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  • One of history's most under rated bands!

    

  • zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Why is it not cool to play Flute in Metal these days?

  • Love it.

  • like tull on acid or am i off here? please lemeno.

  • in 5.35 it will all over!!then what?

  • i have the LP "sacrifice"..i like it very much!!!!

  • Black Metal is actually a lot like gangster rap. Between it and neu-metal it's sucked out the fun as well as the brains. The musicianship might be passable, but the songwriting is confused to generic. It's less music, more a mass support group for the singer's fake problems. The working class elements are gone, and so has the history. I'm not surprised BM'ers usually have no idea what "I.N.R.I." refers to, even though that should be cause for a beatdown if BM was all it pretends to be.

  • I'd better leave one more message, because Black Metal fans are worse than Juggalos when it comes to flaming. I don't mean flaming historical landmarks in Norway either. Most of this alleged Satanism and Viking-fetish is neo-Nazism in disguise. Racist or not, black metal is still based around pretentious, authoritarian personalities with no sense of humor. They feud for money rappers, make videos that look like "Marilyn Manson: The Video Game", and dress like KISS attending a LARP.

  • Another thing many fans of "Sacrifice" don't know is that Black Widow could, and did, play metal. One of the best early metal songs is on their 2nd album, "Wait Until Tomorrow". It's one of the fastest "heavy" songs to that point; it could slot into any NWOBHM comp from 10 years later. Smashing band! Put it all on the line for their art; they probably received more death threats than the Sex Pistols. Black Widow got loads of press, but the only time they made money was in Italy with Yes.

  • The idea behind this album seems more to exploit/celebrate the hippy interest in pre-Christian religions. I've never attended a druidic sacrifice, but I doubt black metal was the soundtrack. Since literal Satanism asserts Christianity is basically correct, it's not that interesting. Lucifer gets chained in some eternal prison (NOT sheol, or the human afterlife) early in the Bible, and New Testament references to "Satan" referred to a generic "adversary". Christians ought to read the Bible.

  • It's routine for metal fans to say they appreciated the sentiments, but felt "deceived" by their idea that Satan=Metal and vice-versa. Black Widow's main influence was the band Family...they were both from Coventry, an industrial town in the west midlands near Birmingham (where Sabbath, Priest, Witchfinder General ect. started). a good heavy band at the time called Wicked Lady...but excepting a couple NWOBHM bands (Wild Boys, Nightime Flyer) it's never been a metal town.

  • Lol, all You black metal fanboys...satanism isn't about grinding chickens and growling like a drowning Donald Duck. You should get your act straight and start listening to some decent music like this.

  • @BigBadCoyote Black metal is decent music, bands like Emperor and Sigh and great songwriters and musicians. Don't just dismiss it because you have a blinkered view of what black metal is. Black metal is many things, not just 'grinding chickens and growling like a drowning Donald Duck'. It's YOU that has been shown to be the fool.

  • LOL black metal is good and all but since when does music have to be black metal to be satanic?

    This predates any form of old school BM by years. This is just good proggy rock, with a lyrical preoccupation with the Occult and satan. Not that that effects the genre

  • Why..this is actually Black Metal?

  • @Videostar1another1fa No but it's satanic.

  • @pjautuvas They obviously influenced a lot of Black Metal...

  • I had the CBS Fill Your head album where I first heard BW compared to the rest of the album it was scary stuff. I'm sure I saw them at a festival at keele in '69 with the Grateful Dead, Family Quintescence and others.

  • I had a whole album of Black Widow on an old cassette tape in the 80's, but never knew who they were until today with this video. Always liked it.

  • CRAP!

  • For best effect this should be listened to back to back with 'Eleven Moustachioed Daughters' by the Bonzos.

  • Masterpiece!

  • Does anyone know if Ian Anderson had an evil twin brother? :P 

  • It's Jethro Tull on a bad trip.

  • Wow! This sounds like the satanic version of Jethro Tull. In a recent Radio Anthracide interview Clive Jones said that Black Widow was banned from coming to the USA because of negative publicity involving Charles Manson. Apparently Black Sabbath was sent to the states instead because they denied any involvement in satanism and such. This is great music by Clive and his band. I want to hear the new Black Widow album too.

  • @BBINGHAM032352 Thanks, the new album should be out around Halloween 2011.

