight Now we're standing in the light Proves our aim was never wrong See the music made us strong The roar in your ears goes straight to your head Filling your body with pleasure You start clapping your hands You start singing along and we'll be Rocking the night away Rocking Dnd perrillos
When comparisons are made about which decades had the best music the 80's always get slammed. That transition from instuments to music saturated by synthesizers gets a bad rap. Some bands made great use of them...others didn't. Also the New Wave genre came out with some pretty weird stuff. Some of those bands were awesome...many were just bad. Whether it be MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone, etc etc, critics have all had a turn at bashing the 80's.
+drexar123 Some of the 'Hair Bands' got bashed...like Poison and other glam rock groups. But I personally think some of those bands put out some incredible hard rock and heavy metal.
Oh yeah, they bashed heavy metal, as Michael Hersh said MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone hated heavy metal even at this time (1984). It was around 1986-87 that the big hair and heavy metal struck big, as far as the music media were concerned, as they were as always years behind what was actually happening in music. They buried metal in the early '90's as quick as they possibly could, but the interest in the bands continued whereas the interest in the shit they had promoted faded, so now we get to see many live shows, videos, etc. that we didn't back then because the idiot asshole sonofabitches wouldn't show it then.
I can't believe I ever imagined one day seeing a Witch Cross video. Frankly, a good vocal song. Hooks like crazy. Greatness...I hope these guys can enjoy how well the 80's are depicted by this cool ass production
Wow! I was NOT expecting this to be that good! The song started up and I immediately rolled my eyes when I saw the guitarists posturing. Then that chorus made me raise both my eyebrows! What I love is the "power pop" flavor to it. Like Cheap Trick on steroids.
i've read in Snakepit magazine that the band shot the video, and somebody subsequently "lost" the tape, and that band never got to see the video until it was uploaded on the internet, probably here :D so.. good job dude
Incredible to have such a resonating spearhead of a voice in that register. Usually the mixed voice of a guy that sounds "like a girl" sounds whiney, but Alex Madsen comes off as powerful.
Gosh - o -mightee this EARLY heavy metal is UNTOUCHED in my book especially groups like this that somehow stayed under the radar.......yes this stuff right here is the BEST heavy metal EVER offered !!!!!!!!!
I remember this from watching it on MTV when it was still good great band .I'm still finding 80s bands I've never heard lot of really good bands out back then like Powerlord
hay gente de sobra a la que no le gusta el Heavy Metal y es más amplia y más sabia en gustos musicales que tú. y que cada día aprende algo diferente que descubrir y apreciar que no tiene nada que ver con el Metal: jazz, blues, electrónica, power pop, garage, funk...
@@TheePabloPereiro Electrónica? Funk? Jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja con esa payasada te sepulaste solo. Supongo que a esa gente de la que tanto hablas que es sabia le habrás hecho entrevistas o les has hecho encuestas no? Pobre payaso!
I hear this song every day of my life i just love it i love the sound love the voice love the message of the song love so much the multiple solos is incredible,soy de Buenos Aires Argentina es muy especial esta cancion para mí que viva el heavy metal long live heavy metal my brothers
really like this band and their music style...great rock n roll... and as usual from the 80's era... some of the best classic rock of the century from 60's 70's 80's and 90's...
I had this song on a cassette for 25 years without knowing who sang it. I contacted a Heavy Metal music journalist named Martin Popoff and sent him an MP3, he immediately responded with Witch Cross.. I found the LP on eBay shortly thereafter and it is fantastic. I heard ONE of the reissues and it didn't sound good at all (compared to the vinyl I recorded onto CD). I am hoping the 2CD set someone mentioned does a better job. This video version sounds great.
I'm translating something related to the NWOBHM and thanks to that article I remembered that band. Pretty sweet! 5 years since the last time I've heard something from them :D
The remastering of the Fit For Fight album, Are You There 7 inches and the Last Train demo 86, there on the Hellsheadbangers 4 vinyl edition were taken from the Keltic cd release, in agreement with Keltic records and Jan Normark, the bass player of Witch Cross.
never heard before and i am 50 all life listening buying metal punk steel different kinds but old school thrash death and classic metal. no simphonic bullshit power metal etc. but bever heard these before as may others
I like how the voice is cranked slightly louder than the guitars on this record. A lot of obscure albums around this time period consist of loud guitars and muffled vocals and drums, but here it's evened out
Hey man! I would love to know more about the making of this album/ song and the band and why you left. Do you have an email or a way we could talk? Or a brief explanation on here would be fine but I rather really talk about it. Hope all is well. Cheers friend!
+redshaftedflicker This is a pretty good tun though! Right out of the Saxon and NWOBHM. Forget what led me here, but love it when someone has a bunch of mixed videos that has a video of a band from the early 80's and introduces me to something new! Checking out more Witch Cross right now!
