Wykked Wytch
Wykked Wytch is a Florida based female-fronted extreme metal band, that blends a unique mixture of death thrash gothic-black metal with melody, technicality, and hardcore aggression to create their own metal sound, that is centered around the demonic vocal assault of frontwoman, Ipek. Founded in the mid 90’s, Ipek formed Wykked Wytch in Philadelphia as a four-piece death/thrash band. The band's first release (on her own label Cauldron Records) saw the light of day in September 1996. The album Something Wykked This Way Comes, received critical acclaim throughout the US & the world. Wykked Wytch would soon start making a name for themselves by touring up the east coast playing with such bands as: Testament, Deicide, Dying Fetus Savatage, Overkill. In the summer of ‘97 the band performed a string of west coast dates with Malevolent Creation, Oppressor, & Napalm Death. The band kept themselves busy with appearances at metalfests in Milwaukee & New Jersey, as well as contributing music to several low-budget horror films. In the fall of 1999, not satisfied with the band’s current musical direction & lack of progression Ipek split with her previous members & revamped Wykked Wytch with a new line-up and expanded sound. The new line-up would start to write material for the band’s second album Angelic Vengeance, & continue to play across the US. During this time, Wykked Wytch signed with Demolition Records, a UK based metal label. The label would first re-issue the band’s debut album, Something Wykked This Way Comes in the Summer of 2000 with an extra two tracks. Wykked Wytch would then enter the studio in the fall of 2000 to record their second album Angelic Vengeance at Dario Mollo’s Damage Studios in Ventimiglia, Italy. The album was produced by Kit Woolven Cradle of Filth Anathema, Thin Lizzy) & mastered by Jim Morris Cannibal Corpse Death) at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, FL. After the recording of Angelic Vengeance, Ipek needed a change of scenery an
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