  • @pasithespider By the way,Clive Jones himself (his Youtube channel is drpesky) recently told me in my inbox that he found out that he has cancer for which he requires surgery. We should all wish Clive a speedy recovery.

  • @BBINGHAM032352 coven sounds like satanic version of Jethro Tull

  • @BBINGHAM032352 If you haven't already, you can listen to the entire new Black Widow on rdio.com (its like a hybrid of the words "audio" and "radio". Pronounced "AR-dee-o")

  • come come come to the sabbat,come to the sabbat,Satan's there...

  • Wish I could make this louder....so hardcore! \m/ ...well, for 1970. lol

  • man i love this band, black widow was the key for me to the underground proto metal/early satanic rock or what ever you wanna call it

  • Did they get the guy from Jethro Tull to play for them?

  • @LORDGOAT1976 No, Clive Jones is the flute player.

  • Actually, Astaroth (also Ashtaroth, Astarot, and Asteroth), in demonology, is a Crowned Prince of Hell. He is a male figure named after the Canaanite goddess Ashtoreth.

  • @saguanno actually if you go by LaVeyan Satanism the Crown Princes of Hell are FOUR... Satan,  Lucifer, Belial and Leviathan...

  • @Lunhyver LeVay satanism is pathetic.

  • allucinating satanic song

  • Astaroth, variation of Ishtar, and from there we get Easter. Isn't it funny that this major christian holiday takes it's name from a Babylonain goddess which was demonized by christianity? She descended into the underworld for three days, was killed and returned to life. Suddenly, christianity doesn't sound very original, does it?

  • Love Kip flashing the horns at 3:39

  • the best band, influence by alex sanders,king of witches...

  • Too repetitive. So many good songs woud be GREAT songs with proper editing. Add more content, cut back the chanting in this case.

  • ich finde es von mercyful fate besser aber black widow regiert ! ohne widerworte ! <3 i love it......

  • Oh...yeah!!!

  • COME TO HOME,i show some SABBATH,IN REAL

    GOOGLE JOHAN CAPIAU

  • What a load of bollocks people write about this song. In the 70s it was trendy to sing this type of song. I had this album from new, its not about the crap some younger people think. It sold music to people like me, nothing else.

  • cool intro

  • A Wiccan is a witch who practices White Witchcraft - by their admission - not mine! Black Widow had dealings with Alex Sanders who claimed that he was King of the Witches - some Ego! Astaroth - according to Sumerian legend was a Male God - his Avatar was used by the group who invented Cloud in Final Fantasy.

  • A Wiccan is a witch who practices White Witchcraft - by their admission - not mine! Black Widow had dealings with Alex Sanders who claimed that he was King of the Witches - some Ego!

  • really dark!!!

  • @lordzwaan bewitched did a metal cover on this check it out

  • Thanks!

  • This was really fun. And silly. And awesome. I don't even like black metal, although this falls far from that genres current state. Most of all this is silly. Every time I hear flute in a metal song it makes my smile and fondly remember the seventies when bands weren't so locked into standard lineups.

  • ROCK ON SATAN!!!

  • I'm skyclad already.... anointy, anointy, pointy pointy!!!

  • reggie satanas

  • lame. seemed like it would be sabbath cool.

  • fucking great song and video!

  • Satan is there...

  • this band predates black sabbath, and black widow actually "supported satanism" black sabbath never did.

  • Awesome. 

  • @marcfedak There'll be a reunion album soon, Tony Martin guests on one of the tracks!

  • @pasithespider are there any Canadian dates, and if so, when will they be in Toronto?

  • @pasithespider Sounds great! Are there any Canadian dates, and if so, when will they be in Toronto?

  • @pasithespider cool, I think the albums Black Sabbath did with Tony Martin are the best albums ever made by Sabbath or anyone else.

  • @pasithespider really? damn! Tony Martin is a great singer!

  • i thought it was the same version as Mercyful Fate.. Lol...

    Both are fuckin cool

  • Did Sabbath and black widow ever play together?

  • Anyone got 'Mary Clarke' to upload ? Their best I reckon !

  • This guys decided to stop playing music when they' heard Black Sabbath.

  • what's "astaroth"?

  • @Tettuli A female demon

  • @pasithespider Female!? :(( I liked Astaroth... I always thought that is male demon.

  • @pasithespider She was a Goddess to begin with, and has been demonised by mainstream religion

  • @pasithespider I couldve sworn Astaroth was male?

