Witch Club Satan - No Mercy for the MERCILESS

Witch Club Satan is no joke. Three women from Norway, playing ferocious black metal inspired by the classic 1990s second-wave sound of their homeland. But while those early 90s pioneers became as infamous for their crimes as much as their music, Witch Club Satan is here to reclaim black metal for feminists and anti-fascists.

The band, made up of Nikoline Spjelkavik (guitar, vocals), Johanna Holt Kleive (drums, vocals), and Victoria Røising (bass, vocals), kicked off their first North American tour in Philadelphia on May 27, 2026 with a loud, in your face, barrage that matched music with performance. Underground Arts is a perfectly named place for a young metal band to make their U.S. debut, and the few hundred fans who came out were not let down.

Like a lot of black metal bands, Witch Club Satan concerts do not suffer from a lack of theater. The show opens with the members walking through the crowd with incense, blessing some of the women. There are costume changes, crocheted outfits and horns, dead skin zombie masks, wigs, and much of it borders on NSFW. There is corpse paint, and blood. There is a sword used to play bass.

But none of this is played for comedy. The band’s message is female rage, and the lyrics and between-song crowd work make the message clear. And for a young band, the musicianship is there. Hysteria and Fresh Blood, Fresh Pussy are as heavy as you’d demand from a modern extreme metal band, but they are versatile enough to pull off the three-part ethereal harmony spoken word of Mother Sea.

Witch Club Satan’s North American tour continues through June. It’s a show you don’t want to miss.

Witch Club Satan’s bandcamp.