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80's metal....nothing beats it!
Except 70s metal?
Agreed. 80's Metal was the golden age of Metal. Nothing can touch it imo
Funny you say that! Except I get even more specific. I say it was the time up until Bonnie Jovi's Slippery When Wet came out. I called the early 80s the Golden Age of heavy metal as it was more "Raw". I turned 13 in 1980 and am SO glad I was born when I was and got to experience that time period as my coming of age!
Nothing truly beats 80's heavy metal!
1980s, the best years for music, movies, games ecc ecc, but especially for heavy metal music for me. Exactly the opposite of present. I miss the 80s and true metal music. Simple and happy years! Regards from Italy
Heavy Metal at it's finest!
You know , there is a certain magic about bands, like this, from the 80's. They are milestones in what was yet to come. These guys are underrated. You wouldn't really understand unless you were , of age, when this came out. Crunchy riffs and melodic vocals. Pure magic.
+69glamboy A week ago, I bought a compilation of the band called All That's Fit for Fighting. Great stuff great similarity with the NWOBHM. Includes 3 CDs plus a DVD concert of Live Dynamo Eindhoven Holland 1985 plus 5 video clips among them is, of course, this. Really amazing band!
+69glamboy You are 110% right!I'd never heard of Witch Cross, but I was there, being 13 in 1980 for what I call "The Golden Age Of Heavy Metal" and NWOBHM! Exciting time to be a teen! The early 80's were when what I term "Raw Metal" was coming out, before metal became all radio friendly with sappy pop ballads (although, I do like all kinds of metal or hard rock, regardless of the bands image).
I agree with your observation.
I was born in 1990, so way passed that era, but I think the older I get the more I appreciate 80s heavy metal. Like you said, great riffs and great singing combo just sounds so tight.
I know I can't truly understand what it was like, but I can at least say that I empathize and sure wish I was there!
real fucking heavy Metal
I found they have this on iTunes. I never heard of this band before. I’ve been listening to metal since 1982 and I’m still discovering hidden gems like this.
Exact same year as me! I was 14, and other than my buddies older sister having Sabbath's Master Of Reality on 8 track, when we were 10 in '77, I was introduced to metal when Priest's Screaming For Vengeance and a schoolmate ha # Of The Beast when it
The vocal lines are so good in this band - they really make the songs memorable.
Nights of blood and sweat behind
Dreams of stardom filled our minds
Friends that did not stand the fight
Hope they'll see us here tonight
The roar in your ears goes straight to your head
Filling your body with pleasure
You Start clapping your hands
You start singing along and we'll be
Rockin' the night awaaay
Rockiiiiiinnnn...
Hearts that broke along the way
Just the price we had to pay
Love did never strike us blind
Nights like this were in our minds
The roar in your ears goes straight to your head
Filling your body with pleasure
You Start clapping your hands
You start singing along and we'll be
Rockin' the night awaaay
Rockiiiiiinnnn...
Rockin!
You have justified the fight
Now we're standing in the light
Proves our aim was never wrong
See the music made us strong
The roar in your ears goes straight to your head
Filling your body with pleasure
You Start clapping your hands
You start singing along and we'll be
Rockin' the night awaaay
Rockiiiiiinnnn...
Thank you so much for the lirys .
Thank you soooooo much men cheers from Argentina!!!
Ty for this !!!
Grafías broder por las letras, saludos desde Perú
Wow… Dude could sing!!! 🎤
Rocking The Night Away
Witch Cross
Nights of blood and sweat behind
Dreams of stardom filled our minds
Friends that did not stand the fight
Hope they'll see us here tonight
The roar in your ears goes straight to your head
Filling your body with pleasure
You start clapping your hands
You start singing along and we'll be
Rocking the night away
Rocking
Hearts that broke along the way
Just the price we had to pay
Love did never strike us blind
Nights like this were in our minds
The roar in your ears goes straight to your head
Filling your body with pleasure
You start clapping your hands
You start singing along and we'll be
Rocking the night away
Rocking
Rocking!
You have justified the fight
Now we're standing in the light
Proves our aim was never wrong
See the music made us strong
The roar in your ears goes straight to your head
Filling your body with pleasure
You start clapping your hands
You start singing along and we'll be
Rocking the night away
Rocking
Dnd perrillos
One of the best song I never heared, and I'm only 23 years but I like the old school like this, just rock & roll !!
Just found out about this band today. Amazing song!
Denmark always had great metal, Merciful Fate, Wuthering Heights, and this awesome guys! Long live Metal music!
People who say the 80's was the worse decade for music are...oh so very wrong!!
Who said that? Literally never heard anyone say it ever
When comparisons are made about which decades had the best music the 80's always get slammed. That transition from instuments to music saturated by synthesizers gets a bad rap. Some bands made great use of them...others didn't. Also the New Wave genre came out with some pretty weird stuff. Some of those bands were awesome...many were just bad. Whether it be MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone, etc etc, critics have all had a turn at bashing the 80's.