  • @Tettuli Astaroth is a male spirit, an evil one if you wish... In Grimoire literature he is called for example "The Grand Duke".

  • @Tettuli Astaroth is a male spirit, an "evil" one. In Grimoire literature he is called for example "The Grand duke".

  • @Tettuli The Grand Duke of Hell. He is not a female demon. He is GOD.

  • @Tettuli Actually, that is false. Astaroth is male and is a prince of hell.

  • @Tettuli One of the ancient ones in babylonian scripts banished by the elder gods

  • @Tettuli Astaroth is a Crowned Prince of Hell. He is a male figure named after the Canaanite goddess Ashtoreth . even then the name was ultimately derived from that of 2nd millennium BC Phoenician goddess Astarte, an equivalent of the Babylonian Ishtar, and the earlier Sumerian Inanna.

  • @ImmortalYawn thank you for setting that straight!

  • @ImmortalYawn

    That's true & he briefly played keyboards with the band in 1971.

  • @ImmortalYawn Ishtar=Easter!!!! So that proves that all the so-called Christian churches who celebrate Easter are actually worshiping Satan!

  • @Tettuli Jehovahs wife. She got demonized because shes a she. lol Hail $atan!

  • @BoricuaManhood Hi, it's a long concept story - a highly theatrical performance. A kind of rock opera - that's why Lady Astaroth appears on the latter half of this live show (which lasts for 56 minutes, by the way). The dark themes were beauatifully choreographed. Black Magic themes appear on all of the songs ("Sacrifice" LP and "Sacrifice" live show) but there's a reason for that.

  • Classic! Hail Black Widow

  • Has a Jethro Tull flute feel to it.

  • When I saw this band they had a part of the act where they whipped a naked lady!

    That and this track is all I can remember.

  • Hail satan!

  • Come to the Sabbat, Satan's there!

  • Hail, Astaroth!

  • Just Awesome....

  • Around the time,this was a minor hit in €urope,minus some drawn out passages  though.

  • Probably the coolest shit I've EVER heard. Just came across this by accident and I'm glad I did. Wow.

  • I can't imagine what a 1970's audience's reaction was to this band.

  • Well I'm blowed, never expected to see this on YT, must be 40 yrs+ since I heard of this band. Saw them um, in N london I think ? A place called the Acid Palace ?? Went with a crowd all tripping out of our skulls, drove there and back from S london..

    Oh to be seventeen and do it all again. Not in the 21st century though, no style, no class, no soul, no culture.

  • @emperorsdragon "no style, no class, no soul, no culture."

    Stupid generalisation to make about an entire centurys worth of people....

  • @emperorsdragon I enjoyed reading your comment up until the last sentence. That's a pretty extreme statement to type. But hey, you're old so I understand. I bet your generation's parents were thinking the same thing when you and your generation were teenagers/young men and woman. But you're wrong, and you need to recgonize that. I for one have created my own style, class and culture. And I have more soul than you can ever handle buddy.

    God Bless.

  • come come come to the shire satans there

  • veanlo porfavor... no tiene errores...

    era la psicodelia..

    jeje

    Spike...out

  • Thanks for this material

  • I love the flute in this song! It is simple to play but it is Wonderful!

  • Tull style prog with occult lyrics

  • great! :) Everyone should check out Bewitched's cover of this song. On the album: Encyclopedia of evil ;D

  • lucifer,astaroth,belial,come,c­ome,come to the sabbat

  • ASTAROTH!

  • AWESOME

  • I also really like the alternate version of this album that features original frontwoman singing all the lead vocals.

  • Video gives that feeling like we are at the sabbat.

  • Where is the prehistoric muff guitar sound? This should have prehistoric psychedelic squalid habitat wallowing all over in a mesozoic,"that's swamped the hole fucking place..

  • ,hail satan,

  • I prefer Bewitched's version

  • I still have the vinyl record. the sleeve design must surely have been the inspiration for Slayer's sleeve designs years later.

  • @UncleVinnie666 yeah very reign in blood esque

  • Amazing band!!!

    *****

  • What is a Wiccan? someone who makes wicker baskets?

  • @scrumper10 ahahahahahahahah

  • @scrumper10 Somebody who practices Wicca.... It's a neopagan religion...

  • One of the coolest songs of all time!!

  • What a surprise, Wiccans disrespect Satanism!! Never been done..

