The foundations for Witchsmeller Pursuivant were laid around 1993 by Geezer Mike, Paul Evrard and Luciver Vecken, Heavy Metal was their way,so it's not strange that Heavy Metal is their music. Because they loved the absurd humour of the 'Blackadder' serial they chose the title of the fifth episode 'Witchsmeller Pursuivant' as their moniker. A cult was born.

In 1995 their line-up was complete which resulted in their first live experiences. Gig after gig it was clear that they were something different than most bands they played with, after all Heavy Metal was 'not done' at those times. Still, being booked for festivals together with black , death and even grindcore bands was no problem, Witchsmeller often got the best reaction from the crowd and got a cult following, called Smeller-Maniacs.

Their theatrical performance never stays unnoticed and so it's not strange that they got booked a lot to do headline shows, in which they could perform their full length show, which in the early days even resulted in sets of more than two hours with both covers and own songs.

The latter got good reactions from the crowd and promising critics from the press, so it was time to record those songs so people could bang their head to the Smellersongs at home as well. After Luc Geenen joined the band, they wrote a few more songs and in 1998 they recorded and released their Cdemo 'Melissa's Birthday' which brought them to the famous Belgian Metal Club 'Biebob' , Batcave 013 Tilburg, Frontline Ghent and several youth clubs.

Songs like 'Let the Children Come', 'V.A.I.S.' and the anthem 'Witchsmeller Pursuivant' itself became classic metal songs on their own ! They got good critics and kept on playing killer gigs in Belgium and abroad, sharing the stage with bands like Ancient, After Forever, Ancient Rites, Enthroned, Belgian legends Killer, Goddess of Desire, Opera IX....a very heterogenic scene where the music of Witchsmeller is always highly appreciated.

When Witchsmeller wrote more of that 'timeless' and trendless music it was time to record a new album which resulted in the release of their full length cd 'Enter Delirium' released by themselves under the moniker of Bambam Records (2001). Even before the album was released, some of those new Smeller-songs became classic metal anthems on stage : just mention that a song like 'Caught In The Act' grabs the attention of the public for the whole 9 minutes long!

Another highlight in their career was reached when they did a headline gig in Biebob presenting their new album, over 300 people banged their head, a lot of merchandise was sold...

Johan Kaal (recruited from Dutch metalband Domestic Violence) joined in to replace former axeman Roel Van Steenbergen (who left the band to emigrate to Brasil to live there with his wife).. After some very succesful gigs (just mention the Kleudde festival in Belgium where Witchsmeller got their largest crowd ever, about 9.0 headbangers !!), where Johan proved to complete the band , Witchsmeller by now decided to fully concentrate on writing new material, 5 new songs are written, at the moment it seems that they will be harder, faster and heavier in every imaginable way, those five songs will be played alongside the Smeller live classics on stage.



Source : http://www.witchsmeller.com/biography.php