Death Penalty (album)

Death Penalty
Studio album by Witchfinder General
Released September 1982[1]
Recorded Metro Sound Studios, Mansbury, England, 10-11 April 1982[1]
Genre Doom metal
Length 30:01
Label Heavy Metal
Producer Peter Hinton
Witchfinder General chronology

Soviet Invasion
(1982)		 Death Penalty
(1982)		 Friends of Hell
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]
Kerrang! (favourable)[3]
Martin Popoff [4]

Death Penalty is the debut studio album by British doom metal band Witchfinder General. It was released in 1982 on Heavy Metal Records. The album received some criticism for the cover photograph, which featured topless model Joanne Latham. The photograph had been taken in the yard of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church in Enville, Staffordshire, without the permission of the local Reverend.[5] The album was originally released on LP and picture disc and was later reissued on CD. Pictured on the cover is Phil Cope, Zeeb Parkes, Graham Ditchfield and a member of their road crew.[1] While Peter Hinton is credited with producing this recording, the writers Phil Cope and Zeeb Parkes always felt the credit should have gone to the engineer Robin George.[1]

Track listing

All songs by Zeeb Parkes and Phil Cope

Side one
  1. "Invisible Hate" – 6:05
  2. "Free Country" – 3:10
  3. "Death Penalty" – 5:35
Side two
  1. "No Stayer" – 4:25
  2. "Witchfinder General" – 3:51
  3. "Burning a Sinner" – 3:28
  4. "R.I.P." – 4:04

Credits

Witchfinder General

Production

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Phil Cope interview". Witchfinder General Official Website. November 2004. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  2. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. Death Penalty at AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
  3. ↑ Dome, Malcolm (19 November 1982). "Witchfinder General - 'Death Penalty'" (JPG). Kerrang! (29). Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  4. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  5. ↑ "Updates : The return of Joanne Latham". Metal Gods.net. 1 March 2005. Archived from the original on 10 May 2006. Retrieved 2014-05-07.