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  • @pallorcagirl2 SABBAT not sabbath! It learns to reads before it tries assuming intelligence!

    Now why don't you go onto your online encyclopedia and translate sabbat for me!

    Actually let me just tell you - it's the witches sabbat where they sang to satan and all his little friends - like astaroth. sorry to tell you that these hippies fucked off their heads on LSD know what they're talking about, and you can go back to school now and ask teacher about wiccans

  • Hyvä bändi/ Good Band, love the idea and all..

  • This bandis way better then all those black metal shity bands

  • Pretty irrelevant post

  • @rejrockmetal Wooooaaaahhhh now, black metal is pretty tight if you know what to look for man.

  • @rejrockmetal It really depends on the band, lots of black metal are very fascinating and their lyrics are interesting. But if you're refering to mayhem then I agree, Black Widow is a lot better.

  • @rejrockmetal i like black metal

  • @rejrockmetal

    Black metal is awesome. Don't judge.

  • I think this is one of the Lost Performance of Beat Club. Also if you every watch Free on the Beat Club with there song All Right Now it is almost same effect in this video

  • Only in Beat Club, Germany you could have psychedelic video effects.

  • were they at woodstock

  • No, but they were at Isle Of Wight 1970 Festival!

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  • My dad was there, and as he was walking in, this is the song that was playing, and the only one he can clearly remember! I'd sent him an isle of wight documentary clip on youtube, he asked me to find a video from the isle of wight of this song, and thats why i'm looking now. True story!

  • The footage of Isle Of Wight exists but it's a hard road to have it released

  • its unbelivable

  • hell no

  • I'm sorry who is at the sabbat? I missed that.

  • Satan!

  • were can i find tabs for this????

  • I can't find any copies of this DVD for sale via my normal venues. Can anyone direct me proper? Message me.

  • Hi

    you have put a friend block on your link so i cant message you , its available from Mystic records in the UK

    Clive / Black Widow

  • I have a friend block? Didn't know that. I barely use youtube... Anyhow, that is good news, however are there any places in the states that carry it? I would like to not have to pay an arm and a leg for shipping. Thanks for the reply Clive. See you at the Sabbath.

  • Classic, nice vid!

  • Come! Come! Come to the Sabbat! Come to the Sabbat! Satan's there!

  • great song

  • Yeas. 40 year ago!! but what is now??

  • nothing, get used to it.

  • nice gem!

  • i never get bored of that video!

    CHEERS PASI!

  • It's fantastic!

  • Damn TV crews with their psychedelic effects. Whaddatheyknow?

  • Pesky Gee- wern't they a Leicester group around at the same time as Family?

  • Exactly! As you propably know Pesky Gee! changed its name to Black Widow.

  • Did they ever play at the Casino on London Rd in Leicetser?

  • Yes and Legay/ Spring / Family / Hal c Blake

    back in the good old days

  • Great to know memory not playing tricks!! I was working in the cloakroom at this time -3d to put your coat in - as my mum was working in the very small bar there!!!

  • Many thanks for posting this - I saw them play this live at the Students' Union in Cardiff 40 years ago! I saw a lot of good bands around that time but this was an outstanding gig. This track was longer, louder and completely mesmerising (at least for a 16 year old!) A much underrated band.

  • Thanks for the nice comment, it would be wonderful to find some more Black Widow pics taken during gigs. Anyway, the whole DVD is fantastic and the NEW Black Widow studio album will appear soon!

  • Hi! Did you happen to take pics? :)))

  • No, I didn't - what a bloody shame.

  • this is new to me love the flute. a jethro tull meets alice cooper/arthur brown thing. frightening for the fact it is melodic and easily understood. unlike most of the black metal of today filled with gutteral vocal and lack of melody or musical structure.

  • how many albums have black widow done

  • "Exclamation Mark" (1969) under the name PESKY GEE! Under the name BLACK WIDOW: "Return To The Sabbat" (recorded in 1969, released in 1998), "Sacrifice" (1970), "Black Widow" (1971), "Black Widow III" (1971) and "Black Widow IV" (recorded in 1972, relesed in 1997).

    The DVD/CD "Demons Of The Night Gather To See" (Live film from 1970) appeared in 2008 and the REUNION ALBUM has been recorded and will be released soon!

  • great!!!

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  • Hello, it's my pleasure! Great that you enjoyed!

  • weird, when you think these guys probably influenced black metal (lyrically, at least).