Traduza\\ BLACK WIDOW's Long-Awaited New Album Due This Halloween

BLACK WIDOW — the groundbreaking occult progressive hard rock group which was allegedly "banned" by the BBC and besieged by religious nutters when it originally emerged in 1970 — returns to the Sabbat in 2011 with a brand new studio album, "Sleeping With Demons", released on October 31, distributed by Cargo Records.

"Sleeping With Demons", which marks a massive return to the black magic roots BLACK WIDOW know so well, is packed with anthemic rock songs, huge chants, soaring hooks, and a storyline with a host of new black magic stories to tell. Written, performed, and produced by Clive Jones and Geoff Griffith, "Sleeping With Demons" also features special guests Tony Martin (lead singer with BLACK SABBATH from 1987 to 1997), Kay Garret and Paolo "Apollo" Negri.

BLACK WIDOW took the world by storm in the 1970s. Hailed as the "original" black magic band, they rivalled BLACK SABBATH, were billed with DEEP PURPLE and YES, and played at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1971, where their set featured "Come To The Sabbat", the rock anthem from their debut album, "Sacrifice". The band's concerts, which featured the mock sacrifice of a nude woman every night on stage, were picketed by religious fanatics, who would preach at the waiting queues warning of the inherent dangers of witchcraft and BLACK WIDOW. But by 1973 the band had imploded and gone their own distinctly separate ways.