Colorado-based Deathrock / Gothic Rock band, Witchhands, have released of a re-imagined and re-recorded version of their debut album, A Voice and Nothing More. Featuring the 2025 band lineup, the reworked edition is running under the title of Vox Nihili, and is available on streaming platforms now. Find out more below.
Buy/stream Vox Nihili here: https://witchhandsdxr.bandcamp.com/album/vox-nihili
“The tumultuous times in the United States have seemingly been a part of our conscience since forming the band. All our work deals in dark, existential themes and it’s an expression of being aware of the world and its hard times. There’s horror and beauty. And it’s worth fighting for.” – Ryan Flint (vocals)
Some tracks like “Ozymandias,” “Mephisto,” and “Derelict” got a polish and are played slightly faster. Other changes included extended sections, removed verses and a new feel. “Mephisto,” however, was essentially a demo when it went on the debut album. Some of the songs got new arrangements, like “Belie,” “Night Falls,” and the Wilson Pickett cover of “In the Midnight Hour.”
Some tracks are essentially new songs with a slight relation to their counterparts from 2018 – those being “Sabastian”, “Demon’s” & “Darkness”. Bookending the album are title track, “Vox Nihili” and the intro, “Empty Voices”, which were composed just for the new release. Most notably, along with different players on bass and guitar, the band has been without a keyboard for several years. So not a single track has synths or keys for the first time on any of their releases. May 1st was chosen as the release date since it coincides with May Day, International Workers Day, and Beltane. It marks the start of Spring in the ancient world and feels like a rebirth for the band. The lineup is more solid and in sync than it’s ever been, as if fully coming into its own.
Originally inspired by the deathrock (goth punk) pioneers T.S.O.L., Killing Joke, Rudimentary Peni, and .45 Grave. They have evolved toward a more melodic, heavy style encompassing gothic rock, post punk sound that earned comparisons to Samhain, The Cult, Atriarch, and “an angry Sisters of Mercy.” Witchhands is best known for their energetic live performances and because of their varied sound, fitting bills with genres as varied as deathrock and horror punk, to metal, post-punk, darkwave, hardcore, new wave, Industrial, and on and on.
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