Karyn Crisis Gospel of the Witches – to release “Covenant” via Aural Music on October 25, 2019

KARYN CRISIS’ GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES is the brainchild of two visionaries: Karyn Crisis (ex-Crisis) and Davide Tiso (Ephel Duath, Howling Sycamore). Their debut Salem’s Wounds was released by Century Media records with worldwide critical acclaim in 2015, and now it’s time for a brand new album. Titled Covenant and featuring Fabian Vestod (Skinlab) on drums, it offers 12 songs of the finest Occult Metal — from evil heaviness to ambient passages invoking very ancient concepts and vibrations of the realm of the Goddesses and those who celebrate their magic on earth.

TRACKLIST:
1. Womb of the World
2. Drawing Down the Moon
3. Stretto di Barba
4. Silver Valley
5. Great Mothers
6. Benevento
7. Dea Iside
8. Janara
9. The Hours
10. Diana Mellifica
11. Circle of White Light
12. Blood of the Mother

BIO: KARYN CRISIS is a name worthy of more praise and attention. While select circles of people know and appreciate her prior vocals with the critically-acclaimed Crisis from 1993-2006 many are still naive to her influence and impact. This demure girl raged harder than many men slugging it out with impactful live performances at hardcore and metal shows screaming oftentimes like a demon, others singing like an angel. She led the way and has become an influence for female-fronted extreme bands. Karyn returns with her stellar new project, KARYN CRISIS’ GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES, and a fabulous new album, “Covenant”, on Aural Music (October 2019). The genesis of Gospel of the Witches began unwittingly in February 2009 when Karyn Crisis met Ephel Duath guitarist Davide Tiso, spending time together, they grew inseparable and decided to return together to the U.S. to form a band. Once settled in the Bay Area, they would spend the next few years working hard to find the right musical expression, and channeled the songs that would eventually become the debut of KARYN CRISIS’ GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES titled “The Alchemist” (released by Century Media Records in late 2015). 4 years later the band is ready for the second album titled “Covenant”, featuring Fabian Vestod on drums and recorded & mixed by Jamie King. To shed more light on this truly renaissance artist and her background, Karyn was raised just outside Chicago and began playing classical music as a child, exposed to experimental music through college radio and getting involved in the then burgeoning industrial WaxTrax! movement; even working at the eponymous record store. Moving to New York as a college student she became part of the NY Hardcore scene singing for the band Crisis who became a staple band at CBGBs, even booking sold-out shows featuring out-of-town bands like Sam Black Church and Soilent Green. The band’s first release was on Too Damn Hype! Records in 1993, then Metal Blade quickly rushed to grab the promising outfit and released the next two Crisis albums. All were critically hailed cult albums. Karyn fronted the group — a petite, young, pretty girl with long, blond dreads that hung to the floor. Her performances were frenetic and legendary as she was one of the first, if not the first female to use death vocals and demonic grunts alongside angelic clean singing. The band performed on many metal and hardcore tours eventually relocating to Los Angeles and aiming to clean up their sound for an anticipated major label deal. Unfortunately that didn’t happen for the band and they returned to a heavier, more traditional final album on The End Records in 2004 before parting ways. Crisis featured members that later went on to perform with Shadows Fall, Soulfly, Stonesour, Crowbar, and Downset. In the interim Karyn stayed in LA, gave up music and began painting and leathercrafting, making a name for herself in those areas. In 2009 she moved to San Francisco and married Davide Tiso of Ephel Duath, making an appearance on the band’s final EP and album. It was in San Francisco that Karyn began teaching people how to use their psychic and mediumistic abilities, and became an in-demand lecturer and teacher, earning her a prominent reputation among the well established Bay Area spiritual community. Connecting with people in this way made Karyn realize it was time to reconnect with her fans who have continually emailed her all these years, refusing to forget her voice, asking her to make new music. She felt the call, and decided to devote her new music to empowering others through all she’s learned from the Witches old. The music Davide and Karyn had been working on for the past years took a new atmosphere and focus, and became her new band, KARYN CRISIS’ GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES.