The Witch Trials

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| origin = United States

| genre = Electropunk

| years_active = 1980–1981

| label = Subterranean Records

| past_members = Jello Biafra
Adrian Borland
Morgan Fisher
Christian Lunch

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The Witch Trials was an English–American rock supergroup originally formed in 1980. The group was a one-off musical collaboration between Jello Biafra (of Dead Kennedys), Adrian Borland (of the Sound), Morgan Fisher (of Mott the Hoople) and Christian Lunch.{{cite book |last=Robbins |first=Ira |date=December 1, 1991 |title=The Trouser Press Record Guide |publisher=Collier Books |page=176 |isbn=9780020363613 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=huIYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22jello+biafra%22+%22witch+trials%22+%22adrian+borland%22 |accessdate=November 23, 2014}} The group released only one self-titled EP.

''The Witch Trials'' EP

The Witch Trials was recorded in England. According to Biafra, "The Witch Trials is the most evil record I've ever been associated with".{{cite journal |last=Trubee |first=John |date=November 1985 |title=Spins |journal=Spin |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hLVXggxBmFkC&dq=%22jello+biafra%22+%22witch+trials%22+%22adrian+borland%22&pg=PA31 |accessdate=November 23, 2014}}

{{Music ratings

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The EP was released in 1981 by Subterranean Records. According to John Trubee of Spin, the EP was released "with virtually no promotion and no information".

=Reception=

Spin said the album, "Biafra improvised most of the vocals here, spewing surreal nightmares fraught with sociopolitical overtones over a zombie pulse of electronic ugliness. All the material possesses this crude, ludicrous, insane, homemade feel — almost as if the material should never have made it to vinyl."