I doubt they bashed 80's metal, maybe other genres of music, but metal had its rising and prime in the 80's and 90's
+drexar123
Some of the 'Hair Bands' got bashed...like Poison and other glam rock groups. But I personally think some of those bands put out some incredible hard rock and heavy metal.
Oh yeah, they bashed heavy metal, as Michael Hersh said MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone hated heavy metal even at this time (1984). It was around 1986-87 that the big hair and heavy metal struck big, as far as the music media were concerned, as they were as always years behind what was actually happening in music. They buried metal in the early '90's as quick as they possibly could, but the interest in the bands continued whereas the interest in the shit they had promoted faded, so now we get to see many live shows, videos, etc. that we didn't back then because the idiot asshole sonofabitches wouldn't show it then.
Classic song from one of the greatest metal albums of all time \m/
80's metal music is genuine and unmatched by any music of today's standard play it loud and rip the knob off .
Check out Tailgunner and RIOT CITY.
I can't believe I ever imagined one day seeing a Witch Cross video. Frankly, a good vocal song. Hooks like crazy. Greatness...I hope these guys can enjoy how well the 80's are depicted by this cool ass production
Every day was spent rockin the night away in the 80s. Yes
Up there with the likes of Soldier, Girl, Dark Star, Tygers, A II Z, Fist, Etc. That's the best review I could give anyone.
I heard this year's ago on RUclips through a Playlist but lost it forever. Looked a video fro shok paris and found this again!!! Fuck yeah. \m/
Perfect song!!!!
Wow! I was NOT expecting this to be that good! The song started up and I immediately rolled my eyes when I saw the guitarists posturing. Then that chorus made me raise both my eyebrows! What I love is the "power pop" flavor to it. Like Cheap Trick on steroids.
i've read in Snakepit magazine that the band shot the video, and somebody subsequently "lost" the tape, and that band never got to see the video until it was uploaded on the internet, probably here :D
so.. good job dude
este es el verdadero heavy metal nunca morira su verdadera
esencia
helver palma por fin alguien en español
@@pabloguillen6802 Excelente canción no conocía este grupo y esta de lujo🎸🎸🎸💪💪💪
This whole album is phenomenal
when living after midnight is not enoght you get this rocking hard awesomeness
I respect the music tastes of everyone including how music is played today.but the 80' is still my favorite kind of music.
AMAZING SONG AND PERFORMANCE!!!
Incredible to have such a resonating spearhead of a voice in that register. Usually the mixed voice of a guy that sounds "like a girl" sounds whiney, but Alex Madsen comes off as powerful.
I was playing witch cross in the car and my dad thought the vocalist was female 😂 but anyways super impressive and great vocals
@@Aelfrix sounds like halford
Heavy Metal till I die, that´s the fvckin´attitude, damn, miss the times! \m/
Killer voice
Gosh - o -mightee this EARLY heavy metal is UNTOUCHED in my book especially groups like this that somehow stayed under the radar.......yes this stuff right here is the BEST heavy metal EVER offered !!!!!!!!!
I remember this from watching it on MTV when it was still good great band .I'm still finding 80s bands I've never heard lot of really good bands out back then like Powerlord
El que diga que el Heavy Metal no los hace feliz o es limitado no sabe nada. Cada día algo diferente que descubrir y apreciar 💪👊🎶💜
hay gente de sobra a la que no le gusta el Heavy Metal y es más amplia y más sabia en gustos musicales que tú. y que cada día aprende algo diferente que descubrir y apreciar que no tiene nada que ver con el Metal: jazz, blues, electrónica, power pop, garage, funk...
Hala Arnold majete vete a descubrir regetton, no se que haces aquí comentando
@@TheePabloPereiro Electrónica? Funk? Jajajaja jajajaja jajajaja con esa payasada te sepulaste solo. Supongo que a esa gente de la que tanto hablas que es sabia le habrás hecho entrevistas o les has hecho encuestas no? Pobre payaso!
De dónde sacaban tanta energía estos viejos?!!!! Desde que empieza hasta que termina la cancion es increible. 80's RULES!!!!
My new favorite singer
I hear this song every day of my life i just love it i love the sound love the voice love the message of the song love so much the multiple solos is incredible,soy de Buenos Aires Argentina es muy especial esta cancion para mí que viva el heavy metal long live heavy metal my brothers
Chumbo kicks ass! Greetings from czech republic 🤘🤘🤘
Love this!!!!!!!!!
fuckin awesome the way metal should be played
this is true heavy metal, man!
