Digitallive Productions has posted a live video for the song, "Winds of Atlantis." This was also filmed at Club DV8 on September 7, 2009.

You can preview the video here on MySpace or the full screen version can be viewed HERE.

After what seems like an eternity, the drummer search has thankfully ended. Icarus Witch are proud to announce Steve Johnson as our newest addition to the inner circle, or as he so eloquently puts it himself, the "next and last drummer for the Witch." We came into contact with Steve after he saw our performance opening for Heaven & Hell and Coheed & Cambria in Cleveland on August 22. Thanks to the wonders of myspace, we soon became friends with the Ohio native and when he found out we had a position open for full-time drummer, he came down to Pittsburgh and nailed his audition. 

Digitallive Productions has posted a live video for the song, "The Sky Is Falling" which they filmed at Club DV8 on September 7, the night Icarus Witch played with Cauldron, Enforcer & Mantic Ritual.

At long last, we've wrapped the tracking for the new album and all that's left is to finish mixing this week. More detailed news coming very soon. 

We just wanted to thank all who made last nights show with Heaven & Hell and Coheed & Cambria such a great experience. Starting with H&H's gracious tour management & crew and both of the bands who shared their stage with us. The staff at Nautica Pavilion was fantastic and our techs Pat & Bones went above & beyond. The busloads of devoted Witch heads who made the trek out to Cleveland to cheer us on for this memorable performance...you made us feel right at home. Thanks to the radio folks who pumped up the concert and our involvement (Especially, Abby fom The X, Chris from The Classic Metal Show, Stickman & Bill Peters) And thanks to all of the enthusiastic people we met afterward who were hearing the Witch for the first time, welcome.

We were all too happy to take some time out of our writing/recording cycle to speak to The Cathode Ray Mission about our favorite non-music subjects: horror movies & the occult! They all fit together like pieces of the macabre puzzle that is Witch world. This is a great blog site that we'll be adding to our bookmarks and exploring in more depth:

Funny how media-created genre tags have been the norm in this biz for so long. Generally speaking, Icarus Witch has avoided being nailed down too much and we've relished the outsider status as trend-free, stick to your guns traditionalists. However, when one of the largest hard rock magazines in England contacts you to tell you you're now a part of this movement known as NWOTM (or New Wave Of Traditional Metal) well, that's a tag we can wear with pride, knowing that by not bowing to trends, the tastes have finally come around to what we've been doing all along, playing a traditional style of classic, hard rocking old school heavy metal.

So we're flattered by the invite to be on the compilation CD {"Nature Of The Beast"] that accompanies this April 2009 edition of Metal Hammer UK as well as the kind words inside. Particularly these passages:

"One of the best new bands to take the NWOTM standard and carry it triumphantly into the future is Icarus Witch, a Pittsburgh based group that sound like Ronnie James Dio fronted Sabbath crash-landing a Judas Priest gig!"

&

"Early Iron Maiden & Dio plummeting to Earth on fire!"

What makes it even sweeter is that it's an honor we can share with our brothers in bands like Cauldron, Widow, Twisted Tower Dire, White Wizzard & Wolf (also featured in this month's Incoming section).

As British press tends to show up on American magazine racks a month after it's run in the UK, this should be arriving soon in the U.S.. Look for the April issue with Metallica & Machine Head on the cover & support those who support true metal.

Cheers~