Debut album from the Swedish occult rock revivalists, "Firewood" arrived with a sound and fury that belied its 2005 release date, conjuring the ghosts of 1970s hard rock and psychedelic doom.
- "Firewood" was released on July 26, 2005, via Rise Above Records.
- The album falls within the hard rock, doom metal, and psychedelic rock genres.
- The release date was July 26, 2005.
Hailing from Sweden, Witchcraft is the primary vehicle for singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Magnus Pelander, known for channeling the bluesy, psychedelic, and hard-rocking spirit of 1970s-era occult rock. Pelander formed the band in 2000, drawing immediate comparisons to fellow Swedes Graveyard and the legendary Roky Erickson. On "Firewood," Witchcraft, still in its nascent stages, offered a potent distillation of vintage doom and psychedelic hard rock, capturing a sound that felt both anachronistic and urgently relevant in the mid-2000s metal underground.