Essa banda incrivel nunca fez show aqui no brasil e nen no rock in rio
Hj em dia o rock in rio so toca mela cueca
Great band great song 🤘
really like this band and their music style...great rock n roll... and as usual from the 80's era... some of the best classic rock of the century from 60's 70's 80's and 90's...
name one band that makes a tune like this nowadays. i adore you
Dude This song is better than all the discography of Metallica!!!🔥
NO
U smokin crack
Nope
Si si ya te vimos
This song is amazing but youre wrong
A billion dollars vs a time machine, a pair of reebok, and heavy metal music day and night... screw the money give me size 11 shoes!
I had the cassette and played it until it wouldn't play anymore. Wish I could find it somewhere, but I guess youtube is good for now. Keep Rockin!!!
published 2009 and only 300k views?? what the fuck
Great band and good song.
this song is AWESOME!!!! i hope one day i learn to make metal like this!
First time hearing this.
This was my friggin JAM back in 2015. Need to listen to this tape again.
I had this song on a cassette for 25 years without knowing who sang it. I contacted a Heavy Metal music journalist named Martin Popoff and sent him an MP3, he immediately responded with Witch Cross.. I found the LP on eBay shortly thereafter and it is fantastic. I heard ONE of the reissues and it didn't sound good at all (compared to the vinyl I recorded onto CD). I am hoping the 2CD set someone mentioned does a better job. This video version sounds great.
Amazingly tight. Great song and great album. It's not gutteral, it's the way metal in the early 80s was... Just great.
I'm translating something related to the NWOBHM and thanks to that article I remembered that band. Pretty sweet! 5 years since the last time I've heard something from them :D
Absolute Best of the 80,"s
The lead guitarist is too awesome.
Es que quien en 2024? Me encantan ❤
Presente!! /,, /
perfect band !! and vocals too !!
Witch Cross forever!
ROCKIN!!!
HEAVY METAL 80"s WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!
Essa banda é muito forte 👊🏻💥🤘🏻🤘🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 não existe igual...
Missed them in the 80es, but the song ist absolutely great.
Nice mirror selfie bro!!
Of course, i saw them live in Germany in April. So excited to see them on stage!
Amazing!
perfect band .hi! from Greece
lata 80 coś pięknego
When Metal was Metal! 🤘🏻
Kudos for the vocals! Sweet.
Really, that's great man!
I always wanted to see them live, they are going to play in a few days, but I can't make it. :(
This song kills!!! Look at all that swagger
One of the greatest ever
Great band!!
Excellent
The remastering of the Fit For Fight album, Are You There 7 inches and the Last Train demo 86, there on the Hellsheadbangers 4 vinyl edition were taken from the Keltic cd release, in agreement with Keltic records and Jan Normark, the bass player of Witch Cross.
one of the few legendary bands that hasn't reunited.Pity!
80е, золотое время было у.музыконтов-они досих пор вспоминают об этом!!
never heard before and i am 50 all life listening buying metal punk steel different kinds but old school thrash death and classic metal. no simphonic bullshit power metal etc. but bever heard these before as may others
Hells Headbangers \m/
I got it on cassette, but they released it on CD as well
80s heavy ,excelent
Voice of the angels.
I like it, I never heard about them.
Awesome track and an excellent sound! Similar in style to Mercyful Fate that was out at that time as well. Anyway, I love this song.
Que chimba de tema! Verdadero Heavy Metal.
Hmmm pretty good. Im gonna check out more of this witch cross
Muy buen tema musical del hard rock de los 80 la década de oro de la música internacional
1:10 me and the boys when this song comes on
Fantastic.
i love being '80 rock era...uyeea
loved this guys voice. good vocal melodies too
Steve Burk bitch boy
Awesome!!!
Great song
this album is killer
I like how the voice is cranked slightly louder than the guitars on this record. A lot of obscure albums around this time period consist of loud guitars and muffled vocals and drums, but here it's evened out
A track made by yours truly ;-)
Ole Hamilton Poulsen amazing song man! That whole album is fantastic!
Fantastic! I love your album!
Hey man! I would love to know more about the making of this album/ song and the band and why you left. Do you have an email or a way we could talk? Or a brief explanation on here would be fine but I rather really talk about it. Hope all is well. Cheers friend!
Ole Hamilton Poulsen I'm a huge black metal fan, this album is pure magic thank you
RIGHT ON GOOD SONG.
Siempre que encuentro una banda tan brutal me siento feliz de vivir en estos tiempos donde toda la gran biblioteca musical esta a mi alcance.....
good song 🎵
The power and the glory belong to Witch Cross.
+redshaftedflicker Good Saxon tune!
+Brian Sauer haahahaha!
+redshaftedflicker This is a pretty good tun though! Right out of the Saxon and NWOBHM. Forget what led me here, but love it when someone has a bunch of mixed videos that has a video of a band from the early 80's and introduces me to something new! Checking out more Witch Cross right now!