Secret History of Chicago Music shines a light on forgotten artists with Chicago ties. Up next, 80's metal band Witchslayer, on their brand new album–40 years in the making. | ✍️Steve Krakow👇
.” Allen also benefited from some unusual pedagogy: “I had a great music teacher at Dempster Junior High in Mount Prospect, Mrs. Nelson, who spent a semester having the class listen to the Who’salbum,” he says. “She reviewed the album song by song, and of course I aced that class.”
Allen’s own band came together, appropriately enough, out of a bunch of partying teenagers. “Witchslayer originally formed at a house party in Mount Prospect,” he says. “A family was selling their house, and one of their kids decided to throw a massive party in their vacated home.
“We were heavily into a band called Angel Witch and also liked Tygers of Pan Tang, Saxon, early Iron Maiden with Paul Di’Anno, early Def Leppard, Motörhead, Raven, Judas Priest, Ozzy’s new band with Randy Rhoads, and of course Dio and Black Sabbath,” Allen says. McNeely and McMahon couldn’t get along, unfortunately, and soon McNeely left. No new second guitarist clicked, so the band became a four-piece, with McAllister replacing Ryan on bass and Dale Clark replacing Wentling on drums. That first lineup did manage to write set staples “Witchslayer” and “I Don’t Want to Die,” the latter of which would appear on the“I Don’t Want to Die” appeared on a Metal Blade compilation in 1983, becoming Witchslayer’s highest-profile release.
The last thing McAllister did before Manson took over was play on the sessions for Witchslayer’s lone demo in 1983. It’s since become a cult favorite, and Italian label Flynn Records reissued it on vinyl and cassette in 2020. “There was a pretty notable recording studio in Chicago at the time called Streeterville,” Allen says. “We met one of the sound engineers, and he agreed to record a five-track demo tape with us at his home studio in Lake Villa.
The band had reason to believe that they were having problems making headway in the industry because they were from Chicago, not from New York or Los Angeles—and because they were ahead of the curve. “Our guitarist Craig McMahon once ran into an Atlantic Records A&R guy at the Roxy nightclub on the Sunset Strip in LA,” Allen says. “The guy took Craig out to his car, opened up his trunk, pulled out his briefcase and then our ’83 demo tape.
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