WITCHERY Guitarist Says Obligations To Other Bands Make Touring Difficult

WITCHERY guitarist Rille (a.k.a. Richard Corpse) recently updated Metal Asylum on the band's current status and shed some light on the circumstances leading to their lack of touring in support of their latest release, "Don't Fear the Reaper", from 2006. An excerpt from the interview follows:

Metal Asylum: So the last album "Don't Fear the Reaper" came out in 2006. How was it received and were you able to do some touring behind the record?

Rille: Well... we got good reviews on this album... but you cant associate good reviews with fame and glory... or think that everyone is going to throw money at you. I think that you have to work hard touring and promotion and so on. Unfortunately we dont got time to do that... or we just can't get everyone to be at the same place at the same time... due [to] their obligations to the other bands. As a matter of fact we are rehearsing right now, for the first gig on this album... almost one year after the release. But we just found out it has been canceled for some reason...anyway it was really fun to rehearse the new songs.

Metal Asylum: Since Patrik is a member of THE HAUNTED and Sharlee is busy with ARCH ENEMY, is this why WITCHERY is not that active as a touring band?

Rille: Yes... and we also got the Martin Axe who is the drummer in OPETH... so we have three very busy musicians in WITCHERY which makes it really hard to plan a tour under these circumstances.

Metal Asylum: Does the band wish to change that and want to take WITCHERY on the road at some point?

Rille: Yes ... we wish we could plan better and do the gigs that we are offered. But who knows ... everything can happen over a night... and suddenly WITCHERY are touring again. I know everybody in the band want that... time will tell...

Metal Asylum: Ever since its inception, WITCHERY appears to have received a considerable amount of positive support from both the fans and critics. So why have steps not been made to bring the band to the next level of exposure and success?

Rille: To take that step everybody knows that we have to do tours... and frequently release new albums... this time took us five years between the albums.

Now it's already been a year since the last release. We actually talked about that yesterday and came up with that we are going to concentrate more on this new album and take every free minute that we can spare to do this. So maybe we are done before the summer or something... but you never know ...everybody is busy with their bands and stuff... we really like doing this and we have so much fun while rehearsing/recording... so don't worry... their will be a new WITCHERY album out soon.

You can read the entire interview here.