Dead, Hot and Ready

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Dead, Hot and Ready
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Studio album by
Released22 October 1999
RecordedJune and December 1998
StudioBlue Hill Studios, Linköping, Sweden
Genre Thrash metal
Length33:33
Label Original release Necropolis
Reissue Music For Nations/Sony BMG
Witchery chronology
Restless & Dead
(1998)
Dead, Hot and Ready
(1999)
Symphony for the Devil
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Dead, Hot and Ready is the second full-length album by the Swedish heavy metal supergroup Witchery. [2] Released in 1999, it was the last Witchery album with Mique on drums.

Contents

The album was called "fast-paced thrash with all the glorious, fun occult references you can handle" in a 2011 review by the Metalsucks website. [3]

Track listing

All music by Jensen except where noted; all lyrics by Jensen.

  1. Demonication - 2:31
  2. A Paler Shade of Death - 3:11
  3. The Guillotine - 2:38
  4. Resurrection - 4:49 (music by Jensen/Corpse)
  5. Full Moon - 3:46 (music by Jensen/D'Angelo)
  6. The Devil and the Damage Done - 3:52
  7. Dead, Hot and Ready - 2:43
  8. The Devil's Triangle - 2:36
  9. Call of the Coven - 3:47 (music by Jensen/Corpse)
  10. On a Black Horse thru Hell... - 3:40

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Sean Palmerston (1 September 1999). "Dead, Hot and Ready review". Exclaim!. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  3. "ALBUM OF THE DAY: WITCHERY -- DEAD, HOT, AND READY". MetalSucks. